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Glittery and Colorful Unicorn Birthday Card

08.29.2018 by Marie // Leave a Comment

Do you know how you automatically make something a thousand times cooler? You make it mini! Logically, that means when you take something that’s already awesome and make it mini… omgosh! It is coolness overload. That is exactly what this glittery and colorful unicorn birthday card delivers.

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Collage of Glittery and Colorful Unicorn Birthday Card with text overlay: Glittery and Colorful Unicorn Birthday Card

 

Know anyone in your life who acts like the little girl from Despicable Me over unicorns? This glittery and colorful unicorn birthday card is for them! Click To Tweet

For the longest time, I was fairly blase about unicorns. They were fine but not something that pulled out my giddy girl squeal. I blame it on my reservations (borderline down-right fear) of horses.

As they grow in popularity, though, something awesome is happening. They are full of bright rainbow colors and sparkles and pretty much everything that speaks to me on every level.

When something aligns that much with your personality at its core, how can you not get sucked in? If you have a friend, daughter, coworker… pretty much anyone who acts like the little girl from Despicable Me over unicorns, then this is the perfect handmade card for them!

 

Surprise Unicorn Card on Purple Background

Note: This looks like a lot of steps but most of them go by incredibly fast. The longest time commitment is in the coloring phase. Once you finish that, the rest flies by.

Materials

  • 1 Sheet of White 8.5 x 11 inch Cardstock
  • Paper Cutter
  • Lawn Fawn You’re Claw-some Stamp Set
  • Small Clear Acrylic Block
  • Black Pigment Ink Pad
  • Hot Pink Pigment Ink Pad (Similar Set)
  • Teal Pigment Ink Pad
  • Magenta Pigment Ink Pad
  • Colored Pencil Set (This is the set I used)
  • Black Fine Tip Marker
  • Stickles
  • Birthday Stamp Set
  • Corner Rounder
  • Teal Cardstock (Can be a scrap piece)
  • Glue Runner
  • Bright Yellow Card Form
  • Large Adhesive Foam Dots

Step 1

First, cut your piece of white cardstock in half, bisecting the 11″ edge. Set 1 half aside. You need it in step 13.

Step 2

Next, take the clear unicorn stamp from your set and mount it to your acrylic block.

 

Stamped Unicorns on White Paper Next to Ink Pad and Stamp

Step 3

Then stamp your unicorn with black pigment ink throughout the entire half sheet of cardstock.

Step 4

Clean your stamp and place it back with your stamp set. Then attach the small star stamp from the set to your acrylic block.

 

Stamped Stars and Unicorns on White Paper Next to Ink Pads

Step 5

Stamp your star throughout your half sheet of cardstock using hot pink pigment ink.

 

Stamped Stars and Unicorns on White Paper Next to Ink Pads and Stamps

Step 6

Again clean your stamp but leave it attached to your acrylic block. Use it to stamp more stars on your cardstock using teal pigment ink.

 

Stamped Stars and Unicorns on White Paper Next to Ink Pads and Stamp Set

Step 7

Finish stamping your stars by cleaning your stamp again and adding the last stars with magenta pigment ink.

Step 8

Next, pull out your colored pencils set and pull out pencil colors that match the stamped stars and also a bright yellow, gold, and silver colored pencils.

 

Colorful Unicorns and Stars on White Paper

Step 9

Use your pencils to color in your stamped unicorns, alternating between colors. I used 1 main color for each unicorn then rotated between combining the main color with bright yellow, gold, or silver on the horns.

 

Black Outlined Colorful Unicorns

Step 10

After you finish coloring your unicorns, go back over the stamped outlines with your black fine tip marker.

 

Colorful Unicorns and Stars on 2 Pieces of White Paper

Step 11

Then cut your stamped and colored cardstock piece in half again.

 

Glitter Stars on Unicorn Card

Step 12

Choose one half (whichever is your favorite) and add Stickles to each of the stamped stars. Set the sheet aside to dry.

Step 13

Pull out the second half of white cardstock and cut a small rectangle from it that is slightly larger than the “Surprise” stamp in your birthday stamp set.

 

Stamped Surprise next to Unicorn Paper and Teal Paper

Step 14

Attach the “Surprise” stamp to your acrylic block and stamp it with black pigment ink in the center of your white piece of cardstock.

Note:

  • You can clean and out your stamp away after this step.

Step 15

Round the corners on the word-stamped piece of cardstock.

 

Colorful Letters of the word Surprise

Step 16

Then color each letter of the word with the same colored pencils you used on your unicorns.

 

Surprise Stamp Matted on Teal Cardstock

Step 17

Next, mat your stamped and colored word onto teal cardstock using a glue runner. Trim any edges so that they look as pictured above.

Step 18

Again, round the edges of the teal cardstock to match the white cardstock.

 

Darkened Outline of Colorful Letters

Step 19

Now, darken the outline on your word “Surprise” with a black fine-tip marker.

 

Stickles on Surprise Stars

Step 20

Add Stickles to the stars on the word “Surprise” as you did on the stars in step 12. Allow them to dry.

 

Yellow Card with Unicorn Cardstock and Surprise Saying

Step 21

After your Stickles have dried, pull out your stamped elements and a bright yellow card form.

Step 22

Use your card form as a measure to determine how much, if any, you need to trim from your unicorn stamped cardstock and trim it.

 

Glue x on White Paper

Colorful Unicorns Cardstock Attached to Yellow Card Next to Glue Runner

Step 23

Now, attach your unicorn stamped cardstock to the front of the yellow card form, centered, with your glue runner.

 

White Foam Dots on the Back of Teal Paper

Step 24

Next, flip over your matted teal cardstock and add an adhesive foam dot to each each corner. Also add one to the center for support.

 

Close Up of Surprise Unicorn Card

Surprise Unicorn Card

Step 25

Lastly, attach it to the center of your unicorn card as pictured above.

 

Glittery and Colorful Unicorn Birthday Card with text overlay: Glittery and Colorful Unicorn Birthday Card

Seriously, how much fun is this glittery and colorful unicorn birthday card?! Plus, since it says “Surprise” you could use it for other occasions outside of birthdays. Give it as thank you card and write, “You’re Awesome!” Pretty much any occasion you can think of to say surprise will absolutely work for this card. By the way, if you aren’t already following my on Instagram head over there now for sneak peeks into upcoming awesome projects like these!

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Collage of Glittery and Colorful Unicorn Birthday Card with text overlay: Glittery and Colorful Unicorn Birthday Card

 

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