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PG showcases a selection of new product launches
Menagerie Mayhem Amelia Illustration’s new Party Animal collection features a menagerie of colourful characters drawn with pen and enhanced with watercolours by illustrator Amelia Ilangaratne. The playful designs, which include a bear with a birthday cake and a pig in a party hat, are printed onto thick 340gsm board. The cards measure 5”x7” and come cellowrapped with a kraft brown envelope. Amelia Illustration 07891783453 www.ameliaillustration.co.uk
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Confronting a subject matter that comes to all women is HH Designs’ new The Musings of (Ms) Mena Pause collection. The fresh and funny collection features simply illustrated designs that offer a humorous take on the menopause that are bound to chime with women of a ‘certain age’. From ‘I start each day as Mary Poppins and end it as Cruella De Vil’ to ‘If only hot flushes burned calories’, the colourful thought bubbles say it as it is!
Kate Guest has just released three brand new collections, including Floral (24 designs), Rose Gold Luxe (30 designs) and a dedicated Teenage range (16 designs). In addition there has been a refresh of the publisher’s 'black and white' Originals collection in a larger format, plus additions to its Typewriter collection. Kate Guest 01279 214304 www.kateguest.com
HH Designs 07864 376144 www.hhdesigns.co.uk
More Frankness Shortlisted for the Gift of the Year 2019, Poet and Painter has added lots of great new designs to its Frankly collection. The range, which is at the core of the publisher’s portfolio, offers outspoken, inclusive, honest and always warm-hearted designs. Featuring diverse art styles, from cut out collage ‘ransom notes’ to loose pen and ink, joyful watercolours to statement graphics, the new additions further strengthen this arresting range. Poet and Painter 07779 064894 www.poetandpainter.co.uk
Hearty Laughter How Funny has launched two new humorous card ranges. While The Girls! is an on-trend female-related figurative collection, How Romantic lends itself as a year round ‘love’ range. The designs, centred around hand-drawn digital illustrations by Jez How, cater for a wide range of humour types. Designed and printed in the UK, the 105mm x 150mm cards are individually cellowrapped and come with either a poppy red or dove grey envelope. How Funny 0796 109 3202 www.how-funny.co.uk
Kooking The Looks After a strong release of its new Kooks range last year, Bug Art has expanded the collection with new designs for 2019. Designed by Jane Crowther, each card depicts a quirky animal, created using colourful collage patterns. Being blank inside, they are suitable for most occasions and age groups. Each card is embossed with gold foil detailing, measure 167mm x 118mm and are individually wrapped with a white envelope. Bug Art 0115 929 4776 www.bugart.co.uk PROGRESSIVE GREETINGS WORLDWIDE
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