MyBirthdayShort ones, to use as they are or as a start. The best message is still one true thing about them: a memory, a running joke, what you admire. Tap Copy next to any line.
By person
Birthday card for mom
Happy birthday, Mom. Thank you for every packed lunch, every lift and every time you waited up.
You taught me to blow out candles. Now it is your turn. I love you.
To the best mother anyone could ask for: today is all about you.
Birthday card for dad
Happy birthday, Dad. Still the high score in this family.
Thanks for every lesson, the useful ones and the ones about barbecues. Have a great day.
You are not getting older, you are getting more vintage. Happy birthday!
Birthday card for wife
Happy birthday to the love of my life. Every year with you is my favourite one.
You make every ordinary day better. Today I get to make yours. Happy birthday, my love.
Same plan as every year: I love you, and the cake is mine to cut.
Birthday card for husband
Happy birthday to my favourite person, and the only one allowed to finish my fries.
Another year of putting up with me. You deserve this cake. I love you.
To my husband, my teammate and my best friend: happy birthday.
Birthday card for girlfriend
Happy birthday to the girl who makes every day better. Cannot wait to celebrate you tonight.
You are my favourite notification. Happy birthday!
Another year of you being amazing. Happy birthday, beautiful.
Birthday card for boyfriend
Happy birthday to my player two.
You are my favourite person to do nothing with. Happy birthday!
Level up! Happy birthday, I love you.
Birthday card for sister
Happy birthday to the only person who knows exactly how annoying I am, and stays anyway.
Sister by birth, best friend by choice. Happy birthday!
I would share my cake with you. Probably. Happy birthday, sis.
Birthday card for brother
Happy birthday, bro. Still better at this game than you.
Thanks for being the best brother. Most of the time. Happy birthday!
Older, not wiser. Happy birthday, brother.
Birthday card for best friend
Happy birthday to my partner in crime. Same time next year?
Friends since forever, and you are still the funniest person I know. Happy birthday!
I would tell you how old you are, but you know. Happy birthday, bestie.
Birthday card for coworker
Happy birthday! The meeting can wait, the cake can not.
Wishing you a great birthday from all of us. Thanks for making work more fun.
Happy birthday to the best desk neighbour in the building.
Birthday card for boss
Happy birthday! Thank you for your support this year. Enjoy your day.
Wishing you a great birthday and a well-deserved break.
Happy birthday from the whole team. The cake is on us.
Birthday card for grandma
Happy birthday, Grandma. Thank you for all the cakes, now here is one for you.
To the best grandmother in the world: we love you and we are thinking of you today.
Happy birthday, Nana. Cannot wait to see you soon.
Birthday card for grandpa
Happy birthday, Grandpa. Still the best storyteller in the family.
To our favourite grandfather: have a wonderful day, we love you.
Happy birthday! You make getting older look easy.
Birthday card for son
Happy birthday, son. We are so proud of you.
Another year older and still our favourite. Happy birthday!
Go beat that high score. Happy birthday from Mom and Dad.
Birthday card for daughter
Happy birthday, sweetheart. Watching you grow is the best thing in our lives.
To our amazing daughter: may this year be as bright as you are.
Happy birthday! We love you more than cake. And we really love cake.
By age
16th birthday card
Happy sweet 16! The best years start now.
Sixteen looks good on you. Happy birthday!
Happy 16th! Driving lessons next. Good luck to the rest of us.
18th birthday card
Happy 18th! The world is all yours now.
Officially an adult. Unofficially still our kid. Happy birthday!
Eighteen years of you, and the best is yet to come. Happy birthday.
21st birthday card
Happy 21st! Make it a night to remember. Or to forget.
Twenty-one and fabulous. Happy birthday!
Cheers to 21 years of you. Happy birthday.
30th birthday card
Happy 30th! Dirty thirty, fresh as ever.
Thirty is the new twenty. Happy birthday!
Welcome to your thirties: better taste, same bad jokes. Happy birthday.
40th birthday card
Happy 40th! Still the high score.
Forty and fabulous. Happy birthday!
Life begins at forty. Batteries not included. Happy birthday!
50th birthday card
Happy 50th! Fifty years young and still going strong.
Half a century of being awesome. Happy birthday!
Cheers to fifty years. Here is to fifty more.
60th birthday card
Happy 60th! Sixty looks great on you.
Six decades of wonderful. Happy birthday!
Here is to sixty years of good stories, and many more.
70th birthday card
Happy 70th birthday! Seventy years of making us smile.
To seventy wonderful years, and to all the ones to come.
Happy birthday! You make seventy look easy.
80th birthday card
Happy 80th birthday! Eighty years of love, and all of us to show for it.
To an amazing eighty years. We love you.
Happy birthday! Here is to the next chapter.
For the other moments
Belated birthday card
Happy belated birthday! I did not forget, I was just making it last longer.
Sorry I am late. The cake is still good, I promise.
Better late than never: happy birthday!
Long distance birthday card
Miles apart, but thinking of you today. Happy birthday!
Wish I could be there to eat your cake. Happy birthday from far away.
Distance means nothing on a day like this. Happy birthday.
Birthday card for kids
Happy birthday, superstar! Have the best day ever.
You are growing so fast. Happy birthday from all of us!
Happy birthday! Lots of cake, lots of fun, lots of love.
By what they love
Cat birthday card
Happy birthday to the only person my cat actually likes.
Nine lives, and you are still the best one. Happy birthday!
Wishing you a day of naps in the sun and someone else cleaning the litter.
Funny cat birthday card
Happy birthday! Stay as shameless as a cat in a stolen hat.
Another year of taking whatever you want and looking adorable doing it.
To the coolest cat I know. Keep the hat.
Dog birthday card
Happy birthday from me and every good boy who loves you.
You deserve all the treats today. All of them.
Wishing you the energy of a puppy and the naps of an old dog.
Penguin birthday card
Happy birthday! Slide into this year like a penguin down a hill.
Chill, eat fish, repeat. Have the best birthday.
You are the coolest person I know. Literally.
Frog birthday card
Happy birthday! Hop into a wonderful year.
Toad-ally the best friend. Have a great day.
Wishing you a year with more lily pads than splashes.
Panda birthday card
Happy birthday! May your cake be as tall as your ambitions.
Sending you a panda-sized hug and a cake to match.
Bamboo-tiful birthday wishes to you.
Monkey birthday card
Happy birthday to my favourite cheeky monkey.
Wishing you a year of swinging from one good thing to the next.
Go bananas, it is your birthday!
Squirrel birthday card
Happy birthday to the bravest little one I know.
Small but mighty. Have a fierce birthday.
Go nuts today, you have earned it.
Bear birthday card
Happy birthday to my favourite big bear.
Hope your birthday is unbearably good.
Wishing you a year with fewer locked doors and more picnics.
Deer birthday card
Happy birthday, dear. Sorry, deer.
Wishing you a year of graceful leaps and great exits.
Oh deer, another birthday. Have a wonderful one.
Wildlife birthday card
Happy birthday! Aim high, then a bit higher.
Wishing you a year where every pear is within reach.
You never give up. Have a wild birthday.
Crocodile birthday card
Happy birthday! See you later, alligator.
Snap out of it, it is your birthday!
Wishing you a year with thick skin and a big smile.
Put it in a card they play
Every message here fits on a MyBirthdayCards card: their name and age go into a twenty-second game, your words come after it, and it is sent as a link. Count the days with the birthday countdown.