Personally, I love the look and feel of real paper; I’m known as a bit of a correspondence junkie. However, with the costs of postage soaring, I’m finding that I can no longer send cards and letters as often as I used to do. Although email is quick, it doesn’t have the same personal touch that handwritten messages do.
BUT…
I think I’ve found a great way to please everyone!
What if you could send a card – complete with an envelope (with a liner) electronically?
And what if it was elegant and beautiful as well!
For big milestones like weddings and baby showers to smaller events like quiet birthdays and fundraising events at work, it can be fun to plan the details, right down to the invitations and thank you notes. I’ve recently come across Paperless Post and it’s perfect for creating beautiful cards, invitations, notepaper, and more.
Here are some of the card choices available:
- Best baby shower invitations
- Charity and fundraisers
- Lunar New Year
- Birthdays
- Weddings
- Thank you
- General greetings
- Design your own card or notepaper for a bespoke look
I love to send letters in the post, and how lovely would it be for the recipient to open an envelope with a personal message on a beautiful note card!
In addition to sending out some email cards, I’m also ordering up a batch of bespoke cards with the Castle View Academy theme on them. They will be so pretty with the addition of rose-gold foil stamping on them. I’m sure they’ll be hard to part with, but will work wonderfully as a thank you to vendors, a congratulations message to giveaway winners, or for anything else.
This week we’re beginning a big attic clear-out. First up was our boxes of baby clothes. From little neonatal clothes up to their current sizes, we went through everything. We’re only keeping a few things, and the rest we are donating. Going through those tiny little clothes for 5-pounders brought back so many memories of when they were still way too big for Tristan.
Although our family is complete, I’ve never experienced my own baby shower, but I have attended others back home in Canada. So for a little fun browsed through the baby shower invitations and there are some really beautiful ones in Paperless Post, the one above is my favourite. More bold than elegant, but it’s a great idea!
Have a look through for your choice of electronic and/or traditional cards or invitations of your choice design. And if you are planning a baby shower, click here for fun game ideas.
Caitlyn says
Making a bet calendar on the date of birth.
Cassandra Holdeman says
The clothes pin game where everyone gets a clothes pin and if anyone says “Baby” you take their clothes pin. The person with the most wins.
KENNETH OHL says
I have never been to a shower but but my wife says baby name game
Crystal McClean says
Ooh, baby showers for Dads would be a great thing! Imagine the hillarity that could be had!
Susan says
I can’t think of a single game—I guess it’s been too long since I’ve been to a baby shower. 🙂
Jennifer says
A fun one was guessing the mom’s belly circumference with toilet paper. The closest guess won.
These cards look lovely.
Crystal McClean says
That does sound like fun!
Carol E. says
We have played the one where they smear the baby food in the newborn diapers and you have to guess them by color and smell several times. It is funny because it looks so much like real baby poo!
Crystal McClean says
I can just imagine!
yvie says
Guess what that thing is used for……….all the new fangled gadgets that most grandmas don’t know what to use….or the old fashioned ones that new moms don’t know!
Crystal McClean says
That sounds hilarious!
Zekesmom10 says
Kind of gross, but chocolate bars were melted and put in a diaper. Everyone passed around each diaper, sniffing and examining the contents to figure out what the candy bar was. It was so disgusting, but we laughed our heads off.
Crystal McClean says
What a great ice-breaker!
Michelle Marine says
I’m trying to remember what games we played at my baby showers and have no memory of them! LOL! I think there was something about diapering with old school pins maybe? 😉
Crystal McClean says
Safety diaper pins and tape strips are so different to use 😉
Katherine Lee says
I played bingo at my aunt’s baby shower!
Salma says
There was one we played that had melted chocolate in diapers and we had to try it. It was funny and gross at the same time!
Crystal McClean says
Sounds great!
Cynthia says
It has been such a long time since I have been to a baby shower! I hope I get to go to one in the next year or so! I hope my daughter will get pregnant soon.
Crystal McClean says
Good luck to her!
You’ll find some fun games in these comments for when you need them to throw a shower 😉
Katie Amanda says
I like playing BINGO when presents are being opened.
allyson Tice says
my favorite game was where you have to take a paper plate, put it on your head and draw on the plate. you draw what you think the baby will look like! so fun
Fiona N says
I loved the baby shower bingo that my friend hosted 3 years ago
Thank You
bn100 says
guess the baby food