Who doesn’t love a good party?
So, I mentioned on Monday that today is a sponsored post. I was approached by Basic Invite about writing a sponsored post for their company and immediately felt comfortable with the project. We’re talking paper invitations here. Of course, I’d write about them.
Let me explain.
I met Randy way back in 1995 in an AOL writers chat room. At the time, I was writing scores of bad fiction and Randy was publishing a fiction magazine written by high school students. We bonded over a conversation about office supplies. We both dig notebooks, pens, binders, and note cards. I credit that first conversation with the reason we are together today. I found someone else who had a serious paper fetish. Even after all these years, he still sometimes asks me if he can run his fingers through my loose leaf binder. I have no idea what he is talking about. His flirting skills have always been quirky.
Randy buys note cards and post cards at a nearly compulsive rate. We have amassed enough to send daily letters to everyone we know for at least the next 58 years. Our grandchildren are the normal recipients. Only Randy doesn’t buy cards geared toward kids, so they might get an Edward Gorey, a Van Gogh, or maybe, a Pink Panther card. They all seem to like the cards. I’m glad Randy sends them cards. Maybe, the art of letter writing and card sending will have a resurgence one day.
I love getting invitations. I don’t have a wide social circle and the family at both sides is in a lull. Graduation parties have all been had until the littles start getting bigger. Weddings are sporadic. Other than a few stray baby showers, we don’t get a lot of invitations in the mail. I just know that receiving a card of any kind in the mail always gives me a boost. Unless it’s a card that looks like it’s going to be a personal
greeting and it ends up being from some dude who promises to get me a mortgage rate that will make me see glitter covered angels. Then I’m just pissed off.
But I digress.
I haven’t seen an actual sample of a Basic Invite invitation, but here’s the cool thing. They will send you sample so you can touch it, feel it, and perhaps cuddle it before deciding to buy.
You can customize your invitation by choosing a design and then choosing the colors. They have a wide color pallet, over 160 colors to choose from and you can change colors on all the different elements of the card. There is an instant preview as well. Envelopes come in over 40 colors and have a peel off adhesive, so no licking envelopes. Being one who is accident prone, I appreciate this feature as I have had more than one paper cut on my tongue.
And now the fun part!
Do you have an event coming up? A baby announcement or a wedding or a child’s first birthday? Well, if you do and you would like to design your own invitations, I have a coupon code for 50 cards from Basic Invite. I would like to pass that along to one of you. I love giving shit away! Especially, if I didn’t have to pay for it!
Leave me a comment if you would like to get 50 free cards from Basic Invite. I will get Randy to draw a name this weekend and I will email the winner with the coupon code. The only thing I ask is if you do get the cards, just drop me a line through my contact page and let me know what you think of the product so that I can pass your thoughts along to Basic Invite.
Thanks for reading! We will now return to your regularly scheduled blog.
I love all things paper too! I *need* a new notebook for any occasion.
I also need this coupon code for baby announcements! 🙂
I’ve been seeing your baby pictures online. Congrats, gorgeous!!!! I will put you in the drawing!
Perhaps I should make up an event – but no, I don’t have one, certainly not one for 50 people. So I will hope one of your other fine readers wins this prize.
I know this sounds sort of selfish but I would love to throw myself a 15 year cancer survivor party with super cool invitations. Something with a boob theme but NOT pink. I hate pink.
That is NOT selfish at all! That is a wonderful idea!!! Good luck!!
And you can pick whatever colors you want!
Shari…..SO happy to hear of this particular anniversary for you. Sending Ts and Ps for continued health. 🙂
Pick someone who needs two entries 😉 and I’ll donate my chance. I like new babies AND old used up boobies, so….
Awesome stuff, Lollipop!
Thank you, sweetness!
Would love to try this product for my holiday invitations. Thank you for the chance to win.
You’re welcome!!! Good luck!
I’m doing a bridal shower for my friend’s daughter, and I’ve been pondering how to do the invitations. These would fix me up!
Awesome! You’re in!
I collect postcards. It started when I was overseas and couldn’t get my camera to work and hated carrying one around anyway. I thought it made me look like a tourist while buying postcards…well, anyway, I also love all sorts of paper products and get a kick out of sending bizarre cards to friends.
For some reason being able to make my own never occurred to me but is something I’d have a lot of fun trying.
Randy collects postcards from where ever we go as well. The more bizarre the better! haha. Awesome!
I also have a paper fetish!!!! I want to win!
I like to send postcards to my friends from made up people.
Nice to see you here! Good luck!
Hello Everyone!
Here I was, thinking I was the only person in the world who is obsessed with office supplies! I have about 30 different kinds of fancy paper, envelopes, return address labels (some of which I made myself), stickers, notecards, colored envelopes….well, you get the picture! It’s nice to know someone else is “crazy like me”.
Now tell me, dear friends….why is it so hard to get a pen pal to keep writing? I always write back within a week of receiving a letter, but then never hear back…or it takes weeks!
Nice post, Michelle…I’ll go view their website. They could be my next dealer for my addiction! 🙂
Thank you so much! Yeah, you are not alone with the paper thing. 🙂
We missed the boat on this one. The only “event” we’ve been involved in was Sunday, when we had a surprise birthday party for my friend Rob. We barbecued several species of meat, there were multiple cakes, and someone gave Rob a $50.00 bottle of Tequila. Oh, and a stripper showed up, but I missed that part. (Briana said Rob was blushing, so the stripper can’t have been all bad.) We had to wrangle inviting people by phone and text, to try and keep the secret, but paper invites would have been cool also, as you don’t HAVE to mail them, you can hand them out as well. We could have put a car and the Motorhead logo on them, and we wouldn’t even have had to use his name, as everybody would have known who it had to be…
I could totally use a 50 dollar bottle of tequila
It was Don Julio something or other. I don’t drink, so I didn’t try it, but I’m told that it was very good.
Great invitations. The stock looks really nice.
It really does. I am looking forward to give them away!
Me, me, me! And I’m pretty sure Randy was using a euphemism.
I don’t want to agree to what he suggests because I don’t know where my loose leaf binders are and I want to know what I’m agreeing to.
Profanity encouraged? Try be the mother of a once sweet and innocent angel baby who has now returned from the 7th circle of hell, aka wedding planning on a tight budget. I’m out of energy to be able to use profanity, but am able to eek out a “Help at least with the save the dates” plea. I was the wise mom who said, when the kids were middle school age, in an attempt to permanently scar their thought process of ever wanting to “shack up” with their significant other, If you’re living with them you might as well be married, so you won’t get a wedding out of us. Being the stubborn spawn of her mother, my daughter is hell-bent on paying for this wedding while simultaneously paying college loans and rent on said love shack. Help. Please. Thank you.
Oh man…kids..
Best of luck to you! XOXOXO