Welcome to Cardtoons
2021 calendars
Our range of calendars has never been bigger! Several sizes available, featuring great photography and artwork at a great price!
Tea towels
Our range of 100% cotton tea towels, all made in England feature stunning imagery from our Landmark, Country Comicals and Lap Map ranges.
Country Comicals
Country Comicals is a popular range of colourful and humorous watercolours by artist Linda Birkinshaw, influenced by life in the Yorkshire Dales.
Northern Views
Northern Views is a range of watercolours from the North of England, including the Lake District, Yorkshire Dales and Northumbria by artist Barry Claughton.
Lap Maps
Lap Maps is a fun, quirky, entertaining and easy to use range of maps, for visitors, walkers, cyclists and more. Lap maps also feature across a range of tea towels, coasters and tablemats.
Popular products
Welcome to Cardtoons Publications
Cardtoons Publications is a Lake District based company designing, publishing and distributing gift products including notable ranges Country Comicals, Lap Maps, Northern Views, Sheepy Things. Our ranges include coasters, tablemats, tea towels, jigsaws, calendars, diaries, chopping boards, art prints, greetings cards, keyrings, postcards and more.
Cardtoons launched in 1985 producing cartoon postcards by renowned Lake District cartoonist Colin Shelbourn. We are proud to say that we are still printing postcards over 30 years later, one of the few postcard manufacturers left! Our photographic gifts feature images by well-known photographers including Val Corbett, David Tarn, Steve Barber, Alex Black, V.K. Guy and others.
We have a large number of stockists across Northern England and the Scottish Borders and sell direct through this website, Amazon and Ebay.We are always looking for new stockists and if you're interested please take a look at our Trade pages, where you can easily register for a trade account in order to purchase online.
Unusual and entertaining, products are manufactured in the UK and unique to Cardtoons. We also undertake bespoke work, producing exclusive postcards and gifts. Please contact us for details.