This is the website of our Picture Framing, Art and Craft shop specialising in Card Making and Scrapbooking Supplies, as well as various Art Materials.  It has been said that we are quite an Aladdin's Cave. 

We are in the North East City Centre of Sunderland - City Art Store, 23, Vine Place, Sunderland SR1 3NA  Tel: No. 0191 5659254

The building has four stories - the basement is the picture framing workshop.

The ground floor is the main shop which has a huge range of craft materials for all your card making and scrapbooking supplies.  To name but a few:-  card, paper, envelopes, poly bags, glitters, glues, foam pads, double sided tapes, embelishments, ribbons, flower soft, pergamano, punches, stencils, clear stamps and wooden stamps, stamp pads, heat guns  embossing powders, glitter glues, d'coupage, toppers, a huge range of peeloffs for all occasions and many more, too many to mention.      

We stock from many famous suppliers such as La Pashe, Do Crafts (Design Objectives), Kanban, Kars, Hunkydory, Personal Impressions, Creative Films, Craft Creations, Letraset, Styx 2, Royal Brush, Pergamano,  Artstat, DMC, Anchor, Daler Rowney, Colourful Arts, Craftstyle, Crafter's Companion, Keepsake (The Glitter Girls), S.E. Simons, Payper Box, Dufex, Cummins & Papyrus, Arqadia, D & J Simons, Budget, Magmaker, House of Handicrafts, Katy Sue Designs (flower soft), Crafts Too, Trevor Green, Classic Collections, Robert Wild, Bob Olley, Pinflair, Heartbreak Publishers, Marking World, S. B. Weston, Crafttime, Impex, Stamp Addicts and Southfields.

We also house a great selection of Art Materials on our ground floor and lst floor.  SEE ART MATERIALS SUPPLIES.

As well as portfolios, easels and a huge selection of canvases on our lst floor, we keep a selection of readimade picture mounts and picture frames, including swept frames.  If we do not display what you are looking for, we have a one hour picture framing service and a ten minute mount cutting service. 

We also display a large amount of local scene pictures of the North East and Northumberland coastline, as well as general prints.  SEE LOCAL SCENE PICTURES

In addition on the 1st floor we carry a large stock of A1, A2 and A3 card and paper, watercolour papers various weights, oil paper, ingress papers, stencil card, A1 and A2 tracing paper, cartridge paper, sugar paper, various colours and sizes of mountboard.  We also do a free cutting service, which many of the students from the nearby Sunderland University, find very useful.  

So much to see in the Sunderland shop on Vine Place just around the corner from Debenhams, The Bridges Shopping Centre and The Metro/Bus interchange.                                    

SUNDERLAND

We used to have a Durham Shop but it is now closed.  If you were a valued customer there, you are encouraged  and very welcome to visit our Sunderland shop

We  frame  anything, including  prints, posters, photographs, tapestries, needlecrafts, medals, football shirts, in fact all kinds of sports shirts.  Also  certificates, original artworks, limited editions, all kinds of student works and we once framed a kitchen sink, with a running tap, which was on display in our shop window 

We can supply you with readimade frames, swept frames and bespoke frames made from our large range of mouldings on display in our ground floor.  We also have a fast frame service of approximately one hour if needed.  In fact, we do what we can to please our customers on a regular basis and they keep coming back, so we must be getting it right.  We offer expert advice on what will suit your painting, photograph, print, certificate and various works of art.

We always have a large stock of mount board available and can sell you whole sheets, or cut to the size required.  We do readimade mounts of various sizes and colours.  All mounts are cut on the premises, so we can  supply, while you wait, if what we have in readimade stock, is not exactly what you are wanting.

We can also supply and cut other sheet materials, such as glass or 2mm MDF which is used as a backing board in all our frames.
 
More photographs of the shops, inside and out, follow

A huge range of card making materials is available in the Sunderland shop on Vine Place just around the corner from Debenhams, The Bridges Shopping Centre and The Metro/Bus Interchange