I’m so excited about this week’s giveaway–I’ve been planning it for months. Everything I’m posting about this week is about getting ready for Christmas. I know, it’s a little bit early to be posting about Christmas, but sometimes you just have to plan ahead and get a few things done early. As the week goes on I’m going to introduce you to a few of our favorite resources, shops & sponsors. Every single one has been handpicked by me and Sara and we love them all so please check back every day to see what’s new and for another chance to enter.
Day #1: Calligraphy by Michele. I have reserved a spot with Michele to address 50 of your Christmas cards, my treat. She is an awesome calligrapher who addresses wedding invitations as her day job. But she has been so sweet to squeeze me into her busy schedule and hook me up with calligraphy for a few parties. Her work is amazing and I highly recommend her and her mad skillz. The week I have reserved with Michele is the week of Thanksgiving. Her schedule is booked, so if you win you need to have your envelopes sent to her by November 21st so she can get them addressed ASAP and mailed back to you by December 1st.
Michele has several different “fonts” to pick from and every color of ink under the rainbow. This is my new favorite font; it’s called Katie:
Here are the rules: Leave a comment here if you’d like to enter. And you can leave one comment on every post this week for more chances to win. Please include your email address in the comment form so I can contact you when you win. No one can see your email address once it’s in that form except me, so don’t worry. And the most exciting part of this week’s giveaway is the winner will get 5 prizes instead of 1. That’s right, thanks to the generosity of several of the shops we’re featuring this time you’ll get every single thing I post about this week. Merry {early} Christmas!
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This is BEAUTIFUL work! Stunning.
Such beautiful writing! I don’t normally send out 50 cards, but if I won I would definitely have to find more friends to send cards to!
What a wonderful gift! I may actually get my Christmas cards out on time if I were lucky enough to win this!
Beautiful handwriting always makes me smile inside. Thanks for sharing your talents, and for providing this giveaway.
Wow! This is beautiful! Thanks for the chance to win this fabulous prize!
Hello, the font is very beautiful and charm. Im interesting to win the giveaway! Kisses, Criss.
beautiful work!!!! i actually ordered my christmas cards already so i will have them in time for this if i win!!! yay!!! thank you!
Beautiful!
Beautiful! I always wished I can do this…
So very very lovely!
What a great giveaway! It would be such a treat to receive such a beautifully addressed Christmas card.
I’ve always wanted to have this done. How neat it would look for Christmas
Wow, I just see my friends expressions when see a beautifully addressed envelope in their mailbox. What an awesome blog candy. thanks for the chance to win.
Cheryl Sims chsglsatgmaildotcom
so gorgeous! glad I am not the only one prepping for Christmas!!
Love the idea of this for Christmas cards…such a nice touch!
Absolutely gorgeous! What talent!
I love how calligraphy looks. It is really a beutiful way of writing. I have tried but never have succeded.
ozzykelley1 at yahoo dot com
that is an awesome giveaway…looks so pretty
gorgeous! what a nice final touch for our holiday correspondence–I will def keep Michele as a resource!
Awesome giveaways…thanks so much for the chance
Kim Bolyard
Her work is beautiful. I really love calligraphy and wish I had such talent. Thank you for such a generous prize.
Thanks for the giveaway! Calligraphy is absolutely AMAZING! She’s so talented!
Such a lovely way to send a heartfelt Christmas greeting! I would love to see the look on the faces of family and friends who receive a card. I’m so glad I’m not the only one planning early – I ordered our Christmas cards last week – in the hopes I’ll address and mail them BEFORE the week of Christmas this year. HA!
wow- loooove her handwriting!
WOW! What a wonderful giveaway! Michele’s calligraphy is simply beautiful.
What incredible talent! I would love to share this with family and friends! And the jumpstart on Christmas would be priceless…
What an artist! I so wish I knew how to do this. Seems like I’m all thumbs every time I try:( Would LOVE to send out the cards I designed with such amazing addressing. What an impression! Pick me! Pick me!
very nice! we’re having our very first professional pictures taken of our family this weekend (our kids are now 3 and 10 months) and will be using those pics for our Christmas card this year…how great would it be to have the envelopes addressed in that gorgeous calligraphy! that would be the icing on the cake! thanks for the opportunity!
Absolutely gorgeous~! Thank you for the chance to win!
Wow, how fun! Thanks for a great website and a fun givaway. You are my new hero (and I’m not just saying that because I want to win).
Ohhh- delightful giveaway! I am working to create very special cards this year featuring my daughter. How amazing would it be to send envelopes adorned with this beautiful script to our family who all live out of the country.
Thank you for the chance to win!
I have always enjoyed calligraphy! It’s been a while, kind of rusty in my calligraphy writing…it would be quite a treat to have her beautiful pen on my envelopes this holiday season.
This is so Awesome!
Such beautiful calligraphy! I would love to win. I’ve even ordered my envelopes to come early since I have a little baby. He’s not giving me much free time so it would be dreamy to have someone else address them!
Love your blog. Thanks for sharing such great resources.
This is so awesome!!!! Would love to win this one!!
One envelope with her calligraphy is worth 1000 printed address labels. I am in love.
What a lovely idea. I had someone write out the addresses for my wedding invitations many moons ago. It was very costly and so very beautiful, it added just the perfect touch.
Gorgeous!!!!!!!!!!!!!
where was she when i was getting married?!?! love love it!!
wow – so gorgeous! what a fantastic giveaway – and inspires me to learn calligraphy!
She has Amazing talent! Great Gift!
keeping my fingers X!!
Wow! Wonderful giveaway. What an amazing way to make christmas cards truly special this year.
Michele did the calligraphy for my wedding escort cards a few years ago and I fell in love with her work. I would love to work with her again! Her work is stunning!
I love this! Her calligraphy is so beautiful! I send out right about 50 cards, so this would be perfect!
Fabulous idea! Gives me some motivation to pick a card
Wow… what a thoughtful and very generous give away!
And what a beautiful handworked envelope to greet you in the letterbox – especially amongst a pile of bills or just from a lonely letterbox, this would have to make you smile and feel just that bit special…
yes please put me on the list with everyone else who’d like to win this great prize
I am so excited about one charming party not to mention my claim to fame (Sara Westbrook). I love the ideas that get sent to me! Darling creative ideas. Love Ya Sara! Can’t wait to meet you Brittney! Lisa Morris
My wife would love this.
Her calligraphy is beautiful!!!
Yay! Again, thanks so much for including me in this! Can’t wait to see who wins!!
Amazing giveaway! I have always wished I had the talent of calligraphy lettering! Simply beautiful. I would have to do a happy dance if I won!
This is gorgeous! It would be a lovely surprise for the recipients of my Christmas cards to see them addressed like this!! Cheers!
These are fantastic. Since we’ll be sending out our “Save the Dates” in our Christmas cards, it’d be doubly awesome to have beautiful calligraphy on the envelopes!
Almost too pretty to put in the mail.
I love it!
Wow! I just love these. They are exquisite. Thanks for doing a giveaway.
So exciting! I love fancy handwriting (though mine’s not as great). What a special touch to add to those Christmas cards.
Beautiful writing!
These are beautiful!
Love One Charming Party and what a fun week! Michele’s calligraphy is beautiful.
Amazing! She is so talented! I would love my Christmas cards to have her classy writing on them.
Beautiful! my friends and family would be absolutely speechless!
Love it! Such a fun giveaway!
I absolutely love it. it’s beautiful…wish i could write that well!
thanks for the awesome give aways!
you’d feel extra special when you get a card like this! love it!
These are lovely. What a beautiful gift it would be for friends to find these in their mailbox!
One of my biggest regrets in life is not having learned to write in various “fonts” outside of my own handwriting. Not that I can’t still try to learn!
Michele’s work is absolutely beautiful!!! I’d love to have her address some of my Christmas cards!
I can hardly wait to see what else you’ve got planned for this giveaway!
I love this, what a great talent to have! If I won then I would just have to send out those Christmas cards!
OH my goodness! I wish I had her handwriting. I LOVE this! I can’t wait to see the other things in store this week!
Wow! Beautiful! I LOVE your site. Thank you for providing such wonderful things to incorporate into my own parties/events!
sooo beautiful! i would love to have her address my christmas cards!
Oh I have always wanted to learn to do calligraphy. She writes sooooo beautifully. And that would sure save me lots of time!
I love calligraphy!! Count me in !!
So fun!
Wow, that’s talent…would LOVE to check that one off the Christmas to-do list!
If I were to receive a holiday card beautifully addressed with this calligraphy, I’d say, “How loveley it is to see such class and appreciation for the little things amidst our modern times! It’s a breath of fresh air…..”
How how lovely! Got my fingers crossed!
WOW! I might not mail the envelopes and just opt to hanging them as art on the wall instead… just sayin! Would love to win!!
Oh, how I wish I could write like that.
What a luxurious giveaway- would I be so lucky?
Merry (early) Christmas to you too!
Oh My Gosh I LOVE that font! What a great giveaway!
I love it!
Oh my goodness- these are beautiful! I can’t wait to see what all you are posting this week!
Fabulous! I wish I could write this beautifully!
This is absolutely beautiful! Awesome talent!
Gorgeous!
beautiful!!! what a great idea : )
oooh my mom used to play with calligraphy. I love watching her write! Such pretty handwriting, compared to my chicken scratch. ha!
thanks as always for the fun giveaways.
Super cute!! Mom would be all over this.
I just LOVE this Font, great giveaway add me in
ncjeepster@aol.com
Love this one you always have such great fonts and giveaways
Love this…now how do we learn how to write like that? I HOPE I WIN!!
LOVE this font! What a great giveaway.
I have terrible handwriting, so this would be such a great one to win! Thanks so much for the opportunity.
I would love this prize. I love calligraphy and I try my best to write fancy but it just doesn’t look the same. My friends and family would be so impressed with me, when they received their Christmas car… Oh my!!
Neat. Love this blog, and love the calligraphy. Michele is very talented. I have always wanted to learn to do that, but I don’t think I have the patience.
Beautiful calligraphy! Thanks for an amazing giveaway package, can’t wait to see the other sponsors this week:)
Fabulous! What a great giveaway!
I could come up with 50 friends and family to send beautiful hand crafted christmas cards with gorgeous calligraphy!! What a fantastic giveaway — thank you so much for the opportunity : ) xoxo
What a great giveaway. Thanks for the chance to win!
Oh, so beautiful! What a talent! I would love to win this prize!
My Catholic school penmanship can’t hold a candle to Michel’s calligraphy talent!!! I would love to win this giveaway!! kaw20374@aol.com
What a gorgeous font!
Wow! What a beautiful giveaway!
Her calligraphy is beautiful! Perfect for Christmas cards
Lovely!!!
So beautiful! Something beautifully handwritten adds a special touch to anything. Thanks for such a lovely giveaway
What a treat for the recipients of normally hum-drum christmas cards (ahem…mine).
Her calligraphy is beautiful!
Yay! Such a sweet giveaway…..
How beautiful! I just love calligraphy. Christmas cards would look beautiful addressed that way.
I love this! Wish I had the time (and talent) to do this myself!
i’ll take it!
beautiful!!
I love this calligraphy. It is beautiful!
What a great give-away! Beautiful work!
I have always wanted to create these types of envelopes but do not have the patience that it requires. This is a wonderful idea for a giveaway.
What a beautiful detail to add to Christmas Cards. Love it!
I dreamed of having this done for my wedding, but it was not in my budget back then. It would be a fantasy to have it for this years Christmas cards! Thanks for getting me in the Christmas spirit! It’s very timely considering our photographer just sent us our proofs today! Must be a sign
What a great giveaway! Pick me, pick me
thank you!
Yikes!!! I am lovin’ this first giveaway. Can’t wait to see the rest…calligraphy rocks.
Thanks for the great giveaway!
What a great giveaway! I love it!!
I used Michelle for my wedding and love love love her and her work. I would be thrilled to win this!
Thanks for the chance to win! I’m looking forward to lots of holiday inspiration.
Thank you for this giveaway! Michele is amazing too!
Count me in!!!
Stunning calligraphy. Will surely beat my adhesive labels from last year!
What beautiful work!
It would be such a gift to receive a holiday card addressed this beautifully!
I would love this! My handwriting is shockingly bad, so I’d love to have envelopes that people could actually read!
oh wow,
if i win, i’ll have to donate this amazing gift to my non-profit’s fundraising event. Beautiful calligraphy on the invitation addresses is irresistible!
I commented on facebook but wanted to make sure I was in the running.. I’d love this- one less thing to do plus such a treat for our friends and family!!! YES PLEASE
Aly
o my goodness I would die to be able to do calligraphy like this! LOVE IT!
What a luxury! With 18 month old twins, I barely have time to do much of anything. Someone addressing my Christmas cards would be heavenly!
Beautiful writing and an exciting contest!
This is perfectly brilliant. I have Christmas cards from 3 years ago I never sent because there was no time to address time. *blush*
What a treat to find a beautifully addressed holiday greeting in the mail… and what an incentive to have holiday cards ready early! This would save us from defaulting to Happy New Year cards (again).
I so admire her talent! Hope I win!
There’s nothing I love more than gorgeous calligraphy! Thanks for the great giveaway.
I’m so excited about this cool giveaway!!
oh, what a great prize.
Could I be so lucky? What a nice give-away. Thanks so much.
Just think how special the recipients will feel.
Wow! How amazing! That’s a really incredible offer, I hope I win!
wow! seriously an amazing giveaway! i hope i win!
WOW! What a great and unique giveaway! Love it
What a generous giveaway and beautiful work!
Soooo pretty! I’d have to mail one to myself!!
I’d love pre-addressed evelopes for Christmas… then I’d have more time for baking cookies!
I so wanted calligraphy for my wedding invitations 2 years agao but it wasn’t in the budget. Christmas calligraphy would be great!
So classic!
What a great give away!! The calligraphy is beautiful!
What a nice surprise it would be to get them in the mail.
Wonderful! I have visions of sugar plum calligraphy dancing in my head.
I like the curly one its really cute thanks for the great giveaway
I was just thinking about starting to address Christmas cards this weekend. Maybe I will wait . . . just in case.
This is beautiful! I love calligraphy…
How cool is that!!I would love this!
how special would this be?! i think i’d have to find a better cmas card!
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Gorgeous! I love it!
What a lovely detail for Christmas Cards. Last year was the first year in years I didn’t send out cards. I’ve already got my cards organized for this year. Not going to miss sending them out this time!
Lovely!
My fingers will be crossed all week….
I love to see this artistry back in action!
Her calligraphy is so beautiful, what a lovely giveaway!
The calligraphy is just gorgeous, it reminds me of my mother. She used to write like this when I was a child and I always thought it was so beautiful! Thanks for the amazing chance to win! I just love your site!!!
She does such beautiful work! What a wonderful giveaway!
What an awesome giveaway! Would love to win!
LOVE LOVE LOVE this giveaway!!! I just found you and i love all of your ideas!!
Sign me up! Fun fun fun!!
I absolutely ADORE calligraphy. I convinced my husband to let us get some beautiful red side-flap envelopes to put our christmas cards in, and this would be the perfect finishing touch!
Thank you!
What a wonderful idea! This would be gorgeous on wedding invitations.
So Elegant, So seldomly seen nowadays, So GORGEOUS !!!
Beautiful talent and what a wonderful idea!
yes, please.
What a unique talent and giveaway! Thanks for sharing with us.
So pretty!
Beautiful! Thanks for the giveaways all week!!
How awesome is that? I would LOVE to win this!
Wow! Beautiful calligraphy!
Lovely . . . simply lovely!
So lovely! I wish I could do this.
What a creative and original giveaway! Love it!!!
I wish my handwriting was that neat!
The calligraphy is beautiful! I learned copperplate calligraphy to do my wedding invitations- it was worth the time and effort!
What a neat idea. I’d love to try it this year.
What a great idea, my own handwriting is so messy!
So pretty. What a great giveaway!
What a fabulous give away! Beautiful work.
I’d love to have my daughter’s birthday invites looking so pretty!
wow. how would it be to have beautiful handwriting like that. then i wouldn’t be here hoping to win this contest. wink wink.
Just beautiful-will come in handy if I win b/c I will have just had baby #3 and no time to address envelopes…
Oh, I wish I had this talent. Her work is beautiful!!
I love it!
A talent I’d love to posess!!!!!
What an awesome career to have! Good giveaway idea too!
LOVE LOVE LOVE! In my next life I will have incredible penmanship and creative talent with the pen
What a generous giveaway!
Beautiful writing!
embellishartist@gmail.com
Beautiful work! I’d love to learn to do this myself someday but until then, it would be fabulous to win this!
I love this!! This is such a great giveaway.
wow, she does stunning work…what a fun giveaway!
i wanted to win this last year! love calligraphy!
kim.hacking@mac.com
Absolutely stunning – I have been drooling over Michele’s work since you first featured it, trying to justify a way to afford it!!! Thank you for these awesome giveaways!
Gorgeous!!! I love, love, love calligraphy!!!
I saw Muranda’s (the winner of the calligraphy envelopes last year) addressed envelopes, and they were gorgeous.
Pick me, Pick me!
Here’s hoping. Looking forward to the results.
B-E-A-Utiful!!!!
Very talented!! Wish I could write like her.
Beautiful!!!
50? I’d have to find about 30 extra people to send cards to, but I think I could do it!
This would be such a treat!
I know that I would love to receive a greeting that is so beautifully addressed!
I’m sure I’ll get lots of “Ohh’s and Ahh’s”!
What a lovely giveaway. Her calligraphy is beautiful.
This would be amazing. Addressing envelopes by hand is the one thing I never look forward too because my hand writing is so bad. LOVE IT!!
What a special treat for the person receiving the snail mail special! Beautiful writing on the front. Takes me back to imagined Victorian Christmases…
Wow! She is very talented and I would be honored to win! Thanks so much for the giveaway opp.
so pretty… I wish I had handwriting like this.
i love the confidential and chirp. beautiful!
Ooooo…. now if I could only get my girls to sit still long enough to make the Christmas card worthy enough of such impressive addressing… or maybe the recipients will be awed enough by the beautiful calligraphy they’ll overlook the horrible photo??? (One can dream, right?)
So much better than my writing!
These are so wonderful … I love that there are options for different “fonts.” Beautiful!
Just beautiful – how special would my cards look with this! Thanks, Maureen (jnomaxx at hotmail dot com)
What a wonderful idea and giveaway!!
what a beautiful touch to our annual christmas card for family and friends!
What a cool giveaway! I haven’t seen many giveaways of services, just stuff. …This give me an idea for my own site.
great giveaway! thanks for the chance to win!
Fingers crossed!
ack! me me me!
Such a fun giveaway! It would be awesome to get mail with pretty handwriting for the holidays.
Love Woodcut…so direct and purposeful.
This would be fun to win…I’d have my list ready now (I think) instead of waiting until Christmas eve to mail everything.
I would love to win!
i’d love this!
So talented! I just love looking at beautiful calligraphy. It’s definitely an art!
So lovely! What a talent!
I love her style and the patience it takes to have lovely hand writing. A lost art that has been found.
What an awesome giveaway! Thank you for doing this!
How great to not have to address cards myself! I’d love to win!!!
It’s the perfect present. Not to sit after Thanksgiving to address cards. Please pick me.
So great—I love this idea!
So awesome…what talent!
Wow this is beautiful!!
This is the work of an artist. Thank you for the opportunity to win such a wonderful prize-a true treasure. Can you imagine receiving a holiday card addressed by a calligrapher? What a luxury!!!!
i love this. makes staten island look classy. just kidding..
Wow! Truly stunning! I am glad this ‘art’ continues – anything handwritten seems to be rare. This is not only personel, but beautiful also!
love this!
This is just what my Christmas cards need.
This is beautiful – I love it!
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Oh, how I love traditional calligraphy!!! Gorgeous!
Lovely giveaway! My handwriting is awful. Thank you for the chance!
What a fun giveaway!
SUch talent. I only wish…
I love this! I would love to win this for my first Christmas cards I’m ever sending out!
Calligraphied Christmas Cards would be awesome.
So amazing and classy! (Much better than my not so neat handwriting). Thank you both for your generosity!
Gorgeous!! The only downside would be that subsequent christmas cards would pale in comparison-
she’s got mad skillz!
SO beautiful!
These are BEAUTIFUL! I love calligraphy, and she does amazing work! How would you ever find Christmas cards pretty enough to compare to the addressed envelope??
Seeing beautiful handwriting is so refreshing, especially considering cursive is a daily battle with my 4th grader!
beautiful!
How fun to have christmas cards addressed so beautifully!
This is amazingly beautiful, people just don’t put the effort like this anymore.
Those are SO snazzy!
What a fancy treat!
I just love calligraphy! Our friends & family would be so surprised.
beautiful!!!
Lovely, I was just looking at calligraphy for my cards!
what a great giveaway… i will have beautifully addressed christmas cards!!
What amazing talent! Such beauty!
Marvelous! I would love to win this!
I have the worst handwriting! this would be a dream come true!
How beautiful! It would be so fun to win!
How beautiful! It would be so fun to win!
Beautiful!
Beautiful!
Would gift this to my Mom who has so much difficulty writing legible now. What a great idea.
Would gift this to my Mom who has so much difficulty writing legible now. What a great idea.
BEAUTIFUL:O)
BEAUTIFUL:O)
It woudl be so fun to have such pretty cards!
It woudl be so fun to have such pretty cards!
Wow, what a special touch on a Christmas card or invitation.
Wow, what a special touch on a Christmas card or invitation.
I am love with the “Katie” font, too! Gorgeous! Please count me in and thanks for the lovely giveaway!:) Lori
I am love with the “Katie” font, too! Gorgeous! Please count me in and thanks for the lovely giveaway!:) Lori
I have never used calligraphy on anything and have always fawned over any that I have received. What a great chance to have some amazingly artful Christmas cards!
I have never used calligraphy on anything and have always fawned over any that I have received. What a great chance to have some amazingly artful Christmas cards!
I LOVE this! If I sent these out my friends/family would be wondering where this beautiful card came from!
I LOVE this! If I sent these out my friends/family would be wondering where this beautiful card came from!
Hi again, just loving commenting on ALL your giveaways this week (feels like Christmas already).
I love her handwriting on the pink envelope in your image posted. As I said in the Stamp giveaway, you need your “snail mail” to stand out and get noticed and this will surely do the trick ~ elegant, original & thoughtful…what receiver wouldn’t love getting your mail! ~Margaret
Hi again, just loving commenting on ALL your giveaways this week (feels like Christmas already).
I love her handwriting on the pink envelope in your image posted. As I said in the Stamp giveaway, you need your “snail mail” to stand out and get noticed and this will surely do the trick ~ elegant, original & thoughtful…what receiver wouldn’t love getting your mail! ~Margaret
What an amazing talent!
What an amazing talent!
She is amazing! I seriously love calligraphy… a talent I wish I possessed. But winning her work is the next best thing.
So amazingly beautiful!! Thanks for the opportunity! Yay:-)
So amazingly beautiful!! Thanks for the opportunity! Yay:-)
Does she want to do 100 of them?? ; ) Hope I am picked!
Amazing! Love to win this : )
That is so beautiful!
What a gift!
my mom would love to receive her card addressed like this! thanks
Such talent!!
Wow! I can’t believe someone is so lucky to have the prettiest handwriting in the world.
I only wish I could write so beautiful. Truly a talent!
Beautiful!
What a wonderful talent. Simply beautiful!
beautiful work! this would be a nice way to send out christmas cards without having to use my ugly handwriting on the envelope!
Pretty please.
Wow… I am amazed at the talent people have. Her calligraphy is gorgeous!
amazing giveaway! thank you.
That font is gorgeous! What a great giveaway.
oh wow…that’s beautiful~
Beautiful!
What stunning work and talent! I would love this treat! Thank you for the chance.
Beautiful!
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