Creating a Card Kit for Kids – Echo Park Magical Birthday Girl

Hi friends! I recently went home to visit family for the holidays and as a Christmas gift, I put together a kit for my niece to make her own cards. She wanted to try making her own cards after watching a couple of my videos so we are going to start out very basic and keep building her skills. Paper packs like the Magical Birthday Girl from Echo Park are great for kids because they can easily cut the papers themselves with guidance or you can make the cuts for them and assemble into the kit.

I ended up with 31 cards and enough leftover paper and stickers to make a few additional. You could even make multiple kits from one paper pack with less cards in each.

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Here’s what you will need:

I start be removing all the papers that have the sentiment or greeting cut-apart panels. Not all paper packs have these so make sure you check before buying. Echo Park and Carta Bella paper packs always have these. You don’t have to use all the ones provided because each paper is double-sided and you can still use it for something else. From that, I’ll figure out how many card bases I need and what size. For what I made from this paper pack, I ended up needing card bases in the sizes below.

  • 5 x 7 inches : 12 card bases
    • Cut 8 1/2 x 11 inch paper to 7 x 10 inches and fold in half
  • 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches (A2 size): 19 card bases
    • Cut 8 1/2 x 11 inch paper at 5 1/2 inches on the 11 inch side and fold in half

Then I’ll pair up each cut-apart piece with a patterned paper and trim to fit on the card base. Once I’ve cut all my pieces, I start adhering them down to my card fronts. Sometimes I’ll use a solid color cardstock as a mat as well so that’s why I include that in the things you’ll need. As always, do whatever you want.

I always finish the insides of my cards. I used a colored cardstock mat on the inside of my 5×7 cards and then a white cardstock panel. For the smaller A2 cards, I just used a white panel. If you’re using a white card base, you can choose to not use a panel at all. I just like the way it looks. The measurements are below.

  • 5 x 7 Card Base
    • Color cardstock mat: 4 3/4 x 6 3/4 inches
    • White cardstock panel: 4 x 6 inches
  • 5 1/2 by 4 1/4 Card Base
    • White cardstock panel: 5 1/4 x 4 inches

On the insides is where I used the ephemera as well as the sticker sheet that came with paper pack. It just adds a little something that isn’t necessary but certainly makes it look complete. You can always use the sticker sheet just to make additional cards with any leftover patterned papers you have.

Now obviously you can choose just to make these on your own but this is a pretty beginner level type activity that a kid can do. This gets their creativity going. I got my niece the paper trimmer I listed at the beginning of this post, the paper pack and then I cut a few card bases and card panels from both colored and white cardstock to get her started. She requested a video which I recorded to help her figure out how to put cards together for the first time. I’ve linked that video below in case you want to put together something similar for a kiddo in your life. They can follow along as well.

I hope you have fun creating your own card kits the kids in your life! Once again, the process video is linked below if you want to follow along. Thanks for stopping by today. Now go get crafty!