New Giveaway! A Year of Stationery from Smudge Ink!

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As you might have guessed from my hints on Friday and earlier this morning, I’m super excited about today’s giveaway!  Smudge Ink is offering one lucky reader the chance to win a whole year’s worth of beautiful letterpress and offset printed stationery!  Can you imagine anything more perfect?

Smudge Ink is known for bold and vibrant letterpress printed greeting cards and custom wedding invitations (I’m proud to have them as a member of the Designer Rolodex) – along with calendars, gift wrap, and offset printed greeting cards.  I loved the sneak peek at some of their new paper goodies in the colorful Smudge Ink booth at this year’s National Stationery Show.

The winner will receive a package from Smudge Ink that includes letterpress and offset printed birthday cards, thank you cards, cards for the various holidays, boxed note cards – even two calendars!  The greeting cards are letterpress printed at the Smudge Ink studios, a renovated textile factory located in the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston, and all boxed notes and calendars are offset printed in Maine.

So here’s how to enter:  Visit and “Like” Smudge Ink on Facebook – then come back here and leave a comment with your favorite holiday of the year!  You’ll have until 11:59 p.m. on Thursday, June 7 to enter the giveaway.  One winner will be selected randomly and notified via email.  Bonne chance!

Photo Credits: Smudge Ink

*This giveaway is sponsored by Smudge Ink.  Official sweepstakes rules here.

  7. Favorite holiday is, by far, the FOURTH OF JULY! What more could you want? Beautiful summer day spent BBQ’ing with family and friends. Then, the warm summer night is transformed into colorful excitement with fireworks of every color and pattern. You get to lay on the lawn (or beach), smell sweet grass and dew, and have your sense tantalized by light. So much fun!

  9. AMAZING GIVEAWAY!!! My favorite holiday is valentines day because cute little valentines are so fun to send and receive!

  10. I am fond of Christmas. December has also my birthday, so it’s a very special month to me. 🙂

  15. My favorite holiday is definitely 4th of July with New Year’s Eve being a close second! Both have incredible fireworks, delicious drinks, great friends and family and no dissapointing gifts or cards ;P

  16. Ahhh I’m not on Facebook, but if I were, I’d like Smudge Ink a million times over. Here’s hoping that this does not hurt my chances of random selection, I’ve been trying to find a good all occasion card set! Christmas wins the “favorite holiday” prize in our house… it’s just so magical. 🙂

  17. It’s more than one, and not really an official holiday, but my favorites are celebrating birthdays in our little family, especially our 2 children. I always want them to know just how amazing, special and loved they are. Christmas is a close second! 🙂 Thanks for the chance to win these lovely goodies!!!

  18. My favorite holiday of the year is Thanksgiving – family, friends, thinking about all of your blessings (not to mention the food!) – what could be better?!

  20. SUMMER SOLSTICE! Longest day of the year, filled with sunshine and warm weather – I think that qualifies as a holiday?

  21. Beautiful paper goods! Christmas with mine and my boyfriend’s family is my absolute favorite. 🙂

  23. Christmas is definitely my favorite holiday! Love all the family time and cozy nights.

  26. Christmas! Though I love the fourth of July too because it’s smack dab in the middle of my favorite season, summer!

  27. I love Smudge Ink’s work! I have the most fun designing stationery for winter holidays, but I don’t have a favorite holiday, per say (unless you count, “Any of the ones I get off work for, but can also actually relax instead of rushing around doing everything for a holiday-related family gathering.”)

  28. Definitely Christmas hands down!
    How could you not like snuggling with cocoa near the fire, and enjoying the company and your loved ones?!

  29. My favorite holiday is Christmas! I start celebrating as soon as Thanksgiving is over!

  30. What a fun giveaway! I adore my birthday (does that count as a Holiday?!) This next one is the big 3-0 and I plan to celebrate in style!

  31. My favorite holiday is the fourth of July. Love those fireworks. Love this stationary too!

  33. My favorite holiday is Halloween – I love the history, dressing up, and Halloween movies!

  34. My favorite holiday is new years! It’s a time of renewal, and I always feel so energized. I make a ton of to do lists and post them up on my wall for me to look at every day and hopefully cross some off every month.

  35. Christmas is definitely my fave. I love finding gifts for people & I usually begin a crazy holiday box making process (baking/labelling at least 50 personalized boxes). It’s really tiring, but I love the faces of people when they get them!

  36. Love Thanksgiving because I get to try brand new recipes and have lots of people over. 🙂

  38. My favorite holiday is Christmas… I love the spiritual meaning, and the family traditions.

  39. My favorite holiday is definitely New Years!
    I love all the parties, sparkles and champagne.

  40. Christmas is my favorite holiday. I study over my Christmas cards beginning in October each year. Absolutely my favorite time of the year.

  41. favorite holiday: christmas! the christmas lights on houses, trees, streets, the smell of pine trees and crackling firewood, hot cocoas, winter clothing e.g. coats, scarves, boots, and mittens, snuggling, giving gifts to people in need, sending and receiving christmas cards via SNAIL MAIL, snow, handel’s messiah and the nutcracker, and so much more. and most importantly, the birth of Jesus

  43. I love Thanksgiving! A great day of food family and a nice long nap in the afternoon.

  45. Favorite holiday is Thanksgiving (with a close second to Halloween, New Year’s Eve and Flag Day…ok I love em all) sure hope to win and send loads of sweet holiday cheer. xo

  46. I have always loved New Year’s Day because it signifies new beginnings and new possibilities.

  47. I absolutely love Thanksgiving. I think it’s the perfect holiday. I get to spend time with my family without the focus being on “getting to the gifts.” It’s the one time of year that the WHOLE family is together!!

  52. Christmas….. Its my BIRTHDAY!! The nurses handed me to my mother in a stocking right after she gave birth *how sweet*

  58. I’m a Christmas girl, glittery baubles, shiny lights and lots of cheer, what’s not to like? I’m never as happy as I am in the glow of a Christmas tree.

  59. I love Thanksgiving because it’s the one time a year I get to see my dad’s side of the family and we all stay together at an inn and get to just hang out and spend time together.

  60. My favorite holiday is definitely Christmas, i start counting down the days as soon as its over! 🙂

  61. This is very cool! I liked them on FB and my favorite holiday… hmmm… Love Christmas, but Halloween is pretty high on the list too!

  63. Christmas for sure. I love the carols, lights, decorations, gift giving, parties, traditions…the list goes on!

  65. My favorite holiday is Christmas time because I can spend time with family and also send hand made Christmas cards to family and friends!

  66. I love this stuff! I have two – my favourite for others is Mothers and Fathers day because I can hand make cards and they love them – my favourite for me is birthday. (yes I know this borderlines not being an official holiday…):)

  67. My favorite holiday is Halloween!

    PS If you use “liking” on facebook as part of a giveaway, the page that’s being “liked” is at risk of being taken down by Facebook because it’s against their code of conduct — just thought I’d let you know!

  68. Favorite holiday: 4th of July because my family travels from all over to have a big celebration and drink, play games & blow things up!

  69. My favorite holiday is Thanksgiving and I love the idea of more T-day cards with things like – I’m thankful for you! Thanks for sharing their site!

  70. Chinese New Year! I’m Taiwanese and it’s a big part of my heritage. I love that it’s Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s all rolled into one month-long holiday; families travel from all over to gather together and have big dinners, kids receive red envelopes with money, and it’s a time of renewal and new beginnings.

  71. I wonder, will you ship this great giveaway to Israel? you hadn’t mention any exception of that kind:)
    I’ll try my luck: I don’t have a facebook account, but I do have a favorite holiday! Purim! it’s a Jewish holiday, just as good as Halloween, but one doesn’t have to go out ‘trick or treating’, the candies come to him!
    Would love to win..

  73. Hands down, Valentine’s day is my favorite holiday. I love the variety of letterpress cards and also sending valentines as an adult to my friends. The tradition of sending cards to loved ones is something that doesn’t happen too often.

  80. I love Christmas! It was hard to choose but, I definitely like all the lights, the decorations, the songs, etc. Thanks for the chance to win!!

  82. Boxing Day! My father is a pastor; so while the Christmas season is beautiful and joyous, it’s also extremely busy and stressful. Christmas can be a little crazy with all the Christmas Eve and Christmas commitments. So Boxing Day is the family’s time to decompress, relax, and just enjoy each other’s company.

  83. What an AMAZING giveaway! Every paper lover’s dream. My favorite holiday is Christmas…nothing better than the smell of pine trees and warm desserts.

  84. Oh my goodness! I think my heart just stopped when I saw this post! How I would love to win!

    My favorite holiday is, by far, Christmas!

  85. Thanksgiving!! Favorite holiday; cook, eat, talk – no need to buy gifts or attend endless ‘holiday’ parties!!

  87. if full moons counted as holidays , those would be my favorite.. otherwise, Halloween!

  88. thanks for the giveaway.

    my favorite holiday of the year is definitely christmas!

  90. Your product is SO beautiful! Please, please pick me. I would love to see what you design for my favorite holiday, Halloween!

  93. My favorite holiday is Christmas! Mainly for the Christmas tree and all of the lights everywhere!

  95. My favorite holiday is 4th of July! Warm weather, good friends, BBQs, fireworks … who could ask for more?!

  96. Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday because it’s a good time to celebrate food and family!!! And it is important to remember the things that you should be truly thankful for. Last but not least, it is truly my favorite holiday too because I got engaged this past Thanksgiving to the love of my life after 10 years!

  100. Christmas, hands down. I love everything about the Christmas season (except the crazy shopping frenzy…)!

  105. Christmas has always been my favorite! Love all the family traditions and cozy weather

  106. My favourite holiday is Christmas! I’m already getting pangs so have got my christmas playlist on rotation – Christmas in July is close enough…I can maybe justify getting my tinsel out? 😛

  108. My favorite holiday is Thanksgiving because it ignites the stream of holidays to follow.

  109. My favorite holiday is Thanksgiving. I love gathering with family to simply enjoy a wonderful meal, football, and conversation. We always start on Wednesday afternoon and don’t wrap up the festivities until Sunday – so it’s a whole long weekend of family time together!

  110. 4th of July! Summertime, barbeques, and American pride 🙂 Crossing my fingers for this wonderful giveaway!

  114. Christmas is my favorite holiday. As a small child it was such an amazing magical day with all the family around. Now as a mom of two young boys it is so exciting to see them on Christmas morning.

  116. Easter. 🙂 I love the happiness and joy that it brings! 🙂 Thanks for doing this.

  118. Thanksfiving! Family, hikes, fires and just awesome fun! oh and mashed potatoes 🙂

  126. My favorite holiday is probably Christmas.. but Valentine’s Day is a very close second! Ah, tough choice!

  127. My favorite holiday is Christmas, because I love planning people’s gifts and wrapping presents in creative ways!

  128. Definitely July 4th – reminds me of the many years my family celebrated in Vail, and the kids got to ride the fire truck in the parade and throw candy!

  129. Thanksgiving! Family, food, and football – it’s everything I love to be around in the fall. 🙂

  130. i already like you on facebook! my fave holiday is Christmas! I just get caught up in all the togetherness and Christmas cheer 🙂 and good food!

  131. Thanksgiving. Yes, the food is out-of-this-world. But it’s a chance to say “Thank You” to all of those you love – whether it be in person or through a card!

  132. My favorite holiday is Halloween. Fall leaves, colors, pumpkins, decorations, love it all!

  133. I’m a Halloween person. I love the fall. I love the leaves. I love the pumpkins, corn mazes, and hayrides. Love everything about it.

  134. Thanksgiving! Always great to be thankful and feel like that holiday gets looked over due to Halloween and Christmas on either ends.

  136. I grew up working in a Christmas store, so I love Christmas big time! But I also love the 4th of July — green grass, grilling, sunshine, fireworks, I love it all!

  137. Clearly, Groundhog Day is the most wonderful/absurd day of the year when we all can appreciate inanity, Bill Murray and some Needlenose Ned.

  138. Christmas. It’s an excuse to decorate and play with paper and ribbons and other fun things for weeks at a time!

  143. love both Christmas and New Years – generally filled with tradition and gratitude for the amazing things to come!

  145. Thanksgiving has always been my favorite holiday! I love the whole family sitting around the table enjoying a delicious home cooked meal and each others’ company!

  146. Noël et Nouvel An – généralement en famille la tradition et bonne résolution pour l’année à venir!

  148. Wedding season! That counts as a holiday right? SmudgeInk did my wedding invites and I LOVED them! Great quality, easy to work with and overall great!

  150. Easter – the time of year, decorations and the reason we’re celebrating makes it perfect!

  151. I love Christmas most of all–I start planning for it in the summer! It means so much to me: family, friends, fun. And there’s just something about shopping for Christmas gifts, cards and wrapping paper!

  152. July 4th. It’s such a fabulous summer holiday filled with BBQ’s, kids with sticky watermelon faces, sparklers and fireworks! When the weather is nice, it’s the perfect summer day with friends and family!

  154. Halloween! I L-O-V-E the colors, candy, and costumes. And pumpkins make me so happy.

  155. Christmas is my most favorite holiday. It’s a time when my family drops everything and comes together to cherish one another. Not to mention the yummy food and beautiful decorations!

  156. I like on Fb. My fave holiday is Thanksgiving because it is amazing food, great togetherness time and its followed by Black Friday 🙂

  157. Christmas!! I LOVE them.

    Since the moment you start thinking of the decoration of the house, presents for everyone… You create your own Christmas cards…

    And then gathering with the family and friends…

  158. Christmas is my favorite holiday and favorite time of year. It’s a time when my family drops everything to cherish one another. Not to mention the yummy food and beautiful decorations.

  161. I honestly think my favorite holiday is Easter because of what it means to me as a Christian. But a close second is Christmas! Not only is it the birth of Jesus, but it is a great reason to gather close with our loved ones and throw some GREAT parties! Chritmas is just so sparkly and festive and happy. What’s not to love?

  162. I love all holidays, but if I had to pick one that was my favorite it would be Christmas. A holiday always filled with good memories.

  163. The 4th of July. Picnics, parades, sun and fireworks all with family & friends. Not much better than that!

  164. I “liked” on facebook!!! My favorite holiday has to be Easter. I feel that this time of spring is beautiful and I love the colors of the flowers and I’m a photographer so to be able to be outside photograph families with the beautiful lighting and the beautiful colors of the flowers is a blessing!!!

  165. I love 4th of July. Being out and celebrating in the summer is so fun! Thanks for the great giveaway of a fantastic product.

  166. i love Xmas!! reason being even if i dont celebrate muself everyone is.happy and cheerful!

  168. My favorite holiday has to be Halloween! From the candy, to the kids all dressed up, to the amazing decorations, I just love it all!

  170. I have always had a special place in my heart for Halloween. Fall is my favorite season so I think that has a lot to do with it.

  172. Oh la la! What lovely paper! I must say that Easter is my favorite holiday. Not only because of the meaning of the day, but because all of my wonderful flowers that have been fast asleep all winter are starting to sprout. Not to mention who doesn’t love an Easter egg hunt and an excuse to get dressed up and wear a big hat!

  173. I love holidays in general, so it’s normally hard for me to choose a favorite. This year, however, Mother’s Day has become a very special day for me and it is now my new favorite holiday. I’m hoping that next year I’ll be able to spend it with my beautiful momma. You know, she would love a Smudge Ink birthday card. 😉 Thanks for hosting the giveaway (& to Smudge Ink for sponsoring). =)

    Note: Happily liked their Smudge Ink’s Facebook page.

  175. I don’t have a favorite holiday. I feel that every day should be celebrated. 🙂

  177. by far it’s HALLOWEEN! it’s the one time of the year where fall is in full bloom and the sites and smells are sooo cozy. we start with pumpkin patching and apple picking then have a week long horror movie viewing up until the big night. Then we take our 3 year old Zoe, round to all the lit up and festive houses getting treats and meeting up with neighbors!

  179. I love them all – I’m always looking for an excuse to celebrate. Christmas seems to have the most magic though – especially with a little one in the house!

  180. Thanksgiving. First, the food is amazing! Second, my fiancé and I have an annual Thanksgiving pot luck with all our friends to celebrate the year and have gathering together before the hubbub and family obligations of the holiday season consume us.

  181. Christmas is by far my favorite holiday, it has a special place in my heart. From the joy of giving to embracing yesteryear and starting new traditions. We live in California and celebrate with either a palm tree and fun cocktails to visiting home in the midwest and snuggling up by the fire amidst the white of winter.

    But it is not just Christmas…it is the anticipation and decorations that we have the whole month of December. I fully believe in the 12 days of Christmas! My husband and I share a romantic dance each ‘Christmas Night’ after all has settled down… a memorable and peaceful season.

  182. Easter is my favourite holiday, what more could you want from a holiday, CHOCOLATE, fluffy bunnies, Easter egg hunts and family time. Perfect.

  185. I’m not sure if this “officially” qualifies, but i vote for Birthday: it’s everyone’s little personal holiday! Oh, and because i love wrapping paper—almost more than the gift itself !

  186. I love the whole season of Thanksgiving, Christmas & New Year’s. There’s so much good food and lots of days off work!

  190. Christmas by a long shot! It is such a magical time with family and food and fun!

  194. Halloween is my favorite holiday, as well as all the other fall activities that go along with it like pumpkin picking and corn mazes.

  195. my favorite holiday of the year is Passover.

    for many reasons – its a celebration of spring and rebirth, a reminder to be thankful for all the freedoms we have, a night filled with traditions, and despite the matzah, a night filled with delicious foods.

  197. My favorite holiday is THANKSGIVING. I feel like it kicks off the end of the year/new year holiday season by bringing everyone together. Not to mention all the yummy FOOD at Thanksgiving dinners!

  199. I LOVE Christmas. It is such a magical holiday and has become filled with more pixie dust now that I have 2 little girls. Plus I love baking all of those holiday cookies and wrapping presents. And who doesn’t love receiving all of those holiday cards in the mail?

  201. My favorite holiday is Flag Day — not because of the holiday part, but because it’s my best friend’s birthday, and it kicks off the two-week-long Birthday Season for her, myself, and her wife. Dinners out, get-togethers with friends, and cute little presents for each other — what could be better than hanging with two of my close friends?

  202. My favorite holiday is, so typical, Thanksgiving. I enjoy being surrounded by my family and I enjoy feeding them even more. It’s great to gather around a table with smiling faces, sharing delicious dishes. My birthday is a couple of days before, so we always have a big cake as well!

  203. My favorite holiday is Halloween! I love creating my own costumes and giving out candy.

  204. My favorite holiday is Christmas. The love and joy that I see not only in myself but others is so inspiring 🙂

  205. My favorite holiday is Halloween. I love the decorations and I love dressing up, and I love handing out candy. I’m one of the few houses in my neighborhood that hands out candy anymore so it’s nice to see excited kids in their costumes, grateful for even one piece of candy. My favorite part is carving a jack-o-lantern, it’s been a tradition with me and my father every year. When I was a child, he’d do most of the work. Now that I’m an adult and more creative, I do most of the work but I still have him carve the top off for me.

  209. Given my obsession with all things paper, I would absolutely love to win this giveaway. I “liked” Smudge Ink on Facebook, and my favorite holiday is Thanksgiving. Love the season, our family traditions, and really being able to set aside a few days from work (guilt free) to focus on what is really important to me.

  210. Thanksgiving, celebrated on Caoe Cod, where we channel the Pilgrims, do a turkey trot, then eat ourselves into a turkey-and-stuffing induced coma.

  211. What a fantastic giveaway! I just popped over to like them and I’m grinning over the possibility of receiving such a package in the mail!

  213. Definitely, Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year! A time to recOnnect with family and friends with whom I shared great and “not-so-greAt” memOries 🙂

  216. Truth be told….my favorite holiday is the next one!! I really do just love all of them….and especially like to send cards on the ones that people don’t expect to get one…..though I’ve been told by someone that they look forward to my St Patrick’s Day card every year!

    I liked Smudge Ink on FB!

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