How to Throw a Classy Baby Shower, Even in a Recession
Even though the economy isn’t great right now, people are just as interested as ever in being able to throw great baby showers for their friends. The trick to doing this in a slow economy is to save money on aspects that won’t be noticeable. There’s no reason that can’t begin with the baby shower invitations and move right on through the shower decorations and the scrapbooks created after the fact.
One method for doing that is to find good free baby shower clipart. Often there are very nice images available on the web for no charge. Just search for “free baby shower clip art,” plus the type of image you want. For instance, if you’d like baby boy clip art, type those words or some variation. The same will work with virtually any theme you can think of, although the more obscure the theme, the less results a search will garner. If when you search you can locate images that have high resolution, you’ll open up more options for using it. That’s because print projects such as invitations or decorations require high resolution images. You can’t use low-resolution clipart because the final printed piece would be low quality. That would, of course, be unacceptable for a baby shower invitation, thank you card or decorations.
But clipart isn’t the only baby art resource you can find free online. You can also find many sites online that offer baby scrapbook paper. A number of very talented designers give away free versions of their baby shower scrapbooking page layouts to promote paid products or their pages that have advertising. Either of these models give them a financial incentive to offer scrapbook paper and embellishment freebies. Either way, the new mom wins! There are almost as many baby scrapbook themes as there are stars in the sky, so they can be used instead of or in addition to clip art to make shower invitations and decorations. Themes can be about anything, from silly and fun to retro to classy. If the mom-to-be likes retro you might want to do a search for free vintage baby scrapbooking embellishments. A mom-to-be who loves this kind of art would probably be so pleased to have it as her shower theme!
It goes without saying that all the clip art, scrapbook papers and embellishments can also be used to preserve baby shower memories forever in a baby shower scrapbook that would make an excellent gift for the mother-to-be. That means any image searching you do will pay off in more ways than one, giving the new mom a baby shower she’ll remember always.
