Do-It-Yourself Graduation Announcements

Are you celebrating the graduation of a high school, college or university student? As you eagerly anticipate the happy date of the commencement ceremony, you are likely preparing to notify family members and friends.

Do-It-Yourself Graduation Announcements: Announcing the New Alumni

Graduation announcements have become a traditional means of formally sharing the good news of the graduate's accomplishments. Generally, graduation announcements are mailed to family members and friends, particularly those who may be geographically distant or otherwise unable to attend and share in the commencement ceremony and related festivities.

How can you create your own graduation announcements?

Do-It-Yourself Graduation Announcements: Ordering Online

Of course, the simplest way to create personalized graduation announcements is to order them online from a print supplier, such as Graduation Announcements Store, Invitations 4 Less, Jostens, or Vista Print. These purveyors of professionally printed graduation announcements and invitations provide customizable designs for easy online ordering. The graduation announcements you create will arrive in the mail, usually within a few weeks.

Be sure to order early, if you choose this route, so you will have time to address and mail your printed graduation announcements to your family and friends.

Do-It-Yourself Graduation Announcements: Take a Template

Many families choose to create and print their own graduation announcements, realizing significant cost savings in the process and streamlining the production process.

Formal templates for do-it-yourself graduation announcements are available online. For example, Microsoft Office offers several traditional, formal and contemporary templates for simple downloading and customization.

To make your own graduation announcements with free online templates, you simply download your selected design and add the graduate's own personal information. Include the graduate's full name, school attended and class year. Add the school emblem, if you wish.

Do-It-Yourself Graduation Announcements: Create Your Own Designs

Is your graduate a creative artist? Are you? Why not design your own unique graduation announcements?

Although families have traditionally sent out formal graduation announcements, with handwritten, embossed or printed calligraphy, the norm is no longer expected. Anything goes.

You could create a photo collage of the graduate's school years. Or you might make a newspaper-style layout with highlights of the graduate's academic and extracurricular accomplishments. Perhaps you may choose to draw a cartoon to announce the graduate's successful completion of his or her schooling.

Creating your own graduation announcements is an excellent way to express individuality, while saving considerably.

Do-It-Yourself Graduation Announcements: Printing and Mailing the Good News

Print your own graduation announcements on a high-quality paper, such as cardstock or photographic sheets. Trim your graduation announcements to fit your selected envelopes, and include wallet-sized prints or snapshots of the graduate's senior portrait in your mailings.

To save even more cash, you might decide to design your graduation announcements in a postcard format. If so, be sure to print them out on sturdy cardstock or tag board.

As your graduate completes schooling and considers how to leave his or her mark upon the world, why not make your own creative graduation announcements to mark the occasion?

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