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Pregnancy Announcement for Family

This homemade pregnancy announcement book is the perfect way to announce your new arrival to family

I hope that everyone out there had a fabulous Mother’s Day weekend. I know I did! I’m so excited to be celebrating my second Mother’s Day as a mama, especially knowing that my next Mother’s Day, I’ll have TWO little people to make handprint art with (Thanks Pinterest for the ten thousand handprint ideas! lol). Since we are celebrating mamas, I thought I’d share one last Pregnancy Announcement for Family (that live far away!). 

I created this pregnancy announcement book using my cricut maker and scrapbooking supplies

If you live far away from your parents, or in-laws, you might be like me… constantly joking about the day your parents are going to move closer! I know we are joking about it ALL the time. This is where the grand baby is! Of course they’ll want to move here! Right?! lol. (Plus, I could use a free babysitter!)

Since this is an ongoing joke, I thought, what better way to share the news that we are pregnant with our second baby than to send them a surprise book, filled with “Reasons to Move to <insert your Province/State here>”.

Materials:

Cricut Explore Air 2
Cricut pens (Gold metallic thick, fine pink, and fine blue)
Co-ordinating scrapbook papers 
(I used Close to My Heart “Noted” paper collection)
Kraft notebook
Gold washi tape
Coordinating accessories

To begin, I opened my Cricut Design Space, and began choosing letters and numbers that I wanted to cut out. I synced all of the items into two colours (green and yellow below) so that all the green would print on one colour paper, and all the yellow on another.

Use the cricut design studio to format the letters for your pregnancy announcement book

I know that my handwriting is not pretty, so I was SUPER excited to using the Cricut pens to write my words straight into my text boxes. In the screenshot below, you can see all of the different boxes I chose to cut out. Then I added the words by choosing the writing tool, selecting a writing font, and typing in my text. Once you type the text, you have to make sure that you attached the text to the box underneath so that the cricut will know where you want the words written. Then print them all out!

The cricut design studio is perfect for making the text boxes for your pregnancy announcement book

I LOVE the Close to My Heart coordinating paper packs, because I don’t have to think about pairing and matching papers, which is usually the hardest part of scrapbooking.  They already come perfectly coordinated!

Here’s the front of the notebook that I designed with the pieces my Cricut Explore Air 2 cut out:

ten reasons to move to alberta pregnancy announcement book for family

Then I went on to design ten more pages, each with one of the numbers I cut out on the Cricut Explore Air 2, and with one of the text boxes. The words were written on beautifully! I definitely would not have been able to write that neatly!

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Hopefully I’ve helped to spark some ideas for other mamas announcing pregnancies to family members or friends that live far away!

This pregnancy announcement book is the perfect way to tell your family about your new bundle of joy!

Curious about our other baby announcements? Check out this post to see how we shared our news on social media :)

Want to see what our little girl put on her "to-do" list? Check out the blog today! #linkinprofile #bigsurprise #happy


{xoxo}

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Brittany

Thursday 28th of May 2015

Ahh!! All of my family lives far away and this IS SO CUTE! It makes me want to get pregnant just so I can make this adorable announcement! --Brittany www.diyjustcuz.com

Lindivs

Thursday 28th of May 2015

Haha! Thank you!

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Nikka Geers

Wednesday 20th of May 2015

This is so creative. I love it. Thanks for sharing with us at Heart 2 Heart.

Lindivs

Wednesday 20th of May 2015

Thanks Nikka!! Glad I could stop by this month :)

Jenna @ A Savory Feast

Wednesday 20th of May 2015

Awww, this is adorable! I love announcements like this that aren't obvious from the start. What a great way to share your news with out-of-state family. Thanks for sharing this idea with Hump Day Happenings.

Lindivs

Wednesday 20th of May 2015

Thank you Jenna :) They definitely didn't know what was coming until they got to the last page!!