How to Make Printable Personalized Baby Gifts

Printed personalized baby gifts make cherished memories that will be valued for years to come.  Ink jet printers can be used to create beautiful useful items to commemorate the new one's arrival.  Saving money designing the gifts yourself, duplicate sets can be given to the parents and grandparents.

Printing Baby's Picture on Canvas.

1. Determine the size of the end project.  Image size from 8 1/2 inches by 11 inches to 11 inches by 17 inches will make an appropriate picture to frame and hang on a wall.


2. Scan or import the new baby's picture into Word.


3. Resize the photo to fit the frame, allowing a one inch border.


4. Add the baby's name, weight, birth place, astrological sign and other pertinent information in an appropriate font.


5. NOTE: Typesetting uses one decorative font (Fantasy) for the masthead, sans-serif fonts (Arial) for headings and a serif font (Times New Roman) for the body.


6. Search online for procedures to transfer a photo to canvas using acrylic gel medium.


7. Finish by framing and matting picture.

Ink Jet Jewelry

1. Pre-heat the oven according to package directions.


2. Use the same photo above and reduce it to six inches.


3. Purchase shrink plastic or shrinky dinks from the art supply.


4. Lay out the picture using Word so that there are two images on a sheet of paper.


5. Adjust the color to 1/2 intensity.


6. Put the shrinky dinks plastic sheet into your ink jet printer.


7. Print the two images onto the plastic.  It will be light in color.  It will intensify when you shrink the images.


8. Cut them out into a perfect circle using a drafting compass or an appropriate sized glass to guide the cut. Allow room at the top for a hole.


9. Make a hole 1/4 of an inch from the top edge of the circle using a hole punch.


10. Place onto a cookie sheet and place into a heated oven.


11. Put a jewelry jump ring into the hole and string a chain through the jump ring.