With the vast majority of greeting card shops in lockdown, specialist greeting card printer, The Imaging Centre, has come up with a solution that is enabling independently owned greeting card publishers to provide the public with their cards. “Our customers have...
Alongside interviewing famous faces for various titles, Freelance Journalist Angela Sara West (www.angelasarawest.com), who recently interviewed GCA's Amanda Fergusson for the next issue of Craft Business magazine, also has a passion for card making. ...
Heidi and Dominic Early, co-owners of Earlybird Designs, a card publishing and retail business have launched #connectwithcards campaign, which kicked off with the Early family delivering free cards (ready stamped) to all the residents in the two...
Illustrator Emma Bryan, has made her latest range of greeting cards available to the public to download for free on her website. The Surbiton-based independent greeting card publisher launched her latest range, Softly Spoken, back in January before the pandemic...
“Everyone knows someone who is risking their health by working in the essential services right now, so it’s time to say thank you” says artist Clemency Bunn, of greeting card publisher Citrus Bunn. Clemency is donating 50% of all profit she makes from the sales...
Independent illustrator Lucy Nicholson of Lucy Maggie Designs is donating 70% of all profits raised from her exclusive ’Stay Home Club’ stationery collection to animal shelter and protection charities to support the valuable work they are doing during the coronavirus...
Laura Sherratt Designs are crazily passionate about Greeting cards, receiving them, saving them, framing them, keeping them to read again and again, and most importantly creating them for others to enjoy and send. “We realised what a huge effect isolation...
Greeting cards played a major role during WW1 with families at home exchanging them with their loved ones on the frontline (visit the V&A and Imperial War Museum to see examples of cards send from the trenches). At the start of WW2 Lord...
Publishers and retailers from across the industry are pulling together to support their local communities and encourage people to send a card to stay in touch with loved ones, particularly those alone, during these challenging times. Sending a card...
Royal Mail really got behind TOYW this year, commissioning a film that looked into the essence of our initiative. They encouraged staff to select and send cards during filming, and asked them who they were sending them to and why -
One of the elements of Thinking Of You Week this year was a dedicated postmark that was organised in partnership with the Royal Mail. The prompt to send a card was posted through doors across the UK and we are very grateful for the Royal Mail's support!
Greeting card publisher Belly Button donated cards to local schools and joined staff and pupils in a Manchester primary school to share a number of Thinking of You activities.
Independent card retailer Box of Delights’ in Flitwick donated a supply of postcards to its local veterinary surgery for Thinking of You Week. “..vets have a high level of mental health problems due to their overwhelming caring of animals and the high...
The Royal Mail supported the GCA call to encourage everyone to send a card to friends and family to say ‘thinking of you’ with a stamp cancelling mark. In the USA the US Postal Service did the same; the USPS say that 44 million more cards we sent in the...
Clintons featured a Thinking of You Week promotion in all its shops, encouraging customers to reach out to loved ones to stay in touch and say Thinking of You.
