How to Recession-proof a Baby Shower

Even though the economy is bad at the moment, that doesn’t mean people still don’t want to be able to give lavish baby showers for their friends. The trick to doing this in a slow economy is to cut corners on aspects that won’t be noticeable. There’s no reason that can’t start with the baby shower invitations and include the decorations and any scrapbooks created to commemorate the event.

One method for doing that is to find good free baby clip art. Very often you can find very nice free images online. Just enter the search term “free baby clip art” and the type of image you want. For example, if you want 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 concept, the less likely it will be that you’ll get enough good search results. 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 certainly wouldn’t want to use low-resolution images because the end result won’t be clear. That would never do for the invitation or decorations for this special day.

But clipart isn’t the only baby art resource you can find free online. You can also find many sites online that offer free baby scrapbook pages. A number of very talented designers give away free versions of their baby shower scrapbooking page designs to promote scrapbook designs they sell or to get people to come to pages that display advertising. Use of either model means they have financial incentive to offer free scrapbooking papers and embellishments. No matter the reason the free scrapbook materials are offered, the new mom wins! The themes for these are almost as numerous as there are fish in the ocean, 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 fun and silly to vintage to classy and luxurious. If the mother-to-be likes vintage you might want to do a search for vintage embellishments. A mother-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 mom-to-be. This means the time you spend looking for images will pay off over and over, and give the mom a baby shower with memories she’ll treasure.