One of the great pleasures I have doing this job is receiving lovely things in the post and last week, I received a lovely selection of cards from Made by Shannon...
This greeting card publishers is run by a lovely lady called
Shannon and they are based in Surrey. The below card is printed on our
CRUSH Grape 250gsm
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Above is a more detailed image and hopefully you can see the small specs and inclusions in the paper.
Crush is made partly using the residue from the industrial processing of agro-industrial "end of life" products replacing up to 15% of conventional tree pulp. The 15% process residues are combined with 40% recycled fibres (post consumer waste) and the remainder is FSC virgin pulp and the product is FSC certified. The range is produced using green energy and is carbon balanced at the mill gate (we can also supply the paper in the UK, certified as carbon balanced)
The A6 cards are printed and hot foil blocked in-house, where they have letterpress and a 1980's hot foil blocker which is used on cards and envelopes. However, they also sometimes just hand apply gold leaf as you can in the small embellishment below.
The above SIXTEEN TODAY card is printed on our
Colorset Storm 270gsm. The beautifully hot foiled envelopes are made using Colorset Storm 120gsm.
...which also have a superb embossing on the flap:
At this time of year, personalised
Christmas cards are in great demand and below is an example printed on our CRUSH Kiwi 250gsm.
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Thank you to Shannon for sending me this selection and if you would like to see her range of cards and gifts, you can see them
HERE.
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