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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.
melissa says
CUSTOMIZE ME!
I still send cards regularly to all those special ladies (grandmas, great-aunts, etc.) in my life.
Annie N. says
Customize me!!
I just finished a stack of thank you notes to friends and family who sent us sweet little gifts after hearing the news of our babe-on-the-way. (Have the ink-stained pinky to prove it!) I am a BIG fan of hand-written notes and letters and will never stop despite the inarguable convenience of emails and texts. Thanks mucho!
Addy says
CUSTOMIZE ME!
i send handwritten letters on a daily basis. i think it is important. i love looking thru my letters from my great-grandmother that has passed. it’s fun looking at her handwriting. i’m teaching my daughter the importance of writing a letter to loved ones and friends.
thank you!
Wehaf says
CUSTOMIZE ME
My boyfriend and I had a long-distance relationship for years, and we just recently managed to move to the same place, where we bought a house. We were unpacking, and he held up this shoebox, filled with all the letters I had sent him. He kept every one. I was so touched!
jen says
ps: Customize me (sorry!)
:)
jessica says
Customize me!!!!
I just sent a letter to one of my best friends telling her to hang in there she’s getting stressed out about her upcoming wedding.
Mary L says
I am almost finished with all my wedding thank you notes!!
Sarah M. says
Customize Me!! I ALWAYS send thank you notes for everything. My mother taught me that it is a simple thing you can do. So many people don’t do it anymore.
Erika says
Customize me!
I guess a note of sympathy was the last note I sent. I am a big fan of handwritten letters….so much more special than email!!! I love to receive handwritten recipes from my friends.
Trish T. says
CUSTOMIZE ME!
The last letter I wrote was to my grandmother. Actually, the last letter I received was also from her. I love getting letters from her and sending them as well. Years from now I’ll be able to look back at all of our correspondence and will have wonderful memories of my grandma.
Lynn Soon says
CUSTOMIZE ME!!!
The last hand written letter I did was January of 2009, for our wedding!
Katie Kemple says
CUSTOMIZE ME!!
I LOVE hand written letters and agree that these days, people don’t send them enough! I think that taking the time to write someone is both well-mannered and there’s also something romatic about it. I recently wrote a dear friend a thank you note for a wonderful housewarming present she had gifted my husband and I with!
Traci says
Customize Me!
I sent a Thank you note to my co-worker’s boyfriend…he hooked up my husband and I with free Red Sox tickets :)
Stephanie says
Customize me! I love the carved tree – I thought about doing that for our wedding invites. I sent three letters last week one to my grandmother to say hi, to my old neighbor to thank her for forwarding our mail, and a thank you to my sister-in-law and her husband for helping us with our housewarming, couldn’t have done it without them!
Sara says
CUSTOMIZE ME!
I aways send handwritten thank you notes to my friends and family!
Courtney says
CUSTOMIZE ME”
I love to write letters. I send my friends cards in the mail often. I just going to the mail box and finding a card or letter.
Rebekah says
CUSTOMIZE ME :)
One of my best friends got married in June and we have been sending snail mail back and forth ever since. It is so awesome to get something in the mail besides my student loan reminders!
Krystal says
CUSTOMIZE ME!
I actually just mailed a card to my good friend who lives across the country. I just know it’s nice to receive actual mail from time to time and wanted to make her day a little happier.
jamie says
CUSTOMIZE ME
jesse says
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Missy says
customize me!
my mom sends out regular “thank you” and “just thinking of you” notes in the mail. about once a month we will get a card saying she enjoyed our last visit or thanking us for the dessert we brought to dinner. old fashioned as she may be, seeing her handwriting on a card in my post box always brings a smile to my face.
Elizabeth says
CUSTOMIZE ME
The last handwritten note I wrote was a thank you note to my friend for hosting us in DC and my little brother for scoring us this incredible DWR desk for us off the DC craigslist.
I also have a dear friend that lives far away and we’ve only communicated using letters for the past 12 years so on second though I may have written to her last!
Jen says
CUSTOMIZE ME!
The last letter I sent was a long overdue note to my grandma. Maybe these cards will inspire me to write more. ;)
Adam says
CUSTOMIZE ME
The last hand written note was probably sent to my now wife when she was interning in Orlando, FL one summer during college and I was living in hotel with 60+ college students in Myrtle Beach (not interning unless one can call burger flipping at McDonalds that).
ryan says
CUSTOMIZE ME
I’m huge proponent of hand-writing – a bit of a luddite at heart. I prefer old school loose-leaf, lined notebook paper, with a classic #2 pencil. I love eraser marks and even scribble and scratch out marks.
I try to write monthly letters to my parents, my girlfriend-my love, and quirky little haiku to friends. Oh yeah, and call me weird, but I love licking envelopes…
Kendall says
CUSTOMIZE ME!
The last letter I received was from a long lost cousin that I recently got in touch with. She heard through the grapevine that I graduated from college and asked my parents for my address. She sent me a lovely 3 page letter congratulating me and bringing me up to date with her life. Since that initial letter in May, we have been writing back and forth. It’s so nice to receive a letter in the mail instead of just bills and junk mail. :)
Lara C says
Customize me!
I adore the carved tree design…and I’m such a stationery junkie! I wrote quite a few letters from Iraq in the last couple years – it’s always nice to receive a handwritten note!
Lynsey says
CUSTOMIZE ME!!!!
Well right now, thank you notes seem to be all that I am writing these days for wedding shower gifts. But I am a huge fan of hand written letters to my close friends that live all over the country.
Melissa McDaniel says
Customize me!
I send thank you notes all the time- It is a special way to show gratitude.
Amanda says
Customize Me! The last handwritten note I wrote were lots of postcards on our honeymoon. We also went to Alaska for our honeymoon!
Jen Z. says
CUSTOMIZE ME!!!
OMG, I haven’t written a letter to someone in years. I used to love doing that. I still have all my stationary and stickers (when I used to trade stickers). I have to find that box. Good memories. These are beautiful and would love to have a set in my home.
Beth says
customize me!
The last letters that i wrote were a series of notes to my two childhood friends with a poem from Tennyson (the Lady of Shalott..)- each week they recieved a new note with the next stanza of the poem :) we grew up on that poem, thanks to Anne of Green Gables…
Corley says
Customize me!
I wrote a thank you note to our new neighbors. They brought us muffins our first weekend at our new house!
Rhea says
Customize me! I still send quite a few hand written notes every month to old friends…there’s nothing like getting mail in your mailbox rather than inbox :)
Nicole B. says
CUSTOMIZE ME!
I just sent a hand-written thank you card today to Baja Bible School in Tijuana, Mexico, where I spent this last weekend on a retreat with a church group. They were so hospitable, and so caring, that I could not help but want to send them some old-fashioned thanks!
Melissa says
CUSTOMIZE ME!
I think the last thing I wrote would be thank-yous from our wedding last October. The last letter, then, would be a letter I wrote to my husband the day of our wedding. :)
Jennie says
Customize me!
I’m in the process of sending wedding thank you notes!
Susan says
Customize me please!
I am off to write a thank you note right now–we just received some adorable outfits from a friend for our little girl.
kayduh says
customize me! i sent a note to my boyfriend’s father to thank him for hosting me for the weekend.
Jennifer says
Customize me!
The last handwritten note I sent was to my best friend, who just had a baby in Montana, yet I live in Indiana.
But, my dear husband wrote me a really sweet poem/letter for my birthday last Friday. Sweet, sweet!
Courtney says
Customize me! The last letter I received was a lovely thank you from someone I’d interviewed for a job. She was the only candidate to actually send a written thank you, and not a generic email.
Amber W says
CUSTOMIZE ME!
My family is big into sending the good ol’ traditional thank you cards for birthday presents or any other special thank yous.
chris says
CUSTOMIZE ME!
My friend recently bought a house, so I sent her a card in the mail, hoping it would be the first fun thing she receives at her new residence.
Marsha says
PLEASE CUSTOMIZE ME!!!
The last letter I wrote was to my daughter. I wrote it before she was born and I plan to give it to her on her eighteenth birthday.
Amanda G says
CUSTOMIZE ME!!
I am loving this freebie! I am the queen of the thank you note. I preach to everyone how important it is to follow up any gift with a hand written thank you note. I will most definitely instill this in my children as well. I have to say one of my most memorable hand written notes was recently from my best friend. He popped over to my house to use our washing machine (his was broken) and left me a quick note to say how much he appreciated me and everything that I do for him. It was so heart felt and without any special occasion to spark it. Just any old day to say how much we mean to each other. Those are the best kind!
Shannon says
Customize me! I adore handwritten notes & letters and still send them to my friends all the time. I keep hoping to get some in return but apparently their not as old fashioned as me. I’m also a fan of sending handwritten notes & cards to soldiers that I don’t know who are stationed overseas, their responses, although few and far between, are soooo worth it, they’re so appreciative.
Ashley says
Customize me!!
I’m involved with a lot of knit/crochet swaps and every time I send out a package, I include a nice handwritten letter.
Sally says
CUSTOMIZE ME
The last notes I wrote were Thank You’s from my wedding! This stationary is adorable!
Leah says
Customize me!
My best friend drove cross country and sent me postcards from all the cities she stopped at. It was fun to see where she was going to next and to keep track of her trip.
Angie says
Customize me!
My husband had a work trip to Wisconsin a few weeks ago and I got to go with him. We sent the kids postcards we thought they would enjoy. One of my favorite things to do is send baked goodies to our grandparents. I always worry about how they fare though!