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Hot New Greetings Cards

January 27, 2011 by · 1 Comment 

Top Drawer trade show kicked off the new product season last week and although I couldn’t attend I have been watching the blogs carefully for exciting new products. What has caught my eye the most are the new greetings cards on the market. Bowie Style of Print & Pattern always provides unrivalled coverage and my [...]

Sean Sims Letter Cards at 1973

January 10, 2011 by · 1 Comment 

I recently featured Sean Sims’ Alphabet Poster which is packed with colour and retro appeal. When I saw that paper goods Gods 1973 had turned the poster into a series of cards I was over the moon. Each card features one image from the poster corresponding to one letter of the alphabet totalling 26 cards. [...]

Owl and Cat Designs Greetings Cards

November 12, 2010 by · Leave a Comment 

Last February I came across the sweet, simple prints of Owl & Cat Designs. Recently Esther got in touch to let me know she had released a set of greetings cards. The cards are printed on high quality recycled card and have more cute as a button lino print artworks. The designs are appealing and [...]

Sugar Free Cards – Greeting Cards Without the Toothache

October 26, 2010 by · 2 Comments 

I admit to loving rude cards and I know that a card’s hitting the spot when I’m having a hearty chuckle to myself at the message on the inside of the card. Cue Sugar Free Cards, which cut right through the fluff with a great dose of humour matched with on point images. My favourites: [...]

Paul Thurlby Cards at Nineteenseventythree

August 26, 2010 by · Leave a Comment 

Always cooler than cool, nineteenseventythree produce paper goods from the hottest designers and artists around. They shared a sneak peek of their latest set of greetings cards are from Paul Thurlby, whose letter prints I have long been in love with. I have plans to stock up as soon as these hit the shop and [...]

Dicky Bird Cards

July 6, 2010 by · 2 Comments 

Another case of instant lust when I set eyes on these bold greetings cards. The 12 designs are simple in essence and completely appealing. They are the work of Liz Wells who has just opened her shop Dicky Bird which I am hoping will be overflowing with more goodies before long. At just £1.90 each [...]

Happy Thought’s father’s day poster

May 25, 2010 by · 1 Comment 

As a total paper products nerd, I’ve been doing a lot of hunting for the perfect father’s day card from Alfie to his dad. As usual, Etsy had a huge and fabulous selection and I uncovered this great, personalised idea from Edinburgh-based Happy Thought. Just email them the name of the dad and children, four [...]

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

December 11, 2009 by · 22 Comments 

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

October 29, 2009 by · 1 Comment 

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

September 24, 2009 by · Leave a Comment 

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

July 30, 2009 by · Leave a Comment 

     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

July 22, 2009 by · Leave a Comment 

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

July 3, 2009 by · Leave a Comment 

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

June 22, 2009 by · Leave a Comment 

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

May 14, 2009 by · 1 Comment 

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 [...]

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