Planning a baby shower is a fun and exciting time for the expectant parents and those about to enjoy the blessing of a little boy or girl. Choosing pastel shade themes for your baby shower invitations are great options when planning and prepping for this special event. Pastels are a “ safe” colour scheme. This means that they can be used even if you don’t know the baby’s sex yet, and it can be used for a variety of styles and baby shower themes.

Choosing Your Pastel Shade Themes

As mentioned before, this pastel shade theme for your baby shower invitations can be used regardless of the baby’s gender and for a variety of styles. Regardless if you’re having a modern, classic, animal or even storybook theme, the pastel colour scheme is a great to opt for. You’ll be sticking with tradition too as pastel colours like yellow, blue, green and pink are used often as traditional colour palettes for showers. You can dress up these invite colour schemes using materials like lace, tiny diamonds or a fun font like calligraphy.

Pastel Themes for a Baby Shower

Your pastel colours from your baby shower invitations can be used for the entire event as well. Items such as table clothes, table wear, decorations at the church and dining area can utilise the beautiful pastel colour scheme used in your baby shower invitations as well. Many times guests will bring clothing to celebrate the new baby’s arrival if you haven’t registered for a lot of items; why not write on your pastel invitation to have everyone bring pastel outfits?

Enjoying the Baby Shower

Your child-to-be’s baby shower is a day that everyone will remember; your child will enjoy seeing pictures from the event as she or he grows up and looks at scrapbooks and mementos from the special day. Take pictures, save keepsakes, and treasure the memories that happen on that day. It’s an important day for all; and your baby on the way will want to hear the stories when they’re all grown!

Planning your baby shower is a beautiful and fun time for the parents of the child that’s on the way. Happy planning and enjoy your day of celebration!

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They say it’s all in the details. This holds true when planning any sort of event or design. An intricate design can change a piece of work or craft entirely.  When planning a baby shower, you’ll want to start working on those baby shower invitations as soon as possible. Send these out four to six weeks before the event so guests will have a chance to purchase gifts from the select registered stores, set aside the time on their schedules and plan accordingly.

Your Baby Shower Invitations

We discussed how important details are when planning an event; they’re important with your invitations too! So many baby shower invitations are typical and have the same old look. Why not choose a design that steps outside the box; a design that’s original in different ways? Choose a design with original components to it like intricate designs that set the invitation apart from the standard boxed sets you see at card stores.

Types of Intricate Designs

There are plenty of ways to go about using intricate designs on your invitations. Many cards and baby shower invitations that are handmade have specific, handcrafted details you normally wouldn’t get. Things like intricate scrolling, calligraphy, beading and more. Graphic designers who work on baby shower invitations can also use their talents and software to create intricate detailing on things like the fonts, borders, artwork on the front and more. There are plenty of online sellers who take pride in handmade invitations. They can make each invitation original with intricate detailing such as paper type, script type, appliqué add-ons, stencilling and more.

Planning a Baby Shower

Planning a baby shower is a fun time for everyone involved. Once you’ve chosen your baby shower invitations you can work on making the rest of your event a success. Choose a fun menu with food that is special to the mother to be and that she enjoys. Play games that will involve all guests and make conversation. Choose decorations and music that will bring a warm, fun, inviting atmosphere to the event. It starts with your intricately designed baby shower invitations; and ends with everyone enjoying themselves!

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Baby shower after baby shower, we see the same old invitations hit our mailbox letting us know of the next event celebrating an upcoming baby’s arrival. When we get a basic, plain baby shower invitation we usually expect it to be a boring shower, don’t we? Why not spruce up your invitations for the next shower by finding some fun patterned baby shower invitations and stationary.

Popular Trends

Each season brings different tips and tricks that make baby shower invitations and stationary grand. This year the popular trend is the chevron pattern; the vertical or horizontal zigzag lines in popular colours and backgrounds. You can add flair to your baby shower invitations and stationary by using these chevron designs with accents like foil for a different, modern and memorable look.

Get Crafty

As previously mentioned, so many baby shower invitations and stationary sets are plain and simple; always the same thing and colour. It’s a fun project to create baby shower invitations and stationary that steps out of the box of ordinary; creating a fresh new design that everyone will love. You can add to these designs, such as the foil on your chevron baby shower invitations and stationary; to make it unique and eye catching. Guests will love the time you put into each and every one of the invites you send out!

The Chevron Theme

The chevron theme is one being used on so much more than just baby shower invitations and stationary; it’s a design used for other events like bridal showers, weddings and hen nights. If using the chevron theme on things like your baby shower invitations and stationary; you can also use it for the rest of the shower planning as well. Use it for tablecloths, napkins, decorations or even a fancy chevron baby cake. It’ll be a fun way to continue with the theme and may be an inspiration when decorating the nursery.

Planning a baby shower is a fun and exciting time for everyone. Once you decide to throw a baby shower, your first step will be to select your baby shower invitations and stationary. Choosing trendy, cool themes like chevron is a great choice and you can add things to the invites to give it personality, style and flair. Adding appliqués and pizzazz like foil to your chevron baby shower invitations and stationary is a great way to have fun with it all. Happy planning!

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Are you planning a baby shower for your best friend who is expecting? Maybe its for a relative, sister in law or co-worker? Let’s go beyond the traditional shower planning details and take a look at some modern baby shower parties and invitations. You’ll love them! People always plan the same old type of baby shower, so, why not kick things up a notch with some modern baby shower ideas? Check out our favourite ideas for baby showers in 2013.

Break Out From Tradition

It’s time to break out from the traditional pink and blue décor for a baby shower. Take it up a notch with similar yet more fun colours such as coral, turquoise blue and white. This colour combo still has some elements of the traditional “boy” or “girl” gender theme, but has a modern flair to it. Play up the colour as much as you can with coloured spoons, plates, and paper containers for your finger food, candy, or take home goodies. Make this shower fun and stylish!

Personalised Party

Expectant mothers love when you focus the shower around the name they’ve picked for the baby. It not only celebrates the anticipated arrival of the baby to be, but everyone will “oooh” and “aahhh” over the baby’s name! Shape the invitations in the initial of the expectant baby’s name and cover with pearls, beading, fabric or decorate with animal appliqués or stickers. Guests will love the personalisation done to each invitation. It is a great way to show how much you care by adding this personal touch!

The B or G Party

B is for Boy and G is for Girl, so which one is coming into this beautiful world? Whether it’s a surprise or everyone knows the gender, you can choose a baby shower theme based on the letter B or G. For “B”, pick a fun brown and yellow colour palette featuring cute little bumblebees or for G opt to base the theme on a cute Gerbera Daisy. Plan foods and game with the same letter as the baby’s gender for a fun, centralised theme.

Planning a baby shower is so much fun for all involved. You’ll enjoy the entire planning process from A to Z or from G to B. Adding personal, fun touches like initials, bright colours or kicking it up a notch without the traditional colours are fun ways to plan such a great baby shower. Feeling overwhelmed by Modern Baby Showers Parties and the invites to go with it? No worries, there are great ideas here. Happy planning!

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Smile, it’s a baby shower! Wait a minute– I’m sensing a fabulous theme idea for an upcoming baby shower, don’t you agree? Traditional blue or pink baby showers are so typical; why not throw a new kind of shower? Let’s smile; a baby is on the way! Today we will show you different ways to use a smiley theme for your baby shower. Let us start with our smiley baby shower invitations.

Smiley Baby Shower Invitations

It’s time to let your guests know about this event! Create or order some fantastic smiley baby shower invitations with a ton of smiles. You can have them be “baby” smiley faces or the traditional yellow smiley face that’s a trademark of so many happy things and loved by all. Usually people have traditional size invites, so why not send out circular, round invites instead. Include a space on there for guests to write out their RSVP as well as some ”words of smiley wisdom” for the mother to be while also letting your guests know that it’ll be a smiley themed baby shower. The colours? Why not opt for a yellow themed shower? Works well for both genders and it’s a bright and lively colour!

Smile Baby Shower Decorations

Be sure to use this smiley theme throughout the entire scope of your event. From yellow streamers and smiley confetti to a big smiley cake; you can customise this shower however you wish. Your cake or cupcakes can be in a round smiley shape and the balloons all smiley-faces as well. Set up all of the cups and drinks in the shape or design of a smiley face to maximise the look! Be creative, and enjoy this happy theme!

Smiley Baby Shower Extras

There are ways to make your baby shower extra special; with a few creative touches and extras to make it personal and memorable. Photo booths are very popular right now, and you don’t need to rent one to make it happen! Have different smiley facemasks or smile hats, buttons or party favours with a fun backdrop and take photos to remember this special day! Party favours to remember this smiley baby shower can include smiley cookies, smiley inspirational books, or copies of the photos you took.

Planning a baby shower is so fun, make it a memorable and enjoyable affair– smile, this is an affair to remember!

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So you’re planning a baby shower for a loved one and a baby on the way, congrats! It’s a fun and memorable process. Don’t be tied down to the usual, standard invitations printed and found at any sort of card store or stationery store. Instead, impress your guests and create a memorable keepsake by opting to make your own handmade, paper goodness with loads of personal touches and love!

Planning a Shower

Planning a Baby Shower has never been easier. It’s a fun time to celebrate the baby and honour the momma-to-be. You’ll want to plan every detail and make it as fun and as original as possible. Be sure to set a date as soon as possible. Don’t make it too close to the mother’s due date so that you can be sure the mother can attend without any discomfort or complications. Send out your handmade baby shower invites 3-4 weeks before the special day.

Design the Invite

You may be doing most of this party on your own, however if you’ve got some helping hands from family and friends, discuss with them how much they can do or how they can contribute to help out with the party. Your first “task” here after setting the date is to choose your invites. You can use an array of craft materials to make awesome handmade baby shower invitations, or shop at your local hobby store for card stock and add-ons such as burlap, paper ducks, animals, or appliqué baby rattles. Looking for something trendier? Discuss with the momma-to-be what kind of theme she’s using to decorate the nursery and coordinate your handmade invites with that style or colour palette.

Designing the Menu+ Decor

You have set the date, made your invites and now let’s get started with the menu! Pick finger food and easy to make food that the mother-to-be craves and enjoys; while also creating a fun and enjoyable menu for the guests. You can stick to a certain theme or have different cuisines made for different parts of the event. Plan your decor to match the invites and menu as well. You want a continued, centralised theme to run through the whole baby shower, so that the event is organised, classy and memorable!

Planning a shower for a baby that is soon to be arriving is so exciting for everyone! Handmade baby shower invites are wonderful ideas. Affordable, from the heart, and easy to do- have fun!

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Picking out baby shower invitations are a fun and easy part of the baby shower planning process. After all the time, energy, and thought you have given to the theme, decor, menu, and more, this will be a piece of cake! Choosing fun designs that are unique and out of the box is definitely something you should aim for when planning this party. People are used to the traditional invites, so, how about picking something that is fun and exciting? Ordering invites are fun and stress-free. You just need to follow some basic steps to pick them out.

Pick Your Layout

Picking a layout seems like an easy task- you’re right, it is! You just have to pick a layout that works best for the party, your budget and the theme. What shape do you want? Are they postcards or note card size to be placed in envelopes? Are they made of high quality card stock or recyclable paper? These are all things to think of when choosing your invites. Think of what type of party you are hosting. Is it a chic little shower or something more formal and traditional? Keep this all in mind when choosing your invites.

Choose Your Colours

Choosing colours is a fun part picking out your baby shower invitations. You are not limited to the traditional pink and blue! Pick from new and trendy colour palettes that create a fun and chic look for the baby shower. Look online at popular colours via colour palettes, inspiration boards and more. The 2013 colour of the year is jade. Is this something you can use for the baby shower? Play around and find out! Non-gender specific colours are totally fine too for the parents-to-be who are waiting until the baby is born to find out their tiny baby’s gender. Colours like green, purple and yellow are great non-gender specific colours.

Add Your Text and Choose the Font

Your next step is to choose a font that best represents the parents to be, the shower’s theme and of course, whatever looks best with the chosen layout and design. Is the party fun and chic, or playful and casual?

If you are not sure what to write, invitations of any sort require the 5W’s – Who, What, Where, When, and Why.  Format them like this:

• The Expectant Mom’s Name
• Date and Time of Shower
• Location
• RSVP Information
• Registry Information (if applicable, this is optional especially if your shower has a special theme for gifts)

You can also list the host’s name, the baby’s name (if the parents know it already) or fun facts about the momma-to-be. Hosting a baby shower is fun and easy; picking out baby shower invites is just one of the many fun steps. Have fun!

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We see the same basic template being used all the time with baby invitations. The usual generic blue or pink pattern, a carriage or tiny animals spread across the border of a baby shower invite have become extremely common and holds nothing exciting or unusual. Wouldn’t it be great to have your baby shower invitations be the ones that everyone talk about before the event even happens? It’s time to get creative, get inspired and choose some unforgettable baby shower invitations.

Online Inspiration

Do some online browsing for some inspiration from blogs or Pinterest boards. While it’s brilliant to get your creative cogs turning, it’s also fun to see what other party planners or mothers-to-be have picked for their baby shower invitations. You’d be surprised at the number of different new styles and patterns you’ll come across from using photos and appliqués to other fun and unusual mediums such as writing the invitation info on a puzzle, a scroll or even a paper “diaper”.

Photos are a fabulous and fun element to use for your baby shower invitations. If you are using a photo invite, use a picture of your precious bundle or for a super cute touch include an ultrasound picture in each invite. Building blocks, balloons, baby animals, flowers and stars are great additions to make them pretty and cute at the same time.

Finding Unforgettable Invitations and Designs

Everyone knows sourcing online is the easiest and cheapest way to find the ideal invitations, but it’s important to know where to look and find the best design that is original and what you’re aiming for, which is unforgettable. Some independent designers have templates you can purchase online and order through your favourite printer for fast, easy and original invites. Regardless of what you choose, online is a great place to look. You can actually compare styles, designs, colours, decorative options and prices between several different sites at one time. Look for a site that allows you to see a sample of the invitation before you order. Check for the option to add or subtract different elements of design on the invites.

Unforgettable DIY Invites

What better way to create unforgettable baby shower invitations than designing and creating them yourself. For the crafty party planner and brilliant creative designer, you can design your own invitations on your computer or by hand. Head to your local craft store for inspiration and supplies. Use a word processing programme to design and work with various colours, shapes, borders, textile designs and more. A popular DIY invite style right now is using an infographic style, showcasing the info in a very graphic heavy, fun and modern way

Planning a baby shower is fun, but what makes it extra special is the unforgettable elements of design you’re brining to the planning process. From baby shower invites to the end of the event, your guest of honour will be excited to bring her baby into the word with such a creative hostess on hand!

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A baby shower usually has a simple, generic, classic theme. Many party planners consider this a “safe” theme to go with as they plan the baby shower for the arriving baby and parents-to-be. However, there are plenty of other ideas and themes you can choose from starting with a modern theme for the event and baby showers invites.

Search some inspirational sites and social media boards for ideas to use for your modern baby shower invitations. Using photos is also another way of adding some modern flair while also keeping the baby shower invitations personal. If you are using a photo invite for a baby shower after the birth, use a picture of the baby or if it’s prior to the arrival of your lil’ bundle, you can easily put the ultrasound photo in each invite. If you are unsure about the gender of the baby, consider combining blue and pink elements on the baby shower invitations. Building blocks, balloons, baby animals, flowers, and stars are great additions to make them pretty and cute at the same time.

Invitations with bold, bright colours are also popular in modern baby shower invitations. Add some brightly coloured butterflies, birds, blocks, balloons, or toys to make your invites stand out from the rest. Add “3D” elements such as felt ad-ons, little plastic eyes, or appliqués. If you are using a specific theme from the nursery, adding elements that match gives the guests an idea of the children’s room with some modern flair.

Finding the Right Invitations

The Internet is going to be the quickest and least expensive way to find your baby shower invitations. You can actually compare styles, designs, colours, decorative options, and prices between several different sites at one time. Look for a site that allows you to see a sample of the invitation before you order. Check for the option to add or subtract different elements of design on the invites that are available. Many places will allow you to mix modernised elements from different designs to get exactly what you want.

DIY

Are you artistic or crafty? The DIY section might be the best place for you. Choose a sharp modern colour or background, your wording and placement. This makes a world of a difference when designing the modern baby shower invites. Choose a sharper, metro font for the added modern flair.

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Planning a baby shower is a fun time and experience for all involved. It’s a time of celebration and anticipation of the precious little boy or girl joining your family! Many times a family member, co-worker or close friend will ask to throw you a shower; which you’ll gladly accept and look forward to a fun day with your closest friends and family celebrating your little one. Other times, you and your partner will wish to host a party in which case you’ll need to start shopping for your classy baby shower invites ASAP.

Classic Themes

A baby shower usually has a standard style and theme, but it doesn’t mean that you can’t think outside the box and get super creative. However, many hosts still stick with a traditional theme and colour palette that favours pastel and dainty pinks, light blues, soft yellows and mellow greens. It’s easy to search for affordable and fun classy baby shower invites with these pastel colour schemes; and “safe” if you’re unsure what the gender of the baby will be!

Stay Classy

While yes, this is a baby shower; one might say that it doesn’t matter if this is a “classy” event or not. Party planners and event coordinators around the world beg to differ. However, as this event should be as classy as any other event you, your family, or friends might host. It is a time designated to celebrate a new life in your family and a fun time for all attendees. Avoid the typical baby block font when choosing your invites. Search for a modern script or theme that while expressing it’s a baby shower, still keeps things on a modern, classy scale. It’s amazing how influential a font style can be, thus it’s important to remember this when designing or choosing your classy baby shower invites.

Add Some”IT” Factor

Usually baby showers are all the same – food, gifts, the same monotonous games and a table for gifts. Add some sparkle and creative touches to make your baby shower stand out and be memorable. Start with your classy baby invites; make guests anticipate your baby shower by giving them a sneak peak at what’s in store for the special day. Use a fun font, creative wording, as wel as the usual event date, time, theme, etc. You want this shower to be the talk of the town (and nursery) when you’re through!

Planning a baby shower is a fun, memorable time. Be sure to be creative and fun; from your classy baby shower invites to the baby shower gift bags!

Happy planning!

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