Jul/Aug Newsletter 2026
Summer is finally here, along with the World cup!
Sorry we disappeared on you – but you were all keeping us very busy with orders through May and June – so we prioritised orders over marketing, to make sure we kept up with them!
Summer is finally here, along with the World cup! and we are enjoying the lovely weather, which feels to have been a long time coming!
Exams have come to an end for many and kids are either enjoying or looking forward to their well deserved Summer Holidays. We have included some Back to School ideas and stationery/ office pieces ready for the new term and have included a feature on Sport tie in with the World Cup, and as we look to a summer of sporting activities and hopefully give you some ideas for your club, school or sports group for the coming year!
Don’t forget we celebrate Yorkshire Day on the 1st August! Our company is a family owned business and it all takes place in the Seaside Town of Hornsea, on the East Yorkshire Coast!
NEWS
- Minimum Order now set at a lower amount-£30 (Ex VAT and P&P) per order
- Parcelforce and Royal Mail merger- Reminder to be extra vigilant when filling out your details on your orders, as we aren’t able to make changes and spot details are correct as we did before.
- Remember to create a free account as you check out, so that your details are stored (and get your order history, find templates and ‘favourite’ items to find them again easily)
- Standard 0.5mm white metal – Reminder that our newest shipment of standard 0.5mm white has protective film that is green instead of white, so don’t worry if you receive a mix of green and white film
NEW PRODUCTS
Self Adhesive Metal Hanger
Firstly we have a new metal self-adhesive hanger that replaces our plastic one – with the best news – as we will be making it, it will work out cheaper and even better, like our in-house produced metal stands – made form our standard sublimation metal it is Printable if you want, perfect for adding your contact details to the back of your items or if you’d prefer not, adhere it the other way with the back of the metal showing, so it looks a seamless part of your item!
Soccer icons!
If you’re into football , you must be enjoying the World Cup – so to celebrate, we have launched out new football shapes – complete with options for clocks and trophies, but you can almost make fridge magnets, decorations, badges and jewellery – and all can be themed for club or country!
- NEW! Soccer Icons – Football, Football player and World Cup
- NEW! Custom Cut – XXL & Giant A4 – ‘MDF plaque style’ Wedge Shield doubles as a topper for the MDF shields available at other vendors but also as standalone new shield shape!
- NEW! Metal Self Adhesive Hanger
- NEW! Speciality Tins – Suitcase, Sliding and Window lids (Silver) with printable metal toppers (pack of 2)
SEASONAL INSPIRATIONAL IDEAS…
Holiday Keepsakes
In our beach and holiday shapes section and Souvenirs, Holidays and Mementoes section, we sell lots of great items to print your customers holiday keepsake memories on, from fancy beach and transport shapes, to multi panel sets and lovely tin gift sets – including a cute little Suitcase tin!
The square fridge magnet gift set offers 63 x 63 mm squares in a set of 5, 10, or 15 complete with a tin or bag. This little set is perfect for capturing holiday memories with a set of polaroid style fridge magnets! Small square collage (4, 9, 16 or 25 squares) can also be used to frame special memories, creating a collage or story of your holiday or even to treasure special moments throughout the year.
Leavers / teacher’s gifts
We have a great range of items that can be printed up for Leavers gifts or personalised for special teacher presents – so many we added a new School category: School – Leavers, Prom and Teacher gifts From the fab Hoody shape – which is great as a keyring right up to an A4 sign as a keepsake for any school leaver, to our awesome A7 Hanging Photo Luxury Gift Set and our lovely Plant markers and Awesome apple shapes – perfect to celebrate that teacher in your child’s lives that has been a superstar!
Prom Memories
We have a range of Prom Figure and Prom Dress Shapes that would be beautiful printed up as keepsakes for the teenagers special day 😉 and we have Updated the listing with a lovely NEW! Couples shape 🙂
Back to School / Office ideas
In our Office section, we have Flashcards and Study Planners, which are ideal aids, especially for those students entering exam years! Our Metal Card Set is ideal for flashcards, and we also have a number of shapes that would work brilliantly as dry wipe study planners: from our standard A3 and A4 rectangles, to our Spiral Notebook shape!
Stationery lovers!… As well as our existing standard ruler blanks, which include a FREE ruler measurement artwork download, we have fancy shaped rulers! These are all perfect candidates to be personalised gifts – especially for students and lovers of all things stationery. The shaped rulers can measure up to 15cm, and will fit into most standard sized pencil cases – including our cool printable topper metal pencil Tins . We also sell a Luxury metal dry wipe surface Clipboard, perfect for school or the office.
Our Giant Paperclips make great bookmarks for studying and marking those pages to revisit! Great to personalise and bring a smile to your busy working day! Available in three styles (square top, circle top and the original paperclip)
And we include all the aforementioned items in our great value NEW! Luxury Stationery Set!
Our Fancy Shapes Luggage / Bag Tags make great additions to school bags as they come in a range of sizes and styles! Whether your like dinosaurs, horses, dogs or trains, we have a range of shapes to suit every hobby! A great addition which could include important details, or simply as a cool accessory!
We hope you all have an amazing summer, whatever activities and plans you may have! Let’s hope the sunny weather continues, before we start to look at Winter marketing ideas and Christmas!
Keep on subbing!
Kind Regards,
Nicci, Carl, Claire, Pippa, Lisa, Winnie the Labrador, Petal the Doberman & Donder and Blitzen the Sprocker Siblings – the Subli Metals Team!
