Create Personalized Photo Birth Announcements

There is nothing more joyful or worth bragging about than the birth of a new baby, and the first thing the new proud parents and grandparents want at to do is spread the news. Of course, the most common way to do this is to go out and buy birth announcements or have them made for you expensively by some person or company who does this for a living.

But why not make your own photo birth announcements ? Just the added personalization of your own cards can mean so much or if you are too busy with your newborn a family member can do it for you just as I did when my youngest grandson was born 4 years ago.

What you need:

It's really quite easy,
All you need is a printer
A greeting card program
Card stock paper
Photos of the baby in a file uploaded in your computer

There are many card programs on the market and at various prices, you can find one for about $29.00 to $49.00 at any Best buy or Circuit City type of store, you may even find one like I did in a bargain bin for $9.99..I have three programs, but my favorite is made by American Greetings since it only uses one disk with all your options on just that one disk so you don't have to keep changing discs like the program I have by Hallmark and Printshop. When you first purchase the program you just download the application disk into your computer so when its time to make your card you are all set to go...Just put the Create A Card disc into the computer and have fun

The program should have an option of "add a photo" that is what you will use.

The next most important thing is to have your baby pictures in a separate file on your desktop of your computer so you can access them easily when prompted for the picture, just like adding a picture to your articles on A.C.

Getting started:

Put your disk into your computer and go to the Add a Photos option.... look through the existing cards for the templates that say Birth announcements or New baby. Your card program may use a different term but I'm sure you will find it, all the programs I have seen have had that option