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We’re back with another fantastic prize that THREE lucky winners will be able to put their names on. This one comes from Customized Stationary, a fun little Etsy shop that features playfully designed cards and prints that you can customize with everything from your first name to your family name. And they’ve kindly put together three sweet sets for our winners to choose from (each which includes a print and set of coordinating notecards) that we were so enamored with we couldn’t help but snag a set for ourselves.
We had trouble picking, but ended up going with the Carved Tree set, which we got to customize not only with our name and our initials carved into the tree, but also with our choice of colors. That way we ended up with a perfect-for-us set of stationary that was almost too good lookin’ to unwrap.
Want a chance to customize your own set? Here are the giveaway deets:
- PRIZE: 8×10″ print and coordinating twelve pack of 4 x 5.25 notecards in your selected design (Bird Family, Carved Tree or Stump). It’s a $27 value, but stay tuned for a YHL special discount at the end of the contest on Thursday.
- TO ENTER: Comment on this post with the words “CUSTOMIZE ME” and…
- BONUS QUESTION: Tell us about one of the last handwritten letters your sent (or received). Seems to be a dying custom in the digital age, so what was memorable about a recent time you used snail mail to send something special?
- CONTEST CLOSES: Wednesday, September 2nd at 8pm EST
- NUMBER OF WINNERS: Three
- PRIZE SHIPS: USA Only
- THE USUAL: One entry per e-mail address is permitted. The winners will be selected using random.org and announced on Thursday. Good luck!
Get more info on our freebies at our Giveaway FAQs page. Images courtesy of Customized Stationary.
Celeste Zuckerman says
CUSTOMIZE ME
Renata says
CUSTOMIZE ME!
I am loving the Carved Tree set. My fiance and I are getting married AND buying a home in October (3 days later!) and this set I think personifies our new love and life together.
I always appreciate a lovely hand written thank-you card, and sending them as well.
fullertonregan says
Customize me!
I write my grandma all the time. I love her crazy letters!
Sarah says
Customize Me! I am planning a “Harvest Party” get together at my house at the end of September with good friends, and chose to send out snail mail invitations instead of the usual “Evite” just because it’s more fun to get a pretty little invite in the mail box instead of your email!
Sarah W says
CUSTOMIZE ME
My sister-in-law only sends hand written notes so she’s kept me in the tradition. I love when I receive one of her letters!
Jim says
Customize me
My mom sends Thank You notes after each holiday or family get together
Jeanie says
Customize Me
My niece and I correspond by letters :)
Cela says
customize me!
i’m still in the process of writing and sending thank you cards for my 40th birthday. nothing beats hand-written cards.
Samantha says
Customize me!
The stationary is darling! I too love the Carved Tree set. I wrote to my Grandma over the weekend :)
tae & jeff says
customize me!!
we are currently writing our wedding thank-you notes… so we’ve been thinking about snail mail quite often!
Antigone says
I wrote a note 2 weeks ago to my sister-in-law who I owed big thanks to…. both for hosting me, my daughter, and the other girls in the fam for a girls weekend at her cabin and because she took my call on a random Friday when I was freaking out and needed her legal advice. She is the best lawyer I know (and being a lawyer myself and the daughter of a lawyer…. I think that is saying something).
linda says
CUSTOMIZE ME
a couple of months ago I yearned for a simpler time sans technology and wrote lots of letters.
Caitlyn Cox says
Customize Me!
The last hand written note I sent was to my dad’s business partners thanking them for letting us use their beautiful condo for our anniversary.
I sincerely enjoy stamping and mailing a handwritten card! ‘Specially when it’s on the perfect stationary!
JulieB says
CUSTOMIZE ME!!
Ivana says
CUSTOMIZE ME
I sent a letter a few weeks ago to a dear friend. Letters are just so much more personal and significant than e-mail. You hold them in your hands, you can smell them, you can see a part of the person left on the paper… handwriting, no matter how clumsy, is always beatiful.
Joan says
CUSTOMIZE ME
My last handwritten note was just yesterday to my mother in law who has Alzheimers. She loves to get mail, so I send something every week, even though she no longer knows the notes are from me. Sh has them hung up all over her room.
Sandra says
Customize me!
I never usually send had written letters, but I have been traveling around Europe for the last 4 weeks, and I have sent more letters and postcards in those last 4 weeks than I have sent in about a decade. I´m looking for a post office today to send more!
Charity Baillio says
Customize me!!!
Last letter I mailed was a thank you card….along with some checks to a personal chef who is making meals for a friend of mine who has cancer is going through Chemo. What an awesome service this lady provides and I wanted to let her know just how thankful I am to her for helping my friend out!!!
Tracy says
customize me!
i actually sent some thank you notes out last week to some wonderful friends and family who helped us move into our first house!
tina daniels says
My daughter was married last week. (amazing wedding!) and we stayed up in the wee hours of the morning hand writing “Welcome To Our Wedding Weekend” notes to tuck inside of the Welcome Baskets we made for out of town guests. What an honor to say “Thank You” to so many people who made the long trip to Dallas Texas for her wedding. The memory of writing the notes and laughing at 2:00 am was just an added bonus!
Heather H says
CUSTOMIZE ME!
After my daughter was born, we sent out birth announcements. One of my former co-workers sent me a handwritten letter telling me her reactions to the announcement.
Diane Taylor says
CUSTOMIZE ME!!!
I totally remember the last letter I sent: it was to my Mom for Mother’s Day :):) I was tired of emails and electronic updates: it was time for the REAL DEAL! I sat and composed a real letter (on plain paper cuz I couldn’t even FIND my stationary, lol) and sent it to her. It was funny that once she received it, she called me right away to thank me. She doesn’t do that too often – how about them apples? Send someone a real letter and see the response you will get. Now – I REALLY nned to find my stationary box….later!!!
Donna V. says
Customize me!
I recently received a thank you card from a friend. I am looking forward to sending some hand written notes this month for my sisters who are celebrating birthdays.
Amanda says
Customize me!
The last hand-written letters I sent were thank you notes for our wedding one year ago. I can guarantee, though, if I win these, that I’ll be writing a *lot* more! :)
Thanks for the great giveaway!
Christy Baumberger says
Customize me!
We received a hand-written note, a thank-you note, on Sunday. Very sweet, funny, and it made me smile- until I remembered that I haven’t written a thank-you note in ages!!
Christen says
Customize me! The last note I received was a rather boring thank you card. Still, the thought was nice!
Sarah says
Customize me :-)
Upon leaving a job I recently wrote two letters to thank the people who had worked so hard to train me. I wanted to let them know that even though I was moving on from the company that I truly appreciated their hard work and had learned a lot from their expertise.
Lovely stationery is a fantastic motivator to revive the lost art of letter writing!
Megan White says
CUSTOMIZE ME!
Do thank you notes count? I’m preggers so I just wrote a whole bunch. :)
erica anne says
the last handwritten-letter i received was from my 18-year old baby sister just before she moved into her first year of college – all it said was “you are awesome” and had a photo of our family tucked inside. as a self-proclaimed etsy addict, i could only image the cool letter i could write back to her on these cards if you were to CUSTOMIZE ME! :)
Amanda B. says
customize me!
I just wrote my little sister a letter. She just moved away to college. Even though we talk online most days, I know she will appreciate the letter even more. Who doesn’t love to get snail mail? I always feel like I’m receiving a gift when I get mail that isn’t a bill! :)
Jill W. says
“CUSTOMIZE ME”
jnh213 says
“Customize ME!!”
My husband and I frequently write each other love notes and letters. We both hold onto them and have lots of fun going back and reading them years later. They become time capsules of sort. It’s a great way to chart our marriage!
kennedy says
customize me!
We just sent out invitations for our daughter’s first birthday party… we ordered a cute return address stamp for her and used cute stamps as well – I think people really enjoyed receiving those rather than an e-vite!
Michelle says
Customize me!
I sent a “make lemonade” type card to my friend who was having a rough week last week. She called me immediately after to tell me how it made her feel so much better.
Michelle B. says
CUSTOMIZE ME
Melissa says
“Customize Me!”
I am pregnant with our first child, and I’ve already started with the thank you notes. People are so generous, that only a handwritten note will express our gratitude.
ShopKim says
CUSTOMIZE ME!! I think the last letter I wrote was a thank you note or a note to my son’s teacher. I don’t do it often.
JennLynn says
Customize Me!
I always receive snail mail from my MIL, it would be nice to return the favor with these beauties!
CarMaj says
CuStOmIzE mE!
Can I tell you, I actually had fun hand-writing all the Thank You cards from our wedding?! All 200 of them!!
Meredith says
CUSTOMIZE ME! My mother just sent my toddler daughter a postcard congratulating her on using the potty. She also sent along an amazing photo book filled with photos of our recent vacation together. She is a super fun grandma!
rebecca says
Customize me please!
The last letter I wrote was to my younger sister as well, who is current in prison – very long story, but writing letters back and forth have brought us much closer together than in years. I love knowing that we have this connection, even if it is not the most ideal.
Allison says
CUSTOMIZE ME!
The last hand written letter I received was from my then-boyfriend (my now-husband) describing how he loves me. He describes how he’s been waiting for me since we last dated and that it has always been me he was looking for and it will always be me. That I am the answer to his questions, my voice is the reason he wakes up and that he sleeps just to dream about me. He says that I complete him and he wants to love me forever and ever. He’s such a romantic man, I am a blessed woman.
He wrote me a few letters in high school and I have kept each one. There’s something old school and romantic about writing each other letters.
EAH says
Customize me!!! I just wrote a letter to one of my bridesmaids!
Ashley Boyd says
Customize me!
I always send thank you notes whenever I am invited to party or receive any type of gift. “Manners are the glue to our society!” :) that is a quote from a ex-tv show anybody know which one??
Heather says
Customize Me!!!
The last hand written note I sent was to a client to thank them for the amazing experience I had working with them.
Lyndy says
CUSTOMIZE ME…My sweet daughter has the habit of sending encouraging cards when she thinks about someone. It is sort of like a hug wrapped in an envelope.
Yocelyn Suarez says
Customize me! I love handwriting letters, esp to my husband at his job. there is something so romantic about knowing that any day now he will get the letter on a busy day. He says its is the best surprise ever.
Dani says
Customize Me!
My husband is active duty in the Navy. When he was in Iraq I loved to send him handwritten letters and cards. They were often short, but sweet…and a constant reminder of home.
Rebecca says
CUSTOMIZE ME…
my mother-in-law still communicates with everyone by writing handwritten letters. she will still cut out an article, highlight sentences, and mail it to me.
Patricia says
CUSTOMIZE ME. I work for the Post Office and although e-mails are good, nothing beats going to your mailbox and receiving a hand-written letter or a beautiful card like these. In these tough economic time, it would help the USPS is everyone mailed just one card or letter. Thanks