Do-it-yourself-invitations.com Announces Handmade and DIY Wedding Invitations Contest and Giveaway

Boston, MA (PRWEB) February 2, 2011

Do-it-yourself-invitations.com, a popular online resource for paper crafters and DIY bridal enthusiasts, announced the kick off of their annual Handmade DIY Wedding Invitations Contest. Visitors are offered a chance to win prizes offered by several Etsy.com Wedding Artisan shops, including a custom couture wedding album and guest book by artisan Shelby Specht of Specht Couture, an calligraphy package offered by Angelique Ink Design Studio, and a couture bridal accessory package from Avenue C Bridal.

To kick off this effort, Do It Yourself Invitations has partnered with several popular blogs where readers will be asked to enter their handmade wedding invitations with photos and a breif description for a panel of experts judges to pick thier top three winners. This panel of judges will be made up of bloggers, Kymora of BecomingtheMrs.com, Jessica Bishop of Thebudgetsavvybride.com, and Lauren Donaldson of LaurenEliseCrafted.com and featured DIYer on Emmaline Bride.

The contest will also include a giveaway picked from a random drawing of all contestants. The winner of the giveaway will receive a custom designed bridal invitation map to accompany their wedding invitations or for out of town guest gift bags.

"This is such a great opportunity for many of us small business owners to band together and get the word out about our products and services," says Delilah Hatch, owner and editor of Do-it-yourself-invitations.com. In her own words, budget friendly wedding invitations are her specialty. "With the economy on the down turn and weddings costing as much as they do, many brides are looking for ways to cut costs. Making handmade invitations is just one of them," Delilah explains. "I wanted to host a DIY invitations contest to give these brides an outlet for showing off their great work, but also with the focus of inspiring each other on their journey."

Do-It-Yourself-Invitations.com is an invitations and card making website that has soared in readership since its launch in Late 2006 and is ranked among the top 1% of all websites for traffic according to Alexa traffic rankings. Hatch believes the popularity is in part due to a combination of the economy and DIY bridal trends. "The online community of DIY brides is exploding right now. Whether they have financial reasons or are creating items to fit in with their unique style sense, more brides are turning back towards making items themselves."

The Handmade Invitations Contest runs through April 30th, 2011, giving brides plenty of time to finish up projects.

To view current entries, for more information, or to enter the contest, please visit http://www.do-it-yourself-invitations.com/contests.html.

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Storkie Express Expands Paper Options for Invitations and Cards

Fort Lauderdale, FL (PRWEB) June 09, 2011

Storkie Express, a leading online source for custom-printed invitations and cards, is thrilled to announce the latest innovation in stationery customization, providing the largest selection of print stock options in the industry!

Customers can easily select from up to six different formats for most of the invitations, announcements, and cards offered at Storkie.com, including: 120 lb. Smooth Card Stock, 110 lb. Recycled Matte Card Stock, Magnetized Card Stock, 110 lb. Pearlized Shimmer Card Stock, 130 lb. Recycled Matte Card Stock, as well as a selection of fourteen different Outer Pocket Wrap options.

?For over 21 years, Storkie Express has been dedicated to providing a unique and unparalleled customer experience for personalized invitations, announcements and cards,? said Debra Gudai, Storkie?s Founder and President. ?As a pioneer in the online stationery industry, we are pleased to continue to lead the industry by providing customers with a greatly expanded set of beautiful, high quality card stock options.?

Storkie?s commitment to innovation leads the invitation industry, providing a robust, customer-centric stationery personalization experience that is easy and fun to use. From Storkie?s first website in 1999 to Storkie 4.0 today, the company has been at the forefront of online invitation customization and ordering. The exclusive iDesign platform enables complete control over wording, layout, fonts, colors and more. Furthermore, Storkie?s proprietary Dynamic Designs allow visitors to easily personalize color combinations and graphics in real-time, creating unique invitations and cards to reflect their own style!

For more information regarding Storkie?s unique and stylish invitations, please visit:

http://www.storkie.com

About Storkie Express, Inc.:

Storkie Express is an online-based invitations company, providing customers with quality, affordable custom-printed invitations, announcements and cards since 1990. Storkie has an extensive selection of chic invitations for every occasion. With unique collections of wedding stationery, save the date magnets, wedding thank you cards, as well as baby shower invitations, religious invitations, birth announcements, Christmas cards and much more, Storkie is sure to have the perfect stationery for your special event. At Storkie.com, customers can easily design and order high quality custom-printed invitations at the best prices, with the fastest turn-around time in the industry.

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Children's Charities To Benefit From Purchase of Kids Birthday Party Invitations

Foothill Ranch, CA (PRWEB) January 28, 2012

"For 2012, we have chosen to support Joy Jars by Jessie and The NEGU Foundation," said Jeanette Herren, President of Announcingit Invitations. "These children's charities touched my heart, not only because Jessie was a part of our community and a member of our church, but because cancer has also touched my family."

For over 20 years, Announcingit Invitations & More has been spreading joy through the printing of invitations for kids birthday party invitations. Their decision to spread joy to children in need through contributing to charities for children was a natural fit.

Joy Jars and The NEGU Foundation, which stands for Never Ever Give Up, were inspired by Jessica Joy Rees, a courageous child who lost her 10-month battle with two inoperable brain tumors on January 5, 2012.

Jessie and the JoySquad filled over 3,000 Joy Jars for kids and distributed them to over 27 states and 7 children's hospitals. Her wish was to send JoyJars to every child fighting cancer in the United States which is over 50,000 kids. We hope to help her charities reach this goal by donating a portion of every kids birthday party invitation our customer's purchase.

Jeanette and her employees have been following the progress of another young cancer fighter, 6 year old Cade Spinello, the child of one of her son's teachers and former football coaches at Mission Viejo High School. For over a year, Cade has courageously been fighting his own battle with a brain tumor. Photos of Cade with his Joy Jar, pictures and videos of Jessie and links to her charities can be found on the Announcingit.com website.

February marks the company's 21st year in business, and Announcingit will be introducing new designs for their collection of kids invitations for birthdays, christening, baptism and first communion as well as additions to their standard line of colorful invitations for weddings, business and adults.

About Announcingit: Announcingit has been creating, designing and printing party invitations, holiday photo cards, party favors, and note cards for kids, adults, business and weddings for over 20 years. You can shop Announcingit.com on-line 24/7, visit their store in Foothill Ranch, California, follow them on Twitter, Facebook and their Blog.

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