Baby Shower Cards For Less
Have you bought a greeting card lately? If you haven't, be prepared to have sticker shock. Greeting cards like birthday cards, thank you cards, graduation cards, congratulations cards and baby shower cards can cost between $3 and $7 these days, depending on how complex the card is. That's a lot to pay for a thick piece of decorated paper, folded in half!
If you are budget minded and a little bit crafty, you can make your own cards for baby showers, birthdays, and other special events. People love to receive handmade cards - any handmade gift is rare and special, and handmade greeting cards are no different.
Handmade Baby Shower Cards
If you can write, draw, or color, you can make a baby shower card. Find a simple line-art illustration you want to copy. It can be an umbrella for a shower theme, or a baby, or even a simple picture of a house with a baby buggy in the front yard. Fold a heavy piece of paper in half so it's the size of a greeting card, and just start writing and drawing. The mother-to-be will appreciate your efforts.
If you have young children who can draw, ask them to draw pictures for your homemade baby shower card. Children's artwork is always charming, and including drawings of the new baby and new family that your children drew on your baby shower card will elicit plenty of "oohs" and "ahhs" at the baby shower when the mother-to-be opens your baby shower card.
You can also make computer-generated baby shower cards. If you are not comfortable creating baby shower cards from word processing software and clip art graphics, you can buy inexpensive greeting card software that will practically create the baby shower card for you in a matter of minutes. You'll choose an image, place it on your card, select a nice saying, or come up with a message of your own, save the card and print it out on your color printer. You can also find free printable baby shower cards online, all ready to print. All you need is card stock to fit your color printer and an envelope to put the card in.
If you don't like the idea of making your own card, you can always send the mother-to-be an e-card. If you do this, you will need her e-mail address. This is a "green" way to recognize the happy event, because it does not use paper or generate waste.
