APRIL UPDATE 2025
Last minute Easter ideas and showing off some fun products! 🐥 🗺️
Happy April! We hope you’re starting to see signs of better weather but just in case, we have some brilliant products and ideas in this update to brighten up any day!
Firstly just a heads up – we are asking for your help to streamline our service to you, using questions at checkout. We’ve already asked you to choose your sample option, but are now are hoping to find out a little about where you found us, to help focus our marketing efforts – so thanks in advance for your help with this!
Easter is almost upon us, but there is still a little bit of time to grab some products from our Easter range, and we also have a few last minute ideas to help you out…
Finally, a quick reminder that we will be closed at the end of the month for our Easter Shutdown! We will be closed for 3 extra days from Bank Holiday Monday 21st April until Thursday 24th April, with us re-opening on Monday 28th April. Please take these dates into consideration when placing your orders to ensure you get your products when you need them.
Since we don’t work Fridays (and it’s also Good Friday) the last day for standard (non bulk or custom) ordering before the break will be Thursday 17th at midday – business as usual from Monday 28th April.
Important Dates:
- Easter Shutdown – Easter Monday 21st April to Thursday 24th April, we re-open on Monday 28th April
March/April Free Gift
Until the end of April, if you place an order with us you will receive one of our awesome new Single Hangers! These are super simple but super effective little products – once printed, just bend the hook upwards, secure with the supplied strong adhesive tab and you have a brilliant, personalised place to hang your keys, calendars, bag tags, jewellery, light dog leads and more!
March/April Special Offer
Don’t forget that the Special Offer for March and April is 20% off our Heritage and Landmark Shapes! Be sure to take advantage of this brilliant deal before the end of April. The shapes in this section are available in a range of sizes, perfect for all kinds of products…
New Products
- New! Shapes Theme category added – Heritage and Landmarks
- New! Cornwall Shape (Stylised)
- New! England Shape (Stylised)
- New! Wales Shape (Stylised)
- New! Northern Ireland Shape (Stylised)
- New! Welsh Dragon Shape
- New! Mother’s Day Bumper Collection
- New! Single Hangers – Pack of 5
- New! Key Hangers – House and A5
- New! Hoodie Shape
- New! Tins Added
- New! Easter Basket Tags
- New! Plane Tail Shape
- Updated! Car Shape – New Sizes
- Updated! Aluminium Sheet Section – new 0.7 mm finishes added
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Last Minute Easter Ideas!
We have a lovely array of Easter shapes, and you can use any of these to create cute Easter Basket Tags – but we think our Egg, Carrot, and Rabbit work the best! The Basket Tags are perfect to personalise as a little keepsake this Easter…
The Egg Holders make brilliant Easter gifts and Easter Hunt prizes! They are freestanding and will hold eggs the size of a Cadbury’s Creme Egg, and are available in a range of shapes including: an egg, rabbit, chick, and sheep. They’re a super fun product which the whole family will love!
Product Showcase!
Hoodie Shape
The Hoodie Shape is brilliant not only for School Leavers keepsakes, but for sports teams and businesses too!
Use the A3 or A4 sizes to create a board that everyone can sign – this is a great memento for school leavers, especially when printed up with a photo of the whole school year. It would also be brilliant for local football teams, using a photo of the team and the team colours!
The Large or Medium sizes make fantastic keyrings, bag tags, or fridge magnets for a smaller keepsake! Thinking along the lines of football teams, the hoodie would make a fun ‘Player of the Match’ plaque…
Key Hangers
The Single Key Hangers and Key Hangers are new and super useful! Personalise them with names, photos, or designs and use them to keep your keys handy – so you won’t lose them!
The Single Hangers are available in packs of 5, in White 0.5 mm or Brushed Silver 0.5 mm and from only 29p each, they are the perfect candidate for a small personalised gift for anyone – but especially those with a tendency to lose things!
The Key Hangers are a bit more elaborate, they offer more print room and are idea for families and couples. They are currently available in 2 styles – an A5 size with 4 hooks, and a House Shape with 2 hooks – but we have plans to add to this range in the future! Consider the Key Hangers for unique ‘New Home’ gifts…
New 0.7mm Metals!
Some new 0.7mm Metals have just been added to a selection of products across our range! You’ll find them on many of the Alu Sheet Listings, the Custom Cut Sheets, and the Door Plaques…
Joining the White, Double Sided White and Brushed Silver 0.7mm finishes we already have are: Brushed Gold 0.7mm, Double Sided Pearl White 0.7mm and Double Sided Matte White 0.7mm.
The Brushed Silver 0.7mm we have now sourced from China in larger sheets – alongside the new colours/finishes – this has meant we have managed to reduce the price on it from a 60% surcharge to 50%, but it is a slightly thinner finish (although listed by our new supplier as only 0.03mm different to our original 0.7mm it does feels thinner than that) – please request a sample with any order you have in, if you would like to feel the difference for yourself.
The Pearl White metal has a lovely and subtle sparkle finish to it. We previously had this finish in single sided 0.5mm, double sided 0.22mm or double sided 0.5 mm business card size only – so we’re excited to now offer it in more sizes in thicker metal!
The Matte White finish is completely new! It has a brilliant smooth finish which makes the colours printed onto it look really classy. It is also makes it easier to photograph compared to our other metals with a glossier finish…
Watch out for more matte finishes in other thicknesses being added across our range soon!
Heritage and Landmarks!
We recently launched our new Heritage and Landmark section with a nice stack of brand new products to allow you to create a whole host of keepsake and souvenir items local to your areas!
The stylised version of England, Wales, and Northern Ireland joined Scotland to complete the UK! They are all available in 6 sizes from Giant A4 down to Small to allow you to create all kinds of brilliant products – from wall art maps, clocks and dry wipe signs to fridge magnets.
We have also just added a stylised Cornwall Shape to this range after it was requested by a customer after receiving the March newsletter!
Don’t forget about our Yorkshire and Isle of Wight Shapes either! All of these shapes are a great way of showing off local pride or as a nice reminder of a well loved trip.
Using our place shapes for a map is a great idea – the A4 and A5 sizes would be the best choice as they have the most print room! They can be easily personalised to each customer by including a range of places and landmarks that they want to visit or have already visited.
You can even go one step further and make it an interactive map by including a dry wipe pen with which they can check off places as they visit! Also, for a Family or a Couple who love to travel, any of our place shapes would be perfect to print up a map along with personalised details and anecdotes from their journeys – making a lovely gift and keepsake!
Plus, we have a whole range of existing products that are ideal for souvenirs and keepsakes! From Keyrings and Fridge Magnets to Coasters, Bookmarks, and even Jewellery – there’s something to suit everyone…
London, for example, attracts a lot of tourists every year and there are plenty of London landmarks to cover. Even something as simple as one of our standard Circles can be printed up with the London Eye to create a coaster or a keyring!
London is also known for its distinct Taxis, which is great because our Car (Front View) Shape has finally been updated with some brand new sizes! Previously in XL A6, it is now available in 7 sizes from Giant A4 down to Xtra Tiny. We also offer a Regal Crown Shape for trips to the Tower of London, Lego Brick and Mini Figure Shapes for trips to Legoland plus a Bus Shape – perfect to print up as the iconic red London bus!
The Angel of the North is a well known landmark which was actually requested by one of our Customers! If you have any ideas for landmarks, area shapes, or souvenir ideas that you’d be interested in seeing made into shapes – then feel free to let us know!
Hopefully the sun is shining where you are, the daffodils are blooming, and spring feels like it’s finally ‘springing’ (the clocks went forward on Mother’s Day this weekend – hope you remembered!) and we are all feeling optimistic for a great summer! So a final last minute addition – we launched a Mother’s Day pack last week at an amazing price – that can obviously be used all year round for gifts for any special lady in your life at any occasion.
Here’s to a summer of Happy Subbing!
Kind Regards,
Nicci, Carl, Claire, Caroline, Pippa, Jodie, Emily, Lisa, Rebecca, Winnie the Labrador, Petal the Doberman & Donder and Blitzen the Sprocker Siblings – the Subli Metals Team!
