DM Designs has been in full time operation since April 2006 and sales are growing month by month. What started out as a bit of fun has now become a serious venture for us. The idea of selling cards ourselves was born from becoming fed up of being held to ransom by retail establishments, where the price codes are placed where you can never find them and it is only when you get to the counter to pay that you find yourself handing over anything from £2.75 upwards and, as we are British, we are often too polite to quibble about such extortion!

DM Designs' mission is to bring you attractive cards at much fairer and realistic prices.

Our handmade cards are just that- made by hand. They do not consist of "toppers" stuck onto a printed card, but are created in our studio here in York- there is nothing we like better than coming up with new ideas!

As far as our printed cards are concerned we would be very interested to hear from any charitable organisations, whether they be national or local, with a view to supplying cards at an even greater discount, where any profits generated from our cards would be going to good causes as this would make us happy. After all, life should not be just about lining our own pockets; we should try to do a little bit of good where we can. Printed cards can be supplied flat so can be overprinted with the relevant charitable details.

As well as handmade and printed cards we also produce cute children's books. You will find these on our other website www.tinyisland.co.uk. We also have an internet shop on www.etsy.com where you can also pay by paypal for a wide range of goods.