It's Nearly Show Time!

PG Live is just around the corner and this year it will be an extra special show for us as we will be celebrating our 10th birthday.. Yay!!

We have a few birthday treats for everybody to enjoy so over the next couple of weeks we will be extra busy preparing everything ready to go. We are super excited!

Here are a few mock ups of what to expect...

Obviously the colour pink has to be included in everything!!

Don't forget, alongside the big 1 0 party celebrations we will be launching some brand new colourful ranges, of course there will be a hint of sparkle too!

So join us on the 2nd and 3rd of June, stand 207.. can't wait to see you there!

Love Paper Salad x x

PG Live Promotional Show cards ...

.....have arrived!

Thanks to Bob at The Imaging Centre, and Vanessa from the PG Live team!!

We are in the process of finalising our new occasions range for the show!  Really looking forward to it , it is always a good one for us!  It will be extra exciting this year as we are flying out to New York a couple of days after the show!!

Spring Fair 2014

Another Spring Fair is now over, can't believe it was our 9th Spring Fair!

We arrived back on Thursday night absolutely shattered.  We had a good show though so it was worth all the hard work.

Our space when we arrived on Saturday morning ...

3.30 pm Saturday afternoon it looked like this.

The show was a bit slow getting started for us but got better as the week went on

Our new ranges were very well received, especially our new Childrens' designs and our new range of mini cards.

Next show for us will be PG Live in just 13 weeks time, we have lots more designing to do before then.

Cards for The Queen

The cards we all sent to The Queen were taken to Buckingham Palace by Sharon Little, Jakki Brown and Warren Lomax on behalf of The Greeting Card Industry.  Over 300 greeting cards from the industry were delivered by hand on the Friday before the Diamond Jubilee celebratory weekend. 

A letter was sent alongside the cards with the message "You will be pleased to hear that Great Britain leads the world in greeting card designs and sending"

The card that we sent is right at the front of the basket with the Postbox on...

Warren, Sharon and Jakki

The stand at PG Live promoting the 'Cards for the Queen Initiative'

All set for PG Live

Tomorrow morning we set off to London to exhibit at PG Live at the Business Design Centre in Islington. It has been a hectic few weeks, we arrived back from New York on Thursday morning and had a day to finalise our stand, samples, brochures etc, before the couriers collected it on Friday lunchtime.  Hopefully everything will be on our stand when we arrive at midday, we have made it a simple design as the show is only two days long, so fingers crossed it will look okay?!!!

Tomorrow evening we will be meeting our Australian distributors for dinner, so really looking forward to that.

We have loads of photos to post from New York, we will start with a few of our arrival, and post the rest over the next couple of weeks.

The impressive skyline on the way in from Newark

The weather was beautiful when we arrived, this is the view from our room overlooking Times Square

First things first!!  It was over to the Blue Fin for a cocktail

The first cocktail of many was called "Stormy nights"

All the above photos are of our hotel bar and the view from the bar window.

Times Square is always full of people, at all times of the day and night.

If you are visiting PG Live on Tuesday or Wednesday, please stop by and say hello, we are showcasing our new collection!

We are on Stand 207 on the Mezzanine.

Hope to see you there!

Jubilee Party Preparations ....

We have got a very busy four weeks ahead of us.  Two weeks today we fly out to New York to visit the National Stationery Show and Surtex.  We are very excited as we didn't go last year and really missed it, we love the Vibe of New York City and always come back full of inspiration.  Before that we have to finalise our new age range, which we have now decided to call 'Bright Spark', due to the fact that there will be a splash of neon included in the designs, it has been very hard to judge how they will look once they are printed as on screen you cannot see the neon colours, but we are pleased with how they look so far...

These are only printed on thin paper from our computer, but you can still get an idea of how they will look when printed.

We will arrive back from New York on the 23rd May and on the 28th May we will be travelling to London to exhibit at PG Live at the Business Design Centre in Islington, this show has been great for us the past couple of years so we are hoping that it will be just as good this year.

We have started our marketing for the show and are designing some personalised coasters to give away to some of our customers.