Wendy Jones
Blackett
Tel: 01132 88 8468
Email:
jonesblackett@btinternet.com
Clever Clogs from WJB was
a neat, humorous twist on the
handmade theme featuring shoes
of all types and styles and comical
Rainbow Designs
captions. The designs are all individually handpainted
onto the backs of acetate blanks with a variety of glitter
paints for a decorative, luxurious look.
Tel: 01329 227 300
Web: www.rainbowdesigns.co.uk
Rainbow Designs, launched a raft of new
products across many of its key brands
including Wallace & Gromit Slippers and
Penny Kennedy
mugs to coincide with the 20 year anniversary
of the brand. Promotions for independent
Tel: 01322 665566
retailers will take place throughout September
Web: www.pennykennedy.co.uk
including PoS packs. A new CDU for Miffy in Christmas was much in evidence on wrap
a Bag was also spotted along with refreshed specialist, Penny Kennedy’s stand with
elements of Rainbow’s extensive range. new designs from Emma Bridgewater,
OCD, Laura Darrington and Christmas
Village from the V&A.
PK’s distributorship of legendary card
brand, Turnowsky, is also bearing fruit with the range rh epackaged for the UK k d f th UK
market and including key Christmas designs for both cards and wrap.
Takkoda
Tel: 0870 1909395
Web: www.takkoda.com
With its fi nger fi rmly on the pulse, Takkoda
unveiled an extension to its gloriously kitsch
Famous Faces range that juxtaposes household
The Art Rooms
pets and celebrity icons. The show-stopping
design though has to be the late, great King of
Pop in what can only be described as one of the
Tel: 01274 631292 most weirdly compelling images we’ve seen for
Web: www.theartrooms.co.uk quite a while.
A new male card range titled, unsurprisingly,
Men’s Stuff was a key release from The
Art Rooms featuring antique garden and
workshop tools in an antique metallic look
using brushed aluminium board. Jacky Al-
Sammarie’s signature range of silhouetted
Sabah Designs
Yorkshire landscapes debossed into cotton
Tel: 07734 156200
board from GF Smith were one of the
Web: www.sabahdesigns.co.uk
standout
Sabah Designs foray into printed
ranges
cards has met with retailer approval.
of the
The Precious Pearls collection of 12
show and
fun girly birthday designs and nine
will be
Christmas designs based on 150mm
extended
square board features Sabah’s
no doubt.
trademark sequinned patches. Six
more designs will be added later this
year.
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