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.

robayre

Hi, I'm Robyn and I was Hatched from a Kinder Surprise Egg. Graphic Designer by day, Maker of things by night. I have worked as a graphic artist professionally since I was 16 years old. Went on to get my Bachelors of Art from NIU. I like to share my Artwork online at flickr.com/photos/robayre and on my own personal website http://www.robayre.com. I also have an online shop http://www.robayre.etsy.com where you can find more of my "crafty" sorts of things, as well as a random piece of artwork here and there. Oh, and I'm also an occasional contributor to Artomat (artomat.org).

150 thoughts on “It’s May Give-Away Day

  1. 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. 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

  3. 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.

  4. 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. :-)

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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!

  8. 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!

  9. 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. :)

  10. 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.

  11. 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!

  12. 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!

  13. 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!

  14. 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.

  15. 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.

  16. 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

  17. 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!

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

  19. 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.

  20. 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!

  21. 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.

  22. 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.

  23. 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!!

  24. Great Giveaway.

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

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

  26. 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

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

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

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

  30. 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.

  31. 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

  32. 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

  33. 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.

  34. 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.

  35. 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!

  36. 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

  37. 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.

  38. 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!

  39. 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.

  40. 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!

  41. 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. :)

  42. 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!

  43. 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!

  44. 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!

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

  46. 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.

  47. 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!

  48. 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.

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

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

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

  52. 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!

  53. 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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