Re-purposing old playing cards into greeting cards is quite a common trick but these Biba cards from Our Shop are just too nice to be passed over.
Each card uses a Biba playing card that's been mounted onto brown kraft card as its focal point. Though the playing cards date to the 1960s, they've definitely got more of a 50s pin-up look. For obvious reasons, there's just one of each design with a wide range of attractive girls to pick from.
The cards cost £5.10 each.
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You may be relived to never have to open a school book again but should you be harking back to your school days, you may want to invest in these retro school notebooks from Dotcomgiftshop.
Each notebook is in the style of a classic school notebook, with 30 pages in each and space to write your name, subject and class information on the front cover. They are decorated with an illustration for each subject – the atom and the rocket on the front of the science notebook certainly enhances its retro look.
They cost £3.95 for the set of three.
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If you're buying a polaroid camera as a gift and want to give the lucky recipient a less-than-subtle clue about its contents, may we direct you towards this polaroid wrapping paper from Nancy and Betty?
The paper is decorated with a repeated image of the polaroid 1000, which dates back to the 1970s. The images are set against bright green to create a striking piece of design. There's even a matching gift tag available.
Five sheets will cost you £7.95
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Share your love of mid-century style with these Modernist greeting cards by Mrs Eliot Books.
You may remember her name from her modplants cushion we featured a little while back. Now she's applied her retro style to these four card designs, all illustrated of mid-century collections displayed on the cabinet. There's plenty of fun to be had in spotting your favourite designs: look out for Stig Lindberg, John Clappison and Kaj Franck for starters.
A pack of four cards costs $7.
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Cast your mind back and you may remember Modern Living stationery set we featured from the Society of Revisionist Typographers, otherwise known as SORT. SORT have produced another product for the Southbank Centre, this time a Festival of Britain commemorative stationery set.
The duo have deployed their letterpress skills to echo the graphic style and logos of the original Festival of Britain. Each set contains 30 sheets of notepaper, split between two different styles, 20 printed envelopes and one notebook, all in a presentation box.
Something to write home about, the set costs £15.
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Chiming perfectly with current trends are these Beautiful Britain vintage notebooks.
The cloth bound notebooks are decorated with the distinctive book cover artwork of Brian Cook, produced for the Batsford guides to Britain from the 1930s through to the 1950s. There are four different designs to pick from: The Face of Scotland is shown above, or you could go for The Landscapes of England, The Spirit of London or The Inns of England. Perfect for taking on your own travels around the UK.
The notebooks are all selling for £6.29 each, with the exception of The Landscapes of England which you can buy for £5.29, all from Amazon.
