Save Yourself Time, Stress, with Easy-to-Make Photo Birth Announcements

A new baby coming into the world should be welcomed by everyone. Of course, that means you will have to send family, friends and co-workers a birth announcement. Even though a newborn baby brings joy, it also brings stress. With important things to worry about such as, "is that a hungry or tired cry", you shouldn't have to worry about birth announcements to much.

Making your own birth announcements is a great way to say money, and time. Another thing to take into consideration is how special your baby is. With something so special in your life, a personalized homemade birth announcement is perfect. And with all the money you save you can buy fun stuff to spoil the baby with.

There are several ways you can make your own custom photo birth announcements. However, you should keep your creative juices flowing as well as considering ideas. After all you want your birth announcements to be perfect, as nothing is to good for the baby.

General Birth Announcement:

The easiest way to make a photo birth announcement, is in card form. You can buy photo paper is several sizes, however for an announcement card you will need 4" X 5" photo paper. You can easily find envelopes to fit this size in, and it's a good general size. You will need to scan of take a digital picture of the baby for your card. Next using photo shop or a similar program, crop your photo to size, then add the text at the bottom. Depending of what program you have you might be able to add borders, and other decorative details. If you do not have any photo shop programs on your computer, you can go to www.kodak.com and use their program for free. Once you have your photo and information ready to print, give it one last look over. Information such as babies full name, date of birth, time of birth, weight, height, boy / girl, and birth place. If your baby has older siblings you might want to consider adding their name to the card. EXAMPLE: Abby Smith the little sister of Ann Smith. You can also make the siblings known by writing something like "Baby Brother" instead of "It's A Boy".

Key chain Birth Announcement:

A fun way to tell everyone about the birth of your baby is by making a photo key chain. You can buy plastic double sided photo key chains at most craft stores. To make a photo key chain print the babies picture on one side of the photo paper, and the babies information on the back side. These little key chains not only serve as birth announcements, they also make great little gifts. Grandparents love showing off their grandkids, and what better way to do it. Besides when someone asked "how much did she weigh" the can answer quickly. The double sided photo key chains cost between $1.50 - $3.00 each on average. If that is a little pricey for you, you can always laminate the photo. Use a paper hole punch to make the hole for the key ring. You can buy just the metal ring part of a key ring at any craft store. These usually cost between $1.00 - $3.00 per bag and you usually get 25 rings in a bag.

There are several fun ways to make birth announcements. Sites such as www.tinyprints.com, and www.storkgrams.com have several samples for you to look at. Even though these sites do sell photo birth announcements their also a great way to inspire your own ideas.