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PG asked a selection of card retailers for their ‘hot’ card sellers. Rachel Loubser, owner of The Baobab, Mortimer Common, Reading A small shop in a village with a visitors and loyal locals customer base. Category
Name of Publisher
Product/Name Range
Comments
Cute
Carte Blanche
Me To You
Humour
Redback Cards
Across The Board
Photographic
Museums & Galleries Woodmansterne Abacus
BBC Earth General Gardeners’ World and BBC Springwatch
Art
Ling Design
Gallery
Contemporary
Nigel Quiney
Pizazz
Traditional
Noel Tatt and IC&G
Across The Board
The designs have really nice sentiments without being too gushing or slushy. Simple designs but the jokes are really quick and current; They’re great! We are located in the country so wildlife and rural scenes are very relevant to people. And each range has its unique and different images not found on cards anywhere else. Gentle scenes in a variety of themes, from a painter’s easel to a country cottage. The designs are stunning. The application of foiling is beautifully done, including on the unicorns. The cards suit older people down to children. The Pizazz Male range is great too. Just really good across sales. Lovely words and illustrations and a good selection of occasions and relations designs.
Right: A tentative squirrel on a design from Abacus’ BBC Springwatch range.
Sarah Morris, owner of Gazebo Gifts, Totnes, Devon A medium gift and home accessories shop in a market town with a visitors and loyal locals customer base. Category
Name of Publisher
Product/Name Range
Comments
Cute
Laura Skilbeck
General
Humour
Modern Toss
Across The Board
Kiss Me Kwik
General
Petra Boase
Across The Board
Rifle Paper co
General
Hutch Cassidy
General
Schnucki Images
Lenticular Cards
Hype
Beatrix Potter, Thomas the Tank Engine etc General
Childlike illustrations of sweet characters enhanced with gorgeous gold block foiling. The new baby designs are so nice too. Not for everyone, but I find the darkly funny humour cathartic. I don't offer the really crude and rude humour designs, but there are quite a few that are sweet. Ridiculously pretty designs, and I love the little gift element that many of Petra’s designs incorporate. Really beautiful cards and giftwrap. I adore Rifle’s products. We stock all of its stationery and phonecases too. Beautiful, colourful and unusual designs with a unique look. Unique and fun lenticular designs that just sell and sell! We have mixed in different publishers in our children’s section but Hype’s classic characters and Meri Meri’s cards with a little extra sell very well.
Contemporary
Children’s
Top right: ‘Bunny Band’ on a design from Laura Skilbeck. Right: A dream-like colourful world of turtles on a card from Hutch Cassidy.
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