Baby Announcements

Finding creative ways to formally announce your child to the world sometimes takes a little creative thinking. If family and friends are spread far apart or coming over for a post birth party or baptism, a flexible medium for the birth announcement may make more sense, especially if you want to combine the announcement with a party favor. I’m thinking of birth announcement stickers.

The sheets of custom printed stickers are available at the same online sites that offer announcements, cards and invites. They may work as your sole announcement or as a supplement. Personally I would get the traditional announcements and use the sticker announcements to place on the back of custom photo books. It would be cheaper to have a sticker than to custom print the photo book cover.

Depending on whether you are buying your guests thank you gifts or favors a sticker with the birth stats on is a nice finishing touch. Think about using them on boxes of candies, backs of photo frames, inside baby books, on the back of photos, as a label on gift baskets, on the bottom of paper weights, flower vases and the inside of keepsake boxes.

The online printers have quite a lot of sticker templates that you can customize as much or as little as you want. Personally a completely custom sticker would be cute but if you have a template that matches your cards and other announcements that may provide a more cohesive look.

For some folks sending birth announcements is either odd or old fashioned. By customizing the birth announcement to suit your personal needs the idea of formally announcing baby becomes more personal. And sticky.

Filed under: Uncategorized, baby shower, birth announcements on January 18th, 2012