Baby Gift Thank You Cards

Making these baby gift thank you cards may be a little more time consuming than some of my other ideas, but they are guaranteed to delight their recipients, and sure to make them giggle.
They are worth the time and effort for sure. I love these cards and I'll tell you that everyone who I have given these Thank you cards to has loved them too.
To make them you should have some baby pictures taken by digital camera so that you can crop and print them on regualr white paper (as opposed to using actual photo prints) to save you some cash. Of course if you wanted to make them Just a little extra special you could use actual photo prints. Or why not attatch a small photo print of the baby by mounting it to the inside of the baby gift thank you cards using photo corners?

Tools used to make the baby gift thank you cards:
cardstock or blank printable cards
construction paper
heart shaped paper punch (med)
or
(optional)Large flower punch
grass paper embellishment (optional)

Step One: Creating the printed words on the cards. There are a few ways to accomplish this - You can:

A: set up this thank you card text as a 2-up lay-out (or two cards to a page) using desktop publishing software. If you're not picky about the font you can even print out a free 2-up layout from this site.
If you do choose to go with a 2-up layout, once you have printed these onto a chosen cardstock you will need to have them cut in half to create two seperate cards. The easy way out would be to bring them to a local copy or print shop that is equipped with a hydraulic paper cutter. There you can pay to have them cut for you. It is relatively cheap, makes the job so much easier, and guaranteed to give you a perfect cut.
Otherwise you can cut them in half yourself using a good personal hand cutter. I, myself go for the hand cutter everytime unless I am making a very large quantity of cards, or if the card requires an extra complicated or tedious cut.

On to plan B: To make the baby gift thank you cards, if you are using a blank printable card, or pre-cut cardstock, you can use desktop publishing or word processing software. Print directly onto the card and simply fold in half.
If you are using a word processor you will go to Document setup or Page setup then select the document's size to be that of the size of your paper. Make sure you choose the orientation as landscape.
Next choose Format > > Columns . A new window will open. Choose to have 2 columns with a space between them the same size as the margins on the sides of the document (usually 1"). Just enter the "Thank You" text into the right hand column at the top and center it. Viola!

Step Two: Embellishments for the baby gift thank you cards! I'll start with the baby head flowers. I made these using hearts punched out of construction paper using a heart shaped paper punch.

For a faster alternative you can purchase a large flower shaped paper punch instead but may not come out as interesting looking with less texture.

First you will need to print out the baby heads. Use a digital camera photo and crop it close around the baby's face. Most digital cameras have photo manipulating software that comes with it. Use this software to crop your photos. If you do not have a software like this than go here to download the software for free.
If you do not have a digital camera you can still get your pictures on your computer quite easily. Many photo development centers now offer to have your pictures put onto a disk or even stored into an internet photo storage website where you can retrieve them.

When choosing pictures for the front of the baby gift thank you cards try to use two different pictures with different expressions on the baby's face. Try to print as many faces on one page as you can to save paper. Do this by either copy and pasting the image to a word processor or DTP software. You can also achive this using the free downloadable software I mentioned above. It is called Paint.net. To do this choose File > > New and set the parameters of the page so that it is 8 1/2" by 11". Next choose File > > Open and choose the baby face you wish to use. Crop the picture close to the baby's face and copy and paste the image to the empty page you created. Repeat the copy and paset until the page is full.

Print the baby faces onto plain white paper using the best quality settings for your printer. Once printed simply use a pair of scissors to cut them out.

To create the flower behind the baby's face punch out a pile of paper hearts with a medium or large sized heart shaped paper punch. Using a glue stick apply some glue to the back of the baby face and begin to attach the hearts to the back. Work your way all around in a circle leaving about 1/4" space in between each. Then go back and fill in the spaces with more hearts.

Next create the flower stems and leaves. I used a pair of scissors to cut the stems free-hand out of construction paper. To make the leaves just punch out more paper hearts and use the scissors to cut them in half. This creates two leaves.

The final decoration is the grass at the bottom of the card. You could choose to cut this out free-hand from construction paper, but I used a ready made scrapbook paper embellishment.

Step Three: The final step - create the baby gift thank you cards by glueing all the pieces together! Start with the flower stems. Use a glue-stick to cover the backs of them with glue and attatch them to the front of the card. Make sure One stem extends higher than the other and be carful to keep them pointing straight. attatch the leaves next. Attatch them with the straight side pointing downwards or else they will look out of place.
Next attach the grass to the bottom of the card covering where the stems end.
For the last step attach both flower tops being careful to center them on the stems. Now just write out your thank you notes and you're done!

More tips for making baby gift thank you cards

* Go a step further and add a yellow sun to the top corner of the card, or maybe even draw on a small bumble bee.

* Instead of grass add some handmade little flower pots. You could make them out of construction paper or even use a decorative patterned paper.

* Add a little extra decoration to the baby gift thank you cards by adding a little ribbon. attach some ribbon and a bow across the top of the card. Or even attach little bows to the flower stems to make them look like they are tied on. If you decide to create little flower pots add bows to the flower pots!

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