Blank Page Muse Blog: Birthday Card with a Gift Card Pocket

Tuesday, September 8, 2026

Birthday Card with a Gift Card Pocket

Hello! Welcome back to the Blank Page Muse Blog. Last month, Blank Page Muse released the Denim & Lace Digital Printable Kit. This kit includes 4 zip files. It features junk journal images for printing at home. But who said it can only be used for junk journal, right?

One advantage of digital prints is that you can crop out the image that you will use on your project. You can combine all these images on a sheet for easy printing and also to save on paper. Another advantage is being able to resize these digital images. You can also maximize the printing area by rotating some of the images which I did on the tags on the bottom of the paper.

I used a paper trimmer to cut the printed digital images.

I used a craft knife to trim off the tags.

I switched to the scissors to cut the curves.

I used a small circle punch for the small buttons.

For the larger button, I used a small circle die to cut it off. The circle die I used is not open on the center so I created a cutting template to guide me cut the digital print button. I die cut the circle on a scrap cardstock. I lined the opening to the digital print button. I secured the papers together with a washi tape. I positioned the circle die over the opening of the cardstock template.

I ran this through the die cut machine. If the button does not get cut with the first passing, this trick should leave a marking on the digital print button to guide you in positioning the circle die. Just run it through the die cut machine without the template and it should cut the circle.

I blended brown ink on the edges of the rectangular brown digital paper.

I also inked the edges of the digital print tags, strips and buttons.

For the sentiment, I used gold letter rub ons. I used a bone folder to transfer the rub ons to the digital printed tag.

It might not be perfectly aligned but I like it.

I used a hole punch to add a hole to the tags.

I added metallic snaps to the tags using an eyelet setter.

When I was editing these images, I resized this brown panel to 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" but somehow, the print out it is about a fourth inch shorter than an A2 card.

I adhered a gold washi tape to the ends of the front card panel to cover the white edges. I adhered the brown dotted panel to the front of the note card.

I adhered the tags to the card front. I adhered the wide digital print strip over the tags making it look like the tags are tucked inside this blue strip pocket.

I love the print on this wide blue strip. It looks very realistic.

I need to create a pocket for a gift card. I adhered the same gold washi tape to the sides on the inside of the card, on the bottom part, mimicking the design of the card front. I added a thin line of glue to the sides and bottom edge of the digital print strip. I adhered this on top of the gold washi tape. I made sure that the bottom of the strip is aligned to the bottom edge of the card.

I adhered the buttons to both strips as additional accents.