BESPOKE Stationery

🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏻Thought we better do a post to say hello to our new followers! "Hi!" Artcadia is me, Vici (Designer), my husband Adam (Printer), Savanna (Everything elser) and occasionally my dear mother Jayne (Sporadic shop cover-er). T
Quick note to say 🗒🖋 From last week, the shop is by appointment only on Saturday until mid October. It’s oddly always been our quietest day of the week so we are keeping it aside for clients to pop in, sit down and discuss bespoke, wedding an
🌍 We’ve finally begun the labour intensive task of adding ALL of our shop products to our online store and also switching to a different e-commerce platform, which should mean we have much better online shopping functionality. We’ve also
🎁 B E A U T I F U L G I F T S 🎁 I love browsing the shop putting pretty bits together to make wonderful present parcels. Colour coordinated, classic stationery makes for a very stylish and practical gift, for even the most awkward recipient. I&rsq
As anything wedding related bums on our main Insta, we decided to split off a wedding dedicated account over at @artcadia_wedding_and_event - Also, latest industry news and covid/wedding related content can be found on our online journal https://www.
🎙G I V E A W A Y T I M E ! Morning everyone. It’s been a while since we’ve done a giveaway so thought now would be a great opportunity to celebrate our winning the Best Independent Retailer (Midlands) at the @stationeryshowsuk Stationer
W I N N E R S 🏆 !! Some bright news on an otherwise gloomy day (at least in Shrewsbury) - Artcadia has been confirmed as the Best Independent Retailer in the Midlands at the 2020 Stationery Awards, woo! Thanks to our wonderful customers and support
🌽🌾🌱Some lovely new cards and prints have been making their way onto the website... Just the new large screenprints to go! . . . #grandadcard #letterpresscards #birthdaycard #luxurycards #greetingscard #printmaking #print #illustration #gardeningg
“Twit twoo” says the owl 🦉🍁🍂 Love this card - it hardly gets any airplay - so here it is. I’ve just been wondering around the neighbourhood like a bit of an odd ball in my awful loungewear, socks and sandals... foraging for festi
🏫 These are first off the press this afternoon - a card from this year’s 2020 Shrewsbury Christmas Card sets...but also a sneak peak at a new Shrewsbury print - which is fundamentally the same, but larger, minus the snow! We had numerous reque
S T A T I O N E R Y A W A R D S 🎺 We are so excited to announce that we are a finalist! Best independent retailer - Midlands. Two turbulent years since we opened our doors on Hills Lane 😂 Our vision was to bring something new yet nostalgic to the
🔧Setting up - Adam is lining up two magnesium plates on our honeycomb base - to print the front and back of a card simultaneously. This will be placed into the press, before being heated to optimum temperature for hot foil. This can vary slightly de
🎉 Not sure if it was the mardy public shaming that moved things along or sheer coincidence - but either way, we’re super happy to now have proper access to Hills Lane! 🙂🙂 . . . #shopshrewsbury #shrewsbury #shropshire #artcadia #stationerysho
⚡️Flashback to last summer when things were a little more carefree. So much so, that we were happy to leave two kids in charge of the shop whilst we popped out for lunch 🥂🧆 - Jokes. . . . #kidsincharge #bringyourkidtoworkday #summer2019 #throwback
📸 Just found the photos we took of the shop when we first looked round it - Then I had harrowing flashbacks of us pulling up carpet tiles and the awful gluey stuff that lay beneath! Urgh!!! It was a dress shop before we took it on ‘Dresses at
🤦🏻‍♀️ Would it be inappropriate for me to share some of my personal panic, around the whole wedding situation with you? I hope not, but it can feel like an awkward topic. For us and our wedding industry peers, these events are the core of our b