A fun way to announce pregnancy!

When parents prepare to welcome a new baby into their family, it’s one of the most exciting and magical parts of their lives. They just can’t wait to let the world know about their unborn baby and celebrate this once-in-a-lifetime event with their friends, colleagues, and loved ones through pregnancy announcements. Instead of settling for the boring average card found at your local drug store, they want to announce new life in a special, fun, creative, and cute way!

This is where you come in! If you are an imaginative and creative person, chances are you can come up with many unique ways to help these people announce that they are pregnant. You can create cards with your own custom sketches, drawings, cartoons, or silly rhymes. You can also use a program like Photoshop to modify a photo of the very pregnant mom-to-be and make cards that are truly unique to the pregnant couple!

You should sell the custom cards in sets, starting with sets in increments of 10 for around $12 to $20 per set. The cost will likely range between these prices to cover the time it will take you to customize the card design and any special requests for paper or ink. Offer your customers many design options. Some will want something postcard-like and others will want something more elaborate, like a wedding invitation with a bright, colorful design on the front of the card and a foil-lined envelope. Having a selection of pre-made cards on hand for your customers to choose from can help them get a good idea of ​​what they may have potentially created for themselves or allow them to choose a design you’ve already created to suit their needs. personality and style.

You should create a website to help potential clients find you and allow them easy access to samples of your work. You can also use your website to provide them with images of the different grades of paper, envelopes, fonts, and inks available to them.

If your clients decide that you create a card with the mom-to-be showing off her growing tummy, encourage them to submit several clear photos taken at different angles so you can create a selection of options using the photos along with different background options.

You can offer the mother-to-be a wide range of themed backgrounds for images of her with her growing belly. You could even use sonogram images. A few minutes of creative thinking will give you many more ideas, but here are a few to get you started:

– The mother sitting on the edge of a bird’s nest and surrounded by eggs.

– The mother standing with an image of a flying stork carrying a bundle in the background.

– The mother sitting on a large flower, surrounded by petals.

– The mother holding a bunch of balloons and floating in the sky surrounded by clouds.

– You can also create many unique and creative designs to decorate the deck of other cards.

– Draw a little cartoon of the baby flying in his own little plane with a banner flying behind him.

– Seat baby in his own little director’s chair with a movie clapper and handy megaphone announcing, “I’m coming!”

– Create a background that resembles a sports trading card with family information and the expiration date instead of sports score averages

The options are truly endless. Use your imagination and offer new parents something new and creative. No one likes to be boring, and especially at such an exciting time in their lives, couples will want to create a pregnancy announcement that could potentially grace the fridges and note boards of their friends and family.

In addition to the website you’ll be creating, you should also initially print a brochure of some kind to help you get the word out about your new service. You can post these flyers anywhere that groups of people usually frequent, but especially places like hospitals, OB/Pediatricians’ offices, day care centers, preschools, playgroups, local photo labs, toy stores, and stores that sell baby products. and maternity clothes. Don’t forget about other places like grocery stores, medical buildings, health food stores, libraries, and community center bulletin boards. Once your business is established, your amazing products and word of mouth sales will help your business grow and you’ll have a huge customer base in no time!