Flourish Calling Card

In the days before email, even telephones, how did people socialize? In-person visits were the order of the day for people in the upper and middle class from the 1700s through the early 1900s. Calling cards played a big role in enabling people to get out and “see” as many people as possible in a morning. Calling cards, also called visiting cards, are small pieces of card stock featuring a person’s full name, centered on the front. Unlike today’s business cards, no other identifying or contact information was printed on the calling card. Sometimes it was just enough to drop off your card with a servant at the front door and move on to the next home. It was the equivalent of pinging someone or dropping a quick “hi” via text.

Calling Card Etiquette

According to Nancy Sharon Collins, author of The Complete Engraver: Monograms, Crests, Ciphers, Seals and The Etiquette of Social Stationery, people used an elaborate set of customs to signify meaning.

On the morning of the visit, people personalized their cards with a fountain pen in various ways, according to Collins. You could add a quick note to be extra friendly. Add an address if you wished your friend to return your visit. Or you might even cross out the printed name and sign your nick name underneath.

And the fun really began with corner folding. “Specific coded meaning could be conveyed through the folding of corners,” writes Collins. If you sent your servant to deliver the card, he or she would deliver it plain, without any folded corners. When you visited in person, you would fold the upper right-hand corner. If you wanted to send congratulations or well wishes, you’d fold the upper left-hand corner. You would have folded the lower left-hand corner if you wanted to send condolences, . When you wanted to say good-bye at the end of the season, you would write P.P.C.. It is short for pour prendre congé, french for “for leave-taking.”

Today, our calling cards might contain not only a name, but an address, phone number, email, even social media accounts. They are larger than a business card, typically 2.4″ x 3.5″. They are perfect for a young mom who visits the playground with her toddler to meet other moms. A new neighbor who wants to get to know other neighbors on the block. They are wonderful for anyone who loves tradition and the people around them. See our collection here.

Loving Couple personalized picture frame from Giftsin24.com

Finding a gift that wows them…isn’t that your goal this holiday season? We want our friend, sister, coworker or teacher to feel like we went above and beyond to find that perfect gift. Giftsin24 has the answer: a personalized picture frame with a photograph that you have taken.

Our personalized picture frames are crafted of solid wood and laser engraved with a variety of designs and lettering styles so you can create memorable gifts they’ll cherish for a lifetime. Best of all, these quality frames are affordable and endlessly customizable for everyone on your list.

Some of our best “wow them” personalized picture frames:

One of the Family Picture Frame

Teacher appreciation: How about a personalized picture frame with a class picture? Maybe the photo shows that memorable special project she created with the kids? Or perhaps the photo is an adorable class group shot? Try the Treasured Moment Picture Frame personalized with Mr.  Chu’s Class (or We Love You Mrs. P!) at the top and 2016-2017 at the bottom.

Grandparents: This group can be difficult to buy for…they often have everything. Choose a photo frame that celebrates one of their most important relationships: with their pet. We have just the one: our One of the Family Picture Frame. It’s perfect for a dog’s name and your parents’ favorite photograph of their true-blue friend.

Friends: Maybe your best friend sent the most beautiful holiday card this year. How about framing it in our Winter Picture Frame? The frame accommodates two lines of text, like a name, date, year or short phrase.

Princess Picture Frame

Sibling: Did your sister or brother get married or have their first baby this year? Choose the Loving Couple Picture Frame for newlyweds. Or try the Princess Picture Frame or the Choo Choo Picture Frame. These frames beautifully capture these life milestones. Your brother or sister will cherish these mementos for a lifetime.

Holiday food and wine pair wonderfully with Christmas Napkins from giftsin24.com

A steaming turkey or ham. A blazing fire. Children’s excited laughter. The sights and smells of holiday parties warm the heart and soul. Your table is the center of all the action. Be sure to have plenty of holiday napkins on hand for sticky fingers and wet beverages.

Giftsin24 offers a wide array of personalized designs, from old favorites to new motifs. Customize them with your choice of monograms, lettering styles, foil colors, paper colors, edge styles and more. Customers’ favorites include these timeless designs:

Holiday Napkins

The embossed Delavan Monogram Napkin.

Planning the perfect holiday feast? Our napkins come in a large array of foil ink colors and paper colors to match any decor. Use them for the buffet table, dinner table, beverage cart or passed appetizers.

Christmas Napkin.  Three lines of personalization. Choice of lettering style. Motifs include: candy canes, Christmas tree, stocking, ornaments, Santa’s hat and holiday wreath. High quality, three-ply construction. Also available in an embossed version.

Delavan Monogram Napkin. Monograms signal tradition and taste. Impress your guests with the Delavan Embossed Monogram Napkin. Choice of monogram, paper color and napkin orientation: diamond or square. Bordered edge. Also available in a foil-pressed version.

The Yuletide Guest Towel

Holiday Guest Towels

Add pizzazz to your buffet table or powder room with Giftsin24.com’s wide range of personalized guest towels. We ship both embossed and foil-pressed items in 24 hours.

Yuletide Guest Towel. Coming home for Christmas dinner to celebrate family style. Gathering for the annual holiday office party. There are as many ways to customize the Yuletide Foil-Pressed Guest Towels as there are reasons to celebrate. Personalize these paper party serviettes with up to three lines of text. Choose a foil ink color, typography and paper color. Motifs include: snowman, Rudolf the red-nosed reindeer, ho-ho-ho and snowflakes. Also available in an embossed version.

Delavan Monogram Guest Towel

Delavan Guest Towel. From the powder room to the buffet table and more, the Delavan Embossed Monogram Guest Towel  is the perfect accessory. Offering a choice of monogram and paper color, this guest towel offers endless options. Bordered edge. Also available in a foil-pressed version.

Personalize our Autumn Napkin to create beautiful Thanksgiving Day Napkins.

Brighten up your party table with personalized Thanksgiving day napkins.  This beautiful holiday celebrates gratitude and family feeling. Announce your family pride with personalized napkins.

We have created many exciting new designs that will tie your table decor together and even add a little sparkle. And with two sizes to choose from — a 4.75″  by 4.75″  napkin or a 4.5″ by 8.5″  guest towel — you can deploy them to the snack table and bar as easily as the dinner table or powder room.

Personalized Napkins for Thanksgiving

Autumn Guest Towel: Strike a warm and inviting note on your party table or powder room with the Autumn Foil-Pressed Guest Towels. These paper serviettes come in a large array of foil ink and paper colors to match any decor. Three lines of personalization. Choice of lettering style. Motifs include: fall leaves, harvest cornucopia and turkey. High quality, three-ply construction. Bordered edge. Also offered in an embossed version.

Autumn Napkin: For all of Fall’s celebrations add pizzazz to your party table or bar cart with the Autumn Embossed Napkins. These napkins come in a large array of colors to match any decor and offer up to three lines of text and a choice of lettering style. Motifs include:  turkey, fall leaves, harvest cornucopia and pumpkins. High quality, three-ply construction. Also offered in a foil-pressed version.

Autumn Guest Towel in mocha with gold foil ink.

Joyous Napkin: Perfect for holidays, weddings, birthday parties and more. Tell everyone why you’re celebrating with four lines of text in the font of your choice. These napkins come in a large array of colors and vivid foil hues to match any decor. High quality, three-ply construction. Square orientation. Bordered edge.

Personalize one of our new cutting boards to create a beautiful wedding gift. Shown here is the Established Cutting Board from giftsin24.com

We are so pleased to announce the latest new products in our lineup: Beautiful, durable personalized bamboo cutting boards. They come in a variety of attractive designs using our most popular lettering styles and monograms. They’re so pretty, you may not want to cut on them. Luckily, you can use them in so many ways.

Indispensable in Your Kitchen

Our cutting boards measure a generous 8.75 inches by 11.5 inches, offering plenty of room to chop and dice. They are made from bamboo, which is a fast-growing grass that is as hard and durable as wood. It’s a renewable resource and compostable at the end of its life, unlike plastic or glass cutting boards. We recommend hand-washing to keep it looking great for years to come.

Many cutting board designs offer the choice of horizontal or vertical orientation for the personalization. Either way, they look terrific and add a bit of pizzazz to a normally ho-hum kitchen object.

Serving Platters

They work beautifully as serving platters for hors d’oeuvres, muffins, cheeses and more. Planning a relaxing brunch with family? Pile on some home baked muffins, still warm from the oven. Entertaining work friends at home? Offer a selection of three cheeses artfully displayed, along with a bowl of crispy crackers.  The possibilities are endless.

Memorable Gifts

Our engraved cutting boards also make memorable gifts. Newlywed couples would love to see their names and wedding date on a high quality cutting board as part of a shower gift, along with tea towels and useful kitchen utensils. Present one to a new homeowner with the date of their home purchase. Or, bundle one up in a gift box with some gourmet spreads, crackers and wine to a couple celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary.

See the collection here.

Scare your friends and family into the perfect mood with our Halloween decor, which includes personalized party napkins, guest towels and engraved picture frames. We have thrilling, brand new designs that can add to the festivities and tie everything together.

Decorate Your Halloween Table with Napkins & Guest Towels

All our napkins and guest towels offer up to three lines of text. Plus, new this year: you can ask us to print the top line larger than the bottom two lines, or you can have us print all three lines the same size. It’s your choice. We also offer napkins with plain edges or bordered edges, also called coin edges.

Halloween Napkin. Foil-pressed or embossed, these napkins include up to three lines of text, your favorite spooky paper color and a choice of motif: candy, Frankenstein monster, witch’s hat, bats, jack o’ lantern, carved pumpkin, RIP headstone, black cat and boo ghost. Bordered edge. This also comes in a guest towel.

Autumn Guest Towel. Foil-pressed or embossed, these guest towels work for all of Fall’s celebrations — like Halloween and Thanksgiving. They strike a warm and inviting note on your party table or buffet and accommodate three lines of text. Motifs include: fall leaves, harvest cornucopia, turkey and pumpkins.  Bordered edge. This also comes in a napkin.

Pump up Your Halloween Decor with Personalized Engraved Picture Frames

Halloween Picture Frame. Pull out this beautifully engraved wood frame and display it as part of your Halloween decor. Remember this fun family holiday for years to come. It’s a wonderful gift for grandparents, too. Solid wood frame. Include up to two lines of text. Holds a 4″ x 6″ photo.

Autumn Picture Frame.  Celebrate the changing of the seasons with this festive, beautifully engraved, solid wood frame. Perfect for a mantel, end table or picture ledge. Include up to two lines of text in your choice of lettering style. Holds a 4″ x 6″ photo.

Here’s our Classic Monogram engraved on a cork coaster.

Here at Giftsin24, we are completely and utterly ga-ga over typography. It’s really our first love. We offer so many different lettering styles and monograms just so you can find one that perfectly expresses your personal style.

Yes, we completely enjoy the creamy, dreamy, thick paper we use. And yes, we can’t get enough of our shimmery raised inks and foil colors. And yes, we “lurve” embossing, which is, ahem, half the name of our brand of stationery, Embossed Graphics.

But typography is where it all begins. For us, typography is really all about an essential attitude. It’s about personality. It’s about STYLE.

Express Your Personal Style with Typography

If you select Dune, a bold lettering style, for your stationery, you are telling others you have the courage of your convictions. You’re a risk-taker who doesn’t back down.

If you select our Classic lettering style– best represented by our Classic Monogram — maybe you love history and custom and see yourself as part of a long tradition of manners and community and fellow-feeling.

If you select Anthony, a casual hand-lettered font, you signal a fun-loving attitude and that you’re not too invested in “the rules.”

See what we mean? Typography expresses the un-erasable part of you, the area of your psyche that can’t be denied or squished into someone else’s idea of what’s “cool.” It’s your personal style.

Not caring about typography is like not caring about the clothes you wear or the food you eat. Crazy, right? Yes, you could walk around day after day in a white t-shirt and khaki pants and eat plain pasta 3 squares a day. But where would that get you in life? And perhaps the more important question is: would life be any fun?

So the next time you select personalized stationery, pay attention to your gut reaction to each lettering style and select the one that really speaks to you. Don’t worry about what’s popular or what that next guy or gal chose. Typography is all about you.

That’s why we offer so many options– many of them exclusively created by Embossed Graphics. We know that secret, inner you is just dying to announce herself through an expression of personal style.

Serenity Napkin gives a wedding shower or engagement party a spark of sophistication

Oops…Did you order too few napkins? Personalized party napkins can take an uninteresting table setting from humdrum to hubba hubba. At Giftsin24 it’s easy to create the perfect personalized napkins for your next party. But do you know how to estimate napkins so you order the correct amount? Order too many, and you’ll be using them for the next several months. Order too few and, well, your guests will be a little uncomfortable.

Now that you’ve added some glitz, don’t make a rookie mistake and order too few napkins. There’s nothing more awkward than getting caught short-handed at the buffet table, beverage bar or powder room.

Here’s how to estimate the number of napkins or guest towels you’ll need:

How to Estimate Napkins

• Drinks during an open bar or cocktail hour: one napkin per hour per guest.
• Passed hors d’oeuvres before a meal:  one napkin for each piece of appetizer you serve.
• Dessert or cake: one napkin per guest.

How to Estimate Guest Towels

• Dinner napkins for a meal: one towel per guest, plus extras “just in case.” Order two per guest if serving saucy food or food that is eaten with the hands.
• Hand towels in the restroom: two to three per person for a three- to four-hour party. If you have a longer reception, plan on more.

Whether you want traditional, white embossed napkins or snazzy foil-stamped napkins in vivid hues, you can find an amazing array of designs, motifs, paper colors, foil colors and lettering styles that hit the right note for your event. You can find napkins for weddings, anniversaries, birthdays, graduations, holidays and many more occasions. They’ll add that special touch to your next party.  See all of our precision-crafted napkins here.

Personalize our Terrace Monogram Keepsake Ornament with your guests’ initials and use them as place tags and party favors.

So, you’re planning a party. You’ve got the date, the guest list and the location set. Now you need to figure out the decor or theme.

We’ve got the perfect party accessory for you…the one that will turn your guests’ heads and make them say, “wow!”

Ready? Keepsake ornaments.

Surprised?

They work beautifully for all kinds of events and occasions as party favors, place cards, gift tags and more.

(Yes, our personalized keepsake ornaments are perfect for the holidays, too.)

We offer a range of designs and themes, from children to new marriages to monograms, sports, memorials of loved ones, graduations, pets and awareness ribbons. You can personalize them in so many ways. Here are a few of our favorites:

Create memorable party favors by personalizing our keepsake ornaments.

Party Favors

Personalize a keepsake ornament for each of your guests, or make every one the same. Give them out individually or hang them attractively by your door so guests can pick them up as they depart. Our ornaments are a unique party favor — more interesting than the standard goodie bag filled with sweets — and certainly will remind your guests of all the fun they had at your event.

Table Place Cards

For more formal occasions, you can use our keepsake ornaments as place card holders at banquet tables or dinner parties. Think: 50th anniversary parties for parents, intimate wedding receptions or rehearsal dinners, memorial service dinners, retirement parties, or even corporate events like sales meetings. For weddings, you can personalize one for each of your bridal party and use them as place card holders and bridal party thank you gifts at the rehearsal dinner or wedding reception.

Gift Tags

Why use an ordinary paper gift tag when you can give the recipient something special? Each ornament comes with a silver ribbon. You can attach the ornament with the silver ribbon to a gift bag or box to provide extra sparkle and shine.

Look at all of our personalized keepsake ornaments.

Create fun company picnic napkins in just a few minutes.

Your company picnic is an expression of unity and togetherness. It’s a chance for folks to kick off their leather work shoes, don some sandals, and get a chance to chat.

Napkins are an easy and affordable way to add some color and your corporate logo to the festivities. We offer two sizes: 4.75″ x 4.75″ beverage napkins and 4.25″ x 8.25″ guest towels. Choose from an array of foil colors and paper colors to reflect your corporate colors or party theme.

You can easily upload your logo file with our clear instructions. Don’t want to take the time to upload a logo? We offer text-only napkins , as well.

Here are some of our favorites:

Custom Foil-Pressed Napkin. Upload your logo in a specified file format and choose from a wide selection of napkin colors and foil colors to reflect your company colors. We can orient the design in either square or diamond format.

Custom Embossed Napkin. Feature your company logo on these embossed, high quality, three-ply napkins. Choosing from a wide selection of napkin colors to reflect your company color. Offered in either a square or diamond format.

Personalize our Custom Foil Napkin with your company logo. Then choose a festive color for your company picnic.

Custom Foil-Pressed Guest Towel. For a larger napkin, choose our guest towels. We offer the same vivid foil colors and an array of towel papers so you can create a winning combination.

Expression Foil-Pressed Napkin. Our Expression Foil-Pressed Napkin offers three lines of text, enough for your company name, the words “Company Picnic” and the date. You don’t have to worry the extra step of uploading a logo. Just order as you would normally order any of our personalized products.

See all party napkins.