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Lilac Tree Designs

Lilac Tree Designs have a new range of cards out for 2026. Here’s all you need to know.

It’s a wonderful time of year for card and stationery lovers—and the new 2026 Lilac Tree Designs brochure is bursting with beautiful artwork, fresh collections and thoughtful touches across every range. Whether you’re on the lookout for the perfect birthday card, a heartfelt note, or pretty stationery and gifts, there’s something in this collection for every customer and every occasion.

💌New card collections

This year’s brochure showcases a wide selection of greeting cards, from fun and quirky birthdays to elegant florals, coastal views and charming animal illustrations. You’ll find dedicated sections for Birthday, General, Floral and Occasions, along with special designs for milestones, sympathy, thank you, new baby, new home, weddings and anniversaries.
There are also Welsh language cards and light-hearted humour designs, giving you plenty of choice to suit different tastes and personalities.

✨ Special cards and notecards

Alongside the core ranges, the brochure includes special “wearable” crown cards—perfect for celebrations and Mother’s Day—as well as beautifully designed notecard packs. These notecards, featuring designs such as florals, hens and “A Note for Ewe”, are ideal for quick messages, thank yous or thoughtful notes to tuck in with gifts.
Each card is printed on matt textured board, supplied with quality envelopes, and left blank inside so your customers can add their own personal message.

🎁 Stationery, tissue and ribbon

The new edition also highlights a growing stationery range, including coordinated stationery sets, recipe cards, A4 meal planners, bookmarks and magnetic jotter pads such as shopping lists and to-do lists. These pieces make brilliant stand-alone gifts or easy add-on purchases at the till.
You’ll also find pretty tissue paper packs and organza ribbons in fresh colourways like Lavender Fields, Candy Crush and Spring Blossom—perfect for gift wrapping, hampers or curated in-store displays.

🫶 Quality, values and versatility

Lilac Tree Designs is a Yorkshire-based UK publishing house, with products sourced and printed in the UK to support local businesses and maintain high production standards. The brochure is designed with independent retailers in mind, with no minimum order value and regular new releases throughout the year, making it easy to refresh your displays.
Christmas cards raise funds for Together for Short Lives, with additional fundraising campaigns for other small charities, so customers can feel good about the purchases they make.

🌟 Standout Products to Look Out For

Greeting Cards: Fun birthdays, elegant florals, coastal views, animals, occasions and more, all on beautiful matt textured board with quality envelopes.

Notecards and Special Cards: Versatile boxed notecards and clever crown cards that are perfect for quick notes, gifts and celebrations.

Stationery and Jotter Pads: Meal planners, recipe cards, bookmarks, stationery sets and magnetic shopping lists that are both practical and giftable.

Tissue, Ribbon and Finishing Touches: Coordinated tissue paper packs and organza ribbons in fresh colourways to complete gift wrapping and in-store displays.

🛍️Perfect for shops and gifting

If you have come here looking for information about how to stock Lilac Tree Designs range then I can help with that too.

The coordinated designs across cards, stationery and wrap-friendly accessories make it simple to create beautiful bundles and themed ranges in-store. From floral notecards paired with notebooks to coastal cards alongside seaside-themed tissue and ribbon, there are endless ways to build eye-catching displays and thoughtful gift sets.

Head over to their website and you’ll find a link to register with them. Please be so kind as to mention my name and number (Janet Ross-Jordan 1/JRJ1030) and if you need any help getting started with them do just ask me, email me at janet@cardsandgiftwrap.co.uk.

Who Are Lilac Tree Designs?

Lilac Tree Designs is a UK-based publishing house passionate about helping small businesses thrive through high-quality, beautifully crafted products. Specialising in greeting cards and stationery created from original artwork, they work closely with a talented network of artists—including many of the illustrators and print houses beloved by Phoenix Trading and Flamingo Paperie fans, along with fresh new names to reflect current trends. Run by two experienced former Phoenix Trading and Flamingo Paperie agents, Lilac Tree Designs is dedicated to supporting independent retailers and boutiques across the UK. They never sell directly to customers—instead, their focus is on providing independent shops with regular, inspiring product releases throughout the year, ensuring you always have something new and exciting to offer your customers.

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Charity Christmas Cards Supporting Local Charity

The Nativity Stable Phoenix Trading Charity Christmas Cards

I am proud to make a donation each year from a proportion of all Christmas cards sold to Western Isles Cancer Care Initiative (WICCI). A minimum of 10% is donated each year. Throughout the year I also support WICCI supplying them with stickers, paper tape and stationery items for their fabulous rainbow care boxes.

I also attend local craft fairs in the run up to Christmas and there is usually a fee or percentage donation from these sale to local charities and organisations.

Past Christmas donations

Every year Flamingo Paperie donated 1p for each of its charity Christmas cards it produced via the Phoenix International Charity. This in turn supported Macmillan Cancer Support, Cancer ResearchTogether for Short Lives and lots of local charities that we Flamingo Paperie Partners got to nominate.

In 2016 my nominated charity Hebrides Alpha Project received £150 from the Phoenix International Charity. The Hebrides Alpha Houseing project provides supported accommodation for people recovering from alcohol, drug, mental health or crimal justice related issues.

Over the past few years Laxdale Cubs and Beavers invited me several times to help them raise money for their nominated charities. Because of this, I thought it was time to give them something in return. So I nominated them as my local charity for 2017. I’ve already donated £100 from your Christmas card orders this year.

I was also really privileged in early December 2017 to support a coffee afternoon in memory of a family friend. From Christmas card sales that afternoon I gave £50 towards Cancer Research UK.

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Click here to buy your cards now and support some great causes.

The 1p donation by Flamingo Paperie was unusual for card publishers. This is not the same as the usual charity donation on Christmas cards that retailers give. Flamingo Paperie are effectively the wholesaler in this case. It’s unusual for a wholesaler to make a charity donation on cards.

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