If you read this post, you may remember that the May Designs booth was one of my absolute favorites from my day at the National Stationery Show. I adore all of their fun patterns and the fact that you can personalize your May Book with anything from your name or monogram to your book’s purpose. An added bonus: May Designs has a really fun feature on their website where you can design your eco-friendly May Book and see exactly what it will look like before you make your purchase – love it!
Not only are their books perfect to use as a journal, exercise + meal planner, or agenda (and more!), but they also just launched a Wedding Diary. With the May Book Wedding Diary, you will have a place to write down all of your ideas for your wedding as well as keep track of your budget, vendors, vows, and so much more. A journal is definitely a necessity while planning your wedding!
A quick peek at my May Book:
This giveaway has been brewing for quite some time, and I’m so excited to announce that May Designs has graciously offered to giveaway not one but two May Books to two lucky Carly is Inspired readers! One reader will win one of the classic May Books of his or her choice (think: journal, agenda, etc), while a second reader will win a Wedding Diary. Excited? I hope so!
Here’s how to enter:
- Like Carly is Inspired & May Designs on Facebook
- Visit the May Designs website and design your own May Book! Then leave a comment here describing your favorite design and the book you would love to win. Please make sure to note whether you would love a journal or a wedding diary in your post!
For additional entries: Share a link to this giveaway on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and/or Instagram and use #carlyisinspiredgiveaway in your post! Then leave a separate comment with how you’ve chosen to share the Carly is Inspired & May Designs love.
That’s it! This giveaway is open until Wednesday, July 31, at 11:59 pm EST. The winners will be chosen at random and will be announced right here on Friday, August 2, so be sure to check back!
I am designing a wedding book… hopefully for me to use soon ;-) and also ordering some for my brides to be that I will be photographing!!
I LOVE these sweet planners:) I designed a nautical themed one complete with a pink hand -calligraphy font! I love both the wedding planer and the 2014 planners.
Would love to win— Thanks for the giveaway, Carly!
I’m designing an agenda with a Morrocan blue print and a tangerine monogram to use both for work events and the rest of my weekly/monthly activities. I’d love to win this to help keep everything organized!
I love the Rose Teal design! It’s adorable with the retangle background shape and the flirty script in mint! I’m hoping to win the wedding planner one because I will definitely need it in the upcoming year!
Carly, I pinned your “Win” ribbon to my Monogrammed Pinterest board.
http://pinterest.com/pin/197736239862211284/
I also tweeted about this :) https://twitter.com/jpitts/status/360065295974543361
Along with an instagram, hoping to take home the most adorable agenda! http://instagram.com/p/cKPTkSiVVU/
I love Maybooks! But I definitely think a journal would be more appropriate for me…no man in the picture. haha, but I just LOVE the Ikat Teal or Navy, I just can’t decide!
I would have LOVED this while planning my wedding to my wonderful husband (we got married june 8th of this year!), but I need a book now for keeping track of wedding gifts, thank-you note followups, and of course all that is involved in life with my new hubby! Anniversaries, trips to take our doggies to the vet, when our rent on our new home is due, and all that fun stuff that this book would make so much more joyful! My design that I picked out on May Designs is the Ikat Chevron Pink for the cover- love it’s bohemian look! I would choose the diamond style monogram with the “Ivy” typset in the color “pear” with my new initials BMD- Big D in the center of course for my new last name- Davidson! I’d want the budget book- since that is most necessary and helpful at this time :)
I just found Maybooks! How much fun are these, they really have something for everyone! Here is what I designed:
Product: May Book
Design: Let’s Bake Pink
Monogram: Claire’s Notes
Style: Vogue, Rectangle, Gray
Inside: Lines
I am in love with the lets bake pink and will be ordering note cards for sharing recipes!
I love may books I have a budget book and would love to have a academic calendar or a lined journal
I would love to win a navy chevron agenda with a melon-colored monogram!
LOVE! As a college student I am obsessed with using an agenda to keep myself organized and on time! My perfect May Book would be aqua polka dots with dark grey square outline with a white, classic fancy script monogram. Sharing on Instagram now!
I tweeted about this giveaway (alexisbaggins) and shared a status on facebook (Alexis Schneider)
Hello,
I am student teaching in the fall at an elementary school and a Maybook agenda would be a perfect tool for organizing my ideas and deadlines for the semester. A future teacher needs to stay organized while using a fashionable organizer!
The design that interested me on the Maybook website is as follows-
– design print: Maya Orchid and Yellow
– monogram: Octagon, light grey, ivy initial with a capital letter A
– type of book: 2013-2014 Academic agenda (if not available then journal)
Thank you for your time and consideration! I appreciate it.
I designed an agenda with pink zebra and fancy script font in Navy!
I’m obsessed with May Designs! I really want to get a planner/agenda for my final semester at school. I designed an Aqua Zebra book with a Hot Pink square featuring a Southern Initial ‘J’.
I shared this giveaway on my Twitter, @JadeNewmanPR!
Carly, I have shared your Maybook design giveaway on Pinterest. Thanks again and good luck to everyone!
http://instagram.com/p/cKFLUMndC5/
I’m a sucker for chevron and that mint chevron pattern is calling my name! A light grey rectangle shape and Kappa Delta written in the handwriting font makes the perfect journal.
Love this giveaway I’ve been wanting to get one but money has been tight.
I designed a Pink Chevron, Vogue Baroque teal, Monogram: ‘He Asked, I Said Yes!’ Wedding diary.
My soon to be fiancé and I are planning our wedding but with finances were holding off on an engagement ring an hopefully getting a promise ring next month an planning for two years so next year we can get engaged
Good luck to everyone
Pinned, liked and Tweeted
Ooh, I just love May Designs and I’m so excited for this giveaway!
One of the designs I’ve had on my mind is the Honeycomb Pink notebook with “Bee Ambitious” monogrammed in calligraphy on an aqua nameplate. I’d love to have this as the journal!
I was designing a cross aqua fit book with a baroque shape on the front in red with a whismy design in the script. I would love it in the wedding diary:)
An aqua color in the book cover!
I don’t know how one narrows down just ONE design for a Maybook! All the patterns are so gorgeous. I would LOVE to win a wedding diary. We just got engaged in May and could use all the planning assistance we can get! Love the Mod Rose pattern.
Hi there, I also posted a link to the giveaway on my Facebook! Hope the contest goes great and I can’t wait to see who wins!
I am obsessed with May Designs. I have a planner fro the 2013/2014 school year already and I adore it. It’s the perfect purse sized planner. I would love to win a 2014 monthly agenda in Polka Dot Aqua with “Bex” monogramed in the style of calligraphy on a gray circle.
I’m designing a Calorie & Exercise journal with the Maya Orchid & Yellow Design, “Ciara” monogram, with the Vogue, Square Light Grey monogram style!
I have been eyeing May Designs books for a while now and am excited to have found your blog! I love the Aqua Dot print in a lined journal book.
I pinned your giveaway picture and added the hashtag! http://m.pinterest.com/pin/261842165808234684/
I would LOVE a grey chevron MayBook with a Hot Pink Nameplate Monogram that says Thirty-One and filler pages for a 2013-2014 Academic Agenda!! It would definitely help me keep my business organized, as well as my family and college courses :)
I also shared this give away on my Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram :)
I just bought a calorie counter maybook! Love love them! If I could win one I would want a journal in Delta Gamma Chevron with the greek letter Alpha Delta Pi on a mint nameplate background! This journal would be perfect to take notes in chapter!
I absolutely love May Designs! I’m obsessed with them and have already purchased an academic planner for this year. I would be thrilled to win a journal with “Meg” written in Elegant Script in a Square in the Ocean color with the pattern being Moustaches Blue Chocolate. I so appreciate you considering me for this!
I would love to have a journal! I love both the bike design and the ikat dot designs. I can’t choose!
I absolutely adore May Designs and I have been wanting one for so long now! I would love to win the 2013/2014 Aug to Aug academic agenda in mint Zebra with the gray square. I love the fancy script with my monogram, HSA.
I love May Designs! They make awesome personalized gifts. I’d really like a new planner for nursing school this year: I picked out an academic agenda with the triangle craze navy and pink print. I added a circle monogram in navy. Thanks! Xxx
I tweeted about this giveaway! :) @floraziliak Xxx
I would love the Grey Chevron book with a hot pink square saying deployment 13-14 It would be a great way to journal my adventures on my deployment. I love MAY designs :)
unfortunately i cant use instagram or pinterest on the ship
My favorite design is the doodle print in pink with the name plate plaque in tangerine and my new married name “Mrs. Goehringer” written in the Stella handwriting font. I would love a new planner for teaching!
Shared on facebook https://www.facebook.com/SarahPeara
Retweeted your tweet on twitter https://twitter.com/CarlyAlexisT/status/360041188516052994
I would love to have a lined journal with the alpha delta pi polka dot print. Although I’m not in this sorority, I love the color of the print! I’m getting married in 2.5 weeks so I could put my new monogram on it! Hope I win :)
Hi!
My name is Christina. I teach 4th grade, and I love every minute! I carry around a spiral for all my notes. This beauty would be the keeper for meeting information, to-do lists, goals, and ideas.
My favorite design is Blooming Gray & Teal. The femanin floral pattern printed in the trendy colors will make a statement across the conference room!The graphing journal I designed included an Elegant Style inside a navy square.
I love the Ikat Pear journal with the grey name plate and the fancy monogram! I would love this to keep track of my notes rather than have a purse full of sticky notes!
tweeted! (@mrsdanim)
pinned on pinterest! has tag and all :-)
I designed a Gingham Yellow May Book. It is one for meal planning as I am trying to get more organized in this department. I also have a co-worker and friend who just got engaged. The Wedding journal would be so perfect for her!
Okay first off – after reading your bio & exploring your blog, I’m convinced we’d be friends! We share a love for a lot of the same things – from sunshiney places to wrapping presents to event planning to everything nautical to bows to fantasies of a chocolate-dipped life! I seriously connected with everything you wrote about! I’m super glad I found your blog via a MayDesigns Instagram post because I’m excited to start keeping up with it.
Another cool connection – I’m from FL, but a friend of mine from way back in middle school, Nina, is also from Philly & recently moved back there! It’s a place I’ve always wanted to visit – Philadelphia seems like such an awesome city steeped in such rich history. One of these days I’ll make it happen. :)
I’d like to win this book for one of my dearest friends – it’s her birthday in August & this is the perfect gift for her! I already have an obsession with MayDesigns – I’ve been a huge fan since I saw a friend’s collection of MayBooks that she was given for Christmas last year – so I figured I should spread the love ;)
P.S. I also Tweeted a link to the giveaway & Pinned a link to your blog! So many of my friends would be inspired by the creativity & love found in your posts. :)
Anyway, here’s the design my friend would love:
background shape: square
typographic style: modern
monogram color: peach
monogram text: //take me deeper than my feet could ever wander//
inside pages: lines
(on the preview page…
Product: MayBook
Design: Modern Chevron Navy & Peach
Monogram: //take me deeper than my feet could ever wander//
Style: Modern, Square, Peach
Inside: Lines)
Addicted to MayBooks. I can’t get enough of them. I have 11 and bought 2 more today! I would love to win the journal because I need to write everything down when I am going from meeting to meeting. Did I mention my current journal is nearing the end? Hope I win :)
I made just a regular notebook! I love maydesigns. I have been wanting to get one for awhile but have kept putting it off! The design I chose was Blooming Gray and Tangerine and I absolutely love it! It is bright and colorful and I love the flower pattern. I chose to just get just plain lines since this would be a great journal to write daily passages of things that my son has started doing and other things like that.
I love May Designs and hope to own a journal one day. Their picnic patterns are just too cute but I think the navy colored swans are my favorite. With the navy you can add a pop of color when it comes to the font and background shape. I love all of the fonts they make it so hard to choose! I think the swans call for a more elegant font like flirty or elegant script. I have always wanted to put a quote on a MayBook. My top choice is “always wear an invisible crown”, which is my motto, but I have a few others in mind. I hope I have a chance to make my wishes come true!
I’m in love with MayBooks!! My wish would be the aug-aug agenda with vintage initial B, color grey with circle…love all the stylish patterns!!!!!!!!!!!
I posted to fb and tweeted about this contest and May Designs!!!
My fave is the mermaid! I recently made an excercise planner. (: I would love to win an agenda!
I will be sharing the love by designing an agenda for the new school year with my niece! She recently seen the sight and loves the designs. See, her dad is my brother and her parents are divorced so I don’t get to see her as often as I would like. She had to go back to her mom’s before we could finish designing the book. Every year I take her and her sister shopping for school supplies so hopefully then we can finish at that time. I recently looked just into your site and I love all your ideas! My friend is getting married soon and hopefully you can inspire us!
Maydesigns is my newfound love <3 I have recently purchased an agenda (that is SUPER cute) for my senior year in College, as well as a journal entitled "My Adventure Across the Pond" to journal all about my study abroad trip coming in September this year!
What I would absolutely LOVE is another book. :) Of course, what else??
The book I am looking at (more like, drooling over!) is the Mint Floral patterned background with an Spa-Colored/Octagon-Shaped/Julia-Styled Text that reads "My Love." I am not getting married any time soon. No, I don't even have a boyfriend! But what I really want this journal for is to write notes to the somebody I know will sweep me off my feet in the years to come. The one person who will receive "My Love" because he is exactly the person that God made for me. Every time I have a thought about being sad because I'm single, or a dream about my future husband, it will inspire me to write a love note to the man of my dreams! And on the morning of our wedding I will give this book to him.
Maybe it sounds cheesy, but if you ask me, the world could use a little bit more of that. :)
I’ve been eyeing these for a while and have heard you raving about them for so long that I HAD to design one. I made a budget journal because the real world sucks. It’s in the lime nautical rope pattern with a navy circle with my monogram (hSk) in a circle font in navy.
PS this is awesome, I love you!
Oooooo I plan on purchasing A BUNCH of these for senior year, so it would help if I got a couple for free ;D I’m really digging green right now, with the emerald trend, so I definitely love the Greek key green lined journal with the octagon background with a pink circle script of my monogram: CMA. That would be pretty wonderful (:
I don’t own a Maybook…yet. But I would love to! I’m a huge fan of pastel colors, so I would love the mint polka dot print with a light pink scallop background shape and a modern script monogram because I love monograms probably in gray!
Alright, I’ve now shared the giveaway on all social networks: Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram. And I’ve shared my Instagram promotion with Twitter and Facebook as well. Good luck to everyone! (:
Regular journal with graph paper: navy blue chevron print with the square monogram in mint!
I would love a pink chevron notebook with a pear octagon with my name! If I win this would be my fourth maybook!!! kinda obsessed :p
I love the grey chevron agenda with the octagon and my monogram in fancy script! I would do the font color pink or teal! So super cute!!!!!!
I pinned the giveaway!!
I tweeted the giveaway! @Axt10a
I’d love the Ikat Chevron Teal – as a journal!
So I’ve been an avid reader of your lovely blog for quite some time now && ideally, when my two obsessions collide – I can’t help but, smile from ear to ear! (Maydesigns and you, of course)
As a second-year college student, I look up to you and your fabulous life and the tips that come with it. As an advertising major, it’s really important to know how to market/brand yourself and you totally have mastered that. Likewise, May Designs is every art director/sorority girl’s dream…graphic designing and personalization! Both, which I plan to be and am! I have been planning on purchasing a May Book because of my OCD with staying organized, (I literally have a little agenda color coordinated, and filled with notes, ideas, and daily happenings)… But, it seems that it no longer suffices. There is only one problem, though… I’m a broke college student working two jobs and I don’t really have the money to splurge on one of these adorable essentials.
If given the opportunity, I would love the “Rose Teal”. It combines my middle name, favorite color, and favorite flower! With fancy script, of course! I’ve had my eyes on this for quite sometime now… To be honest, I even have it bookmarked and in my checkout bin!
Ah, thank you for the chance to win. Can’t wait to see more form your amazing life.
I just discovered May Books and I am in love! I designed a monthly agenda in the Ikat Dots Ocean, with a rectangle name plate in Melon with “Avery” font.
I adore the Ikat Chevron Teal with a navy octagon fancy monogram in a journal! I love the May books!!
I love Maybooks and I think they should design wedding invites and stuff. :) I like the monthly academic agenda in the vintage bird spa with a melon colored name plate in the Stella design with “Tori Swartz” on it. :) I like the Maybooks layout because they give me so much room to write stuff!
I am loving these! I designed a pink and white polka dot planner with a red monogram (can’t get enough pink & red together!)
I shared it on Instagram too :)
Annnnnd I tweeted about it!
I tweeted the giveaway :) @leahteah
I designed a May book academic agenda in Vintage Bird Spa with a Spa Scalloped monogram. I absolutely love the pattern and color, and I hope they keep me calm as I use my May book to survive junior year of college!
I love May Designs!!! I cannot decide on just one design, but I’m more than sure this is screaming to me!
Journal
Design: Ikat Teal
Monogram: M
Style: Vintage, octagon, pear
I have also shared my design on Instagram and Pinterest!
I’ll need a wedding planner…… soon. But I’m not going to jinx it ;)
My favorite MayBook is the Damask Orchid and Mauve academic Agenda, with a Boroque plate with the Vintage P for my new last name! I need a calander to keep me organized and MayBooks are my favorite!!
My favorite MayBook is the Damask Orchid and Mauve academic Agenda, with a Boroque plate with the Vintage P for my new last name! I need a calander and lists to keep me organized and MayBooks are my favorite!! I would love to win the Journal for all of my todo lists for work and life! LOVE
I love the Chevron (melon) with a navy monogram of my (8month old) daughters initials in the fancy script with the octagon background. I would love to get her a lined journal. I have been looking for a sweet notebook where I can write her notes on her birth story to her and birthday notes through the years!
I shared the link on facebook!
First off, I want to thank you having such amazing ideas that helped make my wedding a wonderful and picturesque day! My favorite stolen idea was the beautiful rose pomander my 2 year old flower girl used. Every cute thing she did was enhanced as she whimsically played with her ball of flowers. I got married on July 11 and wished I would have known about May Designs and their cute wedding planners earlier! I am looking forward to creating all types of amazing notebooks for myself, family, and friends (christmas/birthday presents all solved) and would love it if you could help me start off my collection!!! It was hard for me to decide on one design for now, but I loved the Rose Navy 2013-2014 academic agenda with a square in fancy script and the color mint with my new last name sSk :o)
http://pinterest.com/pin/87398048991646904/ on pinterest!