I don’t know about you but I’m always looking for ways to save money. At the holidays I send out cards featuring my baby boy to save on separate photos. Some folks decide to save the party or shower for after the baby’s birth giving you a chance to bundle your printing. A christening or baptism is a great opportunity to combine a photo of your child as well as provide a memento of the special occasion.
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Filed under: baby shower, birth announcements, invitations on January 11th, 2012 | No Comments »
The holidays are fun but fleeting. Getting back to some sense of normality after being so off schedule or with a lot of schedule changes can be a challenge. The New Year brings new tasks and new things for your ever growing to do list. Like invitations. Yes spring babies are about to pop up everywhere so its time to organize that shower or first birthday party. And of course the first thing to do is get the ..read more
Filed under: baby shower, birth announcements, invitations on January 3rd, 2012 | No Comments »
Browsing the printing websites today I noticed what a nice range of baby shower invites they have to offer. When we think of babies and custom printing we usually think birth announcements right? But why not start with the shower invites?
There are all the usual shapes and sizes available for custom printed shower invites but I’m a big fan of the postcard style. Besides saving you on postage, you have enough room for your ..read more
Filed under: baby shower, invitations on December 9th, 2011 | No Comments »
Custom printing is awesome for shower invites and birth announcements and the perfect finishing touch are custom envelopes. Of course you could purchase matching envelopes when you order your invites or you could just order matching address labels and make the actual envelopes yourself. Home made envelopes give modern printing that homey feel and show you made a little personal effort with your ultra modern super speedy to create invites and announcements.
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Filed under: baby shower, birth announcements, invitations on November 11th, 2011 | No Comments »
When you go to order your baby shower invites think about all the different custom printing you are going to need in the next few months and get everything in one go. And don’t forget about you. After you have designed the thank yous and the announcement make yourself some mommy business cards to use as inserts and for future play date planning.
A lot of online printers offer the package deal for baby related printing these ..read more
Filed under: birth announcements, invitations, mommy cards, new parent life, thank you cards on October 20th, 2011 | No Comments »
I’m totally on a Montessori kick right now and just got my new mom friend a IQ enhancing black and white mobile for the nursery. It got me thinking about baby shower ideas. I’m always going on about colors but what about no color? What about a super cool, highly modern baby genius themed baby shower?
A black and white baby shower would be one heck of a conversation starter. There would be no reason ..read more
Filed under: baby shower, birth announcements, invitations on August 27th, 2011 | No Comments »
Okay so unless you have been hiding under a rock for the last couple of years you will know the vintage or retro look is back in style. These days the west coasters are calling it “mid-century” style and the term has spread and mid century is definitely the new vintage. So how could you incorporate this look into your baby’s birth? Why a retro nursery and some mid century style birth announcements of course.
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Filed under: baby shower, birth announcements, invitations on July 26th, 2011 | No Comments »
Avoid the stress and indecision of choosing birth announcements at the last minute by planning in advance for your custom printing. By purchasing a set of stationary that includes baby shower invites, pregnancy announcements, birth announcement, thank you cards, custom stationery, envelopes, holiday cards and gift calendars you’ll save yourself time, money and stress.
When deciding which design best suits your little one for their shower invites, announcements and thank yous consider a template ..read more
Filed under: baby shower, birth announcements, invitations, save the date, thank you cards on July 12th, 2011 | No Comments »
Well the owl idea was a bust with my friend (if you read yesterday’s post you know what I’m talking about) and so its back to square one in choosing a baby shower theme for a baby boy using the colors brown, green and blue. And of course my friend doesn’t want anything too predictable like cars or sports motifs. Well I started brainstorming…again and came up with a few more themes for the organic colored baby shower.
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Filed under: baby shower, birth announcements, invitations on July 6th, 2011 | No Comments »
I asked a friend for a few pictures of her baby filled belly. She is in her final trimester and informed me that they: “hadn’t got to that yet.” I was shocked. How could the most logical organized person I have ever met not be prepared to document this life changing period? Is it the ‘too cool for school’ mentality? The urge not to do what everyone else does? I get the whole anti-sheep syndrome but it really ..read more
Filed under: baby shower, birth announcements, invitations, new parent life on June 29th, 2011 | No Comments »
