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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.
Sara B says
CUSTOMIZE ME
For every gift or nice gesture received (like dinner at a friend’s house), I always send a hand-written thank you note. My in-laws refuse to accept a thank you note from me because “we are family”. I send them anyways!!!!
Lara Jane says
CUSTOMIZE MEEEE!!!!
I, too, am a regular snail-mailer.
In college, my best friends and I would write notes to each other all the time, even just quick little ones on post-its.
My husband (whom I met while at college!) and I had a long-distance relationship for most of our courtship so we got very good at letter writing.
I got into paper crafting when I was pregnant with my son ten years ago and have been a devoted card maker ever since.
My most recent snail mail was “to” me! One of those college friends is now my “cousin-in-law” and she is so good about keeping in touch. She sent me a sweet card “just because.”
There’s nothing like the written word. Email is convenient but it just doesn’t compare; it’s apples and oranges.
Emily U says
CUSTOMIZE ME!
My grandma sent me a card earlier this week just as a thank you for visiting her.
Jennifer C. says
CUSTOMIZE ME
The last handwritten note I sent in the mail was a birthday card or my thank you notes from my wedding (almost 2 years ago). Maybe I’ll send one today!
Emily says
CUSTOMIZE ME
I stash mini size notes in envelopes (from target a few years ago) around the apartment for my boyfriend to find them.
Maria D. says
Customize ME!! My grandmother, who is my hero has alzheimers and vision problems so sending emails is just not an option. I try to send her personalized cards with my name on the front (as a reminder) and always a picture so she can put the two together. Sometimes I just tell her that I love her and miss her and it makes her day.
Ellen says
CUSTOMIZE ME
The last handwritten letter I wrote was to my Grandparents. We have written a letter to each other every month since I learned to write. I am now 29 and hope to continue this tradition for many, many more years!
Gabie says
Customize me!
I recently wrote my great Aunt Mary while she was staying in California because she still writes and what else would I do but write back? She doesn’t even own a computer!
Amy says
CUSTOMIZE ME! I prefer sending printed invitations for a special event to using an Evite. The most recent example is the invitation we mailed for my son’s first birthday party – it looks much better in his baby book! :)
Le says
Please Customize Me!
We sent out our wedding thank you cards and then Christmas card with a personal note. My hand is still sore!
LauraC says
CUSTOMIZE ME!!!!
I sent handwritten Birthday Invites to family for our daughter’s recent second birthday.
Nancy says
CUSTOMIZE ME
I am a terrible keeper-I have kept almost every card my children have rec’d!
I have one relative in Europe to whom I write back and forth. None of my relatives or friends want to deal with it…I love a hand written note and encourage my kids to write.
~Nancy
Bethany says
Customize me!
I love snail mail- I probably send at least four letters a week. My sister and I write letters back and forth in a Moleskine cachier journal. I love opening up my school mailbox to see the familiar journal (we call it “Embers and Envelopes”) every two weeks or so! : )
Meghan L. says
CUSTOMIZE ME!
I’ve been wanting to get back into handwriting notes to friends and family :-)
joy says
CUSTOMIZE ME! I always try to write handwritten notes when possible. I grew up writing thank you notes due to my mom. I know she is proud of me for continuing to do this now.
Megan N. says
CUSTOMIZE ME!
I can’t really remember the last hand-written card I wrote, but I will be getting married in 6 weeks…so I would have plenty of fun writing out thank-yous on that beautiful stationary!
Stacy says
CUSTOMIZE ME!!!!! I just adore the tree with the initials carved in the tree. So cute!!!!
Unfortunately, I haven’t rec’d or nor sent a handwritten letter to anyone. However, I do believe in sending cards on special occassions and making them pretty by placing lovely labels on the envelopes and such. I just sent one today in the mail to a dear friend who’s baby shower I missed.
Sarah says
CUSTOMIZE ME!! The last handwritten notes I sent were the “Thank you”s for our wedding gifts. Took a while, but it’s that nice little, final touch that wraps up that very important event in your life!
Laura says
CUSTOMIZE ME…
The last notes I wrote by hand were our wedding thank you notes. I thought we would never be finished!
Amber says
I love the three bird design. Customize ME!
The last hand-written card I sent was a lovely letterpress card from Dutch Door Press last month. It was for a friend that had just got a new house.
Tracy says
Customize me!
I love to send cards. I do it all the time…I can’t think of just one time, but I love to send little messages to those I love!
YL says
CUSTOMIZE ME. Snail mail postcards are still fun!
Rebecca says
CUSTOMIZE ME!
I just sent out all of my wedding thank yous, but I try to be a frequent snail mailer. I’m a sucker for stationary, so I have an entire photo box filled with notes at the ready. Now that I’ve collected addresses from all of my friends and family for my wedding, I hope to do it more often (scratch that, WILL!)
KateRose says
CUSTOMIZE ME!
The last handwritten note I received was a thank you note for a shower gift. The last letter I’ve written was for a family members birthday. While I’m a huge e mailer but I still think it is so important to send actual birthday cards, thank you notes etc.
Lindsey Lyons says
Customize Me!
I’ve written a lot of baby thank you’s recently but my favorite handwritten letters are those my husband and I wrote to each other when he was in Iraq in 2003-2004.
abriana says
customize me!
Holly says
CUSTOMIZE ME!! I received a card/note from my boyfriend (along with a long stemmed red rose!) for absolutely no reason 2 weeks ago. The last time I sent a letter to someone? Almost two years ago!!
Blair says
CUSTOMIZE ME!
I’m off to write a handwritten note very shortly to thank our friends’ parents for hosting us at their beach house for a mini-vacation… :)
Cheryl Joy says
CUSTOMIZE ME
Every so often I send my grandma (lovingly known as Grantil) a handwritten letter. I usually include a recent photograph of myself, my fiance, our dog and a recent piece of artwork. Grantil says that my letters always seem to arrive when she really needs a pick-me-up and a smile. :)
Krista G says
Customize Me!
I make my hubby’s lunch (otherwise he wouldn’t eat until dinner!), and I left him a little note in with some honey roasted cashews that said “I’m nuts about you”. Cheezy, I know, but he loved it!
Mary G says
CUSTOMIZE ME!
Over the past few years, I have been writing letters back and forth with a friend from another state. We grew up together since we were born and lost touch when I went away to college and subsequently moved and got married. One day I decided to write her a note in the mail. She wrote a few-page letter in return, and our tradition began! We refuse to email or post on each other’s facebook, and keep our interaction strictly to pen and paper. It’s been a special tradition, since no one writes handwritten letters anymore! It makes me still excited to look in the mailbox. :)
Denise L. says
CUSTOMIZE ME!!!
The last snail mail I sent was a letter to my grandmother in Germany. I recently moved so I sent her a new address card and a letter letting her know what was happening in my world. I also sent her some pictures of my new house and her old kitchen table that we re-did. She didn’t even recognize the table!! I love getting letters in the mail so I enjoy sending them as well.
Leigh Perrino says
CUSTOMIZE ME!
Any of these sets would be perfect for us, as we are newlyweds who enjoy showing off our new family of two! I have had personalized stationary since I was a child and used to write letters to my Aunt who lived overseas.But I don’t have any stationary with my new last name!
Ally says
Customize Me!
My grandmother writes me notes for everything. It can even be simple as calling her.
Mari-ann says
Customize Me.
We just sent a thank you note to my sister. She let us use her Lake House on Smith Mountain Lake in VA, for a week to celebrate out fist anniversary.
Monica @ The Writer Chic says
I love these and are totally in the mood for some new stationary. =)
I am a writer at heart, and write at least one hand-written note a week. A thank you, a birthday letter, or just a ‘thinking about you’ note to my husband.
Meg says
“CUSTOMIZE ME”
I send handwritten thank you notes all the time. The last one I sent was to a wonderful friend who came to visit.
erin pearce says
customize me! love that first set!
the last letter i wrote (aside from thank you notes from my baby shower/sons birthday) was to my hubby in 2007-2008 while he was on a tour in iraq. i was pregnant when he left and had our baby while he was gone so i was over-emotional and they were hard to write- but they will be nice to read when we are old and gray!
Catherine says
Customize Me!
I regularly send snail mail to the couple I lived with as a study abroad student in England. They’re older and though they have an email account, I know they love the classic letter. And to be honest, I love sending it:)
Chelsea says
CUSTOMIZE ME!!
I send hand written thank you notes often and I also like to write notes to college age girls at my church to encourage them!
Sarah K says
Customize me!
Last year for Valentine’s Day I sent my parents a poem that I wrote about how I really respected the love they have for each other. It was super cheesy but I meant it and they raved about it for months.
Tammy says
CUSTOMIZE ME!
I love to write little notes to friends to say hi, or to cards to say thanks for a gift or kind gesture… because who doesn’t love to receive snail mail!?!
The last ones I wrote were thank you cards for my birthday.
Kelly V. says
Customize me! I love sending handwritten notes, in fact before our wedding I made a note to myself that I would send my parents a note each month during the first year of my marriage to let them know how appreciative of them for their support and love.
Melissa says
CUSTOMIZE ME
The last hand written note I wrote was a thank you note for a job interview. I have been writing a lot of those lately.
Joanna says
Customize me!
Mainly thank you notes these days. I always handwrite my Thank Yous.
Allison Payne says
Customize me!
My hubby writes me a cute little note in my lunch everyday…usually a silly cartoon drawing!
Emily says
Customize Me!
The last little hand-written note I sent was to my sister in law, who is kind enough to save her twin boys clothes and pass them along to my twin boys (they are just a few years apart so it saves us a lot of money on clothes for our little guys!!)
Abby says
CUSTOMIZE ME
I just this week sent thank-you notes to those who gave me gifts for my 30th birthday. Sigh. That’s about all I can say about THAT.
kristin says
CUSTOMIZE ME!
i loooove sending & receiving snail mail! i’m pen pals with my younger cousin, so i send her letters and she sends me pictures! it’s the best!
Ellen Price says
CUSTOMIZE ME…the last handwritten letter was to my Grams and Gramps…