Press Release - Twisted Limb Paperworks
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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 Creates New Brand for Handmade Recycled Memorial Cards
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(Justmeans.com / CSR News) - Twisted Limb Paperworks announces the new brand, Remembrance Tree Papers for their new line of handmade 100% recycled memorial stationery. The handmade 100% recycled paper and invitation company based in Bloomington, Indiana created a line which includes customized memorial bookmarks, guest registers, thank-you notes that can be embedded with wildflower seeds, memorial service invitations and programs. Handmade paper urns embedded with tree seeds will eventually be included. "We wanted a brand name related to trees that would make sense to our current customers and a logo with a softer, more comforting look for grieving families who are not yet familiar with our business," founding artist and owner Sheryl Woodhouse-Keese says. The name Remembrance Tree Papers refers to the tree that the business will plant for each order, in honor of the deceased, through the organization Trees for the Future. While Twisted Limb has two designers on staff, the company chose to have the new logo created through the website www.crowdspring.com to get fresh and multiple outside perspectives. Crowdspring.com provides a venue for designers in the U.S. and around the world to compete for prize money offered by organizations needing logos, stationery, and websites. Twenty different designers from several countries submitted 171 entries for the Remembrance Tree Papers logo over the course of one week. Christian Alduen, a designer from Puerto Rico, created the winning logo that now represents the Remembrance Tree Papers brand. Christian V. Alduen-Castro studied Fine Arts at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez. He says, "art has always been a part of my life and I showed talent in drawing and painting from a young age." He now lives in Cabo Rojo, PR. where for more than eight years he has been working as a painter and graphic artist focused on creating different and unique designs. Among his clients are the March of Dimes of Puerto Rico and University of Puerto Rico. His portfolio can be viewed at http://xianart.blogspot.com/. "We think Christian's design is perfect for many reasons," Woodhouse-Keese says, "The way the tree trunk forms a lower case r for remembrance is reminiscent of how trees form the T and L in our Twisted Limb logo, and connects the two brands. While we wanted the name to be related to trees, we hadn't thought about the logo being related to our original brand until we saw what Christian was trying to do, and we liked it. The hand sketched tree trunk and handwritten tag line, 'Honoring life, renewing the earth.' alludes to the artisan-crafted nature of our work. The bird is a hopeful symbol in the logo and will appeal to our environmentally conscious customers. The softness of the tree leaves and the shade of green make the entire logo comforting and appealing. We think he did the best job of capturing both our company and the appropriate mood." Remembrance Tree Papers' memorial bookmarks, guest registers, thank-you notes, and memorial service invitations and programs can be purchased by families directly at www.remembrancetreepapers.com or through their funeral director. Funeral directors interested in representing Remembrance Tree Papers can e-mail info@remembrancetreepapers.com. Media Contact: Sheryl Woodhouse-Keese sheryl@twistedlimbpaper.com 812-876-9352 |
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Amy Hall 09pm June 19 Congratulations, Sheryl! We love the new brand and are so proud to be a part of your extended family as a 2008 EILEEN FISHER Business Grant ...
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