Giveaway Thursday: The Design Girl Stationery
I have been blessed that since starting this blog, companies will sometimes contact me offering me a product or service to try. If I like the product and I feel like it fits within the confines of things that I blog about, I will share my thoughts here. Oftentimes I will have the opportunity to bless one (or several) of you with a giveaway too. I love doing giveaways because it is a way for me to give back to YOU – the kind readers that come back here and have created such a sweet community. So, I am going to try to start doing my review/giveaway posts on Thursdays. These posts will be called Giveaway Thursday.
If reading a review/entering a giveaway is not your thing, then just ignore these posts. I won’t mind. (Of course, this won’t stop me from occasionally talking about other stuff that I love on other days, but you can count on Thursdays being giveaway days. Sound good?)
On to today’s giveaway…
Elias’s first birthday party is one month from today! When I blogged about planning Elias’s party, sweet Danielle (aka “The Design Girl”) contacted me and offered to design Elias’s invitations. And wow, did she do a great job. Check it out.
This design is a custom design because I bought the dragon graphic online (the theme is going to be built around that character and the blue, orange and green colors).
What I love about Danielle is that she is so easy to work with and so darn talented. With me working in marketing, I can be a bit particular about how things look, but she totally just goes with the flow.
In addition to being a fabulous blog designer, she has expanded her services to stationery and print design. For the inaugural Giveaway Thursday she is graciously offering a $25 credit on any print design. (Her stationery line is $25- for more pricing info click here) I love the children’s line!
The folks at PrintPlace offered to print the invitations for me, and I am so excited to see how they turned out. They should be arriving today – they got them done and shipped to me in less than a week, which is crazy fast. So, if you need a small print run and/or something done fast, check them out! You can also follow them on Twitter.
Several of you recommended going with an independent designer and an online printer, and I am so glad I did. It relieved a lot of stress for me.
I am hoping to get everything addressed and mailed by Saturday. Then I can turn my attention to the other details. I know it is going to be here before I know it!
Leave a comment about what type of stationery you would have Danielle design for you and I will select a winner Friday morning!
Good luck!
Update: The invitations did arrive and they look great – YIPPEE!
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My dd is turning 8 years old a few days before Halloween & I have promised her an amazing birthday/Halloween bash! 🙂 In fact, I have planning it since March! I would love to design some really fun invitations for her. 🙂
Thanks, Jessica!
amy
I would probably pick the same thing you are- birthday invites for my daughter’s birthday in December! I too am a December baby, so I know how it is to have a birthday so close to Christmas. I hope to make every year a special celebration for her! Thanks for the amazing giveaway!!!
I would love to have some business cards and a banner made up for my Etsy shop. Her designs are SO cute! Thanks for sharing this giveaway!
By the way, I’m doing a giveaway too that you might like – http://tjsmhanesfamily.blogspot.com/2009/05/thankful-thursdayand-my-100th-post.html
I really love the Bird Stripe note cards for our daughter, Audrey Loiuse. Thanks for the great ideas and the fantastic giveaway!
So many opportunities! I’m sure I could find a way to use some great stationary.
she’s very talented. i’d love some family address labels, but maybe some business cards for my blog and etsy though.
I love the daisy border note cards! Too cute.
I think I’d also have to go with birthday invitations for my daughter’s 4th b-day in August! Or maybe my other daughter’s first birthday in November? Hard to choose, she is very talented.
As a teacher I would love to have stationary to use to communicate with parents and other teachers!
Too many good ones to choose from! I would probably do either some stationary for myself or some cute address labels for our family!
The pandas are adorable. So very cute!
I am so excited for this Giveaway Thursdays! Danielle is so very talented — I am so glad she started a stationary line — simple and cute.
I would probably go with the Monogramed and or Business Cards! Can’t wait to see what she has coming in that area. All in all she is using her talent to bless others!
Oooo, my preschooler is turning 4 in August and for the last 6 months he has talked about nothing other than the “John Deere” cake he is going to have. He is obsessed with tractors and all things farm related. And I am planning on some kind of a farm/John Deere party theme – so personalized invitations would be perfection!
I need to be better at writing thank-you cards, I would love some personally designed cards from me!
Amy T.
It is such a good giveaway and that invitation is so adorable and very Elias! I can see this being on a scrap page on it’s own :-).
I would ask her to design my charity run cards or my 21st invitations for enxt year!
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that invite is adorable… can’t wait to see what you do with the rest of the party decorations!!! [i’m just assuming there will be photos :)]
Any stationary is fun! I like purple. That’s kind of my only criteria.
I would love to design some invitation for a my son…he will be turning 1 at the end of Sept.
Such a great giveaway!
Just yesterday I was thinking I need to get my invites out for my son’s 2nd birthday in July. He LOVES Curious George. Wouldn’t a little monkey cake and invite be SOOO cute!!! I would love to win!
-Amy
I would def pick the monkey stripe!! We are doing a monkey theme for my little girl’s second bday party in November (can you say obsessive planner?!) and these would be great thank-you notes!!!
I would have a baby announcement done!
Oh, I have been wanting some monogrammed note cards for a while, now, and I swooned over the Monogram Stripe #2. It’s right up my alley.
Thanks for the giveaway!
My little peanut is turning 1 in September so I would definitely use the credit for that 🙂
I would probably pick the “Personalized” one and have my name – “Ashley” with some cute picture on it – maybe of a dragonfly?? I think that would be cute! 🙂
yep, i agree … the children’s line is the best!
I would want thank you notes. I’m always writing them for something or other, and cute ones would be fun!
I think the striped monograms would make perfect “thank you” cards for my upcoming wedding. Even if I don’t win, I may have to order some!
Hi so much to choose from I think I would like some personalised family stationary or some address labels. I try to write a good old fashioned snail mail letter e=to friends every now and then.
Cheers Sally
I would love some address labels or the children’s stationary is adorable. Thanks for the giveaway.
I think I’d like some new personal stationary! I really like all her stuff!
I love stationery! I’d see if Design Girl could help me with some thank you masculine postcards. I find the males in my family are far more likely to fill out a small postcard than a very intimidating thank you card. I guess all that blank space is scary. 🙂
I love the truck stripe stationary!! Soo cute 🙂 Thanks for sharing this site…. Danielle is very talented!!
My daughter is turning one in August and I want to do a Dr. Seuss “whoo” theme…”guess whoo’s turning one?” would make a cute invite I thought. I would love love love to win this!!!!
Those invites are too cute! Have fun with your baby’s first birthday!
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I would love something with a US Navy theme. My husband has been serving in the Navy for over 18 years and we are so proud of our family. I would love something that represents that. We only have a few more years left til retirement.
I’m all about the striped monogram stationary! How fun!
these designs are adorable! i’d love personalized stationary for my boys for writing special notes to our out of town family. thank you jessica!
I would like to have some stationary for my daughter 5. The tree border is really cute!!!
Oh, my gosh! How cute! With a baby on the way in November, and my oldest’s birthday in July, I would love some of her cards for Saralynn. What a great way to make her feel so special!
I really like the Striped Monogram 1. I love gray and pink together and those cards just might motivate me to write some cards instead of just emailing everyone!
~Amy
My little man is turning 1 at the end of June. I would totally have some invites make (as I haven’t gotten so far as to design something yet).
I would probably have “calling cards” for my kids done for birthday gifts, etc. So cute!
I started following you shortly after Elias was born. . .
Please show updated monthly pics on his monkey chair–I did those with my youngest and I love them!
I use a lot of monogramed stationary these days. It just makes life easier. Butterflies are also nice.
What a great birthday design for Elias!
I would probably do address labels or one of the personal stationary designs.
Well, I would just have her design some pretty stationary for writing letters. I still enjoy getting “real” mail, so I know others must too!
All 3 of my girls were born within a few weeks of Christmas, and I always thought it would be fun (and keeping in the spirit of the season) to have a Christmas themed birthday party!!!
Thanks for all the great giveaways!!!
My 18 yr old is graduating from hs next weekend…she could benenfit form the striped monogram for thank you notes!
Awesome give-away!
Pamela in TX
My daughter is turning one in August and I am working on planning her big day right now and have not come across any invitations I am excited about. I would LOVE custom invites for her party since she will be meeting a lot of my husband’s side of the family for the first time that day. Plus we just found out we are expecting again in December (on the 26th actually) so I may have to see about birth announcements too!! 🙂
Thanks for this awesome giveaway opportunity!!
WOW. I don’t know if I could pick a fav from her designs- they’re all so cute! But if I had known about this a bit sooner, I would have totally used the design girl to do my grad announcements. I actually ended up designing my own with photoshop and what little design capabilities I have, but I’m sure her design would have been a thousand times better!
So many amazing people have followed me through this battle with endometrial carcinoma. I am finally (after many, many insurance related delays) scheduled for surgery this coming month. I would dearly love to create a beautiful card to send out to all of the people who have supported myself and my husband through this- especially my church family, without whom this surgery would literally not be happening; when my husband was laid off we lost our health coverage with one day’s notice, and the church had a benefit for us and the premiums are now paid until the end of the year.
I can’t believe Elias is ONE, almost! It truly does seem like just yesterday that I found your blog from Angie’s, and she was giving us video updates about the delivery. And then seeing those wonderful, special first hours and days as you and M. transitioned into a family before our very eyes…what a privilege for us to be able to share in something so incredibly special.
So proud of how you’ve grown in the past year…simply from an “outside looking in” perspective, I can see that you have advanced in so many ways…creatively, as a writer and an artist, as a spouse- I see you really blossoming into the role of “partner”, and in too many other ways to list.
In closing…pick me, pick me! 😉
Liz
I would probably have her design a monogrammed set for me. I got married two years ago and would love to have a set with my “new” initials, but as it goes with most newlyweds– can’t afford them right now! 🙂 Patience is a virtue!
I love Elias’ invitations. How precious! 🙂
How fun! I would probably have her design my little one’s birthday party invitations, it’s her first birthday this August!
I think her monogrammed stationary is really cute!