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Tide-Mark Hits The Mark With Amazing Puzzles, Photos, and More

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The perfect art piece is waiting for you at Tide-Mark, publisher of hundreds of styles of calendars, note cards, books and puzzles!

Art isn’t just about paintings hanging on a wall. It can be in any format, and Tide-Mark proudly offers alternatives to appreciating an artist’s work. Flowers, animals, landscapes and even the art of dance are all featured in Tide-Mark’s products!

Coffee table books aren’t just to take up space; they are also meant to be viewed! Adorn the centerpiece of a living area with a book from Tide-Mark and enjoy and afternoon flipping through pages of beautiful photography and paintings.

Are you a lover of the coast? The Lighthouse Companion series is packed with full-color photographs of lighthouses throughout Connecticut, Maine and New York, complete with guides to each one. The photos by Paul Rezendes even include guides for lodging and local events near each lighthouse, making this book a great companion for planning a trip!

Or, for bright watercolors of flowers and landscapes, try Blueprints for Paradise. Around 250 paintings by Sara Steele fill this book, showcasing her work’s connection to the natural world and her love for ecological preservation.

Creating art can be just as fun as viewing somebody else’s. With Tide-Mark’s puzzles, it’s easy to enjoy the paintings of another artists while still being creative.

For a challenge, pick up the 1,000 piece puzzle Blood Brothers, featuring a pair of wolves. Colors of Courage, a portrait of a former marine with an American Flag, is perfect for any military member or military family. Created by Bruce Greene after the events of 9/11, the painting serves as a tribute to those who served in the past and those currently serving today.

Spring, by Sara Steele, is a bright and happy puzzle that, once completed and framed, would brighten up any room. The Sunflowers puzzle can do the same, with bright yellow flowers pasted against a gorgeous blue background.

If funky is the desired style, go for Jonathan Green’s Harvest Festival puzzle. The swirls and blocks of vivid colors will create a unique conversation piece after the puzzle is connected.

Think outside of the box when it comes to art. The variety of items at Tide-Mark promise something for everybody, and every style.

Lula Bell Art & Designs Creates Whimsical Cards and Beautifully Designed Calendars For Every Occasion

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For the whimsical and dreamy personalities looking for art to match that style, Lula Bell Art & Designs has special prints for every occasion.

Simple, yet charming, prints kick off Lula Bell Art’s inventory and range from beach life to classical tea cups in a variety of pastels and sketches. For a more personalized gift, Lula Bell’s bookmarks are the perfect option for any bookworm! The cheery roosters, giraffes and cows make reading even more enjoyable. Calendars are also a great choice for anybody, and Lula Bell’s desk calendar features sketches appropriate for every season.

Desk Calendars

Sending greeting cards is now a much more unique experience with the Lula Bell designs. Forget the mass marketed cards found in stores — those on the receiving end of a Lula Bell card will be delighted with each print, whether it’s an adorable polar bear Christmas card or a wedding invitation adorned with a chic wedding cake.

Cutie Bird Card
Cutie Bird Card

Need a bit more glamour and glitz? Try out some of the canvas prints, cards, and towels that have been hand glittered by Lula Bell and the Glitter Gals!

Designer Amy Gantt truly has thought of every interest when creating her masterpieces, which began as a lighthearted attempt to make others smile. Gantt dreamed of launching her own business and quit her job as a family therapist to spend her free time painting and sketching. Her career as a therapist heavily influenced her desire to make others feel good through her art. After consuming a variety of business books, Lula Bell Art & Designs was born and Gantt began her journey of creating “smiles for your soul.”

From teacher gifts to wine, and florals to welcoming a new baby, Lula Bell Art & Designs has it all. Let her prints and gifts bring a smile to the face of that special someone! For wholesale login, click here! 

Fantastic Printed Products From Tide-Mark

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For years, printing company Tide-Mark has been making beautifully printed books, calendars, address books, puzzles, note cards and more! The quality of their prints is second to none, and customers are sure to be pleased by the variety of products they have available.

Books For All Interests

Tide-Mark prints books that cover a unique set of interests, such as Balanchine: Celebrating a Life in Dance, a softcover book that explores one of the 20th century’s most influential ballet choreographers, George Balanchine.

POWWOW Calendar
If that doesn’t interest your customers, you can also show them Following Seas: Sailing the Globe, Sounding a Life, a hardcover book that dives into the world of sailing, exploring famous sailors of the past like Columbus, Cook, and Darwin. It’s a book that will appeal to anyone interested in the fascinating, and oftentimes perilous, world of sailing.

Beautiful Calendars

What Tide-Mark really excels at is their wonderful selection of themed calendars, that cater to any and all interests. Are your customers interested in ancient civilizations, such as the Gila Cliff Dwelling people of ancient New Mexico? What about wild horses, such as mustangs or wild stallions? Tide-Mark has a calendar that can appeal to any buyer!

Other calendars that will excite any customer are the Native American calendars. These publications featured bright, beautiful colors. It’s a calendar that celebrates the rich history of the first people to settle America, and call it home.  There are two versions of the Native American calendar, the regular POWWOW 11″ x 28″ wall calendar, and the POWWOW Action calendar, a 14″ x 22″ calendar that features action shots of inter-tribal dancing and singing.

Tide-Mark always produces quality prints on all of their products. When your customers see how rich and beautiful the colors on the pages are, they’ll keep coming back for more!

Show Off Your Furry Friends With the Help of Magnet & Steel

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Traditional Wall Calendars
Pet lovers rejoice! If your customers are looking for gifts to show off their favorite four-legged friends, then look no further than Magnet & Steel. With more than 30 years of experience in the pet retail trade, the people at Magnet & Steel know exactly how to please customers, whether it be for a four-legged friend or a pet enthusiast!

Magnet & Steel has offices both in the U.K. and the U.S., and has a widespread customer reach, from North America to Australasia. So you can be certain that they’ll help you find what your customers need, no matter where you live.

For The Pet Lovers

Many of the products available from this company are aimed at pleasing pet lovers, whether that be dog, cat, fish, or reptile people!

The company’s variety of traditional pet-themed calendars feature beautiful photographs of a huge variety of dog breeds, from Airedale Terriers to Vizslas. These 12″ x 12″ calendars showcase a different picture for every month, and are available in a standard 16-month range.

They also have slim 6″ x 16.5″ 12-month calendars that feature all manner of creature, including ferrets, cats, tigers, and chickens. Magnet & Steel doesn’t limit their selection to just cats and dogs; they love and appreciate every type of pet out there!

The company also has an assortment of illustrated and photo greeting cards; air fresheners with funny sayings; and an array of pet-themed signs.

Pet Care Education

Pet Friendly Books
Loving a pet comes naturally, but it’s also extremely important to know how to take care of that pet. This company has the pet care literature that helps owners know exactly how to care for their breed.

Magnet & Steel carries books on all of the most popular breeds (the “Best of Breed” series), advice about pets from breed experts (the “Dog Expert” series), and advice on pet breeds outside of dogs (in the “Pet Friendly/Pet Expert” series).

Introducing, The HandiPOD

The HandiPOD
But it’s not just cute calendars and pet care literature that you can find at Magnet & Steel; they also have pet care products.

No on really enjoys the responsibility of picking up after their pet uses the bathroom. It can be very unpleasant, and unsanitary.

That’s where the HandiPOD comes into play. This handheld gadget has two compartments: one for supplying bags to pick up the mess, and the other for dispensing hand sanitizer to make sure the owner stays clean and sanitary.

The HandiPOD is available in both blue and purple, and refill bags and gels can be bought separately. Now owners can have an easy clean up when they walk their furry friend. It’s an absolute necessity for pet owners looking to keep themselves clean during their daily walk with their pet.

It’s not always easy to find the perfect pet supplies, but Magnet & Steel makes that task much easier, with high quality products that pet owners will love!

 

Rise to the Top with Tide-mark

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Being a successful business owner is not only about the products you carry but also the services you provide. So it’s always a pleasure to find a company that offers both. It’s important for that company to be established, and have a solid reputation for quality. And that’s why you want Tide-mark, a company celebrating its 35th year and which excels in providing products and services your customers will love!

Full-Color Calendars

At it’s heart, Tide-mark is a publisher. They publish art prints, highly illustrated books, note cards, holiday cards, puzzles and more, but they are most known for their diverse line of full-color calendars. Titles range from nautical themes, like Cruising World, landscape titles such as America the Beautiful, train titles like Railroading! and region-specific titles like New England Seasons. Their vast selection ensures that any store owner will find something which will resonate with her clientele.

Custom Canvas Prints and More

Though you may visit their website for the calendars, you’ll find plenty of other things to offer your customers. How about custom printed photos on canvas? That’s right, your customer can submit a photo and have a canvas print made in 3 different styles and 4 different sizes. Each is stretched on a frame and finished with a protective UV coating.

How about Letterpress Greeting Cards? The illustrations and verses on these Vineyard Greeting cards are by Daniel Waters, an artist, poet, and printer, who lives on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. The original designs were created as hand-carved block prints. Mr. Waters has for many years contributed verses to Yankee magazine and the Vineyard Gazette, whose readers know him as “D.A.W.” The cards are printed by letterpress on Strathmore deckle-edge cover.

When you’re looking for a company that offers what your customers need at prices they can afford, you’re looking for Tide-mark!

Stay On Schedule With Tide-mark

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Need to keep track of important dates in your store or are your customers wanting to keep track of their busy lives? How can you help with this situation? First off, you can offer wonderful calendars to satisfy your customer’s needs. There are so many ones out there that are extremely useful and great themes. One company that offers wonderful calendars that are absolutely great since they have so many themes and are useful is Tide-mark.

Ancient Forest Calendar
This company publishes distinctive books and calendars. They are known for their diverse line of full-color calendars with titles ranging from nautical themes, landscape themes, train titles to regional-specific titles.

In addition to calendars, they also publish highly illustrated books. Tide-mark celebrates over thirty years of quality publishing and looks forward to many more and with you to satisfy you and your customers.

What makes their calendars a must have item in your store? They offer so many choices and each are truly useful. Choose from calendar themes that feature African violets, Antarctica, ancient forests, Arizona, fly fishing, warbirds, sailing, skateboarding, Santa Fe and yoga.

Each month features various pictures from that particular theme. The pictures are all absolutely beautiful so your customers will never get tired of looking at their calendar. They can definitely keep up with their busy lives, yet enjoying looking at their calendar and not feeling overwhelmed by all the important events they have going on in their lives. These beautiful photos will give them a calming sensation and will let them enjoy what they have on the agenda.

However, they not only offer great calendars, you’ll also find books, holiday art, note cards, art prints, paw prints, holiday cards, greeting cards and even custom canvas prints.

Wonderful Books
They offer so many great products that your customers will love to buy for themselves or even give as gifts. They feature various books that are all about landscaping, adventure, inspirational, nautical, racing and wine and food. People can definitely get lost in their books and be taken into a unique story. Also, their note cards and prints are as beautiful with their wonderful photos. Even their unique custom printing is a must in your store, your customers will love creating their own works of art with the custom canvases.

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Get Cool Photo Calendars From Rose Street Design

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Where do you go for personalized stationery? If you want the best for your consumers, you choose Rose Street Design.

Photo Calendars from Rose Street Design
Rose Street Design has the personalized stationery that people go for. Their stationery is trendy, inspired and unique. In fact, one popular product outshines every other competitive item in the store. The photo calendars from Rose Street Design are a hit all over the country. Every store that has these photo calendars grace their shelves is quickly placing another order.

Personalized photo calendars are a great way to show off the best things in someone’s life. Favorite photos of family, pets, and events all in one calendar.

Photo calendars from Rose Street Design are fabulous gift items for people of all ages. The only hard part is choosing which photos to use. However, your customers have that task. You’re all set when you offer Rose Street Design photo calendars.

Each month in the Rose Street Design photo calendars comes decorated with an interesting border that applies to the month. There is a red, white and blue design for July. Of course, red and white are the colors of love for February. Add a personal family photo or some other portrait and you have a calendar that can’t be replaced and certainly can’t be beat!

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