The Pack of Positivity
Katie Abey’s rainbow-coloured designs using crazy animals to convey motivating phrases.
If you are feeling down, this is the pack for you: fun, colourful and inspiring. Every card carries a positive message conveyed by an amusing animal, vegetable or bird, each of them set against a rainbow-coloured background. Sarcasm and puns are much in evidence. The artist is Derbyshire-based Katie Abey, whose other work includes illustrations for 50 children’s books as well as countless greetings cards, postcards, jigsaws and puzzles. See the box►
Above: The Pack of Positivity playing cards designed by Katie Abey and printed by Piatnik, Vienna, Austria, for Gibsons Games, Sutton, UK, 2020. 52 cards + 2 Jokers + 1 advertising card in tuck box. Size: 63 x 88 mm. © Katie Abey, c/o Advocate-Art. © H.P. Gibson & Sons Ltd.
By Roddy Somerville
Member since May 31, 2022
Roddy started collecting stamps on his 8th birthday. In 1977 he joined the newly formed playing-card department at Stanley Gibbons in London before setting up his own business in Edinburgh four years later. His collecting interests include playing cards, postcards, stamps (especially playing cards on stamps) and sugar wrappers. He is a Past President of the Scottish Philatelic Society, a former Chairman of the IPCS, a Past Master of the Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards and Curator of the WCMPC’s collection of playing cards. He lives near Toulouse in France.
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