Baby Announcements

Fall is my favorite time of year. I love hearing about new babies being born in the autumn; it’s such a compliment to the ideas of harvest and plenty that proliferate around the fall holidays. Those fall babies will be here before you know it and a pumpkin patch themed birth announcement is a super cute way to go.

The custom printed fall themed birth announcement is certainly a valid option. Choose warm fall colors as the background to your baby’s photograph and birth statistics. An image of the child among the pumpkin patch, whether clip art or actual photograph is just adorable. Add a cute caption like: “Look what we found in the pumpkin patch this year” to make your friends and family smile.  Finish off with orange envelopes to complete the theme.

Make your own paper pumpkins to use as the frame of your baby’s birth announcement. Choose quality orange paper, add a few well placed black lines to represent the ribs of the pumpkin and place your child’s photo in the center. Business card sized birth statistics and a photo glued onto the front of a pumpkin and propped with a center card stand at the back is adorable.

Alternately, go to the craft store and buy a few dozen of those Styrofoam pumpkins for your birth announcement. Have your child’s photograph printed on sticker sheets and place a single photograph on the front side of the pumpkin. Make a little flag out of a piece of paper and a colored cocktail stick that states the birth statistics and push into the top of the pumpkin. These look stunning lined up on a favor table at your post birth baby shower.

When your child is born around a major holiday, it’s a great opportunity to think creatively about incorporating the season into your birth announcement. Personally I like pumpkins but go with whatever floats your baby boat.

Filed under: birth announcements, new parent life on August 31st, 2010