Update: CONGRATULATIONS to Coleen Walsh…she’s the winner in the Minted.com Giveaway!
I’m completely aware that stationery has nothing to do with fashion, but it does have everything to do with stylish communication which I’m a huge fan of!
Whether you’re sending a thank you note, a quick hello or just bringing back the lost art of the letter–everything you write looks ten times better on quality paper and a hundered times better when that paper is customized with your name!
One thing I splurged on for myself last year was custom stationary from my favorite local paper store, The Papery. While they did an amazing job in capturing my style and turning my design ideas into beautiful note cards, it cost me an arm and a leg and I don’t know when I’ll be able to spend that kind of money on paper again…
well the good news is, you and I don’t have to! Minted.com has some of the most beautiful, unique and whimsical designs I’ve ever seen both online and in person at one of those fancy paper stores. Whether you want something classic and traditional or super modern, they’re sure to have something that suits your tastes and budgets.
Custom note cards like the ones above cost about $1-1.50 per card/envelope set and that’s about 1/3 of what I paid and what you can expect to pay anywhere else. If you don’t have any personalized stationary it’s something I highly recommend you spend your money on…it just feels so special!
To inspire you to “write with style”, Minted.com and I have teamed up for a fabulous paper give-a-way!
One lucky reader will receive a FREE set of 50 cards from Minted’s personal stationery designs. All you need to do to enter is leave a comment on this post with which card design you love the most!
And while you’re looking around for your new note cards, be sure to check out their entire collection of adorable Valentine’s Day cards…you can even customize them with personal pictures!
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“Shabby She” makes me want to pick up a pen and write my favorite pal!
I’m torn between two designs: “talk bubbles” (seabird/cobalt/soft indigo) and “candy buttons.”
Thank you so much for featuring these designs, it never occurred to me that I could find personalized stationary that is both stylish and affordable! I personally love the “contrail personalized stationary” design because I am obsessed with traveling and this would express that
I love the “Shabby She”! Would love to get my hands on some!!
The “Talk Buttons” is so great! I’d love to have some!
I love the Paper Airplane Thank You cards in blue clouds!
Love the Vertical Personalized! Professional, yet SO cute!
“Inspired” is perfectly feminine and soft. Maybe I would write more letters if I had such cute stationary.
my favorite design would be the dry petals personalized stationary! i love how pretty the flowers look against the white colored background.
I love the Vertical, the Candy Buttons, and the Limited Edition. Tough choice – I love Minted!
Ah, this is so hard! Everything is so cute!
i like all of them. but hmmmm some favorites are friend and lion. So hard! Minted is the best
Loving your phrase “stylish communication!” I’m really adoring the talk bubbles personalized stationary for it’s whimsical and clean look. It’d definitely add a dash of personality to my handwritten thank you notes for (hopefully) upcoming job interviews
I like Leafy!
Dry Paint is beyond gorgeous!
The Akina Thank You cards are lovely!
Line Blur is fantastic! Quirky and artsy–I can absolutely see myself using it constantly.
Can our favorite card be a Valentines Day card?? I love Valentine’s Day, I am a Photographer and I have two adorable doodle bugs that I photographed with big bright lolly pops for Valentine’s Day cards! Oh and I love the Beatles… therefore I love the “All You Need is Love” card.
wow. so hard to choose! i’m leaning towards Alphablocks ’cause it’s cute and colorful!
i LOVE stationary {must snail mail more}. my favorite design of the personal stationary line is the “Eraser” card. thanks!
Oh wow these are beautiful! Personally, I am in love with the “dry petals” folded card set. I hope I win!
Love the “Orchid Personalized Stationery”
WOW sooo many cute choices!!! I think the ‘Mod Disc Monogram’ in orange is my fav!!
Love the dragon fly design. The address labels are wonderful, so unique!
love the antico noe personalized card!
I can first see many of my friends names on some of the cards: great gift ideas!!! As for my name I could really see it under the vintage silhouette.
Bravissimi designers!!
“Shabby She”! So adorable and the skinny wrap address labels are so cute
Although it’s technically a children’s set, I am in love with the Floral Frame Kids Personalized Stationery by Annie Clark. There is something so whimsical but professional about it.
I LOVE minted, and after ordering my Holiday Cards from them, I can re-affirm my love with what a great experience I had. Seriously the best little paper thing happening on the web.
wow. that was hard to choose. but i love Line Blur the most.
My fav is the Dry Petals Stationary
Line Blur is super cool and modern! Plus, it uses my favorite colors.
I like the Brolly Valentine Card. I love this concept because I love to write letters! And I love to receive letters! Much more fun than e-mails and texts!
Thanks for the tip, I wonder if I can get something in time for Valentine’s day!
My favorite would have to be the Orchid design!
I LOVE the Inspired Stationery set! It’s whimsical yet sophisticated, and I enjoy the placement of the name: prominent yet not overpowering.
I love them all! The Orchid stationary is one of my favorites.
I am a huge fan of writing thank you notes and “just because” cards, so this giveaway is wonderful. My favorite design is the Orchid Personalized Stationery. I had to do a report on orchids in the fifth grade, and ever since then have had a fascination with them.
I LOVE the Paisley Passion Thank You Cards in Pink! They look so feminine and chic.
I love, love, LOVE the “Pop” Cards. Simply lovely!!
I absolutely adore personalized stationary and since my favorite flowers are orchids- what better than a simply orchid design to exude elegance:
http://www.minted.com/customizer/sku/MIN-AUY-PST
I love the firecracker stationary. It’s just gorgeous.
I love “Paint Personalized Stationery”. All the styles are great though!
I love stationary, but tend to get my notes together a little late…so my favorite is “snail mail”. Thanks for introducing us to this site!
I am OBSESSING over these eo-friendly wedding invitations. They are just perfect and I am absolutely bookmarking this site for when I start my planning. As far as personalized stationary, I cannot get enough of “Modern Nature” in the burnt orange. Captivating!
I like the orchid one as well but I am confused about the prices. They dont seem to be any cheaper than others. I looked at their personalized letters and it was 2.33 per 1 card! Thats pretty pricey!
These are all so cute! I don’t think I can pick just one! My two favorites I think are “tree” in yellow and “posy.” Thanks for posting this!
A friend used this site for her Christmas cards, so cute!
I love the round flourish, POP!, and the buzzzzzzzzz stationary. I’m deploying to Afghanistan in a few months, and it would be awesome to brighten my loved-ones days with cute, personalized stationary. Even if I don’t win this contest, I’ll probably end up ordering some!
I love the “shabby she” and the “modern nature” the best. Beautiful cards!
My fav is the “eraser” it’s just different. and i like different
so so hard… but i love flower patterned & orchid!!
I love the Snowflake frame holiday photo cards. I love photo cards, with 7 kids, it saves us from having to send out individual photos, and everyone loved the cards I had made last year… very cute!
Like Dry Petals design. Thanks.
I love the Retro Floral cards – minted is fabulous!
love love love the line blur flat stationary from minted.com! so cute and fresh.
I love the Firecracker and Posy design! All the cards are beautifully designed but those two really caught my eye!
Ooo, so nice all around! My favorites are Talk Bubbles and Headlines.
I’ve been looking for new cute stationary! I love that website. I especially love the “Round Flourish” style. Super chic!
I absolutely adore the “Accent” stationary! It speaks to who I am as a modern, girly young professional and student. These just beg me to write notes to everyone!
I LOVE the Fabricate Personalized Stationery.
Such cute stuff!!! I’m ordering Valentine’s Day cards for everyone! However, for myself.. I LOVE the Leafy Personalized Stationery. Thanks for sharing their site!
I absolutely LOVE the Tree Personalized Stationery in green! The shade of green is a favorite of mine and the tree design on the cards is modern yet classic at the same time. I would love to win some of these!
I am obessed with the Leafy. It’s so stylish, but in that understated Jackie O kinda way.
There are so many I like…. the talking bubbles are really cute!
I love the retro floral stationary. The flowers in the corner are nice.
How do you choose?!?! Such a great site, thanks for sharing. I’m a sucker for stationary/invites/notecards…you name it.
If I had to choose, though, I would say Firecracker. It’s perfect!
They are all adorable, but I really love the vintage silhouette!
I really like the Graphic Blossom card, though it took me about 20 minutes to decide – they’re all great!
They have such cute stationary. I’m loving it all. One that I really like is the Owl Kids Personalized Stationary. It’s so cute!!
Well, you’re right that Minted’s designs are lovely. I just spent a good half hour on the site looking around, not only at the personalized stationery offerings, but Valentine’s Day cards, photo cards, party invitations, and even their blog! Thanks for the introduction.
As to favorite designs, that wasn’t easy, but I found two that particularly caught my eye: the Circle Monogram and the Typehead. Both have a nice modern and understated feel. I am keeping all fingers crossed…
I like the handkerchief design. It’s so pretty and elegant looking.
i really love the Contemporary Chair design, pretty simple and a lot of white space for writing..but i wish they had these designs for sale though…
Funky Rings Personal Stationery
i love my rhinestone glasses Personal Stationery
branches Personal Stationery
I love the Shabby She card with monogram. It’s a beautiful card perfect for any occasion!
I really love the “Spanish Lace” birthday party invitations – I’m actually in the market for some graduation announcements as I’ll be graduating college this year and I definitely prefer a beautiful invitation such as this one to the standard announcement.
Thanks for finding this great site, I will definitely have to return!
There were to many to choose from. It was hard to decide but I picked Flutterpatch Kids Personalized Stat…
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I like so many of these!!!!! but if i had to pick one i would probably pick POSY but maybe something in a lite pink color
I love talk babbles in pink!
Minted.com is having a stationary contest right now which means that they will have lots of new personal stationary designs to choose from very soon. Go check out some of the submissions and maybe even vote on them while you’re there . . . http://www.minted.com/vote
Shabby She!
Love the Handkerchief Personalized Stationary- so cute!
Just starting reading…love the site!
I love personalized stationary! I still believe handwritten notes are the best. I would LOVE to have the Shabby She Style in the pink! Great post.
I love Bzzzzzzzzzzzzz – it’s so grown up but still cute!
I really love the “Inspired” stationery in the blue. It’s so classic!
I absolutely adore the monogram personalized stationary by sunnyjuly!!! Very classic!
I really like the Flutterpatch personalized stationary-so cute.
Shabby She, Vertical, or sunnyjuly for me!
this website is amazing! i am loving the ‘dry paint’ design — the colors are so beautiful and really pop on the card!
So many beautiful options! Choosing one is tough!
I think Id have to go with: Posy Personalized Stationery
I LOVE the “round flourish” flat card. Perfect combo of modern and vintage. Great site!
I love, love, love the BEE Valentine’s card. Cute and eye catching, yet simple.
Love, love pretty stationery. I think my favs are the Round Florish and, although I don’t have kids, the Owl kids is adorable!
The alphablocks design is so me! I love making my own cards but this stationary is so adorable!
“Line Blur”…Stylist and chic! Love it
I’m not a kid …. but i LOVE the Owl Kinds Personalized stationary print! So darling!
ah the tree design by marabou is beautiful! Although…they are all so perfect! I also love the ones with the little airplanes.
Lilli! I love this idea! Personalized stationery is so adorable. I usually make mine myself, but I think these two are the bees knees: “vertical personalized, “shabby she” and “talk bubbles.” Way cute!
My absolute favorite is Inspired in powder blue/dk khaki, but I also love Line Blur, Round Flourish and Shabby She.
The “dry petals” personalized stationary is my favorite!
Candy Buttons is very fun!
I love the Dry Petals Personalized Stationery!
Thank you Cheap Chicas & everyone else who fancied my Posy design! xo-Marabou
Oooo, so pretty. I really like the “grid with label”
How pretty! I love the Contrail one with the plane or the Dry Petals.
I love the Inspired Personalized Stationary in Dark Maroon/Orchid. It’s so lovely.
I love the Antico Noe personalized stationary – unique flair and still professional! Would love to pen some messages on my own
I love the eco-friendly cards…especially the Meghan Wedding Invitations
by Wiley Valentine. Gorgeous, sophisticated design!
I really like the “candy buttons” design. It’s bright and fun and cute!
I really loved the “Cloud Nine” Baptism & Christening Invitations. As a new mom, of course I’d be directed to anything baby! These were so cute! For myself the “Vertical Stationary” was perfect!! Chic, Professional and so cute!
I am so glad that you blogged about stationary! I love stationary, however, I have had the hardest time finding beautiful and good quality stationary. About a year ago, I had to move a couple of states away from where I grew up and where my boyfriend that I had been dating for the last 3 years was for school. When I moved, I made it a plan of mine to write a letter to him once a week, about how much I loved him, missed him, and my hopes and aspirations for our future together. I was able to find one set of stationary at a local store, but have yet to find anything that I was head-over-heals with. So thanks for giving me a great stationary store to order from now!!! Oh and I almost forgot….my favorite stationary is the “Shabby She Personalized Stationery” by Andres Montaño in the pink color!
I LOVE the orange design- so colorful and simple yet it really makes an impression!
such beautiful work makes it too hard to narrow down to one! i love the dry petals personal stationery.
I’m a fan of the ‘Accent’ style! Very clean but fun at the same time
I like the vertical personalized stationary.
I love the dry petals stationary super cute!
Wow, so hard to choose a favorite. After much deliberation I have narrowed down to 3: Pop!, Graphic Blossom and Firecracker. I really loved so many though it would be difficult to choose just one!
They are all so great its really hard. Its a toss up between the Monogrammed Personalized Stationary in Lilac or the Plumeria Lace Thank You Cards.
I agree that nothing compares to hand written letters!
“Shabby She” in blue is so lovely, thank you for recommending this site!
Love the posy notecard! I am still obsessed with yellow and gray combos!
I love the Owl Kids design! It’s super cute!
I love Modern Nature… It jumped off the page at me.
I love the graphic blossom and the tree personalized stationary!
On a side note: I just started reading your blog, and really enjoy it!
i love Snail Mail Personalized Stationery by sweet street gals. i’m the only one out of my friends who actually writes snail mail and a lil’ snail next to my name would be absolutely adorable!
Love the posy notecards! All of the designs are great!
I like the Eraser Personalized Stationery. Simple yet distinct.
I have always loved beautiful, quality paper….to put myself through college I worked in a family owned and operated small stationary shop in the small town I grew up in. I can still remember the smells of old paper and ink. I think the tree personalized stationary is lovely! And the Bee mine Valentine’s card is adorable!
I really like the layout and colors for the Leafy personalized stationery. Very stylish with classical and modern elements in the design.
I just absolutely LOVE the Talk Bubbles Personalized Stationery. It was a New Years resolution of mine to write more letters and cards and I have been doing just that but how much cuter would it be on these! At least once a week on my lunch break I take a trip to our local Paper Source and browse all the beautiful paper and cards… I am obsessed!
I love the Posy Personalized Stationery! It is simple but eye catching.
I would have a very tough time choosing between the Graphic Blossom (love classic black & white) and the Inspired designs. Those are my favs!
i like shabby she and pale blue/pinecone
I love the Dragonfly Personalized Stationery!
I absolutely LOVE the “Owl Kids” stationary! I know it may be for kiddos, but I love owls and the design is so fun
I’ve been looking for some new stationary to put my new married name on, and these are AMAZING!
wow! love minted.com! sometimes i feel that the art of the handwritten note is lost – it’d be easy to revive the practice with some accent personalized cards or some stripes and dots personalized stationary from minted.com!
I’d pick the “Round Florish”! So pretty!
It’s hard to choose- I love them all! The flower patterned personalized stationery is particularly lovely.
I love the talk bubbles in personal stationery! So cute and modern at the same time; just like me.
I love the Talk Bubbles stationary!! So cute!
There were so many I loved.. I chose two that I really, really loved: Posy and round flourish stationaries!
I love custom stationary!!!
I ADORE the “Grid with label” personalized stationary
I luv the 1st design! Very feminine and elegant- both qualities that are important for chicas that want to leave a good lasting impression.
I loved the owl kids stationary. As an adult an animal lover i think i could very much make it work and i love it’s vintage feel.
I like the simple monogrm personalized stationery, in green!
I really love the simplicity, and design of the “Contemporary Chair”. I love chairs and considering I work in the Interior Design field, and I think it would be a memorable gesture to grab one of these instead of my quick go-to “post-it-notes”!
I love the Zebra kids in pink!
You can never have too much stationary! I am loving the dry flowers and retro flowers personal sets.
I am totally and completely in love with the Talk Bubbles one. It would be perfect for me to leave notes to my friends and coworkers since these express my attitude and quirky way of expressing myself completely.
Do I have to pick just one? They are all so creative. But my favorite will have to be the Handkerchief style as it is classy, vintage and oh so unique!
Omg, I am in love with “Round Flourish”. Will definitely be placing an order..thank you for the information.
Love the owl kids set.
I love the Classic invitations!
I am pining to pen Thank you on the Round Flourish. I never see my name used as an example on any “name items”. I think its a sign…
My fav is Round Florish!!! Funky yet classic…
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