About us

Angela’s Handmade Cards is a small business founded in 2002 by Angela Bekker. Its inception was designing and manufacturing general and corporate greeting cards. Today, this fully fledged business designs and manufactures hand crafted corporate and wedding invitations, greeting cards and objets d’art (3D objects in a frame).

 The business is based in Edenvale on the East Rand, Gauteng, South Africa.

Products 

All the products are uniquely designed and individually hand crafted from local, imported, hand made and machine made paper, ribbon, embellishments (feathers, quills, leaves, clay and ceramic templates and paper artwork, etc.), glass bottles, jars and moulded frames.

There are four distinctive categories in the product range:-

 1.       Corporate invitations and stationery

Exclusive and superbly styled invitations and matching stationery for corporate organisations, businesses and schools. Team building workshops, prize giving, galas, Christmas/year end functions, conferences, launches, golf/sports days, matric dances, Valentine’s and debutant balls.

 2.        Wedding invitations and stationery

Uniquely designed extraordinary wedding invitations, matching stationery and bonbonniére packages. Individually hand crafted with attention to detail and excellent workmanship. 

 3.        Greeting cards

Over 300 designs to choose from for any occasion. The perfect choice for florists, exclusive gift, novelty, souvenir shops and speciality book shops. Occasion or blank cards add a special touch to any product and service.

 4.        Objets d’art

Delightful works of art! 3D Pictures and picture clocks crafted from paper, mounted and sealed in a box frame. Framing of sentimental and 3 dimensional objects also a speciality.

Committed to excellence 

Fanatical about quality of design, product and service, each customer’s needs and requirements are assessed through consultation and advice. Once a design is created, it serves as a blueprint to hand craft each item with perfection and meticulous attention to detail.

What's the difference? 

Firstly, because all the products are hand made, there are no limits to design. This flexibility and freedom lends itself to a final product that is absolutely unique. This is also particular to colour schemes and themes.
Secondly, it is important to adhere to corporate image and policy. Therefore a unique product is designed through consultation and still keeping within the boundaries of corporate policy.
Lastly, many different creative art techniques are used in design and manufacture. Some techniques include water colouring, 3D découpage, embossing, collage, bleaching, clay and paper moulding.

Printing

Four kinds of printing methods are used. This is required to accommodate and compliment the many different textures of paper and card used in the manufacturing process. These printing methods are thermo-foiling, thermo graphic, inkjet and laser. Some of the papers used cannot be printed on using industrial litho printing machines.

Lead times

It must be noted that the products are all individually hand made. They therefore require more time to manufacture than mass produced machine made goods. Generally, an order of 500 invitations or cards requires about 5 weeks to manufacture. This time frame can vary depending on the amount of detail required on the order.

Quality service 

Being a small business, it is possible to have a finger on the pulse regarding all aspects of the business – from consultations, design, manufacture, administration and delivery of goods. Systems are in place (e.g. quality control, print proofs) to ensure customers receive only top class service and products.

ANGELA BEKKER

28 May 2003

“What I do best is share my enthusiasm”

-Bill Gates

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