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November/December News

Christmas is nearly upon us now and we’re hoping you’re as busy as we are here at Sublimetals.

As ever, we’re already looking ahead to 2019 for ideas and inspiration, new products and new marketing ideas for you and your business.

Bestsellers and NEW MDF backing

Firstly just to let you know about items that have been selling particularly well this Christmas. Our new MDF backings, which have been added to Clocks, Medal Hangers, Rosette holders  and Birthday and Anniversary Reminders to transform our products into luxury items, are practically flying off the shelves. Our Nomination-style charms and Pandora-style beads and inserts have been big sellers in the run up to Christmas as have our single and double-sided baubles. We’ve also had a rush on business cards – a great way to promote your own business and showcase your work in 2019, but they also double as wallet sized photo cards or calendars

November/December Free Gift

Our new free gift for larger orders is our NEW tri-fold freestanding triangular desk calendar showcasing our new scoring process. This might inspire you to incorporate folded items into your range of products. Smaller orders will get our wallet card calendar ideal for promoting your business. We’ve printed this on double-sided seconds – metal that has come to us with some slight blemishes, to showcase it to you. We are now offering this metal as seconds at a whopping 50% off. But these small cards are also available in double-sided 0.5mm and 1.1mm plus our full range of single sided colours and finishes.

After a customer request we’ve also created a NEW bow holder, which is perfect to tidy up the hair bows all over the house and turn them into decorative wall art!

Christmas Shut-Down
Just a reminder that we close for Christmas on Friday 21st December until Thursday 3rd January. Cut off for orders is Friday 21st December at 12 noon. We re-open on Thursday 3rd January. Please plan ahead not only for the time we’re closed but also the week we come back as they’re very busy times for us – don’t forget you can use Priority Despatch if it is urgent. 
Many thanks in advance for your understanding and co-operation.

December/January Special Offer
This time our special offer is our Calendar Collection. It’s £20.96 of products for only £15.95 and for these 2 months we’re offering an extra tri-fold A5 blank FREE and a 2 double-sided wallet calendars (0.5 and 1.1mm) also FREE (worth over £3)!

Website Updates
New design! Hopefully you are liking the new updates to the site, which showcase the photos of our products better – we are also trying to add more functionality by making the selection of options easier by using images rather than text – please bear with us if any hiccups happen, as it is a mammoth task with a site as complex as ours lol

old Ultragloss Sale
old Ultragloss sale is STILL ON but we now only have a few items left – some of which have further reductions to clear them – A5s are now better than half price! (All products now listed in Ultragloss will be cut in our new Ultragloss finish)

New Products – Fancy Clock Templates
All of our fabulous new fancy shaped clocks now have a free downloadable template to help you when designing your product, and we will be adding all the new shapes as plaques (without the holes) asap.

September 2018

This month we’ve launched a new pet items category. This draws together items from across our site, which make great items for pet lovers. We have crate / cage markers, dry-wipe feeding signs (great for busy households or tack rooms), Chromaluxe kennel/stable door plaques and a fantastic range of dog tags. We also have memorial pins and brooches to remember much loved pets as well as memorial crosses. 

Seasonal gifts – snowflakes, reindeer and sleigh

This year we have re-launched our reindeer and sleigh set and printed them up as wall art. We’re also giving away tiny snowflake or reindeer pendants with each order, perfect for earrings, necklaces or brooches. We’re also busy preparing for Christmas – see our range of printed Christmas decorations, from stocking dry wipe boards for children’s wish lists to tree decorations and snowflakes. Don’t forget you can also use our range of napkin rings, coasters and placemats to create a festive table – not forgetting the bunting too! We also have gorgeous gifts, from Pandora and Nomination style beads to our new Birthday and Anniversary Reminders and Medal Hangers (which we have updated with a luxury MDF back option). Tis the season to be sublimating!

 September/October Special Offer 

This month, if you buy either of our Christmas collections, we will add in free reindeer and sleigh sets! If you buy the Christmas/Seasonal Shapes Starter Pack priced at £9.95 we’ll give you a free pair of reindeer and a sleigh worth £2.95. If you order the Christmas/Seasonal Bumper Collection priced at £22.95 we’ll send you the full set of nine reindeers and sleigh – worth over £9.00 – complete with a free Santa and sacks too! 

Bank/Phone Changes

We have changed our bank to the Co-operative FSB account (who do great deals for small businesses) – details have been updated for when you check out using BACS option, please ensure you update your end so you pay into the correct account. We have also added a VOIP phone system to allow us to answer queries more easily and also add an answerphone, so we now have a NEW telephone number – It is 01964 244620 – our standard office hours are 10-3pm but we will also have the answerphone on around courier packing time (1.45-2.30pm) to ensure we get your orders out promptly but we will try and return your calls as soon as possible.

old Ultragloss Sale

Our final FINAL old Ultragloss sale is NOW ON – so click here to grab a bargain!

Stock Update

We now have double-sided Chromaluxe available – which is ideal for jewellery pendants or Christmas decorations.

New Products

As a result of customer requests we have added a new range of Teardrop Chromaluxe pendants and two new large shapes  – firstly a Giant Classic Oval at £2.95 and a Gigantic Traditional Heart at £9.95, sized at a whopping 420x465mm. We have also updated and extended our best-selling Large Bauble (the one with the tab) – fabulous value from only 75p! We are now also offering a luxury double sided 1.1mm thick Chromaluxe version

July 2018

This month our latest product is one that we’re really excited about here in the office! Our Birthday and Anniversary Reminder is the perfect way to display birthdays of family and friends – so there’s no excuses for forgetting any more! As the item comes with pre-punched holes for each month and 24 discs it gives you, as retailers, the chance for repeat custom, as we sell additional discs in packs of 12. Priced from only £5.95 there is plenty of margin for you – we’re sure your customers will love this item and are expecting them to be very popular in the run up to Christmas. Photo in Satin Gold Matt.

Awesome Apples for Awesome Teachers!

End of term is fast approaching and with this in mind we’ve launched a range of Apple themed gifts to say “thank you” to teachers for all the work they do. We have a Giant dry-wipe (£2.25), an XXL (£1.39) ideal for wall art, an XL (79p) for coasters and fridge magnets, a small (39p) which can be a keyring or badge and a tiny (35p) one for jewellery. We also have an apple topped bookmark (65p) and bookclip (49p) and (completely new product) a plant marker(75p). This gives your customers the opportunity to personalise any bouquet or plant they’re giving to someone. We’ve even added a clock option(£2.95) to the Giant – for a fun apple clock!                            
All the apples come complete with a downloadable .png shape template.

Seasonal Gifts – Luggage Tags

With holidays just around the corner – luggage tags  are the perfect item to be selling right now. Our double-sided luggage tag comes in two sizes 30x70mm (£1.19) and 50x90mm (£1.29) and as this is double-sided and 1.1mm thick, this is a true luxury gift item. Brilliant for gap year travellers or as a personalised wedding gift for the honeymooners!
 
Summer break dates
We’re closed for our annual summer break from Monday 13^th – Friday 17^th August inclusive. So please allow extra time for receiving your orders before and after the break, as both periods we will be really busy and we are short staffed in the summer holidays already. Use Priority Processing if necessary to bump yourself to the top of our schedule.

May 2018

We’re excited to announce that this month we’re launching three new starter packs which showcase the majority of our products. We have two packs Craft and Personalisation and Promotional and Business both of which contain a range of our products in different finishes at a hugely discounted price. If you’re not sure which pack to choose we also have an Ultimate Starter Pack which combines both packs and provides the perfect introduction to all our products. There’s everything in there, from jewellery to coasters, clocks to keyrings and wall art to bookmarks! The Ultimate Starter Pack also offers a further discount – more than £122 worth of products for only £79 including carriage paid shipping.

New products

We have expanded our jewellery range and now as well as the Pandora-style heart bead which is available in metal-alloy and sterling silver we now have a Pandora-style rectangle pendant charm and a Nomination-style link which comes with a printable sublimation insert.

Seasonal Gifts – Father’s Day

Don’t forget Father’s Day on Sunday 17th June. We have a huge range of gifts suitable for dad or grandad, from golf sets and spoons to wall signs and wine lovers sets. Our new items also make great gifts, including our new handsaw sign which works as a ‘man cave’ sign or our multi-charm keyring.

May/June Free Gift

This time our free gift is from our range of pendants which can be used as keyrings. The first two, perfect for Father’s Day, are a miniature handsaw and an SUV car. The car comes with hand-drawn artwork for you to personalise. These items work on their own or as part of our multi-charm keyring.    

May/June Special Offer

This time we’re offering our new updated “Guy Stuff” bumper collection at an extra discounted price – reduced by a further 20% to only £14.95.

April 2018

 To make way for new stock arriving soon, this week we’re having a FLASH SALE of our current stock of Ultra gloss metal, with a huge 40% saving!!

This is our premium white 0.55mm aluminium, which has a ‘glass like’ ultra glossy surface and is suitable for a wide range of items and projects from keyrings and clocks to wall art and dry-wipe boards. 

From today – Monday (9th April) all Aluminium sheet , Door plaques, Desk Calendars and selected Clocks, Bookmarks, Business cards and more that are listed in White – Ultra gloss have a massive 40% saving! 

This fantastic saving will only last this week so you better be quick – all offers will end if stocks sell out, or latest on Friday 13th – so unlucky for you if you miss out!

March

This month we’ve continued to work on extending our range of foldable and freestanding items to create more items including our new Freestanding (scored) Signs

We’ve adjusted three of our most useful aluminium sheet sizes to include a new Scored section that you bend to create a portrait freestanding sign or dry wipe sign.

This month we’re also excited to announce that we’ve re-opened our on-site showroom which has examples of all our products, each in a range of metals, both printed and blank. We would love for you to come and see where your products originate and meet the team, but more importantly have a look and handle the items we sell. We can then discuss with you about which items might compliment what you already stock and explain the versatility of our items. Please contact us to book a visit to the showroom. 

March/April Free gift:
The free gift this month is one of our new multi-charm keepsake keyrings. Perfect for Mother’s Day and beyond… the base keyring has a circular disk and two 40x15mm plaques onto which you can add children’s names and/or photos. We are supplying it in 0.5 mirror silver with accompanying split rings, for you to see the idea and create a demo item. Starting at only 59p it is perfect as a giveaway or budget sale item and as a more luxury keepsake in the 1.1mm Chromaluxe finish, from £1.95.

March/April Special Offer: 
We are extending our double-sided white starter pack offer throughout March and April. A comprehensive collection to get you started or to expand your stock at a fantastic discounted price – almost £18 value for only £14.50! But for March / April 2018 get a further £2 off our normal discounted price, bringing it to just £12.50  – a massive 30%+ saving on RRP!

Website update:
We have added more of our popular Custom cut variable items, allowing you to order exactly the size of rectangle you need without having to contact us for a quote first – making it much easier and quicker for you to quote your customers and turnaround your orders. You can now choose any of the multitude of options listed in Custom cut for orders of less than 50 for sizes right up to Custom cut Oversize Sign – variable size MAX 610mm x 305mm and for orders of any amount in the Trophy Plaque size up to Custom cut small Trophy plaque – variable size MAX 75mm x 30mm  

Shipping update 
We have now added shipping to Iceland!

New Products – Pandora Style Charm Bead
Our new Pandora Style Charm Bead has been phenomenally successful! These are literally flying off the shelves so will no doubt be popular with customers. STOP PRESS!! STOP PRESS!!  We have a sterling silver version of the heart charm and a new rectangular shape version winging its way over as we type – which we will add soon as they arrive (keep an eye on NEW PRODUCTS!) Hint and tip: Don’t forget to order your Ultra thin strong tape to secure your inserts into your beads!

New Products – Handsaw Shape and other guy shapes
We have also added a new handsaw to our shape collection, so the men don’t feel left out! This makes a quirky “Man Cave” sign for walls or doors which is an increasingly popular gift.

Marketing Trends
This month we’ve finally jumped on the unicorn bandwagon and now have a unique hand drawn unicorn head shape which includes a free blank template plus an extra FREE rainbow print, ready to press ‘as is’ as shown in the photo (and the accompanying video on the site).

February

Hooray! We’ve finally been able to source the Pandora style bead that we have been cutting the sublimation insert for for sometime and have added it here: Pandora style heart bead with aluminium insert (or aluminium insert only). 

January

This month we’ve got some really exciting game-changing news! We now have 0.5mm double-sided metal which is white and fully printable on both sides. This means we can now cut any shape or item – up to 85x54mm (business card size).

This month we’re also excited to 

announce that we have launched our freestanding clocks. We’re now selling 

these clocks in both a keyhole shape and a stemmed heart shape for you to print and sell. 

As we head towards Valentine’s Day we have increased our range so you can offer your customers even more products for their loved ones. Not only is our new freestanding clock available in a stemmed heart design but we now do an Large wall mounted heart shaped clock as well. Don’t forget we still have a huge range of hearts in four designs (Puffy, Traditional, Classic and Folk) and numerous sizes from tiny to XL. Also don’t forget to check out our jewellery sections for cufflinks, pendants or brooches for perfect gifts for February 14th.  

Stock update – Double sided white 0.5mm metal: Our new double-sided metal is now available as a double-sided business card and our straight sided budget key rings (long, rectangle, and square) also now have a double-sided option as do our luxury rectangular bookmarks and T shirt and medium classic heart key rings. More of our smaller products will have the double-sided option added as time progresses – feel free to request any you require immediately, through our Quote request items Item already listed but in a different size, colour or thickness Don’t forget we can also now cut any size up to business card size (85x54mm) in the new double-sided metal, including custom cut shapes. Use either of these three items to request any standard shape: Custom Cut Oval or Circle , Custom cut heart or regular shape or any shape bespoke/ cut to your own design: Bespoke cut design 

New Products – T-shirt shape
We have also added a new T-shirt shape. Available in XL and Small they make perfect ‘Baby on Board’ signs, bunting or award plaques and in the smaller size –  keyrings or fridge magnets for all sports lovers – with a bonus – the keyring is also available in our new double sided white metal. 

Jan/Feb Free gift:
The free gift this month is one of our new versatile double-sided items for you to test print. 

Jan/Feb Special Offer: 
We’ve now added a new Double sided white starter pack for these items, with a mix of our thicker 1.1mm metal and our new thinner 0.5mm offering.

December 2017

Christmas Shut Down
A reminder that our Christmas Shut Down will be from Friday 22nd December until Monday 1st January inclusive. Last day for Christmas orders is Thursday 21st December at 12 noon. We re-open on Tuesday 2nd January. 

November/December Free gift
This month we’re offering a range of free gifts. Small and medium orders will receive one of our new scored and foldable name place cards and one napkin ring. These items, which you print and then bend/fold into shape work really well together for the Christmas table but are equally as good at parties or at weddings. For bending instructions click here. Larger orders will receive one of our new foldable freestanding desk clocks printed with an image of the beach at our workshop in Mappleton. Further orders will receive a set of our small squares and foam pads to create a box collage as shown in the photo.

Engraving
Many thanks to Anna Ancell for sending us photos of our products which she has engraved with a rotary engraver. They look amazing and it adds another angle to what you can do with metal. 

Stock update 
We now have Matt White Chromaluxe available.

New Product – Stars and baubles
We have added to our range of five pointed stars and now have seven items from tiny to giant. These make excellent hanging decorations at Christmas (see pictures from Craig Ibbertson). We also have a new large bauble shape (92mm) which makes a lovely hanging Christmas decoration. As ever please share your printed products with us and if we can re-post your picture you will receive a £10 money-off coupon.

Marketing Trends
Printing on wood seems to be a current trend – but don’t be disheartened! Don’t forget that you can print metal to look like wood (see our photos) which proves that metal is more versatile!

STOP PRESS!
As an extra service to our customers we now sell quality branded A3 and A4 sublimation paper.

We’re also working on a range of exciting new product ideas which will be launched in the New Year – watch this space!

September 2017

It’s time to start thinking about CHRISTMAS!!
This year we have expanded our range of Christmas items even further. We now  stock a large number of shapes from snowflakes and baubles to snowmen and bells all available in a range of sizes and styles. We have added extra sizes in a few of our current designs as well – including our classic Christmas tree. These can be hung individually as ornaments or grouped together as stunning displays, or used as seasonal coasters or jewellery items. We also have a sleigh and reindeer design and metal bunting that looks fantastic displayed as wall art.  

We are also excited to announce that we have launched our 3D Christmas shapes! We’ve themed them for the season as a Gingerbread House or Gingerbread Man, but with different graphics and elements they could have many other uses…. The base layer of these are designed to work as a normal flat item (and can be bought separately), ready to be printed as normal and then the extra element kits simply slot or layer over to form an awesome 3D item. Perfect for fabulous greetings cards, unusual gifts or stunning decorations. Print photos of the family behind the window for a greeting – “Our house to yours”… add a plaque above the window to create a shop front for local retailers or estate agents … add a bird element for a pretty bird house decoration, turn the gingerbread man into an elegant dancer, a pretty lady or even a baby – the list is as endless as your imagination! A big thank you goes to our 10 and 7 year old girls Jacinta and Imogen for the fab graphics on the houses pictured.

SPECIAL 3D DEAL! Order both the Gingerbread House and Extra Elements Kit here and save 10% on our regular prices!
 
Christmas Gifts
As well as our printable seasonal shapes we also have a range of gifts with printable inserts which make ideal gifts for Christmas or as corporate freebies. Our drink lovers gift set has a wine stopper with printable inserts and a dog tag style bottle opener while the book lovers luxury gift set includes two book clips and a bookmark with tassel, all fully printable and for only £1.95. We also offer a printable heart insert for the pandora charm beads and a wide range of luxury jewellery gift sets. 

Countdown to Christmas
Our Christmas Stocking dry-wipe boards are flying off the shelves right now as these can be used to either count down the days until Father Christmas arrives or be used to write (and re-write!) Christmas gift lists as children come up with ideas. And before we get to Christmas, we have the larger-each-year celebration of Halloween as well – check out our ghost and pumpkin designs too.

Don’t forget yourself!
Don’t forget that this is a perfect time to promote your own business too. We have a range of items that you can use to promote what you do during the Christmas period. Why not send your loyal customers one of our metal Christmas cards or give them a printed 2018 mini desk calendar so they can be reminded of your company throughout the year?

July/August 2017

New product –  Our new brushed silver labels which were sent out free with every order in July and August make fantastic printed gift labels which can either be pre-printed with the recipients name or left blank to be written in permanent felt tip. What a stunning and striking finish for your gifts this Christmas while also promoting your printing business! These labels come with a range of corner options such as scalloped, rounded or notched and holes and/or ribbon or twine. They can also be used as bookplates on books if you’re giving a book as a gift or why not print them up and use as name places for a special Christmas meal? As ever please share your printed labels with us and if we can re-post your picture you will receive a £10 money-off coupon  

Product improvement – May 2017

We are updating all our White gloss dry wipe signs to include our brand new Eraser topped slim line Rexel dry wipe marker. Being slimmer it fits our bundled self adhesive clip much better (we also include an extra self adhesive magnet square to adhere it to – to give you or your customers options – as it is supplied with a magnet square incorporated ) It is really handy pen, with the eraser mounted into the lid making a neater more finished product for you to retail!

Hot off the press – May 2017 – New product – perfect Father’s Day gift idea!

Easter is now behind us and we’re now looking ahead to the summer, highlighting our Bookmark clips and other summery products. Our free gift this month is our latest new product, a smart and useful lightweight bookmark clip from our new bookmark clip and tag offerings. Perfect for using when reading these are also lightweight enough to use as revision guides or markers for recipe and reference books. We also have bookmark tags which can be inserted onto the top or the side of a page and are fully printable. Your samples are machine cut in our new Ultragloss white with an anti-scratch backing. They’re also the perfect product for teachers and pupils going back to school or for those going off to university. We sell a variety of shapes and sizes (including squares, circles – perfect as footballs, hearts and butterflies)  but remember we can also Custom Cut any shape so your customers can have a bookmark clip in whatever shape they choose.
We also have a new Pendant bookmark which can be used in conjunction with any of our small jewellery printable shapes and charms or indeed the larger ones for added impact. This product is perfect as a bookmark but can also be used as a larger memory marker for weddings. This is the ideal way to remember loved ones who cannot be there on the big day, by including their photograph on a pendant within the bouquet. It can also be used to include beloved pets in your special day.

As ever please share your printed free samples with us and if we can re-post your picture you will receive a £10 money-off coupon!

Thank you to Mark Pierce who sent us this printed sample bookmark clip (above) using his latest free sample. 

New Products on our Custom Cut machine – Beautiful Butterflies
As well as our new Bookmark offerings, we’ve now starting to expand our range of decorative shapes -starting with a splash of colour for summer – Butterflies. The first style added is based on a photo of a real life butterfly that Nicci took (thanks to Bugtopia’s new tropical house opening recently near us!). So we are supplying it not only with a blank template, but also the actual butterfly photograph so you can print your own versions at home which map exactly to the shape of the butterfly! You can easily change the colours in Photoshop to match any decor. Please see our website for a simple tutorial on how to do this and also how to bend the butterfly into shape for added realism. These make fabulous statement jewellery pieces (pendants and brooches), home decor items, wall art and clocks and of course can be used with our new pendant bookmark to adorn a bouquet or flower display!

March 2017 Update 

This is already proving to be a very busy and productive year for us. We hope your business is also thriving.

Website update:  We now have a Shortage/Damage notification form on our website for you to use if any of the items in your order are missing or damaged. All notifications of damage or shortage MUST now come through this form (please do not email us, as we can miss emails!). We require notice within 7 working days of the order being delivered. The Shortage/Damage notification form is available through a link on the tab at the top of our website. This policy is to ensure prompt attention to any problems and allow us to to follow through on our 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Special Offer For the next two months the special offer is our updated Wedding / event bumper collection. As we develop our business we’re trying to get ahead of the game and help you to plan and print products in plenty of time for the annual seasonal rush. Our products are fantastic for every element of a wedding day, from invites and place names to favours and name badges. You can even make celebration metal Wedding cards, table flags and metal bunting! Why not try printing dance floor instructions, photography or seating instructions, seating plans or table numbers? Some of our products make great inexpensive favours such as bookmarks, fridge magnets and key rings helping you to maximise your profits with a large number of items. Check out other sections of our site for gifts for bridesmaids, mother-in-laws and groomsmen, not forgetting our photo Signature sheet/sign which guests can sign and then it can be displayed, with pride, afterwards. From our inexpensive triptych hanging panels to our fabulous Luxury Aluminium Frame – with 3 x ChromaLuxe sheets we have options for displaying your treasured memories for all budgets! On the subject of memories, we have also now added a beautiful luxury Memory marker, that can be printed with a photo of someone (or a pet) missing from the big day to be added to the Bridal bouquet as a charm – the ideas are endless, get creative! More than £38 worth of products for only £29.95 but for Feb till Easter 2017 only £27.50, save over £10!

Updated Non-UK Mainland Delivery Rates We can now offer automated shipping to more non-mainland UK destinations. Click here for more information.

Samples Printing Competition – Facebook or email Don’t forget anyone who prints up their free samples (either the current sample or any previous ones) and sends us a picture that we can repost on Facebook will receive a £10 money off coupon, so get printing!

To enable us to remain competitive we have introduced a new minimum order level of £35 exclusive of VAT and delivery.