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Since we know you guys love personalized stationery as much as we do (and we always like to support other husband and wife teams), we’re psyched to bring you this week’s giveaway from Wild Ink Press. This duo – plus their 2 year old son/sidekick- churns out beautiful letterpress stationery by hand (and foot). And they print all of their stuff on 100% recycled paper or cotton and reuse everything from scraps to clean-up rags, always keeping their process as eco-friendly as possible. But of course, it’s their stunning designs that are the real stars of their process.
And this week, TWO of you are going to win a custom set of letterpress stationery (up to a $150 value each!). Here are the five designs our winners will have the pleasure of choosing from, either for themselves (or maybe even as a Valentine’s Day gift?). First we have The Signature, which puts your name in a silver metallic script with a custom icon to add some whimsy. And you can pick from green, pink, khaki or gray envelopes to match. Man, I wish my signature came out this fancy looking every time I sign on the dotted line.
The Dictionary is a classic design with dark brown or black ink on ivory paper. And speaking of the ivories, the khaki envelope comes lined with vintage sheet music or an actual dictionary page (smoking jacket and pipe not included).
The Bandana Paisley is kinda dusty old west meets colorful sophistication. Pick from a magenta, turquoise, purple or red paisley to coordinate with a gray, khaki or purple envelope. A far cry from the days of the Pony Express.
The Nautical had us at “ahoy.” It comes on beachy pale blue paper with a ship ghosted in the background and a handsome navy envelope.
The Audrey is a combo of a sophisticated dotted pinstripe and your name printed in a playful circus font. The orange or magenta color options for both the type and envelope finish off the big top design.
Have you already picked out the one you love? Well here’s how you can vie for your chance to win (bonus: stay tuned for a discount on Thursday- everyone sort of wins in the end):
- PRIZE: A 30-piece set of custom letterpress stationery from Wild Ink Press (selected from the five designs shown here).
- TO ENTER: Comment on this post with the words “PRESS ME” and…
- BONUS QUESTION: …tell us about your writing style. Do you write exclusively in cursive? Do you rock all caps all of the time? Do you dot your I’s with something special? Is your penmanship virtually unreadable? Or do you just avoid hand-writing at all costs?
- GIVEAWAY CLOSES: Wednesday, February 3rd at 8pm EST
- NUMBER OF WINNERS: Two
- PRIZE SHIPS: You name it. They’ll ship it anywhere!
- USUAL STUFF: One entry per e-mail address is permitted. The winners will be selected using random.org and announced on Thursday. Good luck!
Find more freebie info on our Giveaway FAQs page. Pics courtesy of Wild Ink Press.
Elizabeth Jones says
PRESS ME!
I always start off printing and somewhere along my note, I transition into cursive (becoming more messy the longer I write.) My handwriting is decidedly much worse now that I do most of my “writing” on my computer keyboard. This stationary definitely would provide me incentive to drop more handwritten notes in the mail to my friends and family. With my best handwriting, of course!
Leslie says
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Moira says
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I have a major crush on stationery. I send a thank you note for just about anything since it allows me to pull out my note cards and get scribbling! My hand writing has suffered since the majority of my days are spent typing but hasn’t everyone’s? My handwriting is script for work purposes or notes and a mixture of script/regular (is that what non script is called?) with non existing rules of capitalization for lists and forms.
Christina says
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all printing here!
Meghan says
PRESS ME… my handwriting is a mixture of cursive and printing… many of the letters look like each other. My poor students. :)
kennedy says
PRESS ME! I almost always write in cursive, always have… I think handwriting is important and I always pay attention to it – especially when others have lovely handwriting!
Lindsay W says
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Oh, sometimes I can’t stand my handwriting. Unless I take the time to write nicely, it’s all a jumble of cursive and print and none of my letters look the same! But I’m sure my hubby doesn’t mind seeing my handwriting and he’d love to get some letters. He’s deployed right now and this stationary would be perfect for writing him some love letters!
Coco says
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I rock the half cursive-half printing. I send handwritten thank you notes ALL the time. I love getting them so I send them as much as I can.
Rachel E. says
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I’m a lazy printer. It’s not cursive, but all the letters go together because I can’t be bothered to take my pen off the page.
Claire says
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My writing style is starting to look more and more like my mothers…which I USED to think was completely illegible…
Ah well….thank goodness for computers!
Shaye C. says
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I avoid handwriting at all costs!
RA says
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My handwriting gets worse and worse with all the typing I do; Christmas card season kills me! So, my all-printing penmanship leaves much to be desired. However, I do have one pattern: I always use blue ink!
Sarah says
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My handwriting varies. For notes – illegible printing. For notes to other people, really beautiful cursive. For crafty type things – I have several handwritten “fonts” that I whip out.
Bernadette says
PRESS ME!! My handwriting is terrible — a scribbly mess of cursive and printing.
Krystal says
PRESS ME!!!!! I am absolutely in LOVE with this stationary!! I believe that the hand written letter will make it back in our lives somehow! My handwritting is all over the place and always changing!! I am a lefty so it is usually a mess!!
Alison says
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I usually print, but write in cursive when I am trying to go fast. I still haven’t perfected a capital, cursive T or F though, so I always print those!
Brooke V. says
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Always cursive. It’s just so much faster!
Mylene says
Oooh, love love love! Press me!
I love sending handwritten notes and these are beautiful. My handwriting is also a cross between cursive and print and I love writing very neatly on cards.
Kari says
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Swoon! I love personalized anything…especially paper.
I love to hand write, but kind of like sometimes I speak a little “Spanglish”, my writing is pretty much a mix of cursive and print…so curprint?
Miranda says
Press Me! I love the Dictionary, but the Signature is pretty awesome, too!
My writing style wholly depends on my mood and time. Sometimes classic, sometimes sloppy – but never too stylized or unreadable. My penmanship skills have suffered with all the time I spend at the computer, but I type fast!
Colleen Wheeler says
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I love the gorgeous stationary and would be so excited to win! I tend to write in a combo of cursive and regular printing, and write almost exclusively in sharpie fine point markers, I love the way they write!
Katie says
Press Me! I took an art class in high school and the entire first month was learning how to print ‘correctly’. The instructor had a background in architecture so I think that had something to do with it. Ever since then, I write in print and mostly caps.
Jess says
Of course you can PRESS ME! Wooo-eee! My handwriting is an eclectic mess of cursive and print and caps and small letters. I once read that this was a sign that you were an axe murderer, or psychologically disturbed or something, but I turned out OK. I swear! Oh, and I would die without black roller-ball pens.
Lindsay says
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Sometimes all caps, sometimes a mix of cursive an printing
Heather @ Brown Brick House says
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My handwriting is tall and skinny. =D
Elizabeth says
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I think my handwriting varies depending on my mood, but mostly I write in the Catholic schoolgirl cursive that the nuns drilled into me long ago!
shannon says
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I have a hybrid cursive/printing style. Sometimes I jazz it up and make it fancier, such as when I addressed my wedding invitations.
In addition to being told that I have nice handwriting, I’ve been given an odd compliment by a handful of people: “Your handwriting should be a font.” No progress on that one yet!
Meg says
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I’d say 90% of the time, I print; one-third of that time, it’s legible! (Let’s see, so mathematically, that means…)
The rest of the time, my scroll is pretty darn messy, but aren’t signatures supposed to be? :-) Or is that just famous autographs?
Jen @ ourfinehouse says
PRESS ME! My writing has been described as “short and chubby”.
Shawn says
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I have boy writing.
Katie says
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A little bit of everything. Sometimes cursive, sometimes all caps, sometimes printed. It’s usually pretty readable though.
Ryan says
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All caps, Baby! I’m an architect, so I write in all caps for work. It’s hard for me to switch back and forth, so I just write in all caps all the time.
Amy says
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I don’t have anything too special about my writing style except that I write my lowercase a’s like they’re typed.
Taylor says
Press me! I’m a cursive kinda girl.
MandeeFoFandee says
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I have a weird writing style. I write mostly in print, but sometimes the letters connect and look cursive. I capitalize only some letters (R, N, D, B) and everything else is lowercase… even if it begins the sentence.
Anna S. says
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Although my handwriting needs some adjustments, I like to say that it’s a fun mix of cursive and print. Once I even tried to learn calligraphy (for scrapbooking purposes).
Lisa says
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My handwriting is a print/cursive hybrid. Neatness depends on who will be reading it and how much time I have – sometimes it is illegible, other times perfectly neat and compliment worthy.
Dannielle says
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I’m an editor so I mostly have red scribbles all over the page. But, when I do write, you can hardly figure out my r’s or T’s =/.
Sarah W. says
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Although I love fonts and all things stationery, my husband is the one with the cool handwriting. His is very architectural; he addressed all of our wedding invitations! If I’m the winner of this contest I will have to flip a coin between the swirly signature cards (for me) and the dictionary note cards (for my husband – I love the idea of the sheet music envelope lining).
MegRuth Photography says
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I’m this wacky combination of print/cursive. Sometimes even I can decipher what I’ve written. I think it’s sad that I rarely write anything any longer so I’m much more apt to write Thank You notes lately because of it.
Stephanie says
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rebecca says
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My writing is a hybrid of printing and cursive, but always legible and neat. I thoroughly enjoy sending and receiving handwritten notes and would just love to add these babies to my stationary collection. Letterpress makes me smile :)
Pink Heli says
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I love writing handwritten thankyous, etc. But my writing is akin to your average 4th grader. Randomly sized, printed letters that don’t even form a straight line on the page. Oh well, it’s the thought that counts, right?
Stacy says
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I send tons of notes and letters, even though my handwriting is a horrible, first-grade type of printing.
Maria says
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I like to write in print. If I have the time, I like to write so uniformly that it looks like book type.
Jenny Stoudt says
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I have the worst handwriting on Earth. I think each time I put pen to pad it’s worse than the previous! :D
Michelle M. says
PRESS ME! I was just online looking at personal stationery so this is perfect. My handwriting is a mix of cursive and print, sometimes pretty, other times not so much.
Mary Catherine Sears says
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I love to write handwritten notes, birthday cards, etc. My handwritting is a mix of cursive and print, but it is very legible.
Amber V. says
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I have horrible handwriting. Improving it was one of my 2010 resolutions and I am excited to report that there has been SOME improvement.
Maria says
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I write in all caps usually. I got it from my mom. Although I don’t do it when typing because THAT WOULD BE YELLING.