***This giveaway is no longer accepting entries***
Yes, I know it looks like I have a misplaced apostrophe up there, but trust me on this one. This week’s prize will have one of you sending handwritten greetings across all seasons of the year (see, I’m looking less punctuationally deviant already).
As you may recall from Friday’s thank-you-to-our-sponsors post, Emmy Lu Design Studio is an awesome source for beautiful custom stationery with a DIY twist. Once you pick the style and fill in the custom details (whether it be a holiday card, personal stationery, an invitation or even a baby announcement) Emmy Lu hooks you up with a ready-to-print PDF. That means you can print as many as you want (whether you need five or five million), on any paper you want (bargain or mega-fancy-pants), for as long as you want (the file’s yours for eternity). Kinda genius, no?
And since it’s nearly impossible to pick your favorite design, this week’s winner is getting a year’s worth of them! That means a new card/invite/announcement of the winner’s choosing for every month of the year (which loosely translates to 12 excuses to throw a party, pen a thank you note or even write your mom a letter for crying out loud).
So here’s how you can get your hands on these greetings by the dozen:
- PRIZE: One custom Emmy Lu design per month (of $50 or less) for an entire year (that’s up to a $600 value!)
- TO ENTER: Comment on this post with the words “EMMY ME” and…
- BONUS QUESTION: …tell us what you do to send seasonal greetings. Do you pose for a traditional family Christmas card? Or something quirkier (like photoshopping your chihuahua)? Maybe you abstain from the madness completely?
- GIVEAWAY CLOSES: Wednesday, December 9th at 8pm EST
- NUMBER OF WINNERS: One
- PRIZE SHIPS: Anywhere in the world!
- USUAL STUFF: One entry per e-mail address is permitted. The winner will be selected using random.org and announced on Thursday. Good luck!
Get more info about our freebies on our Giveaway FAQs page. Images courtesy of Emmy Lu Design Studio.
kate says
Emmy Me!
My christmas card experience is usually limited to cringing in wait of what my father has written and sent out to everyone. Someday i’ll do my own, and it will be on paper that i make myself… possibly recycled from christmas cards i received the previous year.
Jessica says
EMMY ME! This year we are doing store-bought cards for close family and friends.
Kayt says
EMMY ME!
I buy the Target cards that have a spot to slide in a photo, take a picture of something important that happened in the last year. The year we got engaged, I put a picture of me flashing my ring. The year we got married, we included a wedding photo. The year we bought our house, we posed outside of it, Vanna White style. Last year, we skipped our Christmas cards and sent birth announcements (our son’s birthday is 19 December, so I wasn’t feeling the need to make two sets of cards). This year, we stood him up in front of the tree and snapped an adorable picture of him laughing and clapping.
My family lives out of state, and I would love love love to be able to send out monthly updates of the first and favorite grandbaby. I usually just text them out, but how cool would it be to send it out as a shiny card?
marlene says
EMMY ME! I love sending cards. I like to design and make my own, but I tend to procrastinate so this giveaway is awesome!
Kevin says
EMMY ME!
I have to make all the cards in our family, and I would love some nicer cards to send out.
susan says
EMMY ME!
we typically do the traditional photo card – if we can get a good picture!
Erica says
Emmy me!!!
This is such an amazing giveaway! I’m throwing my mom a surprise 60th birthday party and I’d LOVE to use this for invitations! In fact, when you made the post about your sponsors the other day I checked out this site for invites and I’ve already picked something out. Fingers crossed!
Kristina says
EMMY ME….We always send out a card witht he words “Merry Christmas” somewhere on it, a two page letter, and a photo. what can I say, we’re not fans of photo cards and like the more tradition route.
Sandra says
Emmy ME!!!!
I usually just buy Holiday cards at a drugstore, but I include a picture of my two little boys.
Vicki says
EMMY ME!
What a fabulous giveaway! I’d be so excited for such a great gift! We’ve been creating photo cards for a few years now – our first was 4 years ago and we posed with our brand new Boston Terrier puppy. The past 2 years have been “make way for baby” and our daughter now fills a card all herself..no one wants to see us anyway!
Rachelle D. says
EMMY ME!
I’m a total sucker for photo holiday cards. Last year, our first as a married couple, I just used a wedding picture. But this year, with the exciting announcement of our own little bun in the over, I used a really fun template that included about 10 pictures–of course an obligatory u/s, a few of us, and then several of our adorable and spoiled Tibetan Terrier.
Jessica says
EMMY ME!
We send out a picture of the dog with antlers on – she loves it!
Adria Kilbreath says
“EMMY ME!”
My husband and I try to send christmas cards each year but… we are not always succesful!
Melanie says
EMMY ME! I’ve gone the photoshop route and the handmade route, but this year I’m abstaining. It’s so lame to say it, but I’ve just been too busy! Since sending notes and cards is something I do year-round (just little thinking of yous and unexpected thank yous here and there), these would be AWESOME to win!
Emily says
EMMY ME!
Usually I find a picture of the 2 of us from sometime during the year that I love. Then I make it into a photo card and send it out! This prize would be awesome this year because we are going to have our own baby event this June. :)
Lynsey says
EMMY ME… we go to the shutterfly route with a picture card.
Mrs. Money says
EMMY ME! I haven’t done cards in awhile!
Shannon says
EMMY ME!
We used to just do boxed cards but since the arrival of our son (so, for the last two years) we’ve done a photo card featuring him because hey, any excuse to show off the little munchkin!
Lynn says
“EMMY ME!”
We usually do a silly photo and a more traditional one of the kids and send them out.
Last year we also did a family portrait that we made into thank you cards and sent them out the first of the year.
This is a great give away!
Edna says
EMMY ME!! I usually send out store bought cards, if I have time to finish them before Christmas.
Sarah says
EMMY ME! We just do the traditional holiday card. Kind of boring…:)
Allison M says
EMMY ME!
We usually don’t send very many holiday cards but these are beautiful! We might try e-cards (a family picture of us – p shop’d) and we give a few handmade cards to people in person.
Kelsey says
EMMY ME! I love traditional, handwritten (both inside and out) cards. Sadly, that also means I don’t send very many because they’re so much dang work!
Erica W says
EMMY ME
This is the first year we’re sending out Christmas cards as a family (our daughter was born in June) so we’re trying to capture one of her many smiles for the photo.
EMMY ME says
It’s only our 2nd Christmas together as a married couple, but we’re still using our wedding photos (cropped so you can only see our faces) in the cards. How terrible is that!!
Amber says
“EMMY ME”
Love the DIY Stationary idea! We do the traditional christmas card with a family picture. It’s one of the few times a year to connect with family and friends. Thanks for the great giveaway!
brandi says
EMMY ME!
We always “try” to get a card out, but end up doing some sort of digital greeting like this:
http://elfyourself.jibjab.com/view/BqP8v765s7Xguli4?cmpid=ey_fb_self
Julie says
Emmy Me! I always hand make our cards from when my husband and I were dating through now. We now have 3 young kids and it is getting harder and harder to keep up with.
Stephanie says
Emmy Me!
I’m terrible at sending cards of any type. My New Year’s resolution is to get better at that…
Jennifer Rutherford says
EMMY ME!
I am still a fan of good, old-fashioned hand written notes and thank you’s.
Because Christmas can be so busy and we would rather have time to reflect on the season rather than adding one more thing to the to-do list, we send out happy new year cards instead!
blessings,
jenn
Erin says
EMMY ME!
Our Newfoundland dogs are the stars of our annual holiday card. We have had people request to get on our card list just to see that year’s picture. Unfortunately people like them so much that the pressure is really on to come up with something great. And of course, if you thought taking a photo with a family of four was bad … try it with two dogs weighing in at a total of 265 pounds.
Carly says
EMMY ME!!! This year we posed with our two dogs and I inserted our cat into another picture. Last year I put antlers on our dogs and they posed in front of the tree. I love Christmas cards!!!! I love cards period!
Katy Key says
Emmy Me!
Would be PERFECT for my Bad Saturday party. You know, the Saturday after Good Friday..its BAD!
Jennifer McLaurin says
EMMY ME! I usually send one without a personal picture but now we have the best present we could ever think of, our 1rd old son Grayson so we are sending a card with pictures of us on it!
Thanks,
Jen
Jess says
EMMY ME!!! My husband uses photoshop to create stationary for the christmas letter.
SvenandShae says
EMMY ME
I’m feeling lucky this week! We (Sven the chi and I) would send New years cards!! Then our moving to Dallas cards as Sven, the boyfriend, and myself all prepare to move in together to Dallas next year. (Sven is still maintaing that he will remain the man, er pup, of the house!)
ps cant WAIT to see the final bathroom project! We’ve been following you on facebook! :)
Jessica says
Emmy ME! This is our first year to send cards… that is if we make them in time.
Darlene says
EMMY ME!
being a graphic designer, i’ve done just about everything but the last couple of years we’ve gone with the family photo. this year i think it’s going to feature just the kids — everybody wants to see just them anyway!
Azine says
EMMY ME!
This is our 1st year doing photo xmas cards…Usually, its just a standard old card, but this year, we’re sending one with a pic of our daughter (born this year) and a pic of the 3 of us to our close friends and family.
Christy says
EMMY ME!!!!
I haven’t done my own Christmas cards yet, will probably wait until marriage or baby or some other worthy life-event :)
Lindsay says
EMMY ME
We are only sending out Christmas cards this year because my sister-in-law took our picture, ordered our cards, and gave us her file of addresses. Otherwise they would have never gotten done!
kate says
Emmy Me!!
What a fabulous giveaway!!
Depends on the year, but most of the time I opt for pre-packaged, albeit cute, holiday cards. (Bought after Christmas on clearance, of course, and saved for the next year).
Last year was the exception in most recent history, as my husband and I were married in October, so we sent a photo card with a few of our favorite snapshots from the day.
JenniB says
Emmy Me!
Last year we avoided them all together as we just moved into our first home but this year is a completely different story and we would love to win some christmas cards!
Stefanie says
Our cards for Christmas 2006 are still on our shelf. No family picture ever inserted. No stamp affixed.
I love this giveaway… maybe I would feel guilty about wasting someone else’s work, so I would actually send them out?
Jenny R says
EMMY ME!
I usually send a Christmas card from Shutterfly, but last year I tried Tiny Prints and loved it! I think we’re going to do the same thing this year…better get cracking!
Claire P says
Emmy Me! Everyone loves getting fun mail! I wish I could send more fun mail all the time!
Meredith says
Emmy Me!!!!
Emmy Lu is my new favorite!!!! Yeah!!! I love their stationary!!!
We normally send out a card, pretty traditional. We used to send pictures when we lived far away, but now that we moved back to the state we grew up in, people see us enough!!!
Sheree says
EMMY ME!
We always took a family picture growing up and I am trying to continue that now that I have my own family. My mom just included the picture inside the Christmas card. I make the photo part of the card since there are so many creative and cute ways to do that now.
sarah says
Emmy Me
I’ve been married for almost 3 years and never sent out a christmas card! I’d like to start with these gorgeous ones though!!
Tara says
EMMY ME!
We were planning on sending out store-bought cards this year.