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Introducing our Personalized Wall Signs Collection

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The Matrimony Wall Sign comes in 3 finishes.

They are here! Our personalized wall signs are ready for your kitchen, nursery, bedroom and more. After many months of development, Giftsin24 is proud to announce our brand  new, hot-off-the-press collection of decorative wall signs that are as attractive and versatile as they are easy to display.

Not only can you personalize your sign with your name or monogram, but you can also choose from a range of our most popular lettering styles and exclusive monograms. Guaranteed to add interest and a splash of personality to any room, the signs are available in white, black or natural finish.

Gift Ideas

Gift ideas are endless: personalize a sign for a newlywed couple to celebrate and announce their marriage. Monograms also work great for new homeowners as housewarming gifts. Our line of child- and sports-themed signs look lovely in nurseries and toddler’s room, as well as tweens and teens. Maybe your guy is getting a new man cave or you’ve just renovated your basement? Our signs are the perfect statement pieces.

Walls Signs Work Everywhere

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The Zoo Train Wall Sign is perfect for a new baby’s nursery or toddler’s room.

Our signs work great in every room in the house, including:

  • Kitchen
  • Entry way
  • Baby’s room
  • Bedroom
  • Den
  • Living room
  • Man Cave
  • Basement entertainment room
  • Office
  • Cubicle

Crafted from lightweight yet sturdy .25″ MDF board, all can be hung on a wall using wall-safe adhesive squares. Many other also come with decorative supports that enable you to display the signs on a shelf or table.

There are 40 designs. See the whole collection here.

Have You Seen This Must-Have Party Accessory?

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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:

Personalize our keepsake ornaments with your guests' monograms

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.

 

 

 

Your New Go-To Gift For Under $5

Friends and Family Tablet Sets from Giftsin24.

Give us 8 names and you can create 8 personalized gifts. This go-to gift is perfect for birthdays, wedding parties, office mates and more.

Sometimes inspiration for a particular gift for a particular person comes easily. In your mind’s eye, you immediately see the perfect gift, you find it, you give it. But sometimes inspiration doesn’t come. In that case, you need a go-to gift that’s always appropriate, dependable and affordable.

You want to feel proud of your gift, but you also have a budget. So what’s the answer?

Friends and Family Tablet Sets. Make these your go-to gift. Many of our customers swear by them.

Here’s the concept: With one order, you’ll purchase 8 personalized gifts at once. It’s an easy, efficient way to create thoughtful gifts for a group. Think officemates: Add “Samantha” to one tablet, “Grace” to the next, move on to Abigail, Veronica, Madison, Taylor, Sheila and Ann. Press “order” and you’ll receive 8 personalized tablets in 2-5 days (depending on where you live) and they’ll arrive ready for giving.

Your officemates will never know it was so painless for you. All Samantha and the others will see is their own name carefully and beautifully printed on a high-quality note pad in a vivid ink color. They’ll think you worked for days planning, tracking down, and creating this thoughtful gift. Only you will know it took you less than 5 minutes to order and arrived at your door in a matter of days.

Same goes for your children’s teachers, kids’ party favors, bridal party gifts, Christmas gifts and more. Just add a name to each of the 8 tablets (Mr. Seymour, Ms. Brown, etc. or Preston, Declan, Aiden, etc.), choose your ink color, and we’ll print them for you in 24 hours and ship them out to you.

Here’s another beautiful thing: At the regular price of $25.95, each tablet works out to $3.25. And with free shipping, the picture just keeps getting better and better.

Each tablet is made with our high quality paper. Each sheet is 80 lb text, like nice thick copier paper. There are 100 sheets per tablet. And each sheet is a generous 4.4 inches x 6 inches, so there is plenty of room to write.

Want to try it out? Check your calendar for upcoming birthdays for the next few months, give us 8 names, we’ll send the tablets to you by the end of the week, and you can put them in your gift closet until the birthdays roll around. So easy, right?

Back to School Stationery for Everyone

Send some back to school love with lunch with personalized stationery

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

It’s back to school time. Pencils, crayons, scissors and text books top the school supply list. But don’t forget the organizational tools you need to keep your kids on track and your own peace of mind in place.

Here are some of our favorite products for back to school:

Highland Memo Square For the grade schooler, personalize this memo square with “A note from the mom of Zack Thompson.” Your child’s teacher will always be able to keep track of special requests, questions and special thank yous.

Highland List  For the high school or college student, personalize this list with his or her name. It will be easy to see the day’s or week’s tasks and home work.

Family Organize By Day Slab  puts the week’s sports schedule, playdates and dance recitals in a central place. The whole family can stay on track.

Highland Gift Enclosures  make perfect lunch box notes, for you to tuck in an encouraging word, a sentiment of love or a quick reminder mid-day.

Thank a Teacher, Teach a Thanker

Writing tips for teacher thank you notes

It’s that time of year to thank the teachers in your life, whether you’re 2 or 92.

Everyone has a teacher to thank, whether you’re 2 or 92. If you’re learning how to read, trying to code a video game, or are working on your guitar fingering, teachers are right there along with you, guiding you, cheering you on and encouraging you to work through mistakes.

One of the best ways to acknowledge a teacher’s value in your life is by writing him or her a thank you note, according to the National PTA. And writing a thank you note to a teacher is one of the best ways to teach a child how to show gratitude. Here are 3 tips to writing the perfect thank you note to a teacher.

Three Writing Tips

1. Be thankful. This is a thank you note, and so say it ! “Thank you for all your hard work with me this year.” “Thank you for helping me be the best I can be.” You get the picture.

2. Be specific. If you can point to a specific example or time that the teacher helped you, you’ll make the note become more personal and all the more treasured.  “I am so relieved that I know fractions now.” “The way you encouraged me to work on my fingering has given me more confidence than I ever imagined I could have.”

3. Be expansive. Teachers have dedicated their lives to making the world a better place. Wax poetic about their importance to you, your school or the world at large. You can never compliment a teacher too much.

3 Reasons Our Envelopes are Different

Envelopes are beautifully color-matched to stationery

We make all our envelopes in our state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Aurora, IL

Longtime Giftsin24 customers know our products shine above the competition’s. One reason is our color-matched, perfectly fitted, beautifully crafted envelopes. That’s because we make all our envelopes right here in our state-of-the art manufacturing plant in Aurora, IL. We have total control of the process, from start to finish. Plus, our sole focus is on creating a perfect product and delighting you, our customer.

Some other companies don’t make their envelopes. Telltale signs include…

  • mismatched stationery and envelope papers.  Ivory stationery and white envelopes? Never from us !
  • envelope proportions don’t match stationery. For example, there might be 1/2 inch extra space on the sides and 1 inch of extra space on the top and bottom. Yuck!
  • too much room in the envelope. For example, the stationery rattles around inside the envelope–there’s no need for that !

Giftsin24 envelopes are always perfect

Here’s how we do it:

1. We order our stationery paper and envelope paper from the same mill. That ensures that all papers closely match in color. Plus, this mill creates high quality paper using the best sustainable practices. Check them out here: www.NeenahPaper.com

Giftsin24 offers beautifully crafted stationery with matching envelopes

Here’s Raphael zipping around on one of our three-wheel bikes to carry freshly made envelopes

2. Our expert envelope makers have been making envelopes for decades. They work within tiny tolerances to ensure that each of your envelopes is absolutely perfect. In addition, we don’t give our envelope makers quotas. If one doesn’t turn out, it goes into the recycle bin, and the crafts person starts with new paper.

3. We cut and fold our envelopes to our highest quality standards. Consequently, when you insert the matching stationery, it fits like a glove.  It’s all in the details !

Gifts for Terrific Tweens

Gifts for Tweens at Giftsin24.com

Tweens (kids ages 9-12) are at a wonderful stage in life.

For the Tween girl or boy in your life, all the world’s a stage at this age. Tweens (roughly ages 9-12) are growing out of their stuffed animals, but not quite ready for The Hunger Games.

Kids this age still are drawn to the worlds of magic and imagination. They are developing their sense of self and self-esteem. As they explore who they are, they can be sensitive to how others perceive them. This is also the age when girls may turn away from sports or decide they don’t like math, due to peer pressure or other messages in the mainstream media.

Help the tween in your life be who he or she wants to be by encouraging him or her to follow their own star and not worry about what others think.

If you have a terrific tween in your life who is having a birthday or will make the transition to middle school this summer, we have some gifts for tweens that celebrate the young man or woman they are becoming. Check these out.

Great Gifts for Tweens

Sport Note  The perfect gift for an aspiring young athlete. Proclaim a love of sports with these fun, raised-ink illustrations. Five designs: crossed baseball bats, basketball, football, volleyball, and crossed hockey sticks. Offered in a choice of raised-ink colors, including fuchsia, navy and emerald, as well as 6 playful lettering styles.

Modern Dot Ensemble Stand out and get noticed with our dotted specialty ensemble. Choose white or ivory paper and their favorite raised-ink color.

Aviator Carnival Memo Square Reinvent your style with this colorful memo square. Add two lines at the top and the bottom for the ultimate customization in black ink. Colors come in Terra Green, Pulsar Pink and Lunar Blue.

 

Chorapalooza: Raising Responsible Kids

Raising responsible kids: Giftsin24 offers organizing tools to help you create chore lists for children

Start kids out with simple chores, like hanging towels or clearing the table. Before long, they may be washing loads or making whole meals.

Getting kids to remember their chores is one thing. Motivating them to do them is quite another. Many parents give up and decide it’s not worth the fight. But other parents believe instilling a shared sense of responsibility and work ethic in children sets them up to be productive, hard-working adults.

Behavioral psychologists recommend creating a visual schedule for children so that they can see their tasks at a glance and gauge their progress.

When you’re just starting out, it’s important to keep tasks simple. Folding and putting away clothes, setting or clearing the table, and taking a dog for a walk are all good places to start. Gradually increase the complexity of the tasks as your child masters the easy ones.

Building in simple rewards is another key. These rewards can be stickers, experiences with you or the children’s friends, or a weekly allowance.

Before long, you may just find that kids will be cooking meals, cleaning bathrooms and mowing the lawn!

Tools for Raising Responsible Kids

Giftsin24 offers several products that can help you create a visual schedule. These three oversized slabs contain 250 sheets, offering up to 5 years of weekly chore sheets for your busy family.

The Family Organize by Day Slab  makes a great basis for a visual schedule. Simply tear off a page, write in the daily chores for each person and hang it on your refrigerator, pinboard or other central, convenient place. This is a useful tool to show that everyone in the family has responsibilities.

The Organize by Day Slab  is appropriate for making chore lists for individual children or family members. Each week, hang a new sheet in a child’s room so their list is always close at hand.

The Organize by Week Slab is another tool for creating a visual schedule for individual family members.

Back to School with Lunchtime Love Notes

Create personalized stationery that you can use for lunchbox love notes.

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.

Gaiety Note

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.

Getting Organized for Back to School

back to school time is right around the corner. Get organized now.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.

Carnival Anthony Tablet Set is perfect for back to school

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.