Custom Handcrafted Announcements for Baby Nola

When Event Bliss launched in Sept of 2005, we started out doing all handcrafted custom designs. All of our designs are still custom, but not all are handcrafted. So when we get a chance to get back to our roots, it's heaven.

Before repeat customer Julie of Seattle, WA gave birth to baby girl #2 at the end of October, she asked me to work with her again to create birth announcements for baby Nola. Back in early 2006, I created birth announcements for Julie's first baby girl, and I can't tell you how truly honored I was to work with her once again and to be entrusted with creating something so valuable as her second daughter's announcements.

For baby Nola, we created 100 pink and brown Tiny Feet handcrafted custom announcements. These are one of my favorite announcements. They're not announcements you can make overnight, even if there was a team of designers instead of just lil' ol' me, but they are a joy to make and the end product always makes me smile.

A lot of people may wonder why custom handcrafted work costs more, and a lot of it has to do with the fact that with handcrafted work, we're not just designing on the computer and printing. There are many more steps, many different elements to incorporate, and a lot more assembly. For these birth announcements, every single element is done by hand.

Here are all of the steps needed to make these announcements:

• Layout of the text
• Printing of the interior text cards
• Cutting of interior text cards
• Cutting of exterior brown cardstock
• Scoring of exterior brown cardstock
• Adhering the interior text cardstock to the exterior cardstock
• Cutting of the white cardstock for the tiny feet base layer
• Cutting of the pink cardstock for the tiny feet top layer
• Die-cutting each of the pink cardstock top layers
• Adhering the pink cardstock onto the white cardstock
• Adhering the white cardstock onto the brown main shell cardstock
• Cutting ribbon to size for each announcement
• Transforming each piece of ribbon into a sticker
• Adhering ribbon onto outer brown cardstock
• Packaging carefully
• Shipping with fingers crossed

That's the process in a nutshell, and most other custom handcrafted design that I do is very similar. Everything done by hand, with lots of love :).

Thank you so much Julie for giving Event Bliss the honor of creating baby Nola's birth announcements. It has been such a pleasure, and I hope you and your family enjoy them! Best wishes to you all!
-Marlynn