Hand Made Baby Birth Announcements

After our newest arrival was born, I looked online to order birth announcements.

I really wanted something different and unique, but did not want to pay big bucks for it.

Unfortunately, you can't have both :)

I decided to make my own. I went in to Joann's and picked out some Photo Mats. I think that taking that route saved me time and money. I'm not too crafty and I don't have all the supplies, so the double photo mats worked out great!

I also picked up some ribbon, brown and blue, the best color combination ever!

Oh how could I forget buttons!? :)

With some double sided tape, scissors, time and creativity, I came up with this!

The photo mats came in all sorts of colors and designs, I did not use all of them though, there were quite a few greys, blacks, and white. Perfect for next project! Whatever that might be. lol

So I made about 15 announcements, these are the totals :)

Photo Mats - $3.49 Orig. $4.99

Buttons - $2.49

Ribbon - $5.08

Photos - about $8

I used a 20% off coupon that took $2.61 off

Comes out to about $16. Note that I didn't use up all the mats and i have a TON of ribbon left, I also have photos left. ;)

That's like $1 per announcement! Good deal I think :)

I really enjoyed this project. :)

Please let me know what you think!

Would you do this yourself or would you rather just order them online?

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xoxo