Birth announcements!

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So if you've ever been pregnant, you know how freaking ridiculously expensive nice birth announcements are. By nice, I just mean ones with pictures, that are at least semi-cute, and that are pre-printed, so you don't have to go through and write the same information in every card.
I decided that I was going to make my own. The pictures didn't turn out that well, the paper is lime green, instead of the sickly green that it scanned, and the glue did not show up that much on the actual cards. Anyway, I took two stamps, and stamped them on vellum paper, then glued the paper to some printed paper and cut out around it with pinking shears and put those on the front of the card. On the inside I printed out a picture of her, and on top put another sheet of vellum that had been printed with all of the information, and the stamps from the front. The picture on this one was cut kind of crooked, but for the most part, the rest were cut straight. For the envelopes, I cut a sheet of the plaid paper to fit my printer and printed out addresses and return addresses, cut them out with the pinking shears again, and glued them to the envelope.
I compared prices, and to buy cards similar to this would have been over $100. My price?
$7 - Pack of 50 blank cards and envelopes (I only used 30)
$6 - baby stamp
free - hearts stamp (From papercandy.com, it was a sample with my order.)
$5 - patterned paper
free - photo paper, my aunt gave me a big stack a couple of years ago and I'm still using it
$2 - glue

Less than $20, a couple of evenings of stamping, cutting and glueing (My husband even helped!), and we had cute, personal birth anouncements. Yay!