Hot Kids Artwork from ‘Made By’ Showler & Showler AND win a canvas & greeting cards worth £99.95

Longtime BG readers may be looking at these fantastic illustrations and thinking that the style is vaguely familiar and that’s because the design duo behind these fabulous canvases, Showler & Showler, are also the peeps that designed cool store Lula Sapphire’s catalogue and logo. Seriously swoon central, under their ‘Made By’ moniker, they’ve designed a [...]

Mini Moderns Moo! Cards

I know I’ve said it before, but I’ll say it again – I love Mini Moderns, the cool collection of interior products for kids (actually they call them ‘kidults’) by the brilliant award winning design duo, Absolute Zero Degrees. The new shelf behind our bed has been wallpapered in their Do you live in a [...]

Miffy Greeting Cards

If anyone was going to do neutrals and icecream shades in a cool way, it was going to be Dick Bruna’s whimsy Miffy illustrations on these greeting cards at BG’s favourite stationery hotspot, Papergrain. A scrumptious collection of Miffy cards for a host of baby occasions, aside from the ones pictured, there’s a naming day, [...]

New greeting card delights at Papergrain

     Roll on birthdays and other special occasions is what I say because I love even more cards at Papergrain who I featured a few weeks back as they have the most divine collection of cards. All of the new arrivals are staying abreast of the nature and animals trend, with stark blue Scandinavian inspired [...]

Kaching

After reading Natalie’s post about the fab cards at Papergrain, I remembered the animal alphabet cards I had bought from Kaching Design. Great for kids’ birthdays (choose their initial or their favourite animal), the quirky fauna come in zingy orange and yellow, minty green and cobalt blue and cost just $5 (plus $3.50 shipping) for [...]

Papergrain

I’ve developed a bit of a ‘thing’ for stationery and greeting cards in recent months. A beautifully illustrated card can end up being treasured or even, as I have seen in some cases, reused by being kept on display. Papergrain is a new online stationery boutique which is choc full of goodies that you’ll struggle [...]

Greetings Cards by Rachel Ortas

After agonising over a gift, I can often end up spending time hunting down a suitable card to go with it and I’ve become an instant fan of these unusual cards by Rachel Ortas, an illustrator, graphic artist/artist in residence at Central St Martins. The AiAi monsters featured are characters from outer space that have [...]

Folksy & Etsy Finds 14.05.09

There are so many wonderful goodies to be found on Folksy and Etsy that each week we’re going to round up our favourites… Now this is bunting with a twist! Nickynackynoo (loving the name) sells these handmade traffic jam buntings on Folksy, the UK’s answer to Etsy. They’re made from felt (you know I’m a [...]

Very Cool Greeting Cards for Kids

As spring approaches it seems that there’s a child’s birthday nearly every day, so I like to make sure I’ve stocked up on cards. Lately though, I’ve found the selection on the high street a little lacking, so I’ve turned to the web for inspiration. I haven’t been disappointed. Etsy is, as always, a mine [...]