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Custom Handmade Paper
Our handmade paper is custom made to your specifications. We can match your colors, location or theme by altering the combination of flowers. Choose from our wide selection or bring your own ideas. Each order is tailored to your needs.

What Our Clients Say About Us
We measure our success by the feedback we receive. Each year we collect and share what our customers have to say about their wedding invitation experience. Click here to view their comments.

A 4 color process job done on our lotka seeded paper

Soy Ink Printing

Digital, offset, or lithography printing is now available. Four color process and full bleed capable with soy inks if you choose. You can now have custom printing done on our complete line of papers. This includes the seeded sheets. From invitations to large quantity brochures, we are prepared to provide you with the best printing on tree free or recycled papers, while keeping to our mission of being earth friendly. Printing can be done by us or with our team of professionals. We are happy to ship our papers direct to your local printer as well. For home printing we suggest purchasing our handmade computer paper as it is universally accepted. Just email us your needs or call us to find out your options. Below are the stock papers you can choose from. Ingredients or colors can be customized to meet your specific needs. All papers are priced as shown with our wildflower seed mix. Just plant the paper in soil, keep moist, provide sun, and flowers will bloom. Quantity discounts are given.

One week growth of our seed paper, indoors under a grow light.

Printed with 4 color process, full bleed, digital and letterpress.

Lotka Seeded Flyer(click for larger image)

This picture shows one week of growth of our seed paper indoors under a grow light (watered several times a day).

Look our paper is sprouting Flowers!(click to enlarge)

A piece of our seeded paper sprouting!

Why Print Green?

1. To reduce carbon output in printing production by being environmentally responsible and making good choices for the planet. If using our handmade seed papers you actually reverse your carbon footprint.

2. We choose companies that have green printing standards. Such as chemical free inks, recycling of all recyclables, and solar or hydro power.

Please support our drive for a “greener” tomorrow.

Print Specs for Offset Image and Type on Lotka paper

Here's a list of things to help the image and type.

1. Whenever possible use InDesign or illustrator to create files. We can then go in and adjust everything to make it print better.

2. Use a font that has less drop-off to begin with.

3. Whenever possible use 100% black or dark colors for the font.

4. Printing type in 4 color on this stock will always be a trick, so the more cyan and black in the color build for the type is a plus.

5. Don’t screen type.

6. Try to use images that are light or with small amount of coverage – design with the stock in mind.

**Click here for specific suggestions for designing artwork to go on to our paper**

Vegetable Dyed Hang Tag (Click for larger image)

Large Run Paper Options

Lotka (basil seed)

Abaca/Cotton

Lotka Wildflower

Seeded Lotka Paper with Wildflower Seeds

$4.50 Sheet (seeded)

$10.00 Sheet

20x30 sheets

18x24 sheets

An example of a lotka seeded paper tag that has been vegetable dyed with screen printing.


	These are available as seeded papers and can contain flowers too.

This is an example of a print job done with an offset press.

Discounts begin at 101+ sheets Call 1.888.294.1526

20x30 sheets $4.50/sheet

501-1000 ---Call for prices

1001-5000 --Call for prices

5001-10000 -Call for prices

10001+-------Call for prices

18x24 sheets $10.00/sheet

101-300 ----15% off

301-500 ----20% off

501-1000 ---30% off

1001-5000 --Call for prices

5001-10000 -Call for prices

10001+-------Call for prices

Click to see back side of the card

Custom Printing Options

****Requirements on Custom Printing Jobs:
You must supply us with a ready to print file that is set up
for screen printing (colors seperated, pantone color codes included,
and also has to be a low detail image and must have simple font).
File needs to be either High Resolution PDF or a Illustrator File

You can email these files to ote{at}custompaper.com

4.5" x 6" Folded Card (6 x 9 ")

Includes:

2 color print (one design)
Needs to be single sided
Comes with matching envelope
Minimum order 100 10 packs=1000 cards and envelopes

4.5 x 6" Folded card (6 x 9 ")

Includes:

Single color print (one design)
needs to be single sided
Comes with matching envelope
Minimum order 100 10 packs = 1000 cards and envelopes

5 x 7" Folded card (10 x 7")

Includes:

2 color print (one design) one sided
Includes matching envelope
Minimum order 100 10 packs =1000 cards and envelopes

5 x 7" Folded card (10 x 7")

Includes:

Single color print (one design) one sided
Includes matching Envelope Minimum order 100
10 packs = 1000 cards and envelopes

2x3 Hang Tag with Grommet and String (blank)

Minimum order 1000 pieces

2 x 3" Hang Tag with Grommet and String

2 color screen print
Minimum order 1000 pcs.

2 x 3" Hang tag with Grommet and String

One color print
Minimum order 1000 pcs.

3" wide x 5.25" Tall Hang Tag with
Grommet and String (Blank)

1000 piece minimum order

3" x 5.25" Hang Tag with Grommet and String

2 color print
Minimum order 1000 pcs.

3" x 5.25" Hang Tag with Grommet and String

One color print
Minimum order 1000 pcs.

8" tall x 5" wide x 1.5" deep Gift Bag with No Handle

2 color 2 sided screen print
Mimimum order 1000 pcs.
Made from 50 gram natural seed paper

8" tall x 5" wide x 1.5" deep Gift Bag with No Handle

1 color 1 sided screen print
Minimum order 1000 pcs.
Made from 50 gram natural seed paper

W-5", H-7.5", D-3" Gift Bag

Made from 50 gram Natural seed paper.
2 color screen print
Minimum order 1000 pcs.

W-5", H-7.5", D-3" Gift Bag with Handle
and Planting Tag

Made from 50 gram Natural seed paper.
1 color screen print

We include your choice of seeds or flower ingredients for custom runs. Click here

Lotka is made in the highlands of Nepal by rural craftspeople.

The Daphne bush is farmed and harvested from 3-4 year old plants that are cut down and stripped of their bark to become the raw material from which the sheets are formed. The plant is not destroyed when cut down, it regenerates from the root. The cane like stick, once it's bark is removed is dried and used to heat the villagers homes and to provide cooking fuel for meals and also for the production of the paper. All of the water used in the paper production is reclaimed and reused. The bark is beaten by hand and boiled to break it down to a pulp (where it is mixed in with recycled pulp and paper scrap collected from the card and envelope manufacturing process) that is then pored into screens to form the sheets. These sheets are then dried in the sun. The whole process is not only earth friendly but also provides a large community with a healthy enterprise.

Seeded
Kids Thank You Cards

Made from Renewable Resources

100% Tree free

Minimum 50% recycled content

This Green Thank You card set is the perfect choice for kids. Both the cards and envelopes contain seeds making them a plantable Thank you!

Planting instructions on back of card

Contains 10 cards and matching envelopes.

Custom printed bookmarks, like seeds of knowledge are planted. Spread your message with a green idea.

Artist Asher Graham

6" x 9" folding card and
A6 envelope.

$14.80

Much of our custom color and double sided jobs are printed at Rosss Printing. They are very experienced at printing on our seeded handmade and lotka papers. Click here to see their site.

Send an email with your Order ID and Artwork

Color Business Cards on Lotka Seeded Paper

Single Sided Cards

Minimum Quantity - 1000 (Color Prints)
4 Color, Single Sided Print
On Lotka Seeded Heavy Weight Paper

$267.00 (Doesn't include shipping)

Minimum Quantity - 250 (Color Prints)
4 Color, Single Sided Print
On Lotka Seeded Heavy Weight Paper

$156.00 (Doesn't include shipping)

Minimum Quantity - 500 (Color Prints)
4 Color, Single Sided Print
On Lotka Seeded Heavy Weight Paper

$208.00 (Doesn't include shipping)

You must provide camera ready artwork
(must not need any modifying)

Two Sided Cards

Minimum Quantity - 1000 (Color Prints)
4 Color, Two Sided Print
On Lotka Seeded Heavy Weight Paper

$318.00 (Doesn't include shipping)

Minimum Quantity - 500 (Color Prints)
4 Color, Two Sided Print
On Lotka Seeded Heavy Weight Paper

$234.00 (Doesn't include shipping)

Minimum Quantity - 250 (Color Prints)
4 Color, Two Sided Print
On Lotka Seeded Heavy Weight Paper

$169.00 (Doesn't include shipping)

This card was printed in an offset press and is a double sided card.

Click to see reverse side.

Want to save money?

Cut your own business cards at home!

Black Single Sided- 50 minimum quantity

Lotka seeded heavy weight paper. Will not be a two sided print card. These will be shipped on 8.5" x 11" sheets with lines between each business card giving you a visual element to cut off.

An example of a customers seeded lotka business card

$44.50 for 50 (5 sheets of 10)

$59.00 for 100 Business Cards (10 sheets of 10)

$77.50 for 250 Business Cards (25 sheets of 10)

$115.00 for 500 Business Cards (50 sheets of 10)

Seeded Wine Necker Tag - Chateau St Jean

You must provide camera ready artwork
(must not need any modifying)

This is an example of a wine bottle necker. It was printed with an offset press in
4 color.

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