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Paper Starlights celebrates 30 years of colour, craft and Fair Trade

Derbyshire-based Paper Starlights is celebrating its 30th anniversary, marking three decades of handmade design, independent retail and a partnership with its makers in India that has grown alongside the business. The story began when founders Andy Jupp and Jules Cooper encountered paper star lanterns during Diwali. Captivated by the colour, light and the way the

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New Greetings, Party & Celebration sector to launch at Spring Fair

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Spring Fair (2nd – 5th February 2025, NEC Birmingham) has announced the launch of a new Greetings, Party & Celebration destination in Hall 3 packed full of inspirational brands, new events and activations. The new show sector brings together the most creative, fun and colourful greeting cards, wrapping papers, stationery, paper decorations, and is the

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Garden Border 2024 Calendar

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Yorkshire eco greetings card and prints brand Umbellifer has created a beautiful and richly produced hanging calendar using twelve of its Garden Border card range images. Each monthly image shows an imaginary garden border with the flowers and plants that look good in that particular month – from the hellebores, heathers and snowdrops of February

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Sipping La Dolce Vita

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On the rocks, a citrus twist, a splash of fizz, it cin cin to Italian cocktails living La Dolce Vita on greeting card designs this summer, that have been distilled from escapism and the trend for home cocktail parties and sumptuously served in a sophisticated mid-century style. Stirring thoughts of sun-kissed, lemon-scented holidays on the

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Penny Shaw to take the helm as Chris Dyson retires from Cardgains

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One of the most well-known and popular figures in the greetings card industry, Cardgains MD, Chris Dyson, has announced that he will be retiring at the end of this year. Chris will hand over the reins to Cardgains’ long-standing marketing director, Penny Shaw, who will take over the role from 1st January 2023. Officially announcing

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Gale Astley reports: Green Greetings

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Rewilding is stirring the heart and artistic strings of card publishers as well as encouraging wildlife. A beautiful Wrendale Designs card (pictured top) illustrates the point. Just like Gardeners’ World, in the first of a two-part ‘series’, writer and promo filmmaker, Gale Astley, asks green-fingered card publishers to talk about their verdant spaces, and, just

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Paper Starlights celebrates 30 years of colour, craft and Fair Trade

New Greetings, Party & Celebration sector to launch at Spring Fair

Garden Border 2024 Calendar

Sipping La Dolce Vita

Penny Shaw to take the helm as Chris Dyson retires from Cardgains

Gale Astley reports: Green Greetings

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