I took the whole black and orange thing for Halloween and added in a little blue. The ultrasound on the front of the card doubles nicely as a scary alien. I probably would have done more but the Halloween clip art hadn't yet been uploaded to the SendOutCards web-site, so I figured I'd just keep it simple. I think it turned out nicely.
The next challenge was what do you do at the actual Baby Shower to combine the two themes. The only solid idea I had was cupcakes with baby blue frosting and some kind of Halloween touch; so I headed to Gygi's to see what they had to offer. While there I found some bat candies for the cupcakes, a clear spider web table cloth and a baby blue table cloth, and some Halloween plates and napkins:
Again, I tried to keep things pretty simple. I topped the whole thing off with Little Sister's Thank you cards. By the time the shower came around, the Halloween clip art was available, so I was able to make something pretty cute:
The baby blue argyle patterns came from the baby themed clip art while everything else came from the Halloween clip art. The border around the name had some pretty creepy spiders on it so I just covered them up with some cutsie clip art.
Overall I think the whole Halloween themed Baby Shower themes worked well together. It might have worked easier for a baby girl because I just could have used purple instead of blue since purple is a generally accepted color for Halloween and for girls.
Maybe next year.
