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Welcome to The Campbell Collection. We asked co-founder and designer Emma to take us on a whistlestop tour of her beautifully photogenic life through the medium of cushions and quilts and gorgeous Indian landscapes.

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Welcome to The Campbell Collection. We asked co-founder and designer Emma Campbell to take us on a whistlestop tour of her beautifully photogenic life through the medium of cushions and quilts and gorgeous Indian landscapes.

The open boot of a car on the road in Jaipur filled with colourful cushions and quilts.

Bundles of hand embroidered cushions and quilts in the back of a vintage ambassador in Jaipur. What you can't see (or hear) are all the cars enthusiastically beeping at us around a tight bend while we try and get the perfect shot!

The inside of a vintage car with floral patterned fabric curtains and Campbell Collection round cushions.

It was an incredibly hot day in Jaipur and unluckily the vintage car didn't have AC. We spent the drive up to Jaigarh Fort sweating profusely whilst upholstering the interior of the car with our range of block printed fabrics. These curtains were my favourite!

A stack of four different coloured round linen cushions on top of a terracotta coloured archway in Jaipur.

Our Mukesh cushions perched perfectly atop an arch at Jaigarh Fort. There was a very sheer drop on the other side of the wall so I am incredibly glad that these cushions didn't go flying. I love how the light hits the linen and highlights the contrast piping.

Emma Capbell in a block printing workshop with fabric in the background.

My happy place. I am never happier than being on the ground with the wonderful craftsmen and women that we are privileged to work with in Jaipur. Here I am in the block printing workshop in Sanganer overseeing sampling.

A woman hand sewing cross stitch into a quilt.

This is Sanjina hand embroidering our Rani Quilt. Layers of hand dyed organic cotton are quilted together using simple cross stitches. Sanjina learned how to sew under the tuition of pattern and sewing master, Lalkishar Ji. She loves it so much she has begun sewing at home and proudly showed us a dress that she had just finished making.

The Campbell Collection Rani Quilt in Indigo flapping in the wind with a stormy sky behind.

Here she is in all her glory. I love how you can use our Rani Quilt on either side. On the reverse indigo cross stitches stand out against the peachy pink backdrop. Another behind the scenes moment - a storm was brewing and the wind was really picking up! So much so it almost took this quilt with it off of the roof. We don't make things easy for ourselves! But we have a lot of fun and I wouldn't have it anyother way.

The inside of a treehouse in the UK filled with The Campbell Collection pink and green soft furnishings.

We hired the beautiful Quist Treehouse in Herefordshire for a photoshoot closer to home. It had the best little nooks and crannies to style our products in more of a lifestyle setting, rather than in the back of a car! This matchy matchy pink and green combination is really working for me.

A close up of a bed in the treehouse covered with Campbell Collection cushions and quilt in blues and oranges.

Somewhere I'd rather be. This bedroom in the eaves of the Quist, accessed by a rope and ladder has treetop views over the Brinsop Estate. We stayed the night during our photoshoot and I enjoyed waking up to the sun rising over the ancient oaks and firs.

A picture of Emma and her husband Tim sat on steps in front of a shop in Edinburgh.

An oldie but a goodie. Tim and I outside our very first pop up shop in Edinburgh in 2021. A few years earlier in 2018 we tied the knot, launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign and flew out to India all within the same year. Tim worked tirelessly behind the scenes making the business function and the brand wouldn't be where it is today without his invaluable support. My Dad, Wes, now also works alongside us. We're a family business through and through.

Our Collection of The Campbell Collection

Patchwork Cushions £85
Round Linen Cushions £94
Rani Quilts £428

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Meet Louise Lockhart of The Printed Peanut and her beautiful greetings cards. Take an inside look at the wildly colourful life of an illustrator through her favourite Insta posts.

An image of Louise Lockhart founder of The Printed Peanut.

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Meet Louise Lockhart of The Printed Peanut and her beautiful greetings cards. Take an inside look at the wildly colourful life of an illustrator through her favourite Insta posts.

Scissors on top of cut out bits of brightly coloured, illustratedpaper.

I always start my designs by cutting shapes from paper. I like how it’s less predictable than drawing with a pen or pencil. I love these fancy scissors my mum got me for Christmas (and they are from Yorkshire like me).

Louise Lockhart of The Printed Peanut sat in front of a number of brightly coloured framed Printed bPeanut pictures.

Colour and pattern are such a huge part of my life and I try to infuse it in all my work. I usually use just 2 or three colours in one picture, layering them on top of each other to get further colours. I want my creations to look handmade and imperfect. I do use a computer but wouldn’t use something like a drawing tablet because I want to keep it as hand done as possible, keeping some of the mistakes and wonkiness you get when doing things manually.

An image of a flower stall full of spring flowers.

I’m always looking for inspiration in everyday things that might go unnoticed, like handwritten signs on shop fronts or market stalls. I took this photo on an old film camera on a holiday to Nice last year. What an amazing market that was! I’m right back there when I look at this picture.

A card with an illustration of a smiley, pink and white striped cat.

When I was a child I would spend all my time drawing cats. I couldn’t have dreamt that I would be making a living from doing it 30 years later!

A desk filled with colourful flowers, stationary, trinkets and books with colourful framed Printed Peanut pictures on the wall behind.

This is my desk, my creative space in my studio on the ground floor of my house. I live and work in an old converted cotton mill in Yorkshire. I love surrounding myself with inspiration and things that I have collected on my travels.

a card of a brightly coloured ice cream shop front.

When you draw what you love people really connect with it. I learned a while ago that it’s pointless to try and make things that you think people will like - just do it for yourself and you can’t go wrong. The two top things on my list of things I love to draw are shop fronts and ice cream, so this new card brings me joy.

An image of a kitchen surface with toaster and cookbooks and a shelf full of coffee and tea pots and flowers.

To get a break from working, I head to the kitchen (usually for biscuits, they are my weakness.) I love a coffee in the morning and tea throughout the day. I fit work around looking after my two children so it’s always very hectic and busy in my house. I feel like I never have any time to finish anything and I’m always spinning plates!

An image of a few greetings cards in really bright colours of neon pink, yellow and blue.

I created the images on these cards inspired by found packaging. I first made them as risograph prints and loved the neon pink ink so much! When I turned them into greetings cards, I know I had to recreate that, so I got the neon pink printed as a pure Pantone on top of the lithograph, so they really pop.

An image of Louise Lockhart wearing a dress with a bright yellow flower and bird print hanging a Printed Peanut picture on a wall.

I love to see my designs on all sorts of surfaces and love this dress my mum made from my fabric. I am a freelance illustrator and have worked with loads of interesting companies that have applied my drawings to everything from pyjamas to sweet packets. There’s nothing quite like the feeling of seeing something that you have made out there in the real world. That is why I love selling my products to small independent shops too, you never know who is going to pick it up.

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Snapshots: Wanderlust Paper Co.

Meet talented illustrator, greetings card guru and delightful Hambledon supplier, Lucy Brackin of Wanderlust Paper Co. We take a nosy look round her Instagram feed for a peak into her pretty world of paint, paper and print.

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A Wanderlust Backbird mini card.

We have just released our new collection and this blackbird is one of my favourites. I have so many little drawings on bits of paper that I love, and introducing our mini cards was a way for me to incorporate them into our collection.

I handprint all of our cards individually on this foil printing press. It is a laborious process but I like the time and care that hand printing gives to paper goods, and the touch of golden foil really helps to make the designs sing.

Wanderlust cards stacked up underneath a Wanderlust wall sign.

My studio is my happy place! It is the larger bedroom in my flat and has packing tables, my desk where I do creative work, a table for foil printing and stores some of our stock.

An image from before Wanderlust was started- here I am at my Fine Art degree show in 2016. I knew I wanted to start a stationery company in my final year at university but starting out felt like a very daunting task.

Gold framed paintings on the wall at Tate Britain.

I like to go to galleries regularly to inform my design work but also to get some time away from the studio so that I’m more refreshed when I return. This is my favourite room at Tate Britain and one of my favourite Rossetti paintings.

A blue floral design.

I’m at my happiest when I’m drawing and painting- Wanderlust has been a way to make that love for creating part of my daily life. Admittedly all the other aspects of running a business often get in the way!

The first time I was able to get my products professionally photographed was so exciting and really elevated my website and business. We have our images taken by product photographer Laura Hutchinson- she has such an eye and I love her minimal styling.

A blue and white portrait painting stuck to the wall.

A snapshot of the studio walls where I like to pin up drawings as I make them. My workspace is never without plants- I use them as drawing inspiration and like the moments of calm that tending to them brings.

A box of Wanderlust cards being opened at tkdcincinnati.

Before starting my business wrapping presents was something I loved doing and now I get the same enjoyment on a daily basis from packing wholesale orders! This is one of the first orders we sent out to tkdcincinnati.

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Snapshots: Crispin Finn

We are, as you must know by now, incorrigably nosy. This week we ask Crispin Finn (who isn't actually a man called Crispin at all but a brilliant husband and wife team called Anna and Roger) to give us a glimpse into their stationery filled lives through the filter of their marvellous Instagram feed.

If you don't already know, Crispin Finn make paper goods (cards and planners and notes) in a very distinctive red, white and blue palette. Everything is screen printed in house or made locally (they live in Margate) using ethically responsible manufacturing processes. And everything is beautiful and practical and witty.

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Anna & Roger at a trade show
One of Crispin Finn's greetings cards which reads 'Hello'
Team Crispin Finn standing on the giant notepad paper floor

As two people obsessed with practical uniforms we fulfilled an ambition in creating our own embroidered workers jackets last year in collaboration with Palm Bay Skates, just down the road from us in Margate. It’s always special to put them on, they are not only practical but also double as a kind of walking sandwich board that says - we are Crispin Finn, we love red white and blue!

We love designing cards and wrap for all occasions whether it be celebrations, birthdays, unexpected surprises, or just a sincere and heartfelt Hello.

We’re firm believers that the devil is in the detail and any opportunity to make the most of that is to be jumped at - this is the giant lined note paper vinyl flooring we made for a recent stationery focused trade show in London, when we first met the wonderful tkdcincinnati team!

A stack of 'The Week' Note Pads
Action shot of screen printing in the studio.
A box full of 'Today's Special' Cards.

When we outsource, we are lucky to be able to outsource locally. As well as the multitude of benefits both environmentally and logistically that comes with that, there is always the added thrill that goes with seeing stacks of freshly lithographed pads ready for us to prep and package.

It was our primary source of production when we began working together as Crispin Finn and remains such a key part of our process and thinking - we screen print on a regular basis whether it be packaging for all our stationery ranges, or our art editions, and gives us an important break away from all our other tasks

We came up with this design after grabbing a sandwich from a local take away and seeing the potential in it’s uplifting double meaning - a positive message hiding in plain sight. It’s also always exciting opening up a brand new box of greeting card stock ready to go out into the world, especially when the cards carry good tidings.

A photograph of 'The Day' Note Pad with one of the crispin finn pencils.
The string and washer opening of the note pads.
A double sided sign which reads 'feeling good'.

As a lifelong lovers of all things stationery it was a very happy day when we finally took delivery of our first bespoke Crispin Finn pencils. Made in the midlands from Weymouth Pine we now include them in each and every pad to help the ideas flow.

Attention to detail is really important for us, we want to convey a sense of opening a special package to find what’s inside, regardless if it’s a gift or being opened right away. These string and washer envelopes are specially made for us in the UK and also help keep all our packaging plastic free.

We’ve started screen printing a series of double sided signs, just to have around the house or office and to reflect the current mood. Inspired by Nina Simone and Miles Davis, this one is Feeling Good on the red side and Kind Of Blue on the blue reverse side. It’s a growing body of work that’s grown out of our love of ephemera and the little things that can bring a sense of fun to the everyday.

A photograph of Crispin Finns work on the walls of The Social in Fitzrovia.
A photograph of a close up of lots of things that the Crispin Finn team have collected.
A photograph of their dog sitting on the sofa, with a typewriter, and their library of books behind.

We love to exhibit our work when we get the chance. This was a project titled “Seasons Change”, depicting the twelve months of the year and changing seasons, in collaboration with British poet Will Burns who provided beautifully evocative words to accompany each composition. We debuted the show at The Social in Fitzrovia, London - a cultural venue that has a long history of brilliant graphic art up on its walls and also happens to be one of our favourite hang outs.

There is a term known as “Pack Rat” for those that compulsively hoard objects (we even borrowed it for a series of work some time ago) and we’re definitely a pair of magpies when it comes to printed material. This is a fraction of our constantly growing collection of books, coasters, prints, badges, forms, headed paper, cocktail sticks, stickers, signs and so much more. They are full of inspiration, reference points and, importantly, memories for us both.

Three of our loves in one image - our Whippet dog and studio pal, Finn (of course), our Olivetti Valentine Typewriter, and part of our collection of books that is both a wonderful reference library and a constant source of physical worm-hole travelling whenever we get the chance to sit down with a cup of tea..!


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