Back to School Goodies

Back to School Blues...?

Not to worry we've got some great essential suggestions online to cheer you up for your first day back:

Zipped Cases £17 each - Great for stationary

A6 Notebooks £3.50 each - Stylish jotter for all those important notes

And of course our legendary Oyster Card Holders £6.50 each - lots of designs available great for holding your travel, ID & bank cards safe  

Introducing our new Animal Alphabet Print Range

Introducing our new Animal Alphabet Print Range This colourful digital print range feature the letters of the Alphabet as dictated by intricate animal illustrations that begin with the corresponding letter. For example 'A is for...' includes Albatross, Alligators, Anteaters and Armadillos Available as an all over print or sold as separate letters, with or without animal descriptions in five different colours  Adorn your home with these playful prints or why not get one for someone special for a great personal gift (bespoke services offered for birthdays, weddings or other special occasions)  Prices range from £8 - £12    Other products you can purchase in our Animal Alphabet range include: Oyster Card holders £7 each Customisable Passport holders £20 each Also available as Oyster Card holders £8 each A6 Notebooks £3.50 each Plus we have Greeting Cards, Gift Tags, Badges & Magnets too! To view our whole range visit our online store

Valentine Gift Ideas

Cupid is on his way...

Hey Folks!

We hope that everyone has been having a good new year so far....
as per usual January is flying by so fast & already it's just under a month away until it's Valentines day!
....so we thought we send a few gift ideas your way to hopefully inspire a little love giving this year....

Stuck for a great looking card..? Fear not we've got just the ticket with our love themedAnimal Alphabet Letter Cards.
Available in three affectionate options tailored to suit the occasion; Hug Me, Kiss Me or Love Me? Priced at £2.50 each.

We offer a straight to recipient service too, so there is no need to blush in person if you're too shy we can write & send your card & love message straight to their door!
For this service just email your message along with your order to info@sewsmitten.com & you can be somebody's secret admirer!
 

If your stuck for a gift for your loved one this year, want something inexpensive but striking why not opt for one of our aptly themed Love Heart Oyster or Passport holders which feature the nostalgic retro sweets with many playful phrases; Kiss Me, I Love You, Be Mine, Dream Boy, You're Fab..... Priced at £6.50 & £15

For many more gift ideas why not visit our online store by clicking the heart below 

Happy Valentines everybody, love from SewSmitten HQ! X

Sweetie Cardholders

One of my fondest memories as a child would be the trip to the news agents/sweet shop on the way home from school! Here you would be greeted with all kinds of sugared goodies all in a colourful row, and with empty tub in tow you would start to choose handfuls of assorted sweets which would only cost you between 1&2p! Oh no, there was no messing around with weighing, nope you had your pocket money in hand and would choose accordingly to how much you had to spend. Some of my favourite finds would be white mice, foam mushrooms, strawberry laces and fizzy cola bottles.

Ah those were the days......

So in cheerful reminiscence and because we simply love all things sugar coated, we here at SewSmitten HQ have created some colourful sweetie covered cardholders!

We spent a few days gorging ourselves on some of the classic Pick & Mix sweeties (Ooo isn't our job so hard!!) and have chosen 8 of our favourite to be turned into colourful cardholders.

So tell us which is your favourite sweet?

Here's a peak at just 4 of the 8 we have available online:

Dolly Mix & Fried Egg

Love Hearts & Liquorice allsorts

To view the whole collection go take a look online!

Vintage Comic Cardholders!

Now available online is the extended collection of our comic cardholders!!

So go have a gander and reminisce your childhood memories and be thankful for the great cartoons we all grew up with..there's nothing like the classics!

Here's just some of the few available:

Topcat!

My Little Pony!

Batman!

Carebears!

Oyster Card Holders

The first thing I starting making when I finished higher education was card holders, the idea came to me when I started to think about useful things that people might need. The bonus of living in London also meant that the birth of the oyster card almost guaranteed that the market for card holders was big and still growing.

I initially thought I would make them out of fabrics that I had designed and printed myself but when stumbling upon my mighty collection of 80s comics from great classics as Mickey Mouse to My Little Pony, I instantly knew I wanted to use these as it meant I could recycle these old childhood memories and put them to good use again.

Equipped with a few good comics I made my very first stack of bus/oyster card holders and gave them to some of my close friends to road test. Once satisfied with their durability one of those friends who happened to own a shop in Shoreditch East London (the shop was called Brag which sadly no longer exists but she is still printing lots of great things, check her site out at bragclothing) was thrilled with hers so began to stock them in her shop and continued to for the next few years! I also gained another stockist for the comic card holders from here for a shop called Boutique Babylon which is situated in South London on Clapham High Street and they still stock them there today.

I was still working part time with LadyLuckRulesOk around this time and thats when the birth of the crafty animal holders emerged....

At that time the craft craze was growing and when asked to make some cardholders specially for the LadyLuck website I wanted to reflect this....and whilst browsing through many vintage annuals and crafty books I came across some cute vintage toy making instructions and became inspired to transform them into a posse of retro looking card holders.

By using the vintage toy pattern instructions this product has two uses as full instructions on how to make yourself your own stuffed animal friend are included within the design..

And in the November of 2007 they were available to buy online!!

Further down the road in the making of card holders I have increased the variety of designs available and other additions to the collection have been:

London Maps; an idea suggested to me by a close friend - Fifi who owns Covet a lovely shop in Islington now also a stockist of them too.. Which have turned out to be a big hit as people love to find the ones with the area or street that they live in!

and another new design uses the images from a vintage dress pattern book which I just love as the dresses are amazing....

You can even customise and personalise your very own design! By sending us your images or designs we can make one up to order making it the ultimate unique purchase.....

When I first began making these holders about two years ago for my close friends and family I never imagined that I would still be making them today!

But they continue to be one of our best sellers online and at craft events too! Someone was even kind enough to write a lovely little blog about them too which you can read on Crafty Crafty.

We at SewSmitten HQ love the fun they bring to our dreary journeys and we hope they continue to brighten up your bus/train or tube journeys too...If not for traveling they can be used to hold student IDs, bank cards, gym memberships, library cards....the list is endless...

Check them out now on our online store and see which design is your favourite.....?