Make your own baby announcements!

Thanksgiving is right around the corner! Can you believe it? Here is a A list of Thanksgiving Photo opps I wrote last year that you may find helpful...

In the meantime, Let's make our own baby announcements! I'm sure you've seen some darling announcements and thought, That is so cute. I wish I could have an announcement this that! Guess what? YOU CAN.

I made these 4 announcements for Lily using Adobe Photoshop (Although, I'm pretty sure you can do most of this stuff in Photoshop Elements as well.) Below each announcement I have listed everything I used to create it so you can get started on your own announcements.

Let me know which one is your favorite. I can't decide which one to use!

#1:

This photographer created my inspiration for this one.

• I opened the original picture file and created the announcement right on that. 
• The fonts I used were Times New Roman for the "Hi" and Myriad Pro for the rest of it.

#2:

Here is my inspiration for this one.

• Again, I opened the original picture and created the announcement from there. 

• The handwriting font I used is called Pea Bhea. I downloaded this font and a TON of other cool fonts for free from this site called, Kevin and Amanda.

• The other font used to write, "Lillian Kate Evans" is called, Lullaby. It was a free font I downloaded from dafont.com.

• The arrows were made using a font downloaded from the Kevin and Amanda site. It's called Pea Bestow's Doodles. It is the letter "p".

• The lavender label was made using a vintage label stamp I download from this site called Pugly Pixel. (This is one of my favorite sites! I love her style.)

• The line was made using the line tool in Photoshop.

#3:

I used my own imagination for this one. :)

•  Once again, I opened the original picture and created the announcement on that.

• The white block used underneath the writing was made using the rectangle shape in Photoshop. I started with a white rectangle and then decreased the opacity to 37%.

• The font I used for "lillian kate evans" is called Time.

• The other font underneath that is called Josefin Slab. I'm pretty sure this is a font that comes standard with most computers.

#4:

Agian, I used my own creativity for this one. :)

• For the background I googled "old vintage paper" and found this one. Unfortunately I didn't save my source.

• The old Polaroid picture was a free downloaded from this site called, Fuzzimo. They have tons of cool stuff.

• The red label was a free download from this site called, Just Something I Made.

• The font used on the word, "introducing..." is called Pea Stacy Fancy and can be downloaded for free from the Kevin and Amanda site.

• The font underneather the photo is called, Pea Bhea, and can be found on the Kevin and Amanda site as well.

• The typewriter looking font is called Rough_Typewriter and can be downloaded from dafont.com here.

Okay, now go out and make your own! I want to see your creativity so send me a link once you've made it. 

Don't forget to let me know which announcement is your favorite!

(NOTE: Want a step-by-step cheat sheet for crisper, colorful and eye catching pictures? Download the Key to Pictures Cheat and stop guessing on your camera’s manual settings.)