Burwell Community Print Centre Newsletter
December 2012
Burwell Print Gets Crafty We have been thinking of ways to expand and develop our business. As featured in the May edition of Printer’s Progress, one idea was to have a jewellery project. Not only to boost our income and make jewellery when we are less busy with print work, but to show our customers how versatile we can be. Vikki makes jewellery at home and so shared her skills with Printers and staff, showing us how to make bracelets, earrings and necklaces. We’ve appropriately named the project Second String, which was Sue’s idea and Sarah has designed us a stylish logo.
Over the past months Printers have made some fabulous pieces of
jewellery and really enjoyed learning something new. Selling mainly from our display area here at Burwell Print we decided to expand our horizons so we had a stall at Burwell’s Craft Fair in November.
Everyone was involved with the preparation for this event. As well as jewellery we designed and produced several new products including christmas cards and notebooks, calendars, greeting cards and christmas bags. Our earring cards had seasonal motifs which were very popular with the customers as were our Christmas cards designed