We have another fun Holiday Stationery giveaway today! This one comes from PosePrints – a great company that specializes in unique stationery that features not only your name & message – but your likeness too! You can design and preview your cards in real-time on their website!

This week at HWTM, PosePrints is offering up TWO sets of 50 Personalized Holiday Cards ($100 value each). The 2 winners can pick the PosePrints design of their choice.  Personalized holiday recipe cards are available too!

(More designs & details for HOW TO ENTER after the jump…)

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THERE ARE 2 WAYS TO ENTER (You can do just one or both!):

• Option 1: Post a comment here telling us about which PosePrints designs are your personal favorite(s).

• Option 2: Become a fan of PosePrints on Facebook.

• Giveaway ends Tuesday, November 24th at midnight PST. Winner is chosen randomly and will be announced here after they accept the prize. Good luck, everyone!!

• PosePrints is also offering ALL readers 10% off any order with promo code “HWTM“!

It’s that time of year again, so today’s Surprise Giveaway feels especially relevant… Just in time for the season, CardStore.com is offering up $100 Shopping Sprees towards their HUGE selection of personalized Holiday Cards and Thank You Cards to TWO hwtm readers! This should help out significantly with spreading the holiday cheer!

In the Holiday Cards Section, you’ll find everything from Christmas Photo Cards and Greeting Cards to Holiday Party Invitations. Pictured above and below are some personal favorites (there was so much great stuff to choose from I went a little crazy with the examples!)….

Several of the designs also come with coordinating pieces, so if you really like a certain party invitation you can also order thank you cards or photo cards to match. Pictured below: “Merry Chocolate” cards & invites by Amy Suther.

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HOW TO ENTER:
• Post a comment here telling us which design(s) from CardStore.com’s Holiday Cards and/or Thank You Cards you especially like or would love to send out.
• Giveaway ends Monday, November 16th at midnight PST. The 2 winners will be chosen randomly and announced here after they’ve accepted the prize. Good luck, everyone!!

These cut paper place cards / drink tags from Etsy shop JonNI Paper and Decorative Art are such a fun, creative way to dress up glasses and bottles!

The “LOVE” (available in Leaf, Bird, or Heart) and XOXO designs (pictured below) are perfect for weddings, bridal/engagement showers and Valentine’s Day… how cute would the bird version be for a Love Birds theme?!

Hosting friends & family for Thanksgiving? Check out these fantastic Turkey Place Cards:

Or maybe a New Year’s party is more your style? How about some cool & contemporary “2010″ Tags… perfect for bottles or party favors!

Seal it with a kiss… and a hug! Hugs & Kisses favor/bottle tags:

CHEERS!

Winner Update: This giveaway is now closed. Thanks so much to everyone that entered! And the randomly selected winner is… Commenter #240 – Stacey, who said, “I really like the HWTM SD-17. Those the aqua and brown together and cute design.” Congrats, Stacey!

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Fun new Surprise Giveaway for you today! This one comes from How Fast Time Flies, which is a fabulous digital scrapbooking website that carries cool designs for everything from baby books to wedding albums to memories of everyday life… there’s even a full HWTM collection (81 different templates) designed by yours truly. =)

This week, we’re offering up a $250 gift certificate to spend however you like at the How Fast Time Flies website… pages are $5.50 each, so $250 that should get you started on a fantastic memory album or two!

Featured here are a few examples of pages created using some of the Halloween and Autumn-themed HWTM templates.

(More examples + details for how to enter below)…

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HOW TO ENTER:

• Post a comment here mentioning one or more of the template designs at How Fast Time Flies that you especially love.

(You’re definitely not limited to the HWTM designs… choose whatever you like!  (but of course we won’t hold it against you if you just happen to love those! *wink*)

• Giveaway ends Monday, November 2nd at midnight PST. Winner is chosen randomly and will be announced after they’ve accepted the prize. Good luck!!

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P.S. There are multiple pages of designs in each category when you’re viewing the thumbnails. The “next page” link is under the last row of thumbnails and is easy to miss!

After discovering Paper Culture, I feel like I’ve died and gone to MODERN stationery heaven! Seriously… if you love stationery with a contemporary feel, take a peek at paperculture.com. The designs are so fresh and original; I can pretty much guarantee you’ll be stuck for a while!

Featured here are some favorites from the following categories: Baby Announcements, Adult Birthday, Kids Birthday, Baby Shower, Bridal Shower, and Personalized Stationery, and you’ll find lots more designs & occasions (including a fabulous Holiday Cards section) on their website.

Above: various designs from Adult Birthday. Below: Are these Baby Shower invites fantastic, or what?!  I’m especially loving the bold, bright color palettes (and the elephants!)…

Next up… Kids Birthday Party Invites. This extensive category is SO worth checking out to add a shot of cuteness to your day – even if you don’t have little ones of your own!

(BTW – the design in the bottom left-hand corner, above – Forest Party – would be perfect for a Woodland Forest birthday theme!)

Below: a few designs from the Bridal Shower section. Especially loving the “Owls in Love” design. You always see “love bird” designs, but how often do you see “love owls”? =)

And last but not least, here are some examples of the (many!) adorable Personalized Stationery designs:

Fore more eye candy, visit www.paperculture.com.

As the owner of 2 (ridiculously sweet & unabashedly spoiled) yellow Labs, I definitely fall into the “dog person” category, so anything cool that’s related to dogs usually catches my eye quite easily… such as these adorable Dog Adoption Announcements from (the newly re-designed) PolkaDotDesign.com.

These exclusive digital designs are all 2-sided, and they sport cute & contemporary design motifs like dog houses, bone silhouettes, and cool graphic patterns on both the front and back sides of the announcement. Clever phrases like “Bad to the Bone” and “Pawsitively Cute” add a playful touch too! Each design runs between $1.79 and $2.79 and you can even get perfectly-coordinating stickers & mailing labels to match!

A few more favorites – for both dog AND cat lovers – are pictured below:

I’m especially loving the clever “Cheese Please” cat announcement (top left design, below). Click here to check out all of the cat announcement designs.

And for those of you that want to throw your pup (or other pet) a party – there’s a whole collection of Pet Party Invites to check out too!

This week’s Surprise Giveaway should come in especially handy for those of you that love to (or have a need to) send out personalized greeting cards & announcements. Cards Direct is offering up a $100 shopping spree towards anything on their site – which includes general holiday cards, Christmas Cards, photo cards, birthday cards, super-cute baby announcements, and more!

There’s a huge range of styles on the site – from elegant to mod/contemporary… and even a lot of great recycled choices! A few of my favorites are pictured below.

Here are few of their adorable baby announcements… I’m especially loving the elephants!

Some great recycled designs for everyday & holiday…

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HOW TO ENTER THE GIVEAWAY:

• Post a comment here telling us which design(s) from the Cards Direct website you especially like – or would love to send out if you win.

• Giveaway ends Tuesday, July 21st at midnight PST. Winner is chosen randomly and will be notified Wednesday, July 23rd and announced here as soon as they accept the prize. Good luck!!

Winner update 7/13: This giveaway is now closed. Thanks so much to everyone that entered! And the lucky random winner is… commenter # 90 – Kristen Mantovani. Congrats, Kristen!

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Just in time for the holiday weekend, Magnet Street Weddings is back with another $175 Shopping Spree towards anything on their website! You’ll find everything from Save the Date Cards and Magnets to Holiday Cards, Thank You Cards, Party Favors, gorgeous Wedding Invitations, Labels, and more.

At Magnet Street Weddings, everything is completely customizable. Using their online design studio, you can change fonts, colors, photos, and text to make each design completely your own! A few favorites are pictured below, as well as details on how to enter the giveaway…

Pictured above: various  Save The Date Magnet designs. Pictured below: the pretty (and contemporary!) Birdies pocket wedding invitations.

Pictured below: Layered Magnetic Invitations in a sunny, orange & yellow Beautiful Gerber Daisies design…

HOW TO ENTER:
• Post a comment here  telling us which product from Magnet Street Weddings you especially like and what you’d change to make it your own – colors, fonts, etc. – or if you like it just as it is!

• Giveaway ends Friday, July 10th at midnight PST. Winner is chosen randomly and will be announced Monday, July 13th. Good luck, everyone!!

Etsy is such a great place to look for unique embellishments for your party! The Stock Paper Scissors shop is another great example. They offer adorable cupcake toppers/favor tags, coordinating banners/party hats (all custom), mini notecard sets (great for party favors!) and more great stuff.

I’m especially loving this fun Monster Mania design… and thinking they would be super cute for an Ugly Doll themed party!

Picture at top: Pink Dots & Birds cupcake toppers/party favor tags. Pictured below: cupcake-themed Birthday Party toppers/favors:

Stock Paper Scissors also carries a wide variety of cute hang tags/gift tags for all sorts of occasions. A few are pictured below – check them all out here.

Inside reads: “now and always”

I’ve definitely been having “one of those weeks” – so for anyone out there that can relate, hope this “Double Decker” letterpress card from Elum makes you smile too! (Or inspires you to send a similar message to someone you know that could use it right now!)