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Twisted Limb Paperworks

ABOUT Twisted Limb Paperworks

Twisted Limb Paperworks, founded in 1998, is a carbon-neutral production art studio nestled in the wooded countryside of South Central Indiana. Here, a staff of 5-7 artists sustainably creates our colorful handmade 100% recycled paper using old colored office paper and grocery bags, recycled water, and inclusions of flowers, wildflower seeds, grass from our field and ferns from our woods.

We creatively assemble our handmade papers into recycled wedding invitations, business promotional items, holiday greeting cards, birth announcements, shower invitations, thank-you notes, programs, guest books, place cards, menus, and favors for celebrations that are gentle on the earth. Our products have been used for green wedding celebrations, commitment ceremonies, anniversaries, births, bat/bar mitzvahs, business events, fundraisers, award dinners, meetings, graduations, and milestone birthdays. In addition, it is our mission to provide friendly, down-to-earth customer service and to create art that is accessible! All of our invitation and stationery designs have do-it-yourself kit and you-assemble options to accommodate both a range of budgets as well as your interest in participating in the creative process.

With fresh and remnant papers from our custom work, we create scrapbooking and art papers, stationery, and bookmarks for school and non-profit fundraising.

In 2009 we created a new line of memorial stationery which includes memento bookmarks, thank-you notes, guest registers and memorial service invitations and programs under the brand Remembrance Tree Papers. We plant a tree in remembrance of the deceased for each memorial order.

Please learn more about us by reading our mission, founder vision inspiration, sustainability practices, workplace values, and guarantees.

About our name:

The name Twisted Limb is a bit unusual for a paper and invitation company, and people like to ask about its origins. Some time back around the mid 1990's, Sheryl Woodhouse-Keese, our founder, was working as a state park naturalist, and her husband, Brian, our part-time webmaster and operations guy, was making some very creative rustic chairs out of sticks. He was considering selling his work, and Sheryl came up with the name Twisted Limb for his furniture. He decided not to turn his hobby into a business, and a couple of years later when Sheryl decided to pursue this recycled paper making studio, she asked for the name back. Not only did we get the name, but Brian designed the awesome twisted logo that we are still using today. We can tell you that Twisted Limb relates to the studio's interest in protecting trees through our strict recycling standards, or that "twisted" reflects our non-traditional approach to papermaking and invitations. All this is true! However, choosing the name Twisted Limb mostly had to do with just plain liking it. We hope that you like our name too, as well as the fine handcrafted and eco-friendly products that it has come to represent.

Twisted Limb Paperworks Initiates Monthly Card Subscription Program

Sep 21, 2009 12:47 PM CDT

(Justmeans.com / CSR News) - 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