Stationery & Greeting Card Brands you can find at ABS
Rachel Ellen Designs
Rachel Ellen Designs are an independent greetings card, stationery and gift business based in Nottingham. The company was founded in 1997 when Rachel retired from a career as a professional ballet dancer and started hand painting cards at the kitchen table in her London apartment.
All of our greetings cards are 100% British made, in fact after being designed in house they are all printed within a two and a half mile radius of our premises (so virtually no carbon footprint). They are then die-cut, hand finished, cello wrapped, checked, picked, packed and despatched by our very own skilled in house team.
Vent for Change
I am please to stock VENT for Change as it is a sustainable stationery company that protects the planet & supports children’s education projects worldwide. They combine beautifully designed products with impeccable eco credentials and an ethical purchasing alternative for conscientious consumers. VENT gives 5% of its net sales turnover to supporting children’s education projects worldwide.
Beautiful journals and recycled pens and pencils and pencil pouches in an array of wonderful colours.
Caroline Gardner Stationery
Caroline Gardner's passion for the simple pleasure derived from using a beautifully designed object, it is the driving ethos of this eponymous company, with quality, integrity and good value being the core ethics running through all of Caroline Gardner's product.
I stock beautiful pen sets, notebooks and pencil cases. Brighten up your desk with a treat for yourself or a great gift for a stationery lover.
Berni Parker Designs
Working from her home studio, set in the midst of the idyllic English countryside, Berni Parker has developed a highly successful global business. However, the heart and soul of her company, as well as her inspirations, are still very much centred on a love of life, family, friends and the gentle beauty of rural Worcestershire.
Berni Parker Greetings cards are great sellers in the shop, they are usually very relevant to someone you know and funny too!
Pentel
I started stocking Pentel as my favourite mechanical pencil is the P200 and now I have discovered all of their magnificent range of pens, pencils and art supplies.
Pentel Co. Ltd., are a privately owned, Japanese company, which have been producing some of the world’s favourite writing instruments for over half a century.
Royal Talens
Royal Talens believe creative expression brings out the best in everyone. It has the power to stimulate mind, body and soul and should therefore be enabled all over the world. As the preferred supplier in the creative colour industry, we are dedicated to make this happen.
Here at ABS we stock beautiful sketch book from Royal Talens and also some art supplies from the Bruynzeel range.
Maped Helix
Maped helix’s mission
To empower every child to change the world with their own hands.
To make access to education easier to develop every child’s potential.
To develop products that are more sustainable, nurture imagination, and encourage children to learn.
To lead by example by placing our environmental commitment at the heart of our decisions.
And to do it all together, hand in hand.
Bug Art Greetings Cards
Bug Art’s founder and artist, Jane Crowther studied Illustration Ba(Hons) at Kingston Polytechnic (now Kingston University).
In the early 1990’s, whilst based in North London, Jane designed a small range of greeting cards to supplement her meagre income as an artist, initially selling them at craft fairs alongside her large multi-media paintings. The cards started to sell really well and Jane made the commercial decision to concentrate on her card designs. Bug Art was born.
Beautiful Bug Art Cards are great sellers, they are blank inside and makes them suitable for all occasions.
Anne Cotterill Flower Art
Anne was a modest and retiring person, entirely uninterested in self promotion and never part of any particular movement or group. Her work was always sought after, intitially in her locality and then to a much wider public through word of mouth and personal recommendations. She had many successful exhibitions of her work, including solo exhibitions at Thompson's Galleries, (London and Aldeburgh), the Wykeham Gallery (Stockbridge, Hampshire), the Napier Gallery (Jersey), the City Gallery (London) and the Bellflower Gallery (Devon). Exhibitions of Anne Cotterill's paintings always attracted queues of enthusiastic collectors and demand for her originals far outstripped supply.
Anne's beautiful paintings are sold in the shop on various sized greetings card and are very appropriate for many occasions.