Bethany

You make some good points. Buying for a couple is usually pretty hard, especially since a lot of the time you are closer to and know one of them better than the other one. It’s very easy to either fall into the trap of giving a gift that’s meant more for one of them than the other, or to play it safe and give a generic gift like a gift card.

On a side note, I hate gift cards. They’re so pointless! All they are is cash with restrictions on where you can spend it. They don’t take much more thought than just giving cash, either, so there’s really no point in giving them as a gift.

Anyway, I think a stationery gift set definitely is a good gift. Since it’s got both of their names on it, it very clearly signifies that “this is for both of you to use,” and it’s a flexible enough gift that they can use it however they want. Each can use the stationery for their own things, or they can use it to communicate with each other if they prefer (I think that’s very romantic, personally).

Isabel Gutierrez

Stationery gift sets with both peoples’ names on them make a great gift, especially for newlyweds. It may not be on the wedding registry, but I can vouch that seeing your and our spouse’s names together like that is something you can not get enough of, especially when it’s new. Most people I know would love to have something like this as a great couple’s gift.

Couples’ personalized stationery is the epitome of the gift you don’t know you need until you receive it, and then you wonder what you ever did without it.

Henry B Springs

If you think of your Personalized Memopads as your life in stationery you’ll be pleasantly surprised how you come to realize what type of effect your messages, communications have on other people and what type of effect theirs have on you. In many instances what you write can be come as timeless as photographs and you can only add to photographs with original insights, comments, messages or reminders. We offer 88 Personalized Notepads that can indeed enliven your life with rainbows of colors, hues, inks and identities, not to mention the words you write. They can become the basic ingredients to your own personal photo album for how you to present, connect and acknowledge all the more important elements of your life as they connect to other peoples lives around you. Family & Friends Tablets, Crest Desk Tablets, Adams Agendas, Jolly Memo and Carnival Tablets are just a few ways your words and intentions that become like photographs, sending one of a kind, unique, original messages that are captured in a moment on just one Personalized Memo Pad.

” A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense.”

Writer: Ansel Adams

Elizabeth Anderson

I think personalized notepads with photos printed onto them like this have a lot of potential for interesting design. You can do a lot of things with that. It’s a much fancier way of personalizing your notes than the old “from the desk of” method, although there’s nothing wrong with that either. I agree that if the photo were too big, it would ruin the usefulness of the notepad, but I don’t think that’s going to be a problem. The Giftsin24 designers know what they’re doing, and from the picture it looks like that was taken into account in the design and solved before it could become a problem. Good job!

Jonathan Price

I like this design for a personalized notepad with a personal photo on it! It seems like this business gets more competitive all the time, and I’m glad to see my favorite personalized stationery store is still coming up with new ideas to keep up with the competition. This is a great idea, and I look forward to seeing what I can do with it. Time to go searching for some photos!

Henry B Springs

Family photo albums house memories that last for many years. If you start early you have a record in pictures for many years to come. To coin a very memorable phrase, “the Kodak’ moment is surely recognizable in the review of pictures that chronicle your family members, friends and relations at different periods of their lives. They make a statement in pictures, rather than in words, where you have been and perhaps where you are going. Pictures are definitely a personal statement that can make a statement more meaningful, more representative of your own brand identity. With the introduction of our family photo collection your photo along with your Personalized Stationery message can make “your photo worth a thousand words.” Now you can upload your favorite family photo onto a stationery format for a custom creation in eleven formats with Navy, Black, Red, Emerald, Tropic, Fuchsia, Mocha, Purple and more. Check out our new Family Photo Stationery and make the best choice to represent you, your family and the colors of your lives.

” To photograph is to hold one’s breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality.” At that moment mastering an image becomes “a great physical and intellectual joy.”

Writer: Henri Cartier-Bresson

Isabel Gutierrez

I think the biggest reason why I don’t look through digital photo albums quite as much is because I don’t see a physical reminder of them, the way I do with a photo album on the shelf. Yes, having the ability to go to the computer and instantly pull up thousands of photos is convenient, but there’s so much else to do when I’m at the computer that I forget about photos many times. I could get some digital picture frames I suppose, but I don’t really have any experience with those.

Putting photos on your personalized stationery seems like a good idea though. It helps you get some use out of those photos, and really puts the “personal” back in “personalized.” This is a big step forward in stationery, and I definitely think it’s a great one.

Isabel Gutierrez

I agree all around. Using personalized paper, cards, and napkins is a way to put a little more effort, and by doing to a little more life, into everything. Personalized napkins at a party catch the eye. Personalized paper makes the material written on it feel a little more special, no matter what it is. Personalized cards really make the recipient feel like the sender is conveying some meaningful sentiment, not just performing a rote action dictated by tradition. It’s odd but it’s true, that personalized stationery in all forms helps to make life a little more special.

Ray Williams

Yeah, I guess it’s true of all kinds of personalized stationery products. They stand out. If you use them, they help you stand out. If that in itself isn’t a good enough reason to send people personalized thank you cards, or use cool personalized napkins at your next party, then there’s also the fact that these things create goodwill with the people you share them with. Nobody is ever going to think less of you because you wrote them a message on personalized paper. If anything, it will be the opposite. Plus it’s a chance to show off your good taste, and who doesn’t like that?

Hilma Conger

It’s 100% true. Personalized paper products make a stronger impression. Try it yourself if you don’t believe it’s true. Have a party with your friends, and buy some paper napkins at your local grocery store, or a party supply store if you want something a little less plain. Take note of how people react and whether they notice the napkins you bought.

Then order yourself some personalized napkins from right here at GiftsIn24.com. Take a few minutes to really find a type that matches your style, personalize them to your heart’s content, and place the order. A few weeks after the last party, have another one but this time use those personalized napkins. I will bet you that you get more compliments on those, that they are noticed more and better appreciated than whatever you bought at your local store.

stationeryfan811

I agree with this completely. Personalized thank you notes are an important way to show your appreciation and gratitude when people do nice things for you.

My way of looking at it is, if you can’t be bothered to send a thank you note when I do something nice for you, I can’t be bothered to do something nice for you the next time. It’s more than just insensitive not to send a note, it’s downright rude. And while opinions differ on whether an email or text is enough (in my opinion it’s not), you should always go the extra mile when it come to sending a thank you message, in my opinion. Which is more memorable, an email or a personalized card? Obviously the card, so that’s what you should do if you’re really thankful for something.

Isabel Gutierrez

I agree with Jeff. When someone gives you a gift, interviews you for a job, helps you move, or does some other nice thing for you, then you should send them a personalized card thanking them for it. It’s just good manners. Yes, you can meet the minimum requirements of decency and just use some cheap store-bought card that has barely anything printed on it, but that kind of card shows just how much (or should I say, how little) you really think of what that person did for you. A personalized thank you card, on the other hand, really does make them feel special, and I can just about guarantee they will feel better about doing something nice for you in the future after receiving one.

Henry B Springs

Gratitude is something that should never be misunderstood. Throughout life we play several roles and we are recipients of roles the people in our lives play. In every aspect of our personal and private lives we are connected to branches of people that are connected to others. These relationships often interweave, intertwine and often grow into something akin to a tree, something you and your constituents will identify as your life and others will recognize as the impression you made with it. We often reflect on those memorable moments in our lives when we are made aware of the large and small things people do on our behalf and those we do on theirs in the name of gratitude, thank you, just two small words that have come to mean so much. Most people realize when someone has gone above and beyond their normal duty. The action elicits a smile, a warm glow, a kind thought usually kind words that are returned. When the thought crosses our minds to take action we respond with a “thank you.” Our whole philosophy is built on the action of that thank you being more meaningful to you. A response where you don’t hesitate to respond with a tangible act of kindness with your choice of Personalized Card or Note. Most of the time you’ll send a Classic Frame Monogram, Traditional Monogram, Classic Monogram, Bordered, Large Monogram Note, California Classic Frame and Geneva Monogram Notes. Only a few choices make Personalized Monograms worth giving.

“In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.”

Writer: Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Paulette Leto

Personally, I don’t know how monograms can ever go out of style. What cooler way is there to render your initials and mark your ownership of something? I sure don’t know any!

When it comes to personalized stationery, I think the monogram acts like your personal symbol. It has different significance than your signature, and it’s definitely a cool way to represent yourself. Putting your monogram on personalized stationery is like a cool way of signalling that “hey, this is me, this is my cool style, now you should pay attention to what I wrote.” It definitely adds to the coolness of the stationery, I think.

Maxine

It’s nice that monograms are making a comeback. Also, it’s interesting to get this historical perspective on them. I enjoy when Giftsin24 gives us a little history lesson with our weekly blogs.

Monogrammed stationery is definitely cool. It’s fun to send out letters written on it. I think Paulette is right that it’s like a personal symbol for you, kind of like your trademark almost.

Ashleigh316

So back in the Civil War days, monograms were more about practicality than being stylish? Or at least they served both purposes, from the sound of it.

If the original purpose of monograms was to signify ownership by having your initials on something, how did we make the jump to monogrammed stationery? After all, if I send you a letter on monogrammed stationery, the monogram isn’t there to say “I own this piece of paper,” it’s to display my initials in a stylish way and signify that this came from me. How did we go from one purpose to the other, I wonder?

stationeryfan811

Can we all agree that personalized stationery is the best use for monograms? I think we can.

I think it’s cool that monograms have had all kinds of uses historically, and acted as a personal symbol and all that. It gives them a very rich tradition and imbues the initials with a lot of meaning. I think receiving monogrammed stationery really has a little extra bit of personal significance because of all that.

Jeff Harvey

It’s definitely time to start thinking about Mother’s Day, even with several weeks yet to place your orders and find the right gift. Having given personalized stationery as a Mother’s Day gift, I can vouch that it is indeed well received. I think I am going to do something else for her this year though, because my mother still has some of that stationery and probably doesn’t need any more just yet. I am definitely going to send her a great personalized card, and probably take her out to dinner, but I’m still thinking of something more I could do. It only comes around once a year, after all.

stationeryfan811

Not only is personalized stationery a great idea for a Mother’s Day gift, it could well be the greatest possible Mother’s Day gift! Sure, it’s not as fancy as buying her a new pair of earrings and it doesn’t cost as much money as taking her to some fancy restaurant, but it’s more than those things. Personalizing stationery for your mother shows that you know what she likes, that you understand her style (maybe she even passed it on to you), and that you have been paying attention for all these years. It opens a line of communication between you and her that you can both use to tell each other important, heartfelt things. Of course you will want to thank her on Mother’s Day (and hopefully a lot more often than just that one day too), but any nice message you give is amplified by being written on awesome personalized stationery. It makes anything you write even more personal, and more of a keepsake. You will write her messages that she will cherish and treasure for the rest of her years, and she will probably give you some written wisdom that you will be glad to have down the line as well. It’s the perfect gift, I really believe.

Henry B Springs

April showers bring May flowers and rough winds do shake the buds of May and it’s been a whole year since you contemplated what to get your mother for Mother’s Day. Why not do something different this year, try something practical and sincere, something like the gift of Personalized Stationery that will stay with her throughout the year. For whatever mood she’d like to send a message with, for whatever way she’d like to customize an intention, a thought, a thank you, an invitation, a reminder and a response we’ve got the perfect Personalized Card or Note for her to make a statement by. Select from 137 of our Best Selling Cards and Notes. There are almost as numerous as choices for spring flowers. Why not send a bouquet of flowers or her favorite perfume along to brighten up her day. Whatever way she chooses to make a personalized statement will surely brighten up the receiver’s day. Classic Frame Notes, Traditional Monogram, Classic Monogram, Mirador and Classic California Nonogram are just some of the ways she can let her personal touch shne.

” God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.” There fore Personalized Stationery will go where it is sent……..

Writer: Jewish Proverb

Jonathan Price

I need to do something different this year. I gave my mom some wonderful personalized stationery last year, and she absolutely loved it of course. But I feel like even as great a gift as that is, giving it two years in a row would be kind of lame. So I need to find a way to up my game. Do I get a different kind of personalized stationery? Do I get a stationery gift set? Maybe write an extra special note in a personalized card instead? I’m just not sure. All of them are good approaches. Thankfully I’ve got a bit of time to think about it.

Henry B Springs

Cocktails are always a wonderful way to celebrate the arrival of spring. If you don’t feel in tip, top condition for the new shorts, halter tops and latest swim wear why not come as you are to a typical spring cocktail. Diane Von Furstenburg debuted her new line of cocktail dresses some time ago, have you had a chance ta see them. Our Best Selling Personalized Napkins and Towels run a range from 110 Personalized Napkins and Personalized Guest Towels. Foil Monogrammed Napkins, Whitlocked Monograms, Elsie Foil Stamped, Brittany Foil Stamped, Metro Foil, Embossed Strasbourg, Champagne Holiday and Circle Foil Stamped Monogram are just a few styles that can make a one of a kind event in thirty original colors and fourteen foil stamps. Choose among a wide variety of traditional spring cocktails: April Rain, Green Grape Glacier, Green Lemonade, Income Tax Cocktails and much, much more. Have you chosen the date and sent out invitations for your spring cocktail party yet?

” I don’t think ‘Cocktail’ was a perfect critical success, but it touched a vein in our culture. ”

Writer: Elisabeth Shue

Henry B Springs

Spring fever cocktails, the phrase that captures the moment. Picture inventive little concoctions, alcoholic or non alcoholic, seductively sweet paired with a variety of appetizers? What are you thinking about offering. Regardless of whatever selection of cocktails you choose to present for your spring soiree, it would be most advantageous to try and coordinate your choices around a vibrant color, recognizable design or motif that friends, family and associates will ultimately come to recognize, something like any one of our 21 New Personalized Guest Towels and Napkins. Let them create a unique pulse point while the combination of food, folks and fun personally signaturize. Blissful Color Mist, Pearl Color Mist, Declaration, Expresssion, Luxe, Blissful, Elise Foil Stamped and Paris Foil Stamped will surely make a statement with any spring cocktail, classic or modern. Spring Fever is a mocktail that is best with fresh fruit juices: apple, lemon, blood orange and mango syrup. A cocktail by any other mixture is still a refreshing way to begin or end an event.

” I like to drink martinis. Two at the most. Three I’m under the table, four I’m under the host. ” Does it sound like your cocktail party?

Writer: Dorothy Parker

Mary Beth

Welcome Andria! I knew I’d get you on here eventually. This is indeed where all my personalized party napkins come from. Also those nice personalized cards I sent out around the holidays last year. It’s really a fantastic store. And the blogs are a good read as well.

Henry B Springs

Mother’s Day occurs once a year. It is a annual holiday designated and celebrated on the second Sunday in May, May 12th 2013. It is uniquely American invention like Strauss, Lauren, Wang, Jacobs, Spade or Klein. It is not modeled after earlier tributes to mothers and motherhood that have occurred in Greek, Christian and Roman culture, the idea was born in 1868 by a woman named Ann Jarvis. She rallied to set aside a day to honor the role, the duty and the gift of motherhood bestowed upon us by all mothers. The first Mother’s Day was celebrated in 1908 and organized by her daughter Anna Jarvis when she held a memorial for her mother. That first Mother’s Day celebration proved to be a contagious success, quickly adopted by other cultures and countries. Have you chosen a Mother’s Day gift. Has an idea dawned on you yet? Why not try something different, uniquely personal that will help you make and your mother make a statement. Personalized Stationery is just one gift that will be a constant reminder to her and how Personalized Papers, Cards and Memo Pads can move mountains.

Messages, thoughts, ideas, correspondences, invitations, reminders, celebrations and special occasions are all the ways you want to let your personality shine: Give the gift that will let your mom’s personality shine. Consider any of our 88 Best Selling Notepads: Anthony, 7 Tablets, Executive Tablets, Billboard Desk Slabs, Family and Friends Tablets and Adams Agenda Sets. One message may not move mountains but it can surely make and keep friends……

Henry B Springs

What’s in a Monogram, what’s in a name by any other name, is it still the same? We tend to think so until we are introduced to printed bold, bright and personal Monogrammed Cards and Notes. Personalized Monogrammed Cards and Notes go above and beyond the ordinary, the necessary and beyond the light gesture, the obligatory thank you, the perfectly normal reminder or personalized invitation that looks just like the rest. We offer a large variety of Monogrammed Stationery. 57 Customized Stationery items that all together include everything from Personalized Cards, Notes, Bordered Notes, Frame Monogrammed Notes, Classic Monograms, Couples Monogram Notes, Gift Enclosures, Letter sheets, Diamond, Cove, London, Sydney and Sienna Monogram Cards or Notes with so many more options and so many ways to use to celebrate a personalized message with some of the most influential personalities in your life: family, coworkers, neighbors, fresh faces and old friends. A traditional monogram is a way to deliver your message and a whole lot more. Try one and see what kind of response you get.

“Confidence is everything in this business. ” Confidence is everything in life. Blaze a trail where you can and letter your actions or your monogram speak for you.

Writer: Reese Witherspoon

Bethany

I always thought it was strange to have your initials out of order for a monogram, but I suppose it does make sense to have the largest, most prominent letter be your family name. What do you do in the case of a monogram where all the letters are the same size, though? And does this rule, or rather tradition, also apply for monogrammed napkins as well?

Andria P.

This sounds like good advice. I think if you do send out one of the personalized stationery cards like you can get on this site to someone, they will remember it. If you mention something you said to them in conversation, then they will connect the stationery to you in their mind and then they will probably think more highly of you. I know I would. ^.^

Mary Beth

One of the cool things about monograms is that you can get the same one on either personalized stationery or on personalized napkins. So creating your own signature style is easy, by just picking your monogram and color. It’s a great way to establish a unique “signature” style, if that’s what you want to do. Me? I like to play with different styles far too much to settle on any one.

Henry B Springs

Personality is what differentiates you from the competition. It’s what makers your identity shine. It can be the small determining factor why someone remembers you over someone else. You had a really original way of approaching people and keeping them connected through the online and offline image you engendered and kept building on. They say we are not only remembered for the things we do, the things we don’t but also the seeds we plant and branches we reach out with and those branches folks reach out back to us with along the way. Personalized Fold Over Notes can be unique ways of connecting with guests, family, clients, coworkers and friends that only build on your reputation from beginning to end, event to event and year to year. We have a 155 distinct Personalized Notes that dress up any message in the most delightful way. Send a message any time, for any reason, in any of our Flourish, Monogram, Blossom, California Classic, Bordered and Colonial Notes. Anyway you can make your message memorable.

” The ‘self-image’ is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior. ”

Writer: Maxwell Maltz

Maxine

Paulette, you’re right. I don’t often see stationery stores around where I live, and I’m not surprised that a lot of them go out of business. For better or worse, a lot of people prefer to do their communication in other ways, and believe that sending a real card isn’t worth it. I disagree of course, but not everyone feels the same way. On top of that, you have the fact that outlet stores often have trouble matching the prices of online stores, and also the fact that the economy is still struggling, and it’s really no surprise that a stationery store is a rare thing to find in the offline world these days.

That said, I am okay with the idea of getting my personalized stationery online, because there are great stores like GiftsIn24 that have a great variety of products and even better prices. When you factor in the free shipping for orders of $60 or more, the last real disadvantage of buying online disappears.

Henry B Springs

Life should be more than a list of details: people to see, places to go and things to do. We’ve come to realize that we are only as solid as our last performance, project or satisfied customer. At that revelation we’ve suddenly come to the realization that life is indeed made up of an infinite number of connecting points. It’s a road map to prosperity, recognition and familiarity that we can use to go forward and make the most of meaningful times, relationships and connections. You never want to focus on events that shouldn’t be taken so personal and you don’t want to let moments pass you by when you can leave a personal imprint that will surely continue to reverberate after the conversation, event or party is gone. Sending Personalized Cards or Notes is a unique way that shows people your relationship to them and the places and things and you are mutually connected is indeed mutually important. The investment in Thank You Cards, Notes and Monogrammed Notes to a name a few will be more of a return than you know. Life almost always appears more complex than it is Personalized Stationery is simply a luxury that engages people across the board. The Classic Monogrammed Boarded Notes we sent made “all the difference.”

” In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence. ” What kind of Personalized Card or Note are you ?

Writer: Henry Van Dyke

Hilma Conger

Communicating with business contacts by way of personalized stationery is absolutely a good idea. It keeps them aware of you and what you’re up to, it makes you stand out from others in a good way, and it acts as a good supplement to communicating electronically. Would I recommend foregoing email and social media? Absolutely not, not if you want to remain competitive with anyone else in this society. But communicating via handwritten message on a personalized note on top of that, is definitely a good move in my opinion.

Jonathan Price

I’m going through some hardship at the moment (nothing to worry about, but it’s made the last few days rather unpleasant). I’m certainly counting my blessings, since things could always be worse. My family and friends are all okay, I still have a roof over my head and at least some kind of employment. And best of all, I have the support of people close to me while I’m going through these tough times (sorry I’m not being more specific, but this IS the internet after all!)

You can be damn sure that when I’m past this little rough patch, I’m sending out some personalized thank you cards to a few people who are generously taking time out of their day to help me, even if it’s just giving me advice or someone to talk to.

Bethany

Another reason it’s important to send personalized thank you cards – and I admit this is a bit of a selfish reason but it’s true nonetheless – is that people are more likely to help you, give you a gift, do something nice for you, or whatever it is you’re thanking them for, again if you show them that the effort they went to on your behalf was really appreciated. If you can’t be bothered to send a thank you card, maybe they can’t be bothered to do that for you again.

It should be enough that you should send a personalized thank you card just because you appreciate the gift, or how they babysat your children on short notice that one evening, or whatever. But just in case that’s not a compelling enough reason, keep in mind that people are more likely to help you again in the future if they feel they were properly appreciated last time.

Henry B Springs

Most people don’t stop to thank you nowadays. It has become a lost art form. If you find someone who goes out of their way to say thank you, express gratitude in present day and age it is something that makes them more familiar, something that identifies them with a moment or an action. Saying thank you gives someone a unique identity , helps them differentiate themselves from a bunch of other people who should have the same concerns. You should stand out for the service you provide, standard you live up to and person that you want people to identify with. Thank you, sending a Personalized Thank You Card tells people that you’ve taken the time to meet their needs, value their business and you value them. That’s why a Personalized Thank You Card can make an original long lasting impression that clients and people who you really want to be considered as valuable ultimately will receive and respond to. Send Personalized Thank You Cards from a unique collection of 18. Colonial Bordered, Executive, Boulevard, Director Cards and Corridor Cards.

” The simple act of saying ‘thank you’ is a demonstration of gratitude in response to an experience that was meaningful to a customer or citizen. ”

Writer: Simon Mainwaring

Elizabeth Anderson

Jeff, I agree. You really need to show your appreciation for people who do nice things for you, especially if they got you a nice gift or did you a big favor. That’s where personalized thank you cards come in. I agree that a phone call or email just won’t do – you need to send a thank you card because that’s the proper response. Some people will even get really offended if you don’t remember to thank them like that. Best not take any chances and send that thank you card!