Mr. A’s Birth Announcement

June 13th, 2009

So by now most of you who actually read this little blog have received your very own owl announcement! But for those of you who haven’t I thought I would share the ins n’ outs of it.

To start I have to say that I am LOVIN’ my new Canon iP4600 printer! It’s no sexy Epson R1900 wide format dream machine, but I had to compromise ($80 vs. $500) and this trusty Canon is what I settled on! One of the many things I LOVE is that it can do borderless 8 1/2 x 11 print jobs, like I did here, making it possible to create a full bleed 8 1/2 by 5 1/2 flat card announcement.

This was truly my first project using any sort of Photoshop product, I have been putting off cluttering my brain with one more thing/project for quiet a while now. To my demise I decided to “invest” in a *new (I haven’t had one for a couple years now) color printer rather than purchasing birth announcements this time around, so there was no getting out of it. I purchased Photoshop Elements 6.0 for mac, and got to it.

I used some .psd files I purchased from twopeasinabucket.com by tia bennett for the owl and details on the envelopes. I also had wallets printed to attach to the announcements rather than printing directly on them. I did this with Ms. E’s professionally printed ones and it seemed to be a hit two years ago as well. As I am in the habit of doing, I used my favorite textured paper (luxe fino white) from paper-source and as always I just love it.

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3 Responses to “Mr. A’s Birth Announcement”

Comment by Magen Holgate
June 15, 2009 4:29am

These were VERY cute by the way!!! I need to find the motivation to #1 blog and #2 come up with a fun crafty project. I’m here for inspiration.
Comment by urban craft
June 16, 2009 1:58pm

those envelopes are so awesome!
Comment by Blabby
January 26, 2010 11:46am

ADORABLE! Great work :) So nice to meet you last night at HomeEc!

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