Why not spread holiday happiness beyond the confines of your mailing list?
Cardstore.com is excited to announce the Send a Little You to Someone New program. By simply visiting our Facebook page and signing up, you can send holiday greetings across the country and make the day of someone you’ve never even met! Even better? You’ll receive a card in return! What could be better than that? All compliments of Cardstore.com! (Think this can’t be topped? Sign up and see what’s delivered to your inbox!)
There are no gimmicks here; the Send a Little You to Someone New program is as simple as it sounds. We hope to help you literally “send a little you” this holiday season with our beautiful, creative cards, personalized by you and shared with folks across the U.S.
We are Cardstore.com, and we believe in the power of a great greeting card. It’s our goal to help people connect and communicate with each other in a meaningful way. Please join us this holiday season and Send a Little You to Someone New.
See how easy it is to Send a Little You to Someone New this holiday season! Here are the step by step instructions:
1. Go to our Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/Cardstore?v=app_284350871598220.#!/Cardstore?sk=app_284350871598220
2. Click “like”
3. Enter your personalized message
4. Choose one of three holiday cards



5. Enter your personalized message. Some fun message ideas are listed below (or scan Cardstore.com for more inspiration):
Message inspirations:
- May your bells be jinglin’ and your Kris be Kringlin’! Happy Holidays, new friend!
- We’ve never met. But I bet I can eat more snicker doodles than you. Have a super sweet holiday, new friend!
- I’m granting your holiday wish for a brand new friend, because I just couldn’t swing the mini horse this year. Hope you get everything you wish for!
- You wished for a brand new friend this holiday, and Santa brought you me. I’m sorry. I mean, you’re welcome. Happy Holidays, new buddy!
- Good King Wenceslas looked out… and he said it’s freaking freezing. Hope you’re staying warm, new friend!
- I fa-la-la-love making new friends, don’t you? Happiest of Holidays to you and yours.
- I’m dreaming of a white Christmas. Ok, I’m dreaming of a cabana in Tahiti. (I can’t lie to you, new friend.) Hope all your holiday dreams come true!
- May the New Year make everything all pretty again. Especially for you, new friend.
- Looking forward to making your acquaintance, my old friends weren’t as cool as I thought they were.
- It’s so hipster of us to make a friend through cards. Finding friends online is so last year.
- You can go far in life standing on the shoulders of giants, but you should probably hold on to their shirt collars to be safe. Happy Day to a New Friend!
6. Hit “send” and wait for the joy to be delivered to your mailbox!
If you are a blogger and interested in learning how you can enter to win a year’s supply of greeting cards from Cardstore.com, please email Meagan at meagan@socialkaty.com.
Terms and Conditions for Facebook
Cardstore is a part of American Greetings Corporation. Our greeting cards are perfect for all of life’s important occasions, with card styles that are smart, stylish, playful, original, and modern.
THIS PROGRAM IS IN NO WAY SPONSORED, ENDORSED OR ADMINISTERED BY, OR ASSOCIATED WITH, FACEBOOK. YOU UNDERSTAND THAT YOU ARE PROVIDING YOUR INFORMATION TO CARDSTORE.COM AND NOT TO FACEBOOK.
1. These Terms of Use are an Agreement (“Agreement”) between you and Cardstore.com. This Agreement is applicable to your use of this application regardless of how you accessed it. If you do not wish to be bound by this Agreement you must discontinue using and accessing this site immediately.
2. You may not participate in this Program unless you are 13 years of age or older and a resident of the United States.
3. Your privacy is very important to us. All information shared in connection with this Program is subject to our Privacy Policy (http://www.cardstore.com/privacy.htm)
4. This Program starts on November 19, 2011 at 10:00 am CST and ends on December 15, 2011 at 11:59 pm CST.
5. Participants of this Program will send one card to a randomly selected participant and receive one card from a randomly selected participant. Cards will be sent via U.S. mail. This Program is free and there is no cost to participate.
6. Participants addresses will not be shared unless the participant includes his or her address in the card message, in the participant’s sole discretion.
7. All content posted or sent through our Program is your sole responsibility. We do not verify all content shared by those submitting content. The content does not express the views of Cardstore.com in any manner.
8. You may not send any messages or use this Program to harass, abuse or threaten others, to send messages containing profanity, obscenity, racial slurs, curse words, or sexually explicit material, or to submit any content that would otherwise jeopardize the security or safety of anyone. You may not use this Program to impersonate others. You may not use this Program to send commercial or advertising communications.
9. We have the right to refuse to use or send any content or to ban you or any other user, with or without notice, at any time and for any reason, including, without limitation, our judgment that you or the user has violated our Terms of Use. You waive any claims against us that you may have which result from our exercising this right.
10. While we have no obligation to do so, you acknowledge that we reserve the right to monitor, and from time to time may monitor any and all information transmitted or received through the Program for operational and other purposes. Submission of content constitutes consent to such monitoring, and you acknowledge and agree that during monitoring, information may be examined, recorded, copied, and used for authorized purposes in accordance with our Privacy Policy. We reserve the right to store all content for use in connection with this Program.
11. You represent and warrant that you own the content posted by you on, through or in connection with this Program, and that the posting of such content on, through or in connection with this Program does not violate the privacy rights, publicity rights, copyrights, contract rights or any other rights of any person or entity. By participating on this site, you grant Cardstore.com, and its licensees and affiliates or other entities acting with its permission, a non-exclusive perpetual license to use your content in any way and for any and all purposes, including but not limited to advertising and other commercial purposes.
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Send a Little You to Someone New Contest
Official Contest Rules
THIS CONTEST IS IN NO WAY SPONSORED, ENDORSED OR ADMINISTERED BY OR ASSOCIATED WITH FACEBOOK. YOU UNDERSTAND THAT YOU ARE PROVIDING YOUR INFORMATION TO CARDSTORE.COM AND NOT TO FACEBOOK.
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN.
1. Eligibility. The Send a Little You to Someone New. Contest (“Contest”) is open only to persons 18 years and older as of Contest start date who is legal residents of the United States of America. Employees of Cardstore.com and American Greetings (“Sponsor”) and their respective subsidiaries, affiliates, dealers, franchisee and advertising or promotion agencies, or members of their immediate families or households, are ineligible to participate in the Contest.
2. Entry Dates. The Contest begins on November 19, 2011 at 10:00 AM CST and ends on December 15, 2011 at 11:59PM CST or when 2,000 cards have been distributed through the “Send a Little You to Someone New” program (“the Program”).
3. How to Enter and Win. Use the recommended text provided by Sponsor to inform your readers to use your unique url to participate in the Program. Any purchase made by you or your readers from Sponsor shall not improve your chance of winning. Sponsor will select the winner based on the entrant who referred the most participants to the Program, as determined by the entrant’s unique url code.
4. Prize. One Winner will be awarded a year’s supply of greeting cards from Cardstore.com. Approximate retail value $300.00. Taxes on the prize are the sole responsibility of the winner. Prize is non-transferable and no substitution or cash equivalent is allowed except in Sponsor’s sole discretion. Sponsor reserves the right to substitute a prize of the same approximate retail value. Prize consists only of items specifically listed as part of the prize. All prize details (including without limitation, method and location of delivery of prize) are at Sponsor’s sole discretion. Judge’s decisions are final.
5. Winner Notification. Winner will be notified by email on or about December 16th 2011 and may be required to sign and return an Affidavit of Eligibility and Publicity/Liability Release form (except where prohibited by law) within ten (10) days of when notification is sent in order to claim the prize. The winner’s Affidavit of Eligibility must be complete and include the winner’s Social Security number. The winner’s Social Security number will be used solely to verify eligibility and for tax reporting purposes. The information in the winner’s Affidavit of Eligibility must be correct or the winner will be disqualified. If the winner cannot be contacted, is ineligible, fails to claim the prize, or fails to return the completed and executed Affidavit of Eligibility and Publicity/Liability Release forms as required, or if the Prize Notification is returned as undeliverable, the prize will be forfeited and an alternative winner will be selected.
6. If for any reason the Contest is not capable of running as planned, including disruptions caused by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures or any other cause that corrupts, affects or compromises the administration, security, fairness, integrity, proper conduct or intended play of the Contest, Sponsor reserves the right at its sole discretion to disqualify any individual Sponsor deems responsible and Sponsor further reserves the right to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Contest, and substitute an appropriate alternate method of prize award selection. Sponsor is not responsible for any typographical or other error in the printing of this offer, administration of the Contest or in the announcement of prizes, including such error as may give an erroneous indication that a prize has been won. Sponsor assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications failure, theft, destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of, entries, including any erroneous appearance of qualification for a prize. Sponsor is not responsible for any problem or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer online systems, servers or provider, computer equipment, software, failure of any e-mail or entry to be received by Sponsor due to technical problem or traffic, congestion on the internet or at any web site, or any combination thereof, including any injury or damage to participant’s or any other person’s computer related to or resulting from participation or downloading any materials in this Contest. WARNING: ANY ATTEMPT BY ANY PERSON TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE ANY WEB SITE OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THIS CONTEST IS A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS AND SHOULD SUCH ATTEMPT BE MADE, SPONSOR RESERVES THE RIGHT TO SEEK DAMAGES FROM ANY SUCH PERSON TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. Contest entries generated by a script, macro or other mechanical or automated means are ineligible and will be disqualified. All entries must include a valid e-mail address for the entrant. In the event of dispute as to the identity or eligibility of a winner based on an e-mail address, or if more than one person uses the same email address, the winning entry will be declared made by the “Authorized Account Holder” of the e-mail address submitted at the time of the entry. The “Authorized Account Holder” is the person to whom the applicable Internet service provider or other organization (such as business or educational institution) has assigned the e-mail addresses for the domain associated with the submitted e-mail address.
7. Reservations. By entering this Contest, each entrant agrees: (1) to be bound by these rules and Sponsors’ decisions; (2) that neither Sponsor, Facebook, Element 79 Partners, SocialKaty, nor any of their respective officers, directors, employees, agents, or representatives are responsible for claims, injuries, losses, or damages of any kind resulting from Contest participation or the acceptance, use, misuse, possession, loss of misdirection of any prize, including punitive, consequential or any other damages, and any and all claims, judgments, and award shall be limited to actual out of pocket costs incurred, if any, and in no event shall entrant be entitled to receive attorneys’ fees or other legal costs; and (3) that the acceptance of a prize constitutes the grant of an unconditional right to use winner’s name, address (city, state), likeness, photograph, prize information, and/or statements about the promotion for publicity, advertising, and promotional purposes without additional compensation, except where prohibited by law. All causes of action arising out of or connected with this Contest, or any prize awarded, shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action
8. Miscellaneous. This Contest shall be governed by the State of Illinois substantive and procedural law, without giving effect to any choice of law or conflicts of law, rules, or provisions (whether of the State of Illinois or any other jurisdiction), that would cause the application of the laws of any jurisdiction other than the State of Illinois. By participating in this Promotion, entrants irrevocably consent that Illinois courts shall have personal jurisdiction over any dispute or litigation arising from or relating to this Promotion and the venue shall only be in the Federal and State courts of Illinois. Void where prohibited by law. All Federal, State, and local laws apply.
9. Winners List. The name of the winner shall be posted at www.cardstore.com on or about December 20th 2011.
10. Sponsor: This Contest is sponsored by Cardstore.com, located at One American Road Cleveland, Ohio 44144.