to start planning DD's Cbeebies card 6 months in advance?

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I have been keeping careful watch on the cards to see if I can gauge what I need to do to get mine shown on the big day but unfortunately it seems irritatingly fair-handed.

There are a huge proportion of crap ones made out of backs of cereal boxes with some stickers from Numberjacks magazines and a generally unflattering photo of the child in question. But they still get shown. I have even seen ones using Wordart coloured in with crayons. Do these peoeple have no standards??

So I'm planning original artwork and plenty of glitter and shine as this always seems to generate a comment from the presenter. The question is should I go the whole hog and hire a professional photograper for a really good finish?

DD1 absolutely loves thbirthdays too, she has always been glued to them.
So I sent one in for he 3rd birthday last september, it was shown (& by Andy which was a bonus). DD1 was so so pleased with it, I have it saved in her memory box it was such a hit.
She has insisted that we make & send one in for dd2's birthday at the end of Feb, I'm now panicing that it might not be shown, dd1 would be heartbroken (dd2 wouldn't care she's only 1!!), it is distinctly more amuteurish than the one I made for dd1 as I genuinely let dd1 make it, do you think that means it is less likely to be shown?

I thought they didn't send them back? How did you keep it?

havoc - what are the chances roughly (both DCs born in March so a popular month for birthdays I think!)

DD was born in March and was shown on her 2nd birthday.

Mind you that was nearly 11 years ago, so maybe the odds were better then ...