New for Volume 4: Finishing Touches

Not long to go now until Christmas, and our final day at The Print Shop on Christmas Eve!

Here are a couple more finishing touches to round off your Christmas interiors, or why not give one of Hannah's beautiful handmade stocking decorations as a stocking filler?

1. Screen-printed tree decorations | By Lea Lloyd  £4.00

2. Screen-printed reindeer bunting | By Kate Ingham  £8.00

3. Ceramic tree decorations | By Holly Drewett from £2.95

4. Handmade and screen-printed stocking decorations | By Hannah Postlethwaite  £4.50

New for Volume 4: Finishing Touches

...I know!  We can't quite believe it either, but there's only a week to go before The Print Shop closes its doors for good at 4pm on Christmas Eve.

Luckily, there's still time to grab those all important purchases from our team of local printmakers.  For those of you lucky ones who've almost finished your Christmas shopping (we salute you), here are a few finishing touches, designed to finish your gifts in style...

1. Christmas gift bags | By Bella Barton from £2.00

2. New Christmas gift tags | By Jill Spence

3. New Christmas gift tags | By Carys Ink

4. Screenprinted Christmas gift tags | By Sophie Rae

5. Super Christmas card | By Pirrip Press

On our wishlist...

We've put together a little festive wishlist this week, in four glorious shades of green!

1. Julie Taylor | Butterfly notebook £5

2. Pirrip Press | Pillowslip stocking £8.50

3. Dawn Cooper | Cat postcards/mini prints £6.00

4. Katy Christianson | Cubes tote bag £6.50

New for Volume 4: Hand-printed decorations

We love these hand-printed wooden decorations by Carys Ink, available in various shades of red, prink and white, both individually or in sets of three.  In fact, we liked them so much, they're currently in pride of place in our window display, hanging from The Print Shop's wooden tree.

Carys' clever bottle top decorations flew out of the door, so make sure you snap these beauties up while stocks last!

1. Individual decoration £3  | 2. Set of 3 £8

New for Volume 4: Chalkboards

Screen-printer Carys Ink has been busy dreaming up all sorts of innovative, 'upcycled' items for this round of The Print Shop.  These super chalkboards, made from reclaimed scaffolding planks from the Bristol Wood Project, have been hand screen-printed, finished and assembled with a cord ready for you to hang it up and record important memos or friendly greetings!

The boards are available in two bold designs, pictured above, which we're sure will be incredibly popular, so drop in and see them for yourself.

1. Sandwich board character £20  | 2. Little bird £16

New for Volume 4: Calendars

We love these innovative advent calendars from Pirrip Press.  Forget chocolate; harness your creativity, and colour in a different arctic animal every day of the week in the countdown until Christmas.  We reckon you'll have as much fun with this as the little ones.

You'll have to hurry though!  There are only a few left, priced at only £5 each.

Find out more about this superb printing duo here.

New for Volume 4: Calendars

Let's kick start our calendar round-up with this gorgeous original textile calendar by Elena Ortiz.  This illustrated wall chart has been beautifully printed onto brightly coloured reams of fabric, and finished with string so that you can hang it up as a vibrant addition to your home, office or studio, or give it to a loved one as a unique Christmas gift.

It's available in lots of lovely colours at only £12, so snap one up while stocks last (it's been a very popular addition to Volume 4, and we can see why!).

To find out more about Elena and her diverse range of working processes, have a read of her Meet the Printmaker interview here.

Christmas Cards Round-Up #2

We've picked out some more of our favourite Christmas cards from The Print Shop this week.  Have you sent yours yet?

Here we go:

1. Kate Ingham's stylised patterned stag card  | 2. Sophie Rae's colourful trio of stockings

3. 'You, me, mistletoe' by Pirrip Press | 4. A sprig of mistletoe by Dawn Cooper, to continue the theme

5. A super geometric tree from Jill Spence | 6. Hannah McVicar's screen-printed botanical bauble

Watch this space for more hot picks from Volume 4 of The Print Shop!

New for Volume 4: Hand-printed decorations

HAND-PRINTED DECORATIONS BY LUCY DAVEY

We were very excited to see these beautiful, hand screen-printed decorations by Lucy Davey appear in The Print Shop for Volume 4.

Lucy has been busy in the Drawn in Bristol studio, printing these two-colour designs onto cute wooden hearts, which are ready to hang from your tree with a delicate brown cord.  Although they're suitably festive, we reckon you could get away with pinning them up as a lovely keepsake all year round.

There's a limited number of these for sale in the shop, so snap them up while stocks last!

To learn more about Lucy and her bold illustrative style, have a read of her Meet the Printmaker interview.

Christmas Cards Round-Up #1

The Print Shop is positively flowing with new festive hand-printed Christmas cards with the launch of Volume 4!

We'll be highlighting some of our favourites throughout the build-up to Christmas to show you what's on offer.  Let's get started:

1. Holly Drewett's twinkling penguins | 2. Carys Ink's fabulous elf on a bicycle 

3. A beautiful gold Christmas tree by Kerry Day | 4. One of Elena Ortiz's trademark captions 

5. A sweet little robin, new from Katy Christianson | 6. Lea Loyd's fabulous geometric Christmas trees

Watch this space for more wintery product features!