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Hello and welcome to Marie Goodchild, here you will find a range of pretty & patterned greeting cards for many occasions, illustrated and designed by Marie Goodchild from the small seaside town where she lives.

Nearly all of the greeting cards are professionally printed onto 100% recycled fibres using the finest papers and are made in the UK.

I set up Marie Goodchild cards because i love celebrating milestones and special occasions with family and friends and especially find joy in the tradition of sending greeting cards. This obsession and passion with either creating or buying cards began as a child when i would make and send cards for everyone in my family.

Choosing the perfect greeting card to send to a loved one is such a personal and beautiful act of giving, although it is a simple gesture it can spread much happiness, love and joy and make someone feel appreciated all in one moment.

We all search for those cards and gifts that allow us to make a personal connection between yourself and your recipient, we want to let them know just how loved and special they are to us, or simply that we are thinking of them. I am so happy i get to be involved in your card giving process with my beautiful range of sustainably produced greeting cards.

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My illustrations are mostly inspired by time spent as a child with my grandad who volunteered his whole adult life on a nature reserve island on the Essex backwaters. He taught us as kids about the importance of recycle and reuse over 30 years ago, i helped him measure the rain water levels and count the various butterflies and moths that lived in the hedgerow and long grasses. I often spotted seals swimming in the sea and went crabbing or was busy building dens and digging for old china and bottles. The island had a solar powered lodge that was filled with curiosities and vintage items, i remember thinking one day i will draw these memories and now they adorn most of my greeting card designs.

I live in a small seaside town in Essex with my husband and young daughter. After graduating with a surface pattern design degree at De Montfort university in Leicester in 2006, i have since worked as a window dresser for popular high street retail chains, this experience coupled with my eye for detail and life long love for illustration, design and making led to the creation of Marie Goodchild.

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