About Us

My Father-In-Law Stephen and Mother-In-Law Val established Stephen Cocker Cards in Bedale, North Yorkshire in 1998.

After many years designing and producing handmade ceramic tiles they changed direction, moving towards a cleaner, less physically demanding, and more light-hearted medium. 

Stephen is a wonderful artist and the punniest man you could ever wish to meet and Val can wrestle a printer and sort admin with her eyes closed! Between the two of them, they did it all for 28 years.

I, Emma, came on board in 2026 as my lovely In-Laws decided it was time to retire and spend their days with their friends, family and their two little dogs on long seaside walks instead of battling ink levels and paint brushes any longer.

Up until now, after many years working in retail, I have been a stay at home mum so I was honoured when Stephen and Val asked if I would like to take over their business. There's nothing that says 'you're part of the family' than being handed the reins of the family business is there?! So now I can still spend my days raising our daughter while also keeping Stephen & Val's wonderful cards around to celebrate all the events in their valued customers lives.

And as for the future? Well the designs won't be changing and the fantastic Yorkshire Wit won't be going anywhere either. In fact, the only way is up as Stephen has very kindly handed me his entire collection of Original Drawings - most of which haven't even been coloured yet let alone made it to card designs, so there is no end in sight to Stephen Cocker Cards. Just a new Cocker printing and packaging and turning Stephen's unique drawings into fabulous cards for many more years to come.