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| Halinka's Tree Top Fairies |
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| Betty Bib's Organza Fairies £12 for four |
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| Holly Berry's beautiful woven cushions |
Wednesday, 7 December 2011
Last Weekend to come down to Hove for Artists Open House
Sunday, 13 November 2011
Cherry Picked For You - Christmas Artists Open House in Hove
We are getting ready for our Open House as part of the Christmas Festival in Brighton and Hove. This is the chance to see all the lovely goodies on our website where they are available to buy. So..save the postage and packing costs and come along where a warm welcome will await you.
We have wonderful gift ideas, handmade christmas decorations and cards.
We fling open our doors at 11am until 5 pm. Why not make it a day out as there are lots of other venues taking part. The brochures are available all around Brighton and Hove which lists the venues and dates and times each house is open. We are on page three, and our house is listed as number 4 in the official brochure.
We look forward to seeing you.
Best wishes
Nina
only 42 days to go to Christmas!!
We have wonderful gift ideas, handmade christmas decorations and cards.
We look forward to seeing you.
Best wishes
Nina
only 42 days to go to Christmas!!
Monday, 31 October 2011
New Artist to join our website this week is Syke Meredith- Plant Dyed Handmade Dolls
Skye Meredith comes from a very creative family. Skye's mum uses plants to dye her Wensleydale wool and Skye delves into these abundant wool baskets, overflowing with gorgeous natural coloured wool and makes unique handmade dolls.
Green doll above has been made using a felting needle around a pipe cleaner frame. She has been plant dyed using chamomile, indigo and madder and her hair is naturally curly Wensleydale fleece dyed with onion skins.
Yellow Fairy Doll's dress is plant dyed chamomile and indigo and her hair is naturally curly Wensleydale fleece dyed with woad.
Rainbow Doll's dress is dyed with cochineal, madder, chamomile and indigo. Her hair is naturally curly Wensleydale fleece and has been dyed with onion skins.
Each doll is unique, handmade with love. Click on Textiles and then Dolls to see the whole range of Dolls that Skye is offering. Each one would make a wonderful gift for someone special or as a treat for yourself and your home.
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| Green Doll £27.50 |
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| Yellow Fairy Doll £27.50 |
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| Rainbow Doll £27.50 |
Each doll is unique, handmade with love. Click on Textiles and then Dolls to see the whole range of Dolls that Skye is offering. Each one would make a wonderful gift for someone special or as a treat for yourself and your home.
Sunday, 23 October 2011
Cherry Picked For You Goes To The Ladder Club in Southend-on-Sea
At the end of last week I attended the first day of the ladder club which is a brilliant seminar organised by Lynn Tait of Lynn Tait Gallery in Leigh on Sea and her trusty helpers, Trudi and Pauline. The first day is for budding greeting card publishers (like me!). Everyone is so friendly and generous with their help and advice.
Wednesday 19th October I travelled to Southend-on-Sea to meet up with some of the delegates on the seminar and all the speakers. We gathered in the Westcliffe Hotel for a three course meal where there was a speaker on each table and we all spent a lovely evening getting to know new people.
Thursday 20th October was the first day of the seminar. After a welcoming cup of coffee and a photo we kicked off with Lynn giving us a potted history of how The Ladder Club started and its aims. Basically, it is to help budding greeting card publishers climb the ladder to success in this inspiring and friendly industry.
Jackie Brown, the Editor of Progressive Greetings and Founder of the Henries Awards (the equivalent of the Oscars in the Greeting Card world) came next. She explained how her magazine is a useful tool for us to get our work known and find out all the current trends in greeting cards. I have read the last three issues and it is packed full of useful information and news.
Next up was Sharon Little, the Chief Executive of the Greeting Card Association. The GCA is a brilliant organisation run on a non-profitable basis for greeting card publishers. Their website is a mine of useful information and Sharon is at the end of the phone to help with any problems and answer any questions. Sharon's talk outlined how the GCA can help new publishers.
Claire and Karen of Paper Salad, who set up their company 6 years ago and have just won a Henries Award spoke of the pitfalls that can occur as you grow your company. They gave a very realistic slant on what it is like to take this exciting journey and some of the mistakes they made.
All this was before our first coffee break.
After coffee, Jeremy Corner owner of an award winning greeting card company, Blue Eyed Sun gave a talk on the nuts and bolts of the industry. Jeremy is known as the guru to new publishers, helping them out with advice and insider knowledge. He certainly did that. Jeremy explained about the many different hats a greeting card publisher has to wear from doing the accounts, boxing up and dispatching cards, creating and designing and what to prioritise. He also gave some excellent advice on marketing and selling, trade shows, agents and cash flow planning. Phew!
After a delicious lunch we listened to presentations from Bob Short of The Imaging Centre who runs a very successful company specialising in digital printing. Digital is the way to go when you start out as you can do short runs and test out your designs. However, when you get more successful and established and you need to do bigger print runs of your designs then Litho Printing is a good option. Steve from The Sherwood Press explained all about Litho Printing.
Next we had a very informative talk by paper manufacturers G F Smith. Debbie Wigglesworth and Mark Jessett shared their love of paper and how it is an integral part of the design of greeting cards. Most people work out their designs and then think about what board they will use. Debbie feels it should be the other way round with paper taking the centre stage and working the design round it. It certainly makes sense as paper behaves differently when printed and so can become an integral part of the design process.
What a day! Thank you to everyone for all your help and advice. I am now on my way!!
Nina Green, Director Cherry Picked For You
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Wednesday 19th October I travelled to Southend-on-Sea to meet up with some of the delegates on the seminar and all the speakers. We gathered in the Westcliffe Hotel for a three course meal where there was a speaker on each table and we all spent a lovely evening getting to know new people.
Thursday 20th October was the first day of the seminar. After a welcoming cup of coffee and a photo we kicked off with Lynn giving us a potted history of how The Ladder Club started and its aims. Basically, it is to help budding greeting card publishers climb the ladder to success in this inspiring and friendly industry.
Jackie Brown, the Editor of Progressive Greetings and Founder of the Henries Awards (the equivalent of the Oscars in the Greeting Card world) came next. She explained how her magazine is a useful tool for us to get our work known and find out all the current trends in greeting cards. I have read the last three issues and it is packed full of useful information and news.
Next up was Sharon Little, the Chief Executive of the Greeting Card Association. The GCA is a brilliant organisation run on a non-profitable basis for greeting card publishers. Their website is a mine of useful information and Sharon is at the end of the phone to help with any problems and answer any questions. Sharon's talk outlined how the GCA can help new publishers.
Claire and Karen of Paper Salad, who set up their company 6 years ago and have just won a Henries Award spoke of the pitfalls that can occur as you grow your company. They gave a very realistic slant on what it is like to take this exciting journey and some of the mistakes they made.
All this was before our first coffee break.
After coffee, Jeremy Corner owner of an award winning greeting card company, Blue Eyed Sun gave a talk on the nuts and bolts of the industry. Jeremy is known as the guru to new publishers, helping them out with advice and insider knowledge. He certainly did that. Jeremy explained about the many different hats a greeting card publisher has to wear from doing the accounts, boxing up and dispatching cards, creating and designing and what to prioritise. He also gave some excellent advice on marketing and selling, trade shows, agents and cash flow planning. Phew!
After a delicious lunch we listened to presentations from Bob Short of The Imaging Centre who runs a very successful company specialising in digital printing. Digital is the way to go when you start out as you can do short runs and test out your designs. However, when you get more successful and established and you need to do bigger print runs of your designs then Litho Printing is a good option. Steve from The Sherwood Press explained all about Litho Printing.
Next we had a very informative talk by paper manufacturers G F Smith. Debbie Wigglesworth and Mark Jessett shared their love of paper and how it is an integral part of the design of greeting cards. Most people work out their designs and then think about what board they will use. Debbie feels it should be the other way round with paper taking the centre stage and working the design round it. It certainly makes sense as paper behaves differently when printed and so can become an integral part of the design process.
What a day! Thank you to everyone for all your help and advice. I am now on my way!!
Nina Green, Director Cherry Picked For You
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Friday, 26 August 2011
Jan Constantine - Hand Finished Love Cards with Swarovski Crystals
With a design background in fashion, interiors and styling, Jan Constantine has created a unique collection of original, hand-embroidered designs on exquisite textiles and home accessories. Her range of cards depict these images. We are really pleased to be able to offer Jan's famous "Love" Banner card Hand Finished with real Swarovski Crystals.
Her equally famous "Love" Tatoo card, again Hand Finished with real Swarovski Crystals:
And her "Romany Heart" card embellished with real Swarovski Crystals:
And finally, Jan's famous "Leopard Jack Print" card, again Hand Finished with real Swarovski Crystals:
All these cards can be purchased from us for the very reasonable price of £3.99 with free delivery.
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| Perfect Card to send to the one you love. |
Her equally famous "Love" Tatoo card, again Hand Finished with real Swarovski Crystals:
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| A perfect card to send to the one you love on their birthday. |
Monday, 1 August 2011
Anniversary and Love Cards by Nina Green
Individually handmade and lovingly put together these original cards by Nina Green are very special. The Love and Anniversary Cards feature a handmade porcelain heart on wire with a bead.
These cards can be made even more special by adding the date you want to celebrate on a heart on the inside front cover.
The Love Cards can be sent at any time but would obviously make wonderful valentine cards.
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| Love Anniversary Card with Porcelain Heart on wire with bead |
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| simply email the date you would like to celebrate |
Wednesday, 13 July 2011
New Artist to join our website this week is Claire Vine of Elsy & Vine
Claire Vine, of Elsy & Vine, makes beautiful handmade cushions, brooches and lavender bags in top quality lambswool. Each individual handmade piece has been cleverly created to allow layering and mix matching in response to individual mood or character. So..escape in the pleasure of creating your own colourful world. Elsy & Vine are ardent supporters of British craft and industry and wherever possible source materials and expertise from as close to home as possible.
The Happy Days cushion is inspired by family holidays and depicts a large caravan repeat on one side and knitted spots on the reverse. It sports a complementary zipper at the base of the cushion and a 'forgarty' hollowfibre machine washable cushion pad.
Knitted lambswool and marino wool lavender bags, stuffed with locally sourced lavender are handmade using the best quality lambswool.
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| Happy Days Cushion in blue/green lambswool |
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| The reverse of the Happy Days cushion in blue/green lambswool |
Knitted lambswool and marino wool lavender bags, stuffed with locally sourced lavender are handmade using the best quality lambswool.
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| Cloud Lavender Bags in three designs |
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| Adorable caravan brooches. |
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