Two More Card Ranges Now Available from Cherry Picked For You

Cherry Picked For You have just published a further two card ranges, making three in total.  Our first card range was Betty's Dollies which comprises of twenty designs featuring Betty Bib's beautiful handmade Polymer Clay Dolls. These blank cards are 150mm square and are printed on luxury callisto soft white board.  They come with a lovely ribbed craft brown envelope and are individually wrapped.

Buttercup

Our second range of cards are entitled: The Botanical Alphabet. This plant themed alphabet revels in the beauty of the natural world and was inspired by the decorative qualities of illuminated manuscripts and William Morris. Painted by Brighton artist, Lesley Buckingham, in watercolour and ink, each initial depicts a flower/leaf that starts with that letter, ie Japonica are entwined around the letter J. Printed on good quality soft white accent antique art board, these cards come with a brown ribbed craft envelope and are individually wrapped. They have been designed with a 8mm white border which makes them look like the original piece of artwork that they come from and so could be mounted and framed if desired.

J for Japonica

Our third range of cards is entitled: stitched artworks. Working with textile artist, Wendy Dolan, these cards are printed from original one off stitched artworks. Using fabric paint and freehand machine embroidery these beautiful cards have been printed on luxury 300gsm soft white accent antique art board and they come with a good quality white envelope and are individually wrapped.

The Royal Pavillion, Brighton

To save you time and money, www.cherrypickedforyou.co.uk  will send your card to your friend and family at no extra cost. The only cost is the price of the card you choose and the cost of a postage stamp. We save you the bother of visiting the shops, post office and post box. We dispatch the card immediately by first class Royal Mail.  We write a personal message of your choice in calligraphy script and send it to the recipient. All you have to do is complete the message box on the website with the message you want to send and type in the recipients name and address either in the message box or under the delivery address at checkout.

Happy card sending..

New Artist to join our website - Andy Driscoll of Andycrafts

New Artist to join our website is Andy Driscoll who makes beautiful wooden clocks, mirrors and home accessories.  Andy designs and creates each individual item with attention paid to each stage of the making process from inception through to the moment each piece leaves his workshop.

Hand crafted from solid English Oak

Andy works with only natural materials, recycled from sustainable sources where possible.

Whitewashed Timber Clock with Display Shelf

Driftwood Wall Mirror

Andy produces decoratively functional items which add a sense of character and syle to the home.

We Make Sending Cards to Your Friends and Loved Ones Easy

At www.cherrypickedforyou.co.uk we make sending cards to your friends and loved ones easy. For no extra cost we will send your cards to your friends, family and loved ones and we will write your own personal message in handwritten beautiful calligraphy script. Simply send us the recipients name and we will do the rest.


With over a hundred beautiful cards to choose from:

 So save yourself the trouble of going to the shops, the Post Office and the Post Box and visit us today!

Last Weekend to come down to Hove for Artists Open House

Halinka's Tree Top Fairies

We are approaching the last weekend to visit our Artists Open House in Hove. So why not make a day out and visit us at: 52 Carlisle Road, Hove, BN3 4FS. A warm welcome awaits you. We are displaying the products on our website: www.cherrypickedforyou.co.uk and many more new products that haven't been loaded on yet. We fling open our doors from 11am until 5pm this coming weekend. We have masses of handmade christmas decorations, handmade gifts and handmade christmas cards. We are also selling our new range of cards published by cherrypickedforyou.

Betty Bib's Organza Fairies £12 for four

Holly Berry's beautiful woven cushions

These images are a very small sample of the beautiful handmade gift ideas and christmas goodies you will be able to browse and buy this weekend.

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!!

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 £27.50

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 £27.50

Yellow Fairy Doll's dress is plant dyed chamomile and indigo and her hair is naturally curly Wensleydale fleece dyed with woad.

Rainbow Doll £27.50

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.

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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