I'm considering doing some birthday designs in the future, but looking through what's already on the site, I was wondering if you have any thoughts on what's missing, or what other style you'd like to see this theme done with? You can see the birthday kits already available here.
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I guess to answer my own question we don't seem to have baby birthday or kid birthday really. It's all pretty generic.
Love the idea of kids' birthday kits! I looked at the nine elements kits. I really like the print kits and the birthday print kit that is already there is fantastic.
I could think of a PL birthday kit.
I love the SVG kits and all the printables and high res files like stamps that you had included in your last releases.
Birthday word art, stamps.
Frames with numbers
Birthday number candles
Ballons, confetti.... in different styles: realistic, shabby, engraved, icon-ish
When I think of kids' birthdays...
I think of clowns, animal balloons, painted faces, pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey, pinatas full of candies, those bouncy jumping inflatable castle thingys (no idea what the heck they're called?), party favour gift bags, and tons of sugary sweets.
Bouncy castles, yes Brenda.
I am currently uploading a birthday kit into the Commons. The kit is called Birthday Wishes.
I think more focused kits would be fun - but I'd suggest adding adult birthdays as well as babies' & kids' birthdays to the mix. I do like the generic kits because they work for both my niece & nephews birthdays as well as for mine & other adults but it would be fun to have ones really aimed at age groups (& these are just off the top of my head thinking about my niece & nephews birthdays + possible age groups for grownups):
Babies/Toddlers (1-3 or so)
Young kids (3-6 or 7)
Older kid aka tweens
Teens
And then for college age & up - are there fun themes that would work for them, too, or is this where generic kits kick in?
Another possibility would be kits, or one larger kit,marking milestone birthdays like 18, 20, 21, 25, 30, 40, 50, 60 & up (even for younger kids like 10 being the first double-digit, my niece was SO EXCITED to turn double digits last year).
My problem with most adult milestone kits is they are more mocking than celebratory (word art about big hills, & downhill, & things like that) & I get turned off by the mocking. I think even as adults, it's worth having a kit/celebration that's fun & lovely or fun & kickass or however you celebrate would be great. Growing older should be celebrated rather than mocked (not that some funny bits would be unwelcome but why do we, as a society, default to jokes about aging rather than celebrating life continuing?
Does this make any sense at all? And can you tell you hit one of my hot buttons??
For the next CU blog train I was going to break the rules if I am allowed and make layered birthday numbers in .tiff and .psd CU format. Otherwise, I will do a cake, balloons and perhaps something else.
Go for it Sharon!
Oh thank you so much, Marisa! You made my day.
I agree with Sarah, I would love adult milestone age kits and as she has said not mocking but celebratory.