Five funny birthday card ideas
Making your own birthday cards can be fun and rewarding. Everyone loves to receive a card that has been home-made and what better way to make someone laugh than making a funny card for that special birthday occasion. In this article, we look at five funny birthday card ideas.
Some funny ideas
Photos are great fun to use for card-making designs and all that you will need is the card and your photos. If you don’t want to use the photos, you can scan them on to your computer and print off copies to add to your card. Use A4 size card folded in half for a good size.
Baby snaps
Baby photos are funny and if you can find several, you can make a collage of the images. Choose those really embarrassing ones like the naked ones or the ones where they look daft. Add a border and your photos and a humorous verse or birthday sayings inside the card to get your card receiver smiling.
Alien eyes
Another way of using photos is to use photo software that will change the photo. For instance, if you get a photo of their face scanned, you can add horns, turn their eyes into bug eyes or give them an alien look. Photoshopped images can be really funny – they may not even recognise themselves.
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Staging photos
Other card-making ideas include staging photos to add to your card. If you’d like to use a picture of yourself or the family, or even your pets, you can set up a funny photo to adorn the front of your card. Get your family to hold up message cards to spell happy birthday or dress everyone up in each others' clothes. Find something weird and wacky for a funny family portrait. If your pet doesn’t mind, dress them up to with a hat or glasses for something really silly.
Compromising pictures
For the more adult-themed cards, try and dig out a photo of your birthday person in a compromising position. Have you got one of them after a heavy night out? Or the morning after? Remind them of what they may look like if they do it again.
Jokes
Jokes are a good bet for making someone laugh. There are lots of websites that contain jokes. Pick the best of them and cover your card with them, front and back. Use different fonts and colours to make each joke stand out. Don’t forget to write your funny birthday message on the inside.