GIFTED HANDS
This small, family owned Nepalese company creates eco-friendly, hand made goods and supports hundreds of families in this developing country. Created in partnership with Vevoke, their range of 100% wool felt goods are made by women co-operatives. We also support, with a donation from every sale, the Nepalese Children's Education Fund, a volunteer only non-profit, which funds the education of children from impoverished rural communities. Gifted Hands also hand make a unique range of wrapping paper and gift bags. Workers from small village communities harvest the bark of the lokta plant, convert it to paper pulp, then dry and dye it using local vegetable inks. Lokta paper has a texture and visual beauty unlike any other paper.
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When you love the things your sister paints soooo much that you stare at them, laugh out loud or tear up with nostalgia, it makes you want to share them with other people. So started E. Frances Paper in 2013 (named after both beloved Grandmothers). Based in beautiful Newport, Rhode Island, their dream is to spread positive energy through Ali’s unique, inspiring watercolour paintings.
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Born in 2013, Ohh Deer has grown into one of the world's most exciting independent card and stationery brands, thanks to their prolific, fearless creative output featuring a sweeping range from elegant, charming designs from the V&A Museum to bold, stylish and inventive, to their signature brand of highly irreverent humour.
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From a tiny shop in Notting Hill in 1993 to a global brand spanning 40 countries, Cath Kidston has become a legend of vintage design. Her intricate, heartwarming creativity appears on hundreds of products around the world. Our beautiful collection includes cards, notebooks, pens, sticky notes and our best selling diary collection.
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A world famous brand known for their highly creative, premium quality calendars, jigsaw puzzles, card games and stationery. Pomegranate believe in the power of art and information to positively impact the world. Being moved by art and being inspired to learn are timeless, universal experiences, to which they have been devoted for over 50 years.
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The cartoons and covers of The New Yorker magazine have entertained readers for nearly a century. With unmatched visual sophistication and wit, they let no subject escape their scrutiny. A roster of extraordinary artists continues to create indelible images which are infinitely varied in style and tone, whether whimsical, provocative, serene or laugh out loud funny.
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Nia Gould is a cat loving, degree qualified graphic designer from Devon in England. She has created a veritable menagerie of cats and dogs, integrated into famous artworks by artists such as Frida Kahlo, van Gogh, Monet, Dali and Matisse. Her work has been featured in numerous international gallery exhibitions and is sold in design boutiques and gallery shops around the world.
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Laura Ashley is one of the most famous and admired British fashion and textile designers of all time. From the humblest beginnings in the 1950’s, the Laura Ashley brand grew into a global retail phenomena by the 1980’s. Characterised by romantic, Victorian designs, her signature homewares, fashion and stationery products are available in 80 countries.
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After being stung by a bee and very nearly dying from anaphylactic shock, Connecticut based artist Pamela Zagarenski was struck by the realization that life can be taken from us in a split second of time. That BEE was her gift. She left her job and followed her heart and hasn’t looked back. Her magical drawings and beautiful thoughts and quotes are therapy and inspiration for the child in all of us.
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From their home base in California, Carrie Gifford & Hal Mertz are shaping an ever changing portfolio of fresh young global artists into a card range like no other. Stylish illustrations and clever captions, printed on high quality, eco-friendly paper.
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Janine Kwoh knows a thing or two about grief, joy and life’s other mysteries and absurdities. In this heart-warming and frequently hilarious card collection, she delivers insights from the heart, accompanied by her charming illustrations, Janine lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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Brilliant young Californian designer Dyna Kau is the creative force behind this charming, ever changing range of colourful, whimsical, beautifully designed and practical stationery and lifestyle products. Dyna’s style is unique, fresh and fashionable and her products appear in some of America’s most desirable stationery and lifestyle stores.
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Since 1916, Apica has been producing notebooks for the true stationery afficionado, featuring smooth, off white, acid-free paper, traditional cloth binding and flexible covers. From their legendary CD series with its vast range of colours and sizes, to the exquisite Apica Premium, chosen by the New York Times as the world’s best softcover notebook.
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Twigseeds is the best-selling greeting card brand of illustrator and author, Kate Knapp. First hatched in Australia in the mid 90s, Twigseeds is famous for its colourful characters and heart felt messages. Now available in exquisite fine bone china cups, large certified organic cotton totes and wrapping paper.
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Badger & Burke is the weird, colourful love child of Vancouver-based illustrators and long time friends Holton Brock and Jamie Armstrong. The boys have created an eclectic paper goods company inspired by mid-century illustration, puppies, paper-cutouts, and tropical fruit, carried by their unique collaborative style and lame sense of humour.
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Leigh Standley’s whimsical, witty work has been in the making since the seventh grade, where she got poor marks in maths class for doodling. She attended the University of Kansas School of Design and holds a BFA in Visual Communications. Her work is inspired by her incredible friends and family. Leigh lives in Boston, has strong feelings about education and believes in magic.
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Aboriginal Art is a collection of beautiful contemporary paintings by First Nations Australians who have spent time in prison. Supported by the royalties they receive from this range, their artwork is helping them to redefine their purpose and create new life pathways, through connection to culture and the arts industry.
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The museums and galleries of the world offer endless artistic riches. We source some of their most exquisite designs and reproduce them in a superb collection of greeting cards, printed on richly textured art paper, alongside wrapping paper and gift bags.
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Simon and Nicola Hutchinson work together in their Yorkshire studio to create happy and stylish greeting cards that combine their love of the Bohemian world with the bold use of colour. From tigers on magical carpets to tropical toucans, their aim is to create magical and unique illustrations to be shared with those closest to us.
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Born and raised in Iran to a family of artists, Afi Tajvidi was destined to design. After emigrating to Canada in 2006 and working as a web designer, back pain issues forced her to quit her job and she started painting part time. She sold so much work on etsy that she was able to create her own stationery company, featuring her beautiful, hand painted expressions of the joy of life.
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The Ward Brothers of London take the celebrity puns art form to a new level, with brilliant name playing and ingenious caricatures. They started by selling cards at the Broadway market and honed their skills from the constant customer feedback and are now busily expanding into books.
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Rozanne Snabilie and Nathalie Rotteveel founded Reddish Design after meeting at the Amsterdam Fashion Institute. Their fresh, quirky designs feature in magazines, on fashion brands and wallpapers, as well as a growing range of greeting cards. They employ a variety of mediums including paint, crayons, pencils, paper clippings, stamps and ink are their best friends.
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