Make Your Own Baby Announcements
Looking for a way to occupy yourself before the new baby arrives? Assuming of course you aren’t working now, and don’t have any other children. In those cases, you likely don’t have a lot of time left over for craft projects, but if you do, here’s a great idea that a friend of mine really enjoyed. She made her own baby birth announcements.
Mind you, she came up with the idea ages before the baby was due, but that was the right time to have it. There was lots of time left to tinker with the design, and not only print out all the cards, but address and stamp envelopes, too.
There are tons of computer graphic programs that have layouts for greeting cards that make it so simple to do, you won’t believe it. All you have to do is add images and text, then send the file to your printer. Of course, if you want to go the old fashioned route, and make them out of folded paper on your own, it’s really easy to fold the sheet into a card, note where the cover and inside panel are, and then put your design and text on these areas. Once the card is completed, you can have it photocopied in color, on the quality of paper you would like.
Geri’s husband is a pilot. So she took an image of one of the airline’s planes, and pasted it in the cover position for a card. Then she set up the inside page for all the important information like date, weight, etc. and it was ready for the great event. Her husband took their little boy’s photo, re-sized it and put it on the card in the sling she had placed under the plane. The information was filled in and the cards printed off in no time.
