Recently the folks over at Leave No Trace Ireland got in touch with a special requirement. As they’re a non-profit which promotes the responsible recreational use of the outdoors, they wanted badges made from 100% recycled paper. 

We recently made some lovely, lovely badges for the good folks over in Bóthar. There was a tight deadline but we worked super lightning fast and they turned out fantastic. We personally love the cow badge the best.

The Limerick dudes over at Out on a Limb Records are celebrating their tenth birthday this Saturday with a special anniversary gig. Acts like Peter Delaney and our friends over in Windings will be playing too. We made up a heap of 2-inch magnets for them and they were *beautiful* !

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We’re very excited to say that we’ve just launched our new range of fabric wedding badges. These are unique wedding favours and they start at €21.99.

After seeing us featured in Confetti magazine, the folks over in Daintree Wedding Hub invited us to exhibit at their first Fab Wedding Hub pop-up shop. It’s on from 5.30-8pm this evening and we’ll have a whole pile of our wedding badges to exhibit. We’ll have samples available to anyone who would like them too. 

At the Spike Badges HQ, we’re excited to announce two new services just for you.

The first is our Express Service which means now if you need your custom badges lickety-split, your order will get priority in the queue. You’ll be number one! You can pick this option on the drop-down menu for each custom badge listing. Sweet, eh? 

The second is our new design service. We’ve have lots of experience making badges, thousands of badges in fact. When we get designs for custom badges, we normally advise our clients of any little changes to make their design pop. Sometimes, we come across designs that need just a little bit more tweaking than normal. This service is for when designs take an extra bit of time to get perfect

We picked a snapshot of two custom orders this week. Some lovely one-inch button badges with beautiful fine details for Flower Moon Studio. The other batch was commissioned by the folks running  the Mad Hatters Music Festival in Caunay, France. They were simply lovely and we had a great time working on them. 

We love crafts and tech. It seemed like perfect sense to sponsor a whole pile of badges for the folks working hard prepping for the Dublin Mini Maker Faire. It’s being held this Saturday, 27th July at the Science Gallery and the Trinity Physics Lawn. It’s a day of seeing how makers work and if you’re lucky you might get a go too! They’ll be a mobile micro smart farm, a metal forge, a 3D printing group and my personal fave the Stitch’n’Glitch. Looks like it’ll be an action-packed day of fun!

We’ve been super busy over the last week or so. I managed to grab some quick snaps of badges we made recently for Sage Ireland LINK and Sine FM’s The First 45 LINK.

Sage are an international company that specialise in Accounting and Payroll software for businesses. They were celebrating the second birthday anniversary of SageOne in the Irish market.

The folks from Sine FM’s The First 45 got badges off of us too. Their radio show is on every Friday evening and specialises alternative and unsigned artists. Surprisingly, An Post’s estimation calculator was right and he got them within 3 working days.