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birth announcements
So I have a question for you ladies. I wanted to order birth announcements until I realized how much money I would be spending lol. Do you think it would be weird/tacky if I made my own and mailed them out. I love doing crafty projects. Im not sure yet how ill make them but Im going to try while sitting home watching the hurricane 
Re: birth announcements
Not tacky at all! It's a great idea!
It sounds like a nice idea, but if you do decide to go the traditional route, one much less expensive option is to go on etsy and purchase a jpeg and have it printed inexpensively. My friend Nicole does great work
http://www.etsy.com/shop/inspiredbyangel
I think she charges $15 for the design and sells you the jpeg so your only additional cost would be the printing - you print it as a photo - so like off of walmart or shutterfly or something.
ours are "homemade" - dh created them in photoshop. we designed it together, i took the photo to include, he did the graphic work.
we uploaded it to shutterfly or costco to print as photos. i purchased blank envelopes in pink to mail them.
it was fairly inexpensive this way, since it was 5x7 prints and envelopes in bulk.
I don't think it is tacky at all.
I can tell you that I did do the etsy thing for my daughter's first birthday invitations and it worked out great. It cost about $14 for the file and then I printed on my own.
But to be honest, I think making something on the computer is just as fine!!!
Not tacky at all!
You might also want to try Etsy. G's birth announcement was $15. We chose a design we loved from a seller, she added in our pics and text and sent us the digital file in a 4x6" format. Then, we had 50 of them printed at Sam's club photo lab. Including buying envelopes and the design fee, they ended up costing us less than $30 and were beautiful! Well worth it!
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