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Suddenly it is here - a new year, a new decade! This is our busiest and also our favourite time of year. It is when we launch our new collection and get ready for Top Drawer London Spring. If you are visiting the show, please come and say hello, see what's new and have a cheeky chocolate. Our stand number is ZB49. It will be our 10th time of exhibiting there - time flies when you're having fun!  Over the past 10 years this small business, which Laura started from her home while also raising two wonderful babies, has been growing steadily (much...

We are very pleased to announce that on 1st June we are introducing a new art society range and three new artist ranges to our current greeting card collection. Together with the new images by existing artists we are launching 58 new designs for you to enjoy. You can view all the new cards here. NEW ENGLISH ART CLUB (NEAC) We have been presenting the Dry Red Press Award at the New English Art Club’s annual exhibition since 2014. We are now very pleased to publish this beautiful new range of 11 fine art greeting cards, using images donated by the...

Planning next year’s card collection and catalogue is one of our most important tasks as art greeting card publishers. This year it was a bigger undertaking than ever as we wanted to introduce quite a large number of new images. In fact, we will be launching over 100 new designs at Top Drawer in January 2017! 'Couple' by Debra Sweeney We got organised early in the year, deciding on deadlines for each stage long before we got started. We use the brilliant project management app Asana, which is completely free and enables us to keep on top of all our projects, tasks...

Did you know that we support 4 major British art societies through the sale of our cards? The artists and their work have always been at the heart of Dry Red Press. As publishers of art greeting cards we are proud to be working with such well established artists as well as being committed to introducing young and emerging artists’ work to our growing collection. Members of each society send us a selection of their images and we have the wonderful job of looking through all the impressive works of art and selecting those that we feel will make popular...

There is nothing quite like receiving a hand written card in the post. The excitement when you open the envelope, the artwork or design on the front and then the words inside, written especially for you. It is such a simple thing to do, a greeting card costs little and doesn’t take that long to write - unless you want it to. Yet it can make such a difference to the person receiving it. According to the Greeting Card Association, 878.8 million single cards were sold in the UK in 2014. Will we reach a billion this year? If my...