New for October: New Artists & Halloween
September picked us up and spat us out like a whirlwind – and suddenly we're in October – but that can only mean one thing: it's Spooky Season! Check out this month's updates including some cards to celebrate everything on the spooky spectrum.
Welcome Kati Sandmann & Eve Siropt
We are thrilled to welcome two independent artists to the platform, bringing a whole host of artistic experience and creativity with them.
First up is Kati Sandmann, originally from Germany and now based in Oaxaca, Mexico. Kati’s artwork is deeply inspired by storytelling and cultural vibrancy. She brings lots of exciting new designs spanning both our Everyday Expressions and the Art Collection:
- Intricate Art Cards: Striking fine-line pencil drawings including Shy Observer and Regal Cat.
- Mindful Mandalas: Mesmerising patterns and soothing colours across her Birthday Mandala cards such as Blue Mandala, and her range of gold mandala cards including Courage.
- Character Illustrations: Whimsical, smile-inducing designs like Cattitude and The Happy Witch.
Be sure to check out Kati's entire collection.
Next, we are delighted to introduce Eve Siropt, a French illustrator based in Liège, Belgium. Eve combines digital, physical and traditional art techniques, creating hand-drawn pencil illustrations finished with soft digital colouring, packing every piece with charm:
- Bugs Range: Nature-inspired critters brought to life in pencil and digital watercolour, including I'll Never Stop Bugging You, You're a Cutie-pillar, and Just Keep Fluttering.
- Leaving Cards: Playful, pun-packed farewells for departing teammates, featuring Clowning Around, woodland mushroom gratitude in Thank You Very Mush, and a celebratory finish in Finally Off the Hook!.
- Art Collection Engravings: Beautiful monochrome prints hand-pressed with traditional monotype and etching techniques, including Sailing Ship Engraving, Temple Engraving, and Boat Lake Engraving.
Be sure to explore Eve's entire collection.
Build your card
We've improved the card builder with simplicity in mind.
- All fields are now available in a single step, saving the need to jump back and forth to check what you've written.
- You will now see a live preview of the back cover of the card (on desktop), so you know exactly how it will look.
- It is now much clearer where your card will be saved, alongside quick-switching to preview other designs.
Halloween is almost here 🎃🐈⬛
We love to celebrate everything a bit darker and spookier as we head rapidly towards the winter months. In honour of this, we're launching our Halloween collection – for cards full of witches, pumpkins, black cats, toads and potions.
Explore the Halloween collection.
And lots more improvements
We’ve also delivered a host of thoughtful polish across the site:
- Customer reviews: We've added our amazing customer reviews right onto the homepage – thank you!
- Organiser help guide: We’ve added a direct help guide link right into the organiser toolbar so tips are always on hand.
- Design listings: We've improved the listing pages, including clear prices, more options for searching, larger designs and more focus on the artists.
- Facebook: We've also just set up a Facebook page – give us a follow if that's your social platform of choice.
Give the new features a go when you organise your next card, and let us know what you think.
Oh, stop the press!
Just before we 'go to print' with this post – there's some very exciting news coming next month. But that's all we can say for now.