All Sky Siouki products are ethically made in the UK. This has been a core value for Sky since day one. Sky cares deeply about the environment and wildlife and does everything possible to ensure her business does not have a negative impact on our planet.

PLASTIC-FREE

Since 2018 Sky Siouki began packaging all greeting cards and notecard sets plastic free. Sky now uses fully compostable clear bags made of corn starch to package all giclée prints and her cards are packaged ‘naked’. Sky makes a very conscious effort to avoid single use plastic in her business wherever possible.

RECYCLED

Sky Siouki aims to choose the recycled option wherever possible when it comes to materials and packaging. Currently the square greeting card range is printed onto a 100% recycled card stock using white ink so the designs show up clearly over the natural brown colour. Her A6 art card range is also printed onto a 100% recycled card stock which is dyed white.

All greeting cards come with recycled Kraft envelopes. Sky also chooses recycled paper and card for her postal envelopes, business cards, card used to print design information onto, and shopping bags given to customers at markets. She hopes to eventually choose purely recycled paper products for every application within the business.

PACKAGING

Sky uses paper parcel tape to package all parcels and chooses recyclable paper bubblewrap. She also reuses any packaging she has leftover from supplier parcels and recycled newspapers to pad out parcels. She encourages customers to recycle or re-use her packaging too with the hope that the bubblewrap continues to get re-used rather than being immediately thrown away.

DIGITAL PRINT

Sky Siouki has always chosen digital printing as a preferred production method partly due to visual advantages suited to the designs, but also because it is less wasteful than some other methods such as screen-printing. Digital print creates no excess ink and requires minimal washing and energy use so overall is a more environmentally friendly print method.

WASTE

Sky aims to create as little waste as possible through production processes. Any material offcuts are always recycled or donated to local schools or repurposed.

SUSTAINABLE

Sky Siouki products are all made to last using natural, high quality materials. Sky hopes to combat throw-away culture by producing all products at an unequivocally high standard.

• Giclée Prints: Digitally printed by Sky herself in her Bristol studio with archival quality inks made to never fade onto heavyweight acid free etching rag.
• Greeting Cards: Digitally printed the UK onto heavyweight recycled card stock.

MADE IN THE UK

Every single Sky Siouki supplier is UK based, therefore supporting the local economy and reducing Sky Siouki’s carbon footprint. It is not possible to control where the absolute raw materials for each and every product are sourced but Sky makes sure to always use UK suppliers who have strong ethical values themselves.

CHARITY DONATIONS

Sky Siouki has previously been a partner of World Land Trust, donating a small portion of profits from her cards and selected prints to help aid their conservation efforts. She also occasionally holds charity auctions and donates to other wildlife charities such as People’s Trust for Endangered Species and Somerset Wildlife Trust.