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How To – Pregnancy Announcement

How To – Pregnancy Announcement

Around this time last year, we learnt that we were expecting! Once we had our 12 week scan, I began to think long and hard about how I wanted to announce the news to friends and family. Somehow a text message didn’t seem quite enough, and I wanted to involve Erin in the announcement too – after all, she was being promoted to big sister!

I had seen some amazing pregnancy announcements on Pinterest, so decided to take some inspiration from these and make my own.

big sister pregnancy announcement

Here’s how I did it:

I used a large empty picture frame which I asked Erin to hold. I then asked her to pull LOADS of different facial expressions, everything from shock, to happy, to excited, to her most beautiful princess smile. I also took some of her holding my scan picture, which I wanted to incorporate into the finished image. I must have taken about 300 pictures in total, just snap snap snapping until I found I had enough good ones to choose from. My daughter isn’t shy (which helps) and is fairly used to me bombarding her with my camera!

big sister pregnancy announcement step by step

Once finished, I chose the shots I liked the best in order to tell the story… one surprised one for “Guess what” and then other smiling images to use for the rest of the message.

I then used an online picture editor to “black out” the contents of the picture frame. I have photoshop elements, but you can even do this on something really simple like paint if you zoom right in to the image.

Using the saved “blacked out” images, I then used a photo editing app on my iPhone to create a collage. I used the Giant Square Collage Maker but there are lots of different mosaic apps available. You can chose the colour and thickness of the borders.

Finally I used the Typic app to add text to the images, telling the story and announcing the news.

I am really proud of the finished announcement and it went down a treat!

How did you announce your pregnancy?

2 Comments

  1. Hannah spannah

    How exciting and what a beautiful announcement. Congratulations! Thanks for joining the #weekendblogshare. I noticed that last time, the http of your link had a capital H and so it didn’t work! I’ll try and check in the future x

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  2. Becky | Bringing up the berneys

    That’s really clever! I love looking at different pregnancy announcements! When I found out I was pregnant with William I knitted a pair of baby booties and put them with the scan photo and revealed it that way!
    Think I’ll have to trawl Pinterest for ideas if we do it again!
    Becky x

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