While I was pregnant with my little one, I knew that I wanted to make rather than purchase her birth announcements. After researching online at what kind of announcements were out there and receiving a few announcements from friends, I did not want to go the generic route. I'm not saying that those weren't nice, they just weren't unique enough for me.
I mean, I only have one chance to introduce her and I really wanted to make quite the impression. Of course when she made her entrance into this world, I did not realize how little time I would have to do anything except care for her 24/7. So the announcements did not go out until she was about 3 months old. She had already morphed so much from the photo we had taken of her at 1 month old. I didn't procrastinate, it just took me that long to make them. I worked on the components of the announcements at night when she slept, sometimes on the weekends when I can have the husband watch her.
I've been wanting to do silk screening for quite some time, so what better time to try it than on her birth announcements. I went with the theme of the "Year of the Rat". I thought it would be cool to silk screen an image of a rat, so I found an image I liked off the internet. I visitedCraftgrrl's blog to get the step by step on how to silkscreen. I found the whole process really easy.
The cardstock, I purchased from Paper Source, some of the supplies I got from Joann Fabrics and a local art supply store.
tracing the design onto the screen/then filling in the negative parts with a paintbrush using Modge Podge glue
using a silicone spatula to apply the paint onto the screen
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