The oversized dimensions of the Chesapeake Boulevard Card by Giftsin24 make this single panel card an especially unique gift.

Looking for a little taste of luxury? Four words: personalized embossed cotton stationery.

Whether you are buying a gift for a close friend, want to thank an important client, or simply want to indulge yourself, you can’t go wrong with our cotton stationery embossed with a name or monogram. These high quality, classic papers can be used for any occasion and are always “in style.” In fact, you’ll enjoy their elegant look and smooth, sturdy feel.

Remember, giftsin24 is the leading producer of embossed social stationery in the U.S. Our cotton papers are the same high quality papers you find at Crane’s, but at lower prices. Plus, like all our stationery, our cotton papers …

• include color-matched envelopes
• arrive wrapped in tissue, affixed with a seal and nestled in a champagne gift box
• get shipped in 24 hours
• arrive FREE with FedEx Ground Shipping a few days later
• are guaranteed to be perfect, or we will gladly replace it (though we have a 99.8 percent accuracy rate, so odds are, your order WILL be perfect.)

5 Favorite Embossed Cotton Products

Avenue Card  Command the attention of your colleagues, clients or business associates with the embossed cotton Avenue Card. These single-panel cards come with 50 envelopes. Try your name on the top left line and your title below. Add an embossed return address, which is free this month (September 2014), on the envelopes for extra polish. Be sure to choose the 100% cotton option. 

Banner Card  Impressive & classic! The thick, creamy paper feels smooth and substantial in hand, and the name confidently announces itself in upper-case lettering. Be sure to choose the 100% cotton option.

Firenze Monogram Card in Cotton Paper features a flowing monogram embossed with crisp edges that you expect from Giftsin24.

Firenze Monogram Note  European flair meets American ingenuity in this elegantly designed folded note. Not your average script style, the Firenze Monogram Note adds a new twist to a traditional look. Be sure to choose the 100% cotton option. 

Capital Note  Simply charming! Make a warm first impression with the Capital Note. Your beautifully embossed, flowing initial appears above your embossed name. A crisp border frames the whole arrangement. The quality of the embossing and detailed design make this folded note special. Your choice of white or ivory paper. Be sure to choose the 100% cotton option. 

Chesapeake Boulevard Card The oversized dimensions of our Chesapeake line meet the elegance and sophistication of our cotton paper! Enjoy a taste of luxury with these beautifully embossed single-panel cards. And don’t worry, our Chesapeake stationery still fits within the US Postal Service’s requirements for a first-class stamp. Be sure to choose the 100% cotton option. 

After the logo was designed on paper, it was created as digital vector art.

You know how you feel when you get a new haircut or a new suit, or even when you paint your bedroom a new color? You have that exciting sense of feeling refreshed and pulled-together and that, finally, everyone is able to see the real you. That’s how we feel about our new logo for Giftsin24. Have you noticed it?

Ryan Monahan, Giftsin24 designer, and Richard Pauling, Giftsin24 president and owner, worked together to design the new logo. We talked to Ryan to get the inside scoop on what went into designing the new logo, its typography and what’s next.

G24: What was your main goal with the new design?
Ryan: We wanted to update our logo without straying too far from the original design. We knew we wanted to use a serif typeface (the kind with “hooks” at the ends of the letters) and we wanted it to reflect an older, Roman typeface. To me, this logo looks literary and traditional. It implies learning and education. You might see this kind of lettering on a bookstore window.

An early version of the logo shows Ryan’s thought process as he crafted the new lettering

G24: Tell us about how you designed the new logo?
Ryan: We made the lettering here in-house. We established the main concept relatively quickly. Then it took a little longer to decide on the silhouette and polish it. In total, I hand drew about 20 different concepts and variations on paper. Next, we converted it to vector art, so we could use it on the website. A vector image is made up of tiny points. Most logos are vector art, so that you can blow it up as large as a billboard or shrink it to the size of a business card, but it won’t lose quality. On the other hand, pixels make up a raster image (like a cell phone photograph), and that image loses quality quickly if you try to make it larger.

We G24: Anything special about its characteristics?
Ryan: I made it a point to include ligatures: those are typically two adjacent characters that are joined together. When you write the word little, you might use a ligature to connect the two t’s. Here, three letters join, the F, T and S, which is a bit unusual and unique. Another thing you might notice is that the lettering is fairly vertical. You can see this especially in the G. The letter G can be very round and bulbous. We made ours more condensed, more vertical. We also condensed the numerals 2 and 4 in this way. Finally, a dot above the letter i is called a tittle. We put it uncharacteristically low, very close to the top of the i. We like that style.

G24: What’s next?
Ryan: This new iteration retained the same brown and navy colors of our old logo, but we have been discussing changing the logo colors at some point, but I’ll let that be a surprise.

Animal Embossed Napkin

Do you know someone who is having a baby? Are you planning a baby shower for a friend, family member or co-worker? If so, Giftsin24 has adorable personalized napkins for any shower or party.

Whether you’re planning a baby girl shower, baby boy shower, or a gender reveal shower, you have countless choices. Today’s new moms are sophisticated and stylish, and their baby showers are more upscale than in the past. Themes are popular, such as rustic/western, vintage, nautical and glam. And don’t forget the “sprinkle” for the experienced mom-to-be, or the “sip and see” get-together for after baby has arrived. These are all great opportunities to express your party-giving flair.

Have fun with it! Order personalized napkins from Giftsin24 to coordinate with your theme. We have cute and fun designs to choose from, including baby animal, circus, pram, flower and lollipop. You can choose an embossed or foil-pressed text, paper color and foil color.

3 Favorite Baby Shower Napkin Choices

Animal Foil Pressed Napkin for a baby shower or other baby themed parties

• Toddler Foil Pressed Napkin – There’s plenty of room for the child’s name, birth date and one more line. Choose among several motifs, including train, rocking horse, crown, stars and moons, baby carriage, rocket and paper airplane.
• Animal Embossed Napkin A variety of adorable baby animals highlights this playful design, perfect for the baby animal theme shower. Choose among several motifs, including bear, lion, giraffe, elephant, deer, monkey, duck and squirrel. Embossed or Raised Ink.
• Serenity Napkin – A bold single initial with two lines of text displays the new baby’s name or a cute phrase.

Browse our selection on Giftsin24.com and order yours today. Most orders ship in 24 hours.

Create lunchbox love notes with our personalized stationery. Shown here are two kinds of gift enclosures, Festive and Executive.

You’ve made the sandwich, added an apple and filled up the water bottle. What’s left? How about tucking in a small token of your love: a lunchtime note from mom or dad. You can create lunchbox love notes easily and affordably at Giftsin24.com.

All grade schoolers, especially the kindergartners and first-graders  venturing to school for the first time, look forward to opening a lunch box and enjoying treats from home. And when there’s a little love note from mom or dad in there, well…it makes lunchtime even more fun!

Including a lunchtime note is a beautiful ritual that you can enjoy throughout the years. Include a small joke, a sweet message of encouragement, or reminders to “eat your veggies!”

Giftsin24.com offers all kinds of stationery you can personalize for this purpose, from notepads to gift enclosures to our line of children’s stationery. Try “Note from Daddy” or “Hello Honeybun” or other nickname, or “Lunchtime Love.” And remember, if you want more than 50 of the gift enclosures or children’s notes, you can order the second (or third) set at a discount.

Gift Enclosures

The Highland Gift Enclosure features a more casual script. Personalize it with a choice of 8 vivid ink colors.  Fifty envelopes come with the 25 enclosures.

Notepads & Memo Squares

The Aviator Memo Square  offers two lines to play with. The colored paper adds a happy touch to lunch time.

The Heart Square is another memo square that features a cute heart design and one line of personalization.

Personalize the front Gaiety Note with a few loving words to set a happy tone at lunchtime.

Youthful Notes

We have a wide variety of stationery featuring youthful lettering styles, such as our Sguiggle Note and Color Me Oversized Note. Your little ones will enjoy the happy letters that march along the front, and inside, you’ll have plenty of room to write.

The calendar may say August, but that back to school time is right around the corner. Organize yourself and your family for the year ahead. Our personalized tablets, memos or cards makes it easy. Whether you’re a teacher planning your day, a mom organizing your family, or a recent grad off to your first year away, we have the stationery to help you stay focused.

Products That Help You Get Organized

The Apple Memo Square is perfect for your favorite teacher. 275 personalized memo squares in an acrylic holder will be a welcome addition to any educator’s desk.

The Carnival Anthony Tablet Set makes going back to school fun.

For the student who needs to stay on top of assignments and deadlines, the Organize by Day Slab or Organize by Week Slab is the perfect tool. They offer plenty of room to write down all your tasks and goals. One glance at your sheet will help you stay on track throughout the day. The Anthony 7 Tablets with Holder features an exclusive, modern lettering on a set of seven notepads. Simply supply a name and choose from one of eight matte ink colors. It’s a unique gift or an attractive accessory for your own desk. A white-wrapped textured linen holder keeps the set neat and organized.

Back to school time offers fresh opportunities for students and teachers alike. Help them be their best with fun, personalized and affordable stationery.

Vicky, who runs our printing facility, enjoys working on the thermography machine.

Ever wonder how our raised ink stationery is printed? We take great pride in creating crisp, vivid, highly textured printing that’s as luxurious to feel as it is eye-catching to see.

We create our raised ink printing through a technical process called “thermography.” Vicky, who manages the Giftsin24 printing facility, explained the process. Out of all the equipment in our state-of-the-art factory, the thermography machine is Vicky’s favorite one to work on. She enjoys the magic of the process and the vibrant, shiny results.

“First, we print your name onto the paper,” explains Vicky. “While the inked image is still wet, we spread a colored plastic powder onto it. The conveyor belt carries the paper through equipment that bakes the image at high heat for a few seconds. The ink and powder melts together to form a raised image.”

Example: Anthony Family Pride Note

Some of our products feature just a touch of raised ink; others go all out.

The Anthony Family Pride Note is a delight to touch because of the abundance of raised ink printing.

One of our favorites that pulls out all the stops is the Anthony Family Pride Note.  The texture of the raised-ink names, bullets and border makes this note a delight to touch and hold. Like most of our raised ink products, you can choose from among our 10 raised-ink colors. A young,  close-knit family would love this gift.

Do you have a favorite raised ink product at Giftsin24? Leave a comment in the box below to tell us about it!

Throughout our lives people we love get hurt or sick. A handwritten note expressing our concern and wishes for recovery will mean so much to the recipient. It shows that we’re thinking about them and we’ve taken the time to let them know. Writing a get well soon message is not complicated.

5 Tips

• Be positive and upbeat. This is not a formal letter, so express yourself naturally.
• If the letter is going to a friend or family member, you could bring up something that you both experienced or shared. This will make your message more personal.
• Let them know you miss them, and perhaps offer a specific example.
• A humorous anecdote or good news is always welcome and will lighten the mood.
• Reassure them of your support and assistance.

Dear Elizabeth,
I was so sorry to hear that you’ve been under the weather recently. I certainly hope that you’ll be back up and feeling like yourself again soon. We really miss your sense of humor around here at the office — not to mention your homemade cookies.
I hope that you’ll get plenty of rest and feel better soon. Please let me know if there’s anything at all that I can do for you to make things easier. I’d be happy to go to the grocery store or run an errand for you. Don’t hesitate to call me if there’s something I can do for you. Wishing you a speedy recovery!
Sincerely,

Don’t procrastinate — write your get well message in a timely manner. They’ll appreciate your sincere and genuine interest in their well-being.

Writing a heartfelt get well message for someone, whether family, friend, colleague or co-worker, is a thoughtful and considerate gesture. They’ll greatly appreciate and remember your thoughtfulness.

Handwritten letters from all over the world

Here at Giftsin24.com, we love to write letters. Who doesn’t love the surprise of finding a handwritten envelope at your mail slot? We’ve dug up some cool letter writing websites and blogs to inspire you.

Who knows? You may find your next pen pal.

This beautiful site takes nominations for people in need of a bundle of love letters from strangers. You can propose someone you know, or you can write a letter to someone in need www.moreloveletters.com

The London-based blog Positively Postal collects letters from all around the world. Consider sending in one of your own: www.positivelypostal.co.uk/around-the-world-in-letters

Snail Mail My Email is a worldwide collaborative art project where volunteers hand write strangers’ emails and send physical letters to the intended recipients, free of charge. http://snailmailmyemail.org

International Pen Friends supplies people with penpals worldwide since 1967. www.ipf.net.au

Thank a deployed service member or veteran through the Operation Gratitude website: www.operationgratitude.com/get-involved/write-letters/

The blog Lovely Handwritten Notes asks for letters and sends them out, no questions asked. http://lovelyhandwrittennotes.tumblr.com/contact.info

Do you have favorite letter writing websites or blogs? Include them in the comments section and we’ll consider them for our next blog on this topic.

Customize the Classic Monogram Bordered Card with a monogram or colored border that matches your wedding colors

The new wedding dishes have found a home in your kitchen. The wedding photos are on their way. And memories of your blissful honeymoon are fresh in your mind. Now what? Have you written your first wedding thank you note yet?

It might be time to tackle that pile of thank you notes you owe to your family and friends. The simple act of handwriting a thoughtful note will be a meaningful memento to them. They put in a lot of effort to help you celebrate. Taking the time to write a beautiful thank you note speaks volumes about the type of person you are and the kinds of relationships you’ll maintain for the rest of your life.

So, find your favorite pen. Choose some beautiful stationery and consult your gift list. Then start writing.

1. The Basic Format for the Wedding Thank You Note

The typical format for a wedding thank you note usually goes like this:

Salutation.

First line: thank them for the gift–be sure to name it. If it’s money, avoid naming the amount. The words “generous gift” will suffice.

Second line: tell them how you plan to use it, or some way that you admire or appreciate it.

Third line: thank them for their friendship or support or for coming to your event

Close. (Be sure both bride and groom sign each note.)

Simple, right?

2. Beyond the Basics

Move beyond these basics when writing to people especially close to you, or those who put extra thought and care into the gift. Perhaps you can keep these people on a separate “short list.” Add a few lines that acknowledge the generosity of parents who footed some of the wedding expenses. Praise the thoughtfulness of an aunt who created a beautiful handmade quilt out of your childhood clothes. Thank a friend who traveled across the country to be there for your big day.

The Sienna Monogram Note features a flowing, elegant monogram. It makes a beautiful wedding thank you note.

3. Add a Small Token

You might also choose to share a small object or additional lines of writing that are meaningful to you. You might tuck in a favorite recipe you discovered at a restaurant on your  honeymoon. Include a special quote from a parent’s toast or a lyric from your first dance. Try slipping in seeds of your favorite tree or fruit or vegetable. Perhaps you might slide in a wedding photo of you and the person you are thanking.

4. Choose Lovely Stationery with a Couple’s Monogram

May we suggest writing your thank you notes on single panel cards or folded notes featuring a beautifully embossed “couple’s monogram”? Your shared last name initial takes the center spot. Her first initial is on the left, his first initial is on the right.

Here are some of our favorites:

Henley Traditional Monogram Note  Simple & tasteful. Thank-you notes folded in white or ivory paper never go out of style. A perennial top-seller, our Henley Traditional Monogram Note features a flowing, embossed script for a timeless look. Ships in 24 hours.

A couple’s monogram features the shared last initial in the center, her first initial on the left and his first initial on the right.

Classic Frame Monogram Note   Giftsin24 features stationery by the top producer of embossed social stationery in the U.S., and this folding note is one reason why. You have to see and feel it in your hand to understand it: crisp, deeply impressed borders and gracefully winding letters lend elegant formality, while creamy, thick paper provides weight and consequence. Offered in traditional white or ivory with matching envelopes.

Classic Monogram Bordered Card   Fashions come and go, but the Classic Monogram Bordered Card is always in style. Featuring a beautifully rendered monogram in your choice of 10 raised-ink colors and a bold border in your choice of 6 colors, this card offers a multitude of options from which to create your signature look for your wedding thank you note. Try navy ink on white paper for a classic feel. If you like your stationery to match your morning latte, try the mocha ink on ivory paper. As with all our notes and cards, 50 matching envelopes are included. Optional lined envelopes make this stationery set even more yummy.

When planning a wedding or special occasion party, no detail is unimportant. That includes the table settings and color-coordinated accessories. Choosing the right flowers, décor, silver and glassware makes all the difference between bland and beautiful. Why should your special occasion napkins be any different? Just because they’re functional doesn’t mean they can’t be just as pretty as the table linens and place settings. Your own personalized napkins or guest towels will add a touch of elegance to any event.

Our special occasion napkins and guest towels are the perfect accent for any event. Many people use our napkins for a wedding, anniversary, shower, birthday, retirement or special occasion party. Made of soft, 3-ply material, there are 27 napkins colors and 15 foil colors to choose from. You can select from monogram, single initial, multiple-line personalization, and unique lettering styles.

Many Beautiful Choices in Special Occasion Napkins

The embossed script monogram is a classic.

For an elegant, understated look, the Serenity foil-pressed napkin is perfect. Two lines of personalization beneath a large single initial make the ideal wedding or anniversary napkin. A Silver Leaf Framed Monogram napkin is always a classic choice as well.

For something a little more whimsical, choose the Joyous napkins. These napkins are available with multiple lines of text and let you tell everyone why you’re celebrating.  Joyous is also available in guest towels, so you can feature your theme throughout your celebration.

At Giftsin24, we know that every celebration is important. Whether you prefer the classic style of an embossed monogram or the shimmer of foil-pressed lettering, you’ll find the perfect napkin to suit your taste. And with our 24-hour turnaround, you can rest assured that your order will always be there in time.