Mad about Cards

With everyone feeling the pinch there's never been a better time to make your own (or someone else's) Wedding Invitations than now.

Here you'll find a wonderful collection of items to make your own Wedding Invitations, Evening Invitations, Orders of Service, Menus, place cards and more!

Why not take a look at the Pre-cut background panels section to find that perfect background to your Wedding embellishment? With deckle panels it couldn't be easier - no cutting to do so no risk of cutting wonky shapes!

About us

I started making cards after watching Blue Peter on TV after our first baby was born. I had previously worked for 15 years as an Insurance broker in London and hadn’t seen much daytime TV, especially not children’s programmes! Seeing them make Christmas cards on Blue Peter inspired me to sit down and make all of our cards that year and the following year.

It was after that I got the idea of making cards to sell as I thought of a good Valentine’s design. Many designs came to me and soon I was doing lots of craft fairs and holding card parties at home.

It was in September 2001 that we did a craft fair and had taken along other crafty bits to sell as well as cards. All of the crafty bits sold, much to my surprise. When I told my husband about it, he was quick to latch onto the idea and Mad about Cards was born.

Being an IT consultant and programmer with some 16 years experience, Andy wanted to start a web company rather than a shop. The website was registered and work started on the website, fitted between Andy’s full-time job in the City of London and my role as full-time mother of two.

Expectation & Anticipation

We expected the web shop to be ready by about May 2002 but this wasn’t the case so we invited people via to register their name and address and we produced a simple catalogue on Word to send out. This took off pretty quickly and orders started coming in even though it didn’t have any photos of products.

In October 2002 we finally decided that the web shop was ready to go live and one Saturday we told our relatively small mailing list that the shop was open. Since then we have built up our product range and customer base considerably.

In April 2003, we decided it was time for Andy to take the plunge and leave his job in the City to come and work with me. At the same time, the builders were busy converting our double garage to provide proper premises for Mad about Cards as all the supplies were taking over the house!

In September 2003 Mad about Cards won the E-Trading category of the 2003 E-Commerce Awards for the East of England region. We picked up a cheque for £2000 and a nice silver trophy and went forward to the national final at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London where we were up against the winners from the other regions. Unfortunately we didn't win anything else, however we still had a very good night! Here we are at the regional award presentation.