Twisted Limb Paperworks Initiates Monthly Card Subscription Program

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Customers who send a lot of greeting cards now have a way to save time and money picking out birthday cards and thank-you notes while supporting an independent sustainable business: Twisted Limb Paperworks’ monthly card subscription program.

Twisted Limb’s founding artist, Sheryl Woodhouse-Keese says, “it’s very similar to a CSA—community supported agriculture, where customers receive fresh organic food from a local farmer once a week, but for us, the A stands for Art and customers receive a monthly supply of our handmade 100% recycled greeting cards. The upside to our CSA is that because artistically crafted cards aren’t perishable, customers anywhere in the U.S. can participate.”

The company is offering subscriptions of 6, 10, and 15 cards per month with free shipping and discounts for paying up front and by check. Subscriptions offer customers bulk prices which are competitive with or surpass mainstream greeting card prices while providing a product that is handcrafted in the US with living wage labor. Subscribers are also entitled to a 20% discount on holiday cards and 15 card subscriptions paid up front receive a complimentary handcrafted wooden pen by HoosierWoodworks. Roger Kugler, the artisan behind Hoosier Woodworks has created a line of pens for card subscribers which are crafted from reclaimed woods and durable chrome hardware.

Woodhouse-Keese got the idea for the card subscription program from a recent Yes! Magazine article, Put Your Money Where Your Life Is, focused on building local economies. One concept mentioned in the article talked about how businesses are adopting the CSA model to finance their businesses by creating CSEs—community supported enterprises.

“From a practical standpoint, the monthly card subscription program will help us even out the seasonal nature of the invitation business, but it also gives us a venue for making new designs and unique papers from materials not found in our invitation line. For example, we’ve made papers with used socks, weavers’ yarn remnants, cattail fluff, cornstalks and onion skins, and the monthly card subscription is a place where we can share this type of creativity with our customers, and that’s something we’re all really excited about,” says Woodhouse-Keese.

To learn more about Twisted Limb’s greeting card subscriptions, customers can visit: http://www.twistedlimbpaper.com/card_subscriptions.htm