Showing posts with label greeting cards. Show all posts
Showing posts with label greeting cards. Show all posts

Friday, 22 April 2011

P&C: Present & Correct

"Since 2003, when we were not being graphic designers, we have been cutting and pasting from our front room in London. Making paper goods and selling them far and wide. It reminded us of being small; sticking tin foil to cereal cartons and the dog, but hopefully with more professional results.

A long-term obsession with stationery has culminated in a constantly evolving store. A selection of P&C products mixed up with handmade goods, vintage items and work by designers from all over the world.

Sourced from Seoul or picked up on the bus from Peckham: we hope that our designs, and finds, bring some fun to your desks, walls, friends and children. It might spark a distant memory, make you smile or look at the most mundane in a new, and fonder, light." [quoted directly from the ABOUT US section of the Present and Correct website]

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'Quando eu nasci': When I was born - The story is about a boy and all of his new experiences, like meeting dogs and going in a car (hardback).

Hungarian Craft Pack - Excellent for their packaging alone , each Budapest sourced craft pack contains a selection of paper for your collages, wrapping, cutting or just for notes. Varying textures and tones, all fairly muted.
£4.00
 

Ideas Notepad - Like an elephants memory this super nice book will enable you store all of your thoughts and top ideas. The hardback paper concertina is decorated with panels of black/yellow lines and boxes, all housed in a neat slipcase. 18 panels on each side, 7x.3.5"

Make a Town kit 1 - A wonderful little town can be made from just 4 sheets of screen printed corrugated cardboard. All of the cards and buildings have a simple, crisp look to them. It's a town we would be happy to reside in! Each sheet measures 12x13". Designed by Robert Czajka.

Make a Zoo kit - This Russian construction kit is unfortunately SOLD OUT but deserves a nod nonetheless! Inside the green wallet is a set of 7 colouring cards, almost all you need to put together a cardboard menagerie for kids of all ages!

PresentandCorrect Paper Bags - P&C have been collecting paper ephemera since they could walk, which means having accumulated an awful lot. They are bags, made of paper, full of paper. Simple really. Inside each one you will find a great selection of old tickets, stencils, labels, numbers, envelopes, stickers, paper bags, iron on motifs, postcards... and every single bag is different. An ace little gift or addition to your craft drawer.

Pop-up Forest - Created by the same talented team as Popville, this pop up book sees the fall and rise of a lush forest full of birds and animals. Turn the pages and the forest shrinks as diggers clear it away, and then some new seeds are planted and it grows again. Clever, educational & nice to look at. Thankfully it is printed on tree friendly paper! Hardback 6x11" (written in French).

Pop-up Town - Take a trip to Popville! With the turn of each page the pop up town will build up before your eyes. Starting with a church and some trees and ending with a full on paper metropolis. Great colours, nice detailing with the roads and vehicles. Even the bridge has string suspension! 6x11"

Step Jotter - A nifty jotter which is ready divided for your organising pleasure, all you have to do is decide on your categories! In a mustard paper with fabric binding this book is simple, useful and just dieing to be decorated! It measures 5.75x8.5" and has 60 page

Vintage Index Set - Over the past few months P&C have been collecting old index cards, of varying age, size and colour. They make really ace, personalised mailing cards. Now you can choose your initial and you will get a bundle of 5 cards for your notes, greetings etc. The cards range from 8x5" to 5x3".

Saturday, 16 April 2011

Yellow Owl Workshop: stateside stamping and paper perfection

This San Francisco based gem create not only stunning limited edition paper goods, each article tended to by hand with expert craft and care, but an increasingly impressive range of rubber stamping sets. Proprietor, and design guru, Christine Schmidt has even recently published her first book Print Workshop; Hand-Printing Techniques and Truly Original Projects - available to order now on amazon HERE!

Also, don't forget to follow the BLOG and check out the current list of all U.K, E.U and beyond suppliers HERE! A great place to start your Yellow Owl Workshop stamp collection, if a UK consumer, is the online shop for Tinsmiths, based physically in the market town of Ledbury, Herefordshire - click HERE to browse! 



Set of 3 molded natural rubber stamps with thick cushion, each mounted on maple block
Includes red ink pad with printed instructions 
packaged in hand-printed muslin bag
made in US
$19.50




Set of 3 molded natural rubber stamps with thick cushion, each mounted on maple block

packaged in hand-printed muslin bag
made in US
$12.00 




Set of 5 molded natural rubber stamps with thick cushion, each mounted on maple block

presented in hand finished 4 x 8 inch birch box 
made in US
$30.00





Limited Edition Serigraph- printed by hand

100% PCW recycled paper, 6.25 x 4.75 inches
$4.50 EACH / SET OF 5 $18.00 






Four postcards presented in matchbook-style cover with pencil.

Each 5.5 inch x 3.5 inch postcard is perforated for easy removal.
Screen printed by hand on 100%PCW recycled cover stock.
$10.00



Friday, 25 June 2010

Sorry, but I am simply obsessed with greeting cards!

I am terribly fond of 'paper things'.

Vague, I know, since the world of ephemera  is large. In fact, I have come to conclude it is impossible to know all that is exciting, interesting, amusing and awe inspiring wihin this unverse and, as thus, have decidedly come to dither on those particulars which take my fancy.

This is all a roundabout way of saying that, with nothing less than my hand on my heart, I do have a certain amount of love for greeting cards - okay, okay... once again a grey area in terminology but I am, through what ends up being hours of research and browsing *coughs*, distinguishing those areas within the Occasion Card Universe that hold special appeal, in terms of scenario utilized, history, style, manufacture and illustration....

Here are some of the bits and bobs I have unearthed...

Belle and Boo..




Darling Clementine..

Lima Design..

 Hello! Lucky..

Sunday, 28 February 2010

An ever growing fetish for greeting cards...

I have to admit that I obtain tremendous pleasure from a good greeting card and I always keep an eye out, especially in case I come across something that would be suitable for the toyshop. I have a growing collection of cards I simply just like (under the pretence that if the occasion should arise I would have a card to hand... when actually they are now mine and I would be loathe to use them!). There are a few occasions presenting themselves in the coming months that warrant unearthing some original and interesting cards. I have been researching in particular Wedding cards and Christening cards, listing some that I particularly liked below! It's Mother's Day on Sunday 14th March but for this I looking for Victorian scraps to make a card myself....that personal touch!!



Christening cards by 'Stop the Clock Design' (£2.90) and available at www.notonthehighstreet.com 


Bespoke Letter Name Card by 'Made with Love by Mrs Booth' and available at www.notonthehighstreet.com




Animal Birthday Cards (more designs available) by 'Made with Love by Mrs Booth' and available at www.notonthehighstreet.com



Pop-out sustainable card by 'Orangewonder' and available at www.notonthehighstreet.com


Rubbish without you card by 'Kiss Her' and available at www.notonthehighstreet.com