Susanbcards: Special Specialty Paper from Your Paper Insider

Sometimes I go through my craft supplies and use a beautiful oldie. This is the Altenew Sulfur Cosmos. The package has 2022 printed on the back. When I first started crafting with dies I would buy one and promise to use it no less than 5 (gulp) different ways. Sometimes it just meant a different color or a different kind of card or a tag, but 5x. Why 5? Because most diesets then cost around $25 and I figured $5 was about the price of a store bought card. In my mind I couldn't have one card cost me $25! So $25/5 meant the cards cost $5 each. Reasonable.

Fast forward to today. Many of my diesets are used just once! But those are the samples I get from different companies. The ones I purchase I force myself to use at least 2 times. LOL. There's just not enough hours in the day to do everything I want to do.

The one thing I really feel is worth it is the Your Paper Insider subscription box. There aren't any craft supply stores near me that have beautiful papers by the sheet anymore. To have a box delivered to my house means I always have a specialty paper shop in my craftroom! I keep these boxes separate from my regular paper, even the scraps. And having this box means I can usually find something to elevate my papercrafts. The current box has 27 different papers and costs $29.95, shipping is INCLUDED in this price. You can subscribe and get 4 boxes a year (1 per season), or wait to see if a current box is still available later at a slightly higher price. Why wait? You can cancel at anytime.

The paper I used for this card is called Yuzenshi Paper. The description sheet in Box 12 says, "Yuzenshi refers to a traditional Jappanese paper that is typically machine made but crafted to resemble handmade washi." You should feel this paper. It has a luxurious hand and a beautiful gold print on it.

Here is another card I made using a different sheet of Yuzenshi paper in the same box. You can see my blog post/video HERE.

For the Sulphur Cosmos, I used a piece of light purple cardstock and inked the edges with Villainous Potion Distress Oxide ink. The Altenew Craft a Flowers come with keyholes that are on the dies so the layers can be easily lined up. Gorgeous, right?

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