Ring in the New Year with Paperless Post + Giveaway (ARV $90)

While the beginning of a new year often motivates us to try something new, it is also the perfect time to reconnect with some old friends. And you can do so by simply sending over a "Happy New Year" card. But not all cards are created equal. If you are looking to make your greetings unique and impressive, you should check out Paperless Post, which hosts a decent selection of stationery with stylish, artistic designs.

Paperless Post gives you the option to go paperless by sending an e-card or to snail mail the good old paper card. Just be sure to choose the version you prefer (online or paper) before you place an order. You can also customize a card from front to back to your heart's content! Add a personal touch to your card with pictures, text and more. Even the envelope that comes with the card can be fully personalized!

If you are throwing a big party on New Year's Eve, one of these funny or funky invitations will come in handy. Again, they can be delivered electronically or on paper.

One secret to Paperless Post's amazing collections is their collaboration with leading fashion and lifestyle designers, such as Kate Spade New York, Oscar de la Renta, Jonathan Adler, and John Derian. I'm deeply in love with the elegant floral patterns hand-painted by Anna Bond.

MagnetStreet 4th of July Sale

From now through 7/7, MagnetStreet is having a 4th of July sale and offering 25% off ALL wedding products available at MagnetStreet.com, including Wedding Save the Dates, Wedding Programs, Wedding Invitations and more! Please use code WAFJULY at checkout to receive your discount.

MagnetStreet.com is your Wedding headquarters for all your printed products, which come in a variety of designs in unlimited color options  to help you capture your moment and share your message in your own unique way.


Save the Dates

• Save the Date Magnets Large, small, square, heart—we offer a variety of magnet shapes and sizes for each design.
• Save the Date Cards From size and shape to paper stock, find cards to fit your unique style and budget.
  
• Save the Date Postcards Style and convenience! Available in two sizes, postcards are easy to address, stamp, and mail.

Wedding Programs

• Tea-length Programs With your ceremony printed on both sides, Tea-length Programs offer simplicity and elegance.
• Half-fold Programs Half-fold Programs open like a greeting card—sweetly narrating your nuptials on each side.
• Program Fans Available in four unique shapes, Program Fans help guests stay cool during your ceremony.

Wedding Invitations

• Rectangle Invitations Widely popular, Rectangle Invites are an easy way to tie your chic weddinglook together.
• Shaped Invitations Add a trendy touch to your wedding with a Shaped Invite. Unique, modern and totally fun!
• Pocket Invitations Keep your enclosures neat and organized inside a pretty pocket fold. Choose from two layouts.

If you or someone you know is planning for a wedding, don't miss the chance to take an extra 25% off all MagnetStreet wedding products with code WAFJULY by 7/7.

About MagnetStreet:

MagnetStreet.com is an online, full service stationery store that allows you to create highly personalized magnets, cards and other printed stationery from announcements to invitations and programs to thank you notes.

Disclosure: This is a sponsored post and all contents were provided by the sponsor.

Bunny Prints $100 Gift Card Giveaway

Do you have an important occasion coming up, such as birthday, anniversary, wedding or baby shower? If you are planning for a celebration party for your next big life event, consider getting some custom designed stationery to make your guests feel special and to create memories that will last. Enter to win a $100 gift card to BunnyPrints.com, where you can shop for adorable party favors, invitations and more!

This giveaway is made possible by Blog with Mom and Mommy's Favorite Things.

Bunny Printsis your one-stop shop for items like Baby Shower invitations, Birthday invitations, Return Address Labels, Thank you cards and so much more.

With various themes to choose from on their site, you can easily add a unique touch to your party planning with coordinating invitations, thank you cards, address labels, and party favors. The Personalized Party Favors can be used not only as gifts for your guests, but also as part of your tablescapes. Round stickers can be used as napkin wrapper seals. Mini-candy wrappers can be used as fillings for centerpiece pots, etc. The large candy wrappers can be hung in a variety of ways to enhance your decor. Guests will be thrilled to take home their Personalized Candy Wrappers, which are certain to leave a yummy impression.

Celebrate Christmas in July with Storkie.com

As a child, I wished every day were Christmas so that I could get nice gifts all year long. Well, there is still time to celebrate Christmas in July with fun activities, dazzling decorations, cool parties, and unique Christmas cards!

Celebrating Christmas in July is a great way to reunite with family members, reconnect with old friends, and to spread the holiday cheer and merry spirit to everyone around you. Concerned about the costs associated with an extra holiday? Don't be. I'm sure you've got tons of seemingly useless stuff lying round that can be turned into cute Christmas decorations. Empty cereal boxes, paper towel rolls, yogurt cups, and old Christmas cards all make perfect raw materials for simple but fun art and craft projects.Waste can be transformed into treasures with just a little creativity and imagination. Besides, you and your child can spend some quality bonding time while making room decorations together.

Started by a work-at-home mom, Storkie features a large selection of high quality custom made party invitations and greeting cards good for a variety of occasions. If you're the kind of person who plans things well ahead, you may start shopping for Christmas cards right now. You would love the abundance of card choices on Storkie.com, which provides hundreds of innovative designs, along with Christmas themed address labels, envelope seals and napkins.

Finding the right words to put on Christmas card is quite a challenge for me. It's a sweet surprise that Storkie offers a decent list of Christmas card sayings and wording ideas on their website. The site also utilizes iDesign interactive card design tool to make card customization a breeze. Let your creative juices flowing and impress your family and friends with cards that they can't find anywhere else!

Merry Christmas in July!

Disclosure: I was compensated for my time for writing this post as a member of Global Influence.

New Look Giveaway #6: Urbanity

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A great party impresses its guests-even before it starts-with its one-of-a-kind invitations. Urbanity, www.urbanitystudios.com/, is my new source of inspiration for uniquely-designed invitations that represent a memorable celebration. May 2009 marked the company's third anniversary in the business of stationery, invitations, and announcements. Young as it is, Urbanity has established its reputation in both national and local media. Their products are known for their elegant designs, high quality and uniqueness.

My personal favorite from Urbanity is Message in a Bottle, which was featured in October issue of O The Oprah Magazine (2007)-as one of Oprah's Favorite Things, and in Modern Bride-as of of the Top 100 Things We Love. I was sent the Message in a Bottle Invitation in Polka Dot (as pictured above) along with samples of baby announcements, birthday party invitations, thank you cards, and holiday photo cards. The Message in a Bottle includes a lightweight plastic bottle, a wooden cork to seal the bottle, a patterned paper scroll tied in a pink ribbon, and a mailing label attached to the bottle.

The most distinctive feature of the Message in a Bottle invitation is that it can be mailed as is by adhering stamps to the bottle. How cool it is to receive such a party invitation in the mail! I also love that there are several beautiful patterns to choose from, including pink argyle and blue argyle.

Urbanity carries a large number of exclusive designs that are not found elsewhere. Check out these adorable Birth announcements.


Would you like to surprise your friends with the good news on a baby bib adorned with a satin ribbon?

How about this 3-D crib and rug ensemble?

In addition to their unique and modern designs, Urbanity products also stand out in the following aspects:

• Customers can change the colors of any element of most designs for FREE.
  
• A variety of sizes and shapes are available to meet different needs
• Customers can request a PDF proof emailed to them before they order so that they can see what their personalized design will look like

Urbanity also has a specail holiday collection, including spooky Halloween Invitations. When you order at www.urbanitystudios.com/ now through 12/31/2009, you may use code Holiday2009 to receive 10% off orders of $50 or more. Also remember to join Club Urbanity to receive FREE shipping on every order you make during 2009. Membership is completely FREE!

The Giveaway

Urbanity has generously offered to give one of my lucky readers a $25 Gift Certificate to their online store! That's good for the signature Message in a Bottle or dozens of cute cards.

Required Entry: Visit Urbanity and leave a comment telling me your favorite product from their website. Please be specific. (Please leave a valid email address in your comment or make sure one is visible in your blogger profile).

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Giveaway ends at 11:59 Central Time on 10/15/09
Open to US Residents Only!
Winner will be chosen using random.org and will have 72 hours to respond before a new winner is chosen.
Thanks for entering and good luck!

Paper Culture Eco-Friendly Stationery Review

Paper Culture is a premium online stationery store where you can find a huge selection of invitations, announcements, and Thank You cards with exquisite and exclusive designs. Not only has the company attached great importance to product quality, they also care deeply about our planet. Every one of their cards is eco-friendly: made from FSC certified 100% post consumer recycled paper and Green Seal certified, elemental chlorine free paper generated by wind power. Paper Culture as a business is certified 100% CarbonFree.

I recently received some Paper Culture eco-friendly cards for review. The sample pack includes an assortment of announcements, invitations, and designer personal stationery with envelopes. I'm deeply impressed with the paper quality and the fact that everything from packaging to sample cover is seriously green. A personal touch can be added to each card through their convenient online tools.


Another unique feature that Paper Culture offers is FREE mail & message service. For just the cost of the stamp, you can have your cards sent directly to each recipient and include a unique personal message on the back of each card. After you choose the design and style, Paper Culture will take care of the rest, including addressing, stuffing and stamping your envelopes. That's a considerable time saver especially when you need to send out invitations and announcements in large quantities.


Besides being an environmentally responsible company, Paper Culture distinguishes itself by the chic, modern designs. I strongly recommend their birth announcements and birthday invitations for kids. They are all so cute! If you can't resist the temptation of beautiful stationery but care about the Mother Earth at the same time, Paper Culture would be the perfect place to shop.

Thanks to Momfluence and Paper Culture for this great review opportunity!

Giveaways Galore: Tiny Prints Facebook Open House

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Tiny Prints is a premium stationery online store, where you may easily find uniquely designed products to meet your needs for various occasions. They carry a wide selection of birth announcements, invitations, seasonal greeting cards, cards for both business and personal uses, and other accessories. They recently launched their bridal brand Wedding Paper Divas to serve as a one-stop shop for wedding planning.

From now through July 10th, 2009, Tiny Prints has partnered with a large number of blogs to host a month-long Facebook Open House Contest. I'm proudly one of the participating bloggers, which means you have the chance to win a $50 gift certificate to Tiny Prints right here on this blog.

The Giveaway

Tiny Prints is generously offering a $50 gift certificate to one of my lucky readers. By entering my giveaway, you'll automatically receive an entry into their Facebook giveaway of 12 $50 gift certificates (3 on each page). You may also increase your chances to win by entering the giveaways hosted on all participating blogs, the list of which is easily accessible on the following Tiny Prints Facebook pages:

• Tiny Prints Eco-Friendly Cards
• Tiny Prints Business Stationery
• Holiday Cards from Tiny Prints
• Wedding Invitations by Wedding Paper Divas

Required Entry: Become a fan of one or more of the Tiny Prints Facebook pages and comment on the wall(s) with a link to your favorite Tiny Prints or Wedding Paper Divas product. Then come back here and tell me in a comment your name on Facebook and the name of at least one Facebook page you have joined and posted. (Please leave a valid email address in your comment or make sure one is visible in your blogger profile).

Alternative Required Entry: If you don't have a Facebook account and don't want to create one just for the sake of this contest, you may still enter by saving your favorite Tiny Prints or Wedding Paper Divas product in your account on their site and tell me in a comment which one you chose and the email address you used to register. It's free to create an account on Tiny Prints and you don't have to opt in for their newsletter. After logging into your account, find your favorite product, and click on the red heart-shaped button to save it.

Extra Entries (optional): please make sure you do the required entry first! Please leave a separate comment for each extra entry, i.e. 1 comment=1 entry.

• Follow my blog publicly (1 extra entry)
  
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Giveaway ends at 11:59 Central Time on 7/10/09
Open to US & Canadian Residents.
Winner will be chosen using random.org and will have 72 hours to respond before a new winner is chosen.
Thanks for entering and good luck!