Craft Focus - Oct/Nov (Issue 63)

Southfield Stationers is releasing its new innovative range – I’m Terribly Posh. This is a fun gift range including shopper bags, cute notebooks and eye-catching mugs. All the products are designed and made in the UK ensuring high quality, fast turnaround times and low minimum quantities. The range can be personalised with your own town or area, and there’s two versions to choose from Dead Posh or Terribly Posh depending on your locations dialect. With the fast pace of life and the balancing act between work, family and friends, edding is offering the chance to escape with the launch of its Colour Happy edition, which includes two boxes of pens designed for handlettering, colouring and drawing. The product offers high sales potential in the growth segment of handlettering and colouring, and gives creative enthusiasts more than just a handful of pens in coordinated shades, including metallic colours, but also an assortment of nib types and stroke widths as well as brushpens, fibre pens, fineliners and gel rollers right and the profipen. Beautiful pastel shades can be conjured up with the new edding Pastel Pen – the soft white fibre pen that writes in white, and vibrant red can be instantly transformed into dusty pink. The Brushpen Colour Mixer is also included and can create works of art in 190 different shades, using just 20 brushpens. The conveniently sized box is designed to inspire and stimulate impulse purchases. To help present the new Colour Happy edition at PoS, edding is offering reatilers an attractive support package to generate additional sales. Two attention-grabbing display units are available, both featuring a selection of creative ideas to encourage impulse buying. ExaClair is launching the new ink from the rebranded range of J Herbin of award- winning inks and calligraphy products. The Jacques Herbin 1798 Améthyste De L’Oural ink is a solid dark purple with a velvety amethyst hue, and brightened with shimmering flecks of silver. With its premium quality manufacture and packaging, the range is targeted at the top end of the ink and calligraphy market. STAND 26 edding UK STAND 19 We highlight some of the creative and boutique products you can expect to see at show: ExaClair STAND 46 Southfield Stationers The world of Dear Prudence is deeply entwined with nature and folklore, animals, plants, birds, and the trappings of home and storytelling. Every Dear Prudence product starts out with Laura Park’s whimsical characters sketched out, brought to life when digitised, and turned in to wonderful cards, wrapping paper, pencil cases, calendars, and notebooks. STAND 8 Dear Prudence ExaClair has also released a Heritage collection of Rhodia notebooks and pads, as a celebration of the brand’s retro, French industrial design origins. The collection consists of a sewn spine notebook with 32 pages, raw binding notebook with 80 numbered pages, and stapled notepads with 70 detachable, micro-perforated sheets, all with premium-quality 90g ivory paper. The covers have a rough feel, and feature Rhodia’s signature orange and black colours. All are a tribute to the ’30s creators and available in five retro designs. STAND 26 ExaClair Portico Designs has partnered with The Eden Project, an educational charity whose aim is to connect us with one another and the living world around. The debut garden gifting collection includes a watering can, potting set and jute bag which have been developed according to the Eden Projects core values, and ethically sourced. STAND 27 Portico Designs industrial chic 34 craft focus