Platinum Party Time

Here at Belly Button we love nothing more than a fabulous party, and what could be more fabulous than having one to celebrate our Henries Platinum win!  This year our best-selling metallic foil embossed Platinum range received a prestigious Henries award for ‘Best Relations and Occasions’ and we couldn’t have been happier! We had a lovely party this morning to celebrate, and of course a party isn’t a party without tea and cake (which we had plenty of).

Our gorgeous display of Platinum cards, notebooks, gift wrap, gift bags and mugs.

The Henries award taking pride of place

One of the gorgeous Platinum gift bags ‘For You With Love’

Belly Button designs founder and creative director Rachel holding the award

The perfect Platinum Anniversary Card!

Beautiful notebooks in tree and heart designs.

The Belly Button team enjoying the party and little Mitzi making an appearance!

The party was a lovely follow up from a fabulous evening at the Henries.

We would love to know what your favourite Platinum product or card is!

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Le Petit Pois has arrived!

With our Spring launch came the release of our fab new range ‘Le Petit Pois’! With wiggly eyes and bright colours they are perfect for little people and grown up’s too. The range includes Spring and Everyday designs so there is something for every occasion including Mother’s day, Father’s day and Birthdays.

The Spring designs will be available in the New Year and our beautiful birthday designs are hitting the shops now so keep an eye out for these little lovelies in shops near you!

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We’ve been featured on Print & Pattern

Here at Belly Button we are very excited today as we have been featured on the Print and Pattern blog for our fabulous new Le Petit Pois range.

Sending a big thank you to Marie for the lovely post!

To have a little read of the blog post take a look at the Print and Pattern blog.

We are also very excited to have a read of the new Print & Pattern Kids book!

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Belly Button Spring launch party

Here at Belly Button we celebrated the launch of our gorgeous new Spring ranges yesterday by having a fabulous party!

Of course there was a lot of tea and yummy cake, but isn’t there always? Our fabulous looking table showing the full Spring collection

Lots of delicious looking french fancies and jammy dodgers!

One of our lovely Platinum Mother’s day cards.

‘I love you’ Paloma card, perfect for Valentine’s day!

Another gorgeous Mothers day card, great to give to any flower lover. This time from our Marmalade range.

A Paloma Mothers day card, hand jewelled by our lovely painting team!

Here is one of our fabulously new card ranges, Le Petit Pois, with lots of cute characters and wiggly eyes, including cards for both Spring and Everyday.

Our brand new Spring brochures

‘Hot Suff’ is one of the cards from our Valentines Platinum range.

Mitzi definitely enjoyed the party and even managed to steal a French Fancy, but you wouldn’t know it from this cute little face!

Katie reading through our new Spring Brochure.

It was lovely to catch up with Irene from Harriet and Dee

We all had a great time at our launch party and we are very excited for them to hit the shops in January so be to sure to look out for them in a shop near you!

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A New Belly Button Baby

Here at Belly Button we are very excited to announce the birth of a Belly Button baby. Congratulations Lucy on your little baby girl, Martha Annie!
Here are some of our gorgeous cards that are perfect to give to a new parent or  grandparent. These four are from our  Marmalade range and are perfect for a new arrival!
Baby Boy and Baby Girl cards, both from our lovely Platinum range.

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Belly Button Baby Shower

Yesterday at Belly Button was very exciting, we had a Baby Shower for Lucy our productions manager! We decorated the room with plenty of bunting and balloons. There were lots of games including sniff the nappy, guess the Baby food and guess the Baby photo but we didn’t do so well on that one.  We had lots of yummy sandwiches, crisps and the bit everyone was waiting for… cake!

We will all miss Lucy and can’t wait to see her gorgeous baby!

Our platinum baby shower card is perfect if you are going to a baby shower!

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The Harrogate Home and Gift Show

This week Belly Button was at The Harrogate Home and Gift show. The sun was shining and we had a lovely time, it was so nice to see everybody.

We launched our new Platinum Giftware collection and it went really well, everybody loved it, especially the gift bags!

Our gorgeous Marmalade collection.
Platinum Notebooks

‘Hello Lovely’ Platinum mug.

On the left you can see some of our brand new platinum giftwrap!

Lots of our lovely card ranges were out on the spinners.

Our lovely agent Alan Potter.

Mark Robinson, one of our lovely agents.

A few of the gorgeous new Platinum gift bags and the albums below.

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Summer Baking

Over at Belly Button we love cakes! Take a look at our 2013 Marmalade range where we have incorporated lots of tasty looking treats, including cupcakes, chocolates and even a pink layer cake into our cards and gift bags. As a treat here is how you can make these tasty looking cakes for yourself.

We found this delicious looking layer cake over at ‘Martha Stewart‘ It is perfect for a summer tea party, pretty and pink!

(image source – http://www.marthastewart.com)

(image source – http://www.the-baker-chick.com/)

To match this pretty pink cupcake, here is a recipe for you to bake your own, http://www.the-baker-chick.com/2012/10/19/pink-velvet-cupcakes-for-breast-cancer-awareness/

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Studio Seed

This month we love the beautiful Studio Seed greetings cards, our favourite range from their collection is ‘Fly Away’. Featuring ice cream and pastel hued birds and cakes. Described as having “…heaps of vintage inspired charm…with pretty birds”.

So, keep a look out for these pretty little cards, better still you can buy one by clicking the link!

Delicate yet eye-catching illustrations.

Our favourite card is ‘Life is wonderful’.

Thanks for brightening our day Studio Seed!

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