Your baby is one-of-a-kind, so it's only natural to find yourself in search of creative themes for baby announcements. While you can purchase basic baby announcements from a variety of sources, making your own allows you to design a truly memorable card. Whether you choose to make announcements using traditional paper supplies or create them on your computer, you can design a card that is a perfect reflection of your personal sense of style.
A Modern Twist on Baby Annoucements
For the simplest baby announcement, try pairing a black and white photo of your newborn with an unexpected color scheme. Since most people associate birth announcements with pastel pinks and blues, this gives your design a modern twist.
For a baby girl, consider one of the following color combinations:
- Rose and mint green
- Rose and chocolate
- Rose and gold
- Hot pink and lime green
- Hot pink and black
- Lavender and chocolate
- Lavender and mint green
For a baby boy, try:
- Blue, green, and white
- Blue, red, and yellow
- Sky blue and chocolate
- Navy blue and cream
- Navy blue and orange
- Olive green and tan
- Olive green and navy blue
Monograms and simple patterns such as polka dots or plaids can be a good way to add interest to this type of theme for your birth announcement. Flourishes can give your card a dramatic flair, although you may want to avoid using overly frilly designs on your son's birth announcement.
Cute and Clever Baby Announcements
Rattles, baby blocks, and teddy bears are the traditional embellishments for handmade baby announcements, but you don't need to limit yourself to these accents. When designing your own announcements, you can be as creative as you wish. Here are some ideas for cute and clever accents:
- "Look whoo just arrived." Owls are very popular embellishments for card making and scrapbooking projects, so it's easy to find stickers, rubber stamps, or computer clip art to decorate this type of baby announcement.
- "Our little peanut has arrived." Make this announcement with a picture of an elephant holding a peanut in his trunk.
- "We're buzzing with joy." A card featuring a buzzing bumblebee and a picture of your little one is sure to bring a smile to your face.
- "Welcome to the jungle." Decorate your announcement with monkeys, giraffes, lions, or the zoo animal of your choice. This theme is especially appropriate if you have a house full of siblings ready to welcome home their baby brother or sister.
- "Look who just sailed in." The sailboat theme is traditionally associated with baby boys, but you could adapt this theme to an announcement for your daughter by choosing a more feminine color scheme for the card and adding a few flourishes to the design.
- "A star is born." If your little one is already used to being the center of attention, decorate this baby announcement with a spotlight, popcorn bucket, or movie theater ticket to bring to mind a future career as an actor or actress.
- "Extra! Extra!" Design your birth announcement to look like the front page of your favorite newspaper, with the inside scoop on your little one's arrival.
A Gift for You
Parents who aren't planning on sending out a large number of baby announcements may wish to make an announcement that also doubles as a small gift. For example:
- Cover a chocolate bar with a custom candy wrapper label that features your child's birth information.
- Print baby's photo onto magnetic paper before attaching it to your card.
- Make an announcement with a pocket that includes a DVD slideshow featuring photos or video from your pregnancy, your baby's birth, and his first few days at home.