It’s May Give-Away Day

There may be no such thing as a free lunch, but there is a free Recycled Envelope and Stationery Set being given away here!

Hello everyone! It’s Robyn here, and I’m participating in the Sew, Mama, Sew! May Give-Away Day and offering up one of my snappy stationery sets. These items are a favorite in my etsy shop and a favorite of mine to make. It combines all of my favorite things, paper, art, design, and craft.

Paper: Each stationery set is compiled of 10 envelopes made from my personal (and constantly growing collection) of old papers, anything from old calendars, magazines, posters, massive clipart books, maps, etc.
Art: The art part comes in with my eye and personal aesthetics. Each paper and set is hand selected for awesomeosity by yours truly. Not every paper would make a great envelope, ya know?
Design: Each set comes with 20 pieces of stationery designed by myself, on a high quality linen recycled paper, oooh, la la.
Craft: Oh yes, I make each and every envelope, cut down by hand, assemble them with pride, include 10 mailing labels, and sealed up in plastic, (even the plastic is partially recycled product)

Who doesn’t love mail? You show me a person who doesn’t like mail, and I’ll show you a neo-maxi-zoom-dweebie!

So, here’s the scoop: This giveaway offer is open until the end of May 2009. To enter, just leave a comment on this post (just say hi, or tell me who you would write to if you won) and all comments will be entered into a random drawing. There will be two winners. Yes, that means TWO SETS ARE BEING GIVEN AWAY COMPLETELY FREE, to two lucky winners!

Also, please scoot on over to the Sew Mama Sew blog to find out all the other blogs that are participating in the May Giveaway Day.

150 Responses to “It’s May Give-Away Day”


  1. 1 Joon

    Hi Robayre… Looks like I popped into twitter at the right moment. Thanks for sponsoring a give-a-way. You know I love to write letters. I’m not sure who I would write to. I think I will leave that a mystery and look forward to the first person who asks for a letter next. I love your sets. Hope your summer will be wonderful. ox joon

  2. 2 Mim

    I love your stuffsies and would be thrilled to win. Hand-made always makes mail more interesting!

  3. 3 little t jane

    hello! i love your shop! thank you heaps for this fantastic giveaway of snail mail goodies…totally right up my alley - i love sending little fun handmade thinking of yous to friends and family. all good wishes :D

  4. 4 Erin

    I would write my friend Swan. (And one of these days I’ll get around to buying one of your pendants. I love them!)

  5. 5 Deb

    Thanks for this excellent giveaway. I’m big on recycling so things like this will always make me happy!

  6. 6 Corey

    Thanks for the great giveaway! Who doesn’t love cute papers and such?!

  7. 7 Heidi

    I love these envelopes! Such a great idea! I write a lot of letters to friends & family who’ve moved away, so these would be perfect!

    Thanks for the giveaway!
    http://www.craftyheidi.wordpress.com

  8. 8 Charity

    Hi! I would probably be writing to my mom or my sister in law, they love real mail.

  9. 9 Rebecca Miller

    what a fun thing for mu kindergartener to have for the summer. she could write notes to all her friends. I hope I win

  10. 10 jesse

    Oh I love paper!! As much as I would want to keep it because I am a paper clepto, I’d write a friend I recently connected with from high school.

  11. 11 Karen

    Such really cool stuff…it would be all mine…my preciosssss stuff….lol

  12. 12 carrie

    you are super crafty! i love what you do with paper!

  13. 13 Wendymoon

    Great stuff! I would write my niece who lives out of state.

    I’m close enough to the riverwalk that I’d love to go track down your found art. But I imagine it’s already found a home. :-)

  14. 14 Barb

    I love your stationary! Thanks for letting me snoop around your blog! So cute!

  15. 15 Angi Wood

    That sounds like A LOT of work, very generous of you. I’d write to my funny brother in Texas and all my pals I’ve met here in Boston after we move to Seattle this summer.
    {wood.angi@gmail.com}

  16. 16 Meg Nilsson

    Very cool stuff. I love the found art thing! You are so creative. I hope I win.

  17. 17 christin

    These are really gorgeous! I’d write to my sister at college and send pics of the kiddos:) Thanks for the chance:)
    christinbanda(AT)yahoo(DOT)com

  18. 18 Kaye Prince

    Very cool; I love stationary!

  19. 19 Sara

    I can’t imagine an “awesomer” set of stationery, and I do love my stationery (and also recycling)!
    Cheers ;)

  20. 20 Carolyn Marshall

    I love your stationary. I’d love to win!! I am trying to create some note cards with a fabric quilt on each one. Still in the development stage
    Carolyn

  21. 21 Klaudia

    Sounds great!!!
    Thank you for the giveaway!

  22. 22 LizC

    Cool! Love stationary & yours looks very funky indeed!!

  23. 23 Amy

    Great giveaway!

  24. 24 Susan

    I love this idea - you have a great eye and I would love to win your giveaway! I am making an earnest effort to write my relatives more often, perhaps your stationary would inspire me?!? :)

    Thanks so much for the opportunity!

  25. 25 Robyn

    Hi! Thanks for giving away your beautiful paper goods! I’d write my in-laws most likely… they’d definitely appreciate your stationary, and they don’t live close, like my family does!

  26. 26 pamela

    i would love to win! i would write to my college friend john-paul, who now lives in japan. we have always communicated through snail-mail, not emails or by phone, so i always look for interesting material to write him with. :)

  27. 27 Rhonda Cooley

    These are so wonderful! I’m such a letter writer too! I have a few pen pals that I would probably write to on this stationery.

  28. 28 Kelli

    Love custom stationary! I would use it to jot notes to friends.

  29. 29 Pam

    This is such a creative and wonderful idea! Thanks for the opportunity.

    Pop in at my blog and register for my giveaways!

  30. 30 Judea

    I would write my daughter who is away for the summer with her grandparents and I miss her dearly. sniff sniff.

  31. 31 Jacquie

    What a great giveaway - love your work.

  32. 32 sandra

    hope I win! like what I saw

  33. 33 Lucy C

    Thanks for a great giveaway. I’m loving the stationary. If I won I’d use it to write to my Grandama and my Aunts. I have been trying to get better about writing letters and would love to use such pretty stationary to do it.

  34. 34 Heather

    I love these–so much fun!

    I would write to my best friend from school–I’ve known her since I was 5 and she is always the person I write to when I have great stationery!

  35. 35 Marguerite

    Happy entertaining stuff — would like some :)

  36. 36 Annette M

    I write letters all the time, especially to my sister in California and my best friend in Tennessee.

  37. 37 Kelly O.

    Isn’t this awesome! I would use it to send letters to my sis in laws!

  38. 38 Maren

    What a neat giveaway!

  39. 39 jaime

    Love it, Love it! great giveaway!

  40. 40 Cassie Driver

    This looks nice! Thanks for doing the giveaway!
    Cassie Driver
    cmdoduck(at)gmail(dot)com

  41. 41 Anne

    I would love to win this…I still write letters!

  42. 42 mae

    pretty cute stuff! I know I’d love to get my hands on some of it :)

    http://www.mpaisley.etsy.com

  43. 43 Christy

    i’ll definitely write to my BFF with your adorable paper goodies!

  44. 44 Amy

    This looks so cool, I would love to win.

  45. 45 Katy

    I would write to my Gran in Sydney she always appreciates a handwritten letter - thanks for the generous giveaway!

  46. 46 ikkinlala

    I’d love to enter, please, and I’d write to my aunt.

  47. 47 Kim

    I would send letters to everyone who has moved away from this city over the years! Like most people, I love sending and receiving mail!

  48. 48 Becky in Georgia

    I love notecards! I used my stash up earlier this year for thank you notes following surgery. My son is headed to college in August. I’d love to brighten his days with your retro. notes. Thanks for the wonderful give-away!

  49. 49 Dallas

    This is a great giveaway. I’ve started sending a lot more snail-mail since I’ve moved overseas. I think it just makes it a little more interesting when it has an international stamp on it.

  50. 50 triona

    nice goodies - pls count me in :)

  51. 51 Anna S.

    I love your stationery set. I would write to my friends Lisa and Nancy in Boston, to my friend Cynthia, who loves found art, and to my beau John. They would all appreciate that the stationery was recycled.
    Anna S.

  52. 52 djaj

    I just love mail !
    Especially when it comes from far away from my place…

  53. 53 Stephanie

    HI!!! haha I would write to my daughter as she likes to receive letters in the mail… which is something that children just don’t get these days anymore… she is 8 and really does appreciate the effort of writing to a loved one!!

    we’re having a give away too.

    xo Steph

  54. 54 craftytammie

    Thanks, I’d love to win these, I write to my brother who lives in New Mexico. He actually writes back, too.

  55. 55 Ellen

    Awesome stuff. I’m intrigued by your post above this one. Mini art prints, I wish you were giving one of those away :D. I’m very fearful of ticks too, my husband laughs at me, but they are sick!

  56. 56 Jessica

    I just love stationary so please add me to this draw :)

  57. 57 Raheli

    Wow, after writing a Thank You note for the stationary, I would write to my old roommate, Lauren, who is getting married in 3 months.

  58. 58 Amanda

    Sounds great! I’ll be writing to my cousin next, as she’s on holidays in Europe…well, a working holiday anyway!

  59. 59 Cindy

    I love sending notecards to friends or folks I think need a bright spot in their day. Thanks!

  60. 60 jodie

    great giveaway! Thanks for the chance to win!

    Jodie

  61. 61 natasha

    oooh please enter me into your draw ;)

  62. 62 Valerie

    Such lovely notecards, I love getting pretty things in the mail, and I love sending pretty things to people who really appreciate them!

  63. 63 Jenny

    I think I’m going to win.

  64. 64 amber

    Wow. Two things I adore being given away: stationery and found or leftover art. Way to make snail mail even more fun! Love your blog, too, what a lucky day.

  65. 65 Jingle

    These are so neat! You use great base materials!

  66. 66 MGTerry

    These are so amazing. I would probably use them to write thank you notes to my clients- I’m a wedding photographer. That way they would know they didn’t hire just any boring old photographer!

  67. 67 urban craft

    cool giveaway! I am in please!

  68. 68 Kitsune

    I think it’s a heck of a shame more people don’t write to each other these days. I tried to get into art-mail once, but my artistic skills are practically nil so it didn’t work out, alas.

  69. 69 B

    Serious? How fun is that?

  70. 70 Steph W

    Thank you for your generosity!

  71. 71 Susan G

    I love your stationary. I’d write to my sister, who I am going to be visiting for a week next month for the first time in years.

  72. 72 Candice Hopper-Owrey

    Hi I love the post before this where you leave art for strangers to find. That is so wonderful!

  73. 73 pam

    I have so many thank you notes I need to send, this would be perfect!

    Thank you for the chance to win! Please be sure to drop by my blog and enter to win a giveaway that I am hosting. Hope to see you there!!

  74. 74 Michele

    Great Giveaway.

    I’d write to my favorite teacher. I’m not sure I ever told her how much her class meant to me.

  75. 75 Larissa

    Thanks for teh chance to win!! These are lovely! I would write to my sister, pregnant for the first time and so excited!

  76. 76 lisa

    You sound like a wonderful soul! :) I’d write to my husband’s aunt.

    Thanks for a chance to win! :)

    hootie364@gmail.com

  77. 77 em

    hi there! My man’s in the military so we’re always far from family/old friends…these are so great! I love the retro vibes. I’m so tired of the boring impersonal cards at the store… what a fresh breath these would be!

    Hope you pick me!
    ~Em

  78. 78 Deanna

    Love the cards - I would send my grandma a note - even though she lives in the area - she loves to get mail! Thanks!

  79. 79 Ingrid

    I’d love to write a letter to my Grandma and mail it to her in Heaven. She was a great letter writer…

  80. 80 Lindsay

    Love the giveaway, great stuff. I like your found art piece as well :)

  81. 81 Kime'

    Love the giveaway.

  82. 82 Kathleen

    Yes, I still write letters and notes. And I appreciate all things handmade. Recycled handmade is even better!. Thank you
    Kathleen
    villagequilter@gmail.com

  83. 83 Page

    I write letters to my aunt all the time and she really appreciates hand made things so these would be great!

  84. 84 Patty

    Love your stuff.

  85. 85 Karen

    I would write a letter to my daughter that just had a baby and a surgery! Thanks.

  86. 86 Kate C.

    Wow those are really cool! I would write my friend Jill!

  87. 87 Marsel

    I would write to my grandmother, who (although she has been very brave about email and Internet) still much prefers “real” mail.

  88. 88 kelli

    I would write to my friend Nancy from High School. I wonder what she is doing right now?

  89. 89 Shelley c

    This is very cool stuff. I’ve always lamented how email has squashed letter writing and there will be nothing left for posterity. :( Would love to win your stationary and my Mom and sister in law would be the lucky recipiants of these.

  90. 90 Sara

    Love, love the stationary you are making…

    I would use it to write letters to friends, my daughter and maybe a new pen pal…

    nhsarab at yahoo dot com

  91. 91 Sharon

    Hi!

    I would write to my mum - it’s always good to write to your mum!

    shay at nathyoung dot com

  92. 92 Amy

    If I win, I would write to my friend in England!

  93. 93 Cathy

    The best thing about giveaway day is visiting all the blogs and seeing what folks are making. :)

  94. 94 Lexa

    Your stationary rocks! I’d write to my family and friends back home, since I live away from them now.

    Also, I’m doing a collaborative letter project on my blog to help revive snail mail: http://juntei.blogspot.com ^^

    Thanks for this giveaway!

  95. 95 miriam

    There is so much work that goes into this I am amazed you are giving away ! But Thanks anyway.

  96. 96 Sue

    Great give away! Crossing my fingers that I have a lucky number!

  97. 97 Ali

    I love these envelopes!! You must have so much fun making them (and finding the papers too!)

  98. 98 Mel

    Thank you for offering up such a lovely give away. It is so nice to see people recycling materials out there, it also lovely to see that writing letters and sending it via snail mail is not yet a thing of the past. I think people get so caught up in our new digital world that we often forget the simple pleasures!!!!

    Thanks again
    x Mel

  99. 99 sandy

    I love your work and would love to win!

  100. 100 Sharon

    I still love to write letters…..ones that are handmade would be even better! Thanks for the opportunity to win!

  101. 101 thea

    I have been wanting to write more letters! I was so good a penpal when I was young!

  102. 102 rae

    ooh! these look fun! i could use some stationary. thanks for the opportunity!

  103. 103 Jules

    What a great and creative giveaway. Please enter me in the drawing. I still love to write letters by hand & am always looking for cool stationary. Thanks.

  104. 104 Jules

    What a great and creative giveaway. Please enter me in the drawing. I still love to write letters by hand & am always looking for cool stationary. Thanks.

  105. 105 MamáChanga

    It’s been a long time since I’ve handwritten a note to anyone. I’d like to send a few to my extended family members just to let them know I’m thinking about them and bring a smile to their day!

    Hugs & Blessings!

  106. 106 Hannah

    Love this !

  107. 107 Karissa

    What a great giveaway! Who doesn’t love mail!

  108. 108 Dacia

    I love it!!!

  109. 109 Michelle

    What a great giveaway! I would write to my aunt if I won.

  110. 110 stasi

    i would write to my grandma of course!

  111. 111 Marsha

    I think I would use these cards to write love letters to my husband and also to leave notes in my boys’ lunch boxes. They love getting notes from mom

  112. 112 Jan

    Hi! I’d be writing to my children who live away from home. I’m in Illinois and a daughter is in Colorado and a son who is in California. They’re too far away!

    Thanks for participating in this great giveaway.

  113. 113 Tiffany

    Wow! Love the earth-friendly creations. I would write notes to lots of people - sister, brother in Korea, new nephew, grandma, mom (who lives too far away :() Please pick me!

  114. 114 Michelle Leitinger

    Thank you for the chance to win. I love your creations, you are very talented. I would use the stationary to write my parents and friends.

  115. 115 adriane.s.

    I would want to win so I could send my twin sister a fancy schmancy letter or two on some hip paper and she would finally know who the coolest twin was… (even though she really is). No, also my grandma (I bet she would get a kick out of it) too!
    Thanks so much!

  116. 116 Laura

    Paper, recycledness, craftiness, what more do you want? I would love to win this set! I would probably write to my friend Beth on it because that’s who I usually write to. :)

  117. 117 Ginny

    I love paper, so I am totally loving your giveaway. I’m loving your blog as well, glad I found it!

  118. 118 JB

    I love mail!

  119. 119 Mandi

    Every day my 2 year old and I excitedly check our mail. I love letters!
    Thanks for the chance to enter your giveaway!

  120. 120 Eleanor (undeadgoat)

    If I won, I would write to the President, the Pope, and the man of my dreams. Though not in that order. And I wouldn’t waste such lovely stationary on anyone as silly as our current pope.

  121. 121 Katie

    Hi
    I’d have to write to all the girls I use to write to before we had computers. Two in particular, one of whom is in the UK, because they would appreciate the beauty of the stationary too!

  122. 122 javede

    I would love to win this!

  123. 123 Carolyn

    Those are such a great idea! I would love to be able to send such a nice and eco friendly card every time I write a letter!

    Thanks for the great giveaway!

  124. 124 Liz

    i need more stationery like i need a hole in the head, but you know what? it’s not stopping me. :) i love your recycled artisticness!

  125. 125 Robin in New Jersey

    Count me in! Very nice!

  126. 126 Ali

    Two sets, yay! Thanks for offering such a great giveaway!

  127. 127 Hannah

    i love your etsy shop. Thanks for introducing me.

  128. 128 Mich

    I would write to my sister and to an old friend I haven’t seen in three years.

  129. 129 Michelle

    What a great idea for recycling and a great giveaway. Neat blog. I’ll be back later to really take a good look around.

  130. 130 Libby

    I love stationary, especially unique stuff !

  131. 131 Jasmine

    I’d write to all my loved ones overseas. I have a stackload of them who tend not to use email. Which is lovely!

  132. 132 Casey

    Love your work, love that you do random acts of art (good luck with this last one!) and love the super tiny zine. What a great idea!

  133. 133 rayna

    What a great giveaway! i would write to my family and school friends, who all live across the country.

  134. 134 cheekypoet

    Love the stationery. I would write to my friend in Texas USA, I’m in NSW Australia.

  135. 135 Rachelle

    I almost got goosebumps after looking at this blog, it’s so creative and awesome. Now I must find a way to convince the Blog Gods to remove all other names so I can be guaranteed one of these sets! With it, I would write people that I know around the nation or perhaps would save it and send it to people locally instead of postcards when I’m on vacation.

  136. 136 Hannah

    You have a great eye for design and I love all your stuff - it’s so genuinely creative!

  137. 137 Ilona

    This is so cool! Great idea, thanks for the give-away.

  138. 138 __L__

    I love your work! It’s great!
    So I try my luck :-D
    Lisa (France)

  139. 139 Diane

    Love These! My father is moving in a month away from me in California to Oklahoma and since he does not own a computer and vows to NEVER have one, I would use these to write to him! He would LOVE it! Thanks for the opportunity to win!

  140. 140 Susan K

    Depending on what you sent me if I won…
    either my daughter would write to her grandmother and friends or I would right to my friends in Sweden.

  141. 141 Sarah

    love these sets!!!
    thanks for the great giveaway!

  142. 142 Louisa

    Old school mail - love it. I’d write to my grandparents.

  143. 143 Julia

    I’ve been loving snail mail lately - I mean, I love getting it, so I enjoy the thought of making my friends’ day.

  144. 144 BreannaS

    I would write letters to my grandmother. She is home bound and loves getting mail from my children and I.

  145. 145 Andrea

    These are really cool. To my love. Even though we live at the same address…he’s the one who gets the mail.

  146. 146 Mary on Lake Pulaski

    I love the idea of your stationary and if I won I would write to my only daughter who lives 1800 miles away.

  147. 147 Tanya

    I would write to my great aunt Helen, we write back and forth to each other on a somewhat regular basis!

  148. 148 Barbara

    I’d love to win your giveaway and would write to a grade school friend. We’ve kept in touch for 35 years.

  149. 149 amy

    i love your stationary sets! i’d write to my crafty friends that are spread out all over the world. we chat online all the time, but it’s just not the same as an actual letter!

  150. 150 Carlee

    Hope I am not too late…I would love to win! I would write my mom and my aunt…they would both love to receive a surprise note in the mail :)

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