Luxury Cracker Gifts
Luxury Cracker Gifts
We are now receiving this years luxury cracker gifts from our suppliers and adding them to our gifts section on a daily basis. We’ve also split the gifts section into 3 parts:
Gifts for mini crackers:
Gifts for standard size crackers:
Gifts for jumbo crackers:
A lot of customers have been ordering large luxury cracker gifts that will only fit in jumbo crackers with orders for standard size crackers and no doubt they would have been disappointed to find they didn’t fit. We do state clearly if a cracker gift will only fit a jumbo cracker but like us you don’t always want to read all the small print! Hopefully dividing the gifts section into cracker size will help.
Here are some of the latest luxury crackers we have uploaded to the Classic Crackers shop.
Luxury Cracker Gifts Recently Added
Upgraded Website Launched
Hello everyone. The past week has been spent updating our website. We’re using a much improved piece of software to run our sites and hopefully it will provide a better shopping experience for our customers. Existing customers will need to request a new password from the login screen. I don’t think old passwords were imported into the new software. A new password will be sent automatically. I do recommend you use the password request feature as this will allow you to login and see all you current details and past order history. If you set up a new account with a new email address you won’t be able to see your previous history details.
We have made using the site even easier. Product categories are shown along the top of the site and down the left hand side. We are using a fancy trick to see close ups of our products which saves you clicking on a picture and waiting for it to load. It’s great, give it a try. just hover over it and a close up pops up and you can move it around over the photo to see closer details.
A product review is now available and working for every product in our shop and we’d really appreciate it you could review anything you have bought with us in the past.
A newsletter subscription is available and those who opted in in the previous shop will be added automatically to the new one. I will endeavour to send out the latest news via the newsletter regularly. It’s worth being signed up to as you’ll not only get the latest news but will also receive discount coupons for products which will not be available to non subscribers.
One other new item that will be added in due course is a loyalty reward program. It’s available in the new software and I just need to get it configured.
As you add items to your shopping cart you will see them move into the cart which is visible all the time. You can see what you have in the cart, the shipping cost and overall cost. No more having to navigate backwards and forwards between the cart and shop!
For those of you that hate filling in pages of forms when you want to buy something I think you’ll be very happy with the upgrade as we’ve installed a super quick one page checkout process. You don’t have to register if you don’t want to. Just fill out your name and address, click save and choose your payment method.
For online payments we use PayPal. You DO NOT need to sign up with PayPal to make payment. You can use any credit or debit card that is available in the UK to make payment safely and securely as PayPal will handle that side of things. Please note: we do not see you credit card details and subsequently do not store them, never have and never will!
Yes we can still take payments over the phone. We accept cheques and BACS payments too.
As we’re still tweaking the site you may run across some errors. Please let us know if you have any problems.
See the upgrade now: http://www.classic-crackers.co.uk
Creative Craft & Stitch Show
We will be exhibiting at the The Stitch and Creative Craft Show which takes place every year at the Bath and West showground in Shepton Mallet, Somerset. The show is over 4 days from Thursday April 7th to Sunday April 10th. Classic Crackers will be exhibiting a number of craft materials which we use to make our Christmas crackers.
Mostly we’ll be selling our luxury papers which we’re told are perfect for card making and paper crafts! Our best deal is 10 offcut sheets for a pound. We have about 30 different papers which include glitter papers in 8 colours, flock papers, embroidered papers, handmade Indian papers, embossed paper, foil papers and a whole lot more. You can mix n match the sheets as you wish.
We will also be selling a wide range of ribbons and embellishments for craft making too. If you’re into crafts or card making why not pop along to the show and come and say hello!
Admission on the day is £7.50 but you can’t get tickets for £5.50 online here: http://www.sccshows.co.uk/shep_apr11_1502.html
Cracker Hats, Cracker Snaps And More Cracker Gifts
We have just received a large delivery of cracker hats and cracker snaps which will see us through Christmas 2010. A lot of you who like to make your own crackers were disappointed last year when we had to stop selling hats and snaps because we didn’t have enough for our fill your own Christmas crackers. This year we have doubled our usual stock to keep up with the demand of all you Christmas craft makers who want to make your own crackers again this year.
More cracker gifts have arrived this week too and include the following:
These stylish pens will make a great cracker gift for men. It’s so hard to find suitable gifts for men and especially ones that can fit inside a Christmas cracker! And these will fit in a jumbo cracker only.
We haven’t forgotten the ladies either. These are mini pens that double up as a key ring and include a matching charm and fit easily into a handbag.
These mini torches are excellent quality. Triple beam and very powerful. I’ve had to test them out already. Our industrial unit where we work out of is windowless and we had a power cut for an hour the other day. It went pitch black and thankfully I managed to stumble my way to these torches. The unit is not that big and I would have found my way out but I just wanted to see how good these mini torches are and I’m happy to report they really do throw out some light for something so small.
Here is a great little gadget. A mini radio with mini headphones. You won’t find ones of these in your high street box of crackers either! But we at Classic Crackers want to provide luxury Christmas crackers with great quality gifts, not junk that goes straight in the bin.
Another great luxury cracker gift is our sleek mini clock. It has an aluminium finish and is only 3 inches in length and would make a great little travel clock.
We do have over 50 cracker gifts for you to choose to fill your own crackers ranging from 20p to just under £8.00. You should be able to find something for everyone whatever your budget.
To see our full range of cracker gifts click on the following link:
http://www.classic-crackers.co.uk/20-gifts
New Stock Arriving
Although we are in the middle of the summer we at Classic Crackers start preparing for Christmas! All this years stock is starting to trickle in from our suppliers. We have some new luxury papers to add to our range of luxury Christmas crackers.
Our new line of eco friendly wooden gifts has just arrived too. Just click on the link here: wooden gifts. As usual you can buy the wood gifts separately, you don’t have to buy crackers although we would love it if you did! The wooden gifts would make a great edition to our eco crackers.
Last Christmas our black and white damask crackers were very popular. This cracker is available again in 2010 but we added a red and gold version too. They are available as fill your own in any quantity you like and they will also be available in luxury Christmas cracker box sets filled with luxury gifts.
For those of you who prefer to make your own Christmas crackers our cracker snaps are back in stock as are the tissue cracker hats.
Next week will see the arrival of our luxury gifts for our fill your crackers. We’ll add an update here once the new gift stock has arrived.
Wedding Ribbon
Wedding Ribbon
This week we’ve been busy building up our wedding collection with new wedding ribbon. We have some satin ribbons in white, ivory and lilac with various wedding texts printed on them.
We’re currently waiting for supplies of similar wedding ribbons made using sheer organza material and will post here once they arrive.
We’ve also added milestone wedding ribbons -
- Silver Wedding
- Ruby Wedding
- Golden Wedding
All of our wedding ribbon can be bought be the metre. If you require larger quantities please let us know and we can offer substantial discounts.
Wedding Favour Bags
We’ve been adding some wedding favour bags today in time for the wedding season. These are very popular for presenting your wedding favours or present small gifts in your crackers.
They are made from sheer organza and available in a few different sizes. We have popular plain colours like gold, silver, white and ivory as well as Christmas themed bags. To see all the range please visit the wedding favour bags page.
Creating A Facebook Page
We’re finally getting used to this social networking lark and are in the process of creating a Facebook page and Twitter account. It’s all a little confusing for me at the moment but I’m sure I’ll get there in the end. For those of you who regularly use either Facebook or Twitter it will be more convenient for you to keep up to date with our news via those mediums rather than checking the blog every now and then!
It appears we can import our blog here into Facebook which is just perfect. Saves me writing everything twice!
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Spring Fair 2010
We’ve just returned from our annual jaunt to the Spring Fair which is held at the N.E.C in Birmingham every February. It’s the biggest trade show in Europe and buyers and sellers from all over the world are present. It’s our only real chance to meet up with our suppliers and having them all in the one venue is ideal. Due to the size of the fair we have to spend 3 days away from the office and there’s quiet a lot to do when we get back!
It was strange walking around the Christmas hall viewing the products that will be on the shelves next Christmas in February. Especially after the last Christmas was only 7 weeks ago! But in this business you get used to it. Because the majority of suppliers are having their products manufactured in China orders need to be in by the end of April. We then start to get our deliveries in around July.
This year we have sourced an eco friendly paper which will allow us to create an eco cracker which is going to be filled with a wooden gift. We’re very excited about these and we’re confident they’ll be a succes this Christmas. Our paper suppliers have a lot of great new designs and we’ll be creating a lot of new wonderful Christmas crackers this year. We also have a lot of new gifts for filling your crackers coming in at the begining of August.
In the coming weeks we’ll be able to offer personalized printed crackers. We have a new machine which will enable us to print your name or message directly on to the crackers using gold or silver embossing foils. This will be ideal for personalizing birthday crackers and wedding crackers.
As soon as we have the printing machine up and running we’ll get the details posted up ASAP.
Welcome…
to the Classic Crackers blog!
Our blog will aim to keep you updated with news about Classic Crackers. We’ve been trying to think of the best way to keep our customers up to date and after much deliberation we felt a blog was the best way to go! Now as far as I understand we’re supposed to update these things regularly. I’m sure during the quieter months this won’t be a problem but I’ll be surprised if any of us have time to write here during the busy months at the end of the year. But we’ll try!
The aim of the blog is to keep YOU the customer updated with all the happenings at Classic Crackers. Of course all new product information will be released here as and when it arrives. This year we plan to get video of our crackers online too. I’m not sure how we’ll do that yet, whether it will be on the products page in the shop or on here remains to be seen.
We will of course be introducing some new designs of luxury Christmas crackers this year and we have a lot of new gifts arriving later in the year. We’ve just invested in a new priting machine which will enable us to print on to our papers directly therefore we’ll be able to personalize your crackers. This service will be ideal for birthday crackers and companies wanting a corporate cracker with their branding on them.