I’ve searched everywhere. Can’t wait to find something suitable for those for whom I make Solstice cards every winter.

Aww! That is one seriously sweet compliment, dear Willow. Thank you very much!

The blessing of your immense generosity and kindness is one that I will never forget or cease to be grateful for. 🙏

IMO, there’s no reason one couldn’t start up a paper crafting stash again, if so desired. 😃

I have noticed that for many paper crafters, once this particular passion takes hold, it never leaves. We may step away from paper crafting either by choice or circumstance for a while, but ultimately, its enchanting siren’s song beckons us back and, with paper trimmer and adhesive in hand, we happily give in to it.

♥ Autumn

Dear Kate, I want to sincerely thank you for your comment and for seeing that I did not in any way wish to cause offence to my Christian readers. Please know that I appreciate these things tremendously.

Thankfully, I have not (yet?) received any comments or emails from readers who were off-put, but I am almost certain I lost at least a few as a result of this post. I assumed that would be the case going into it, but didn’t feel that risk was reason enough to not speak objectively about this interesting and important topic.

I concur completely with what you said regarding the importance of loving/respecting and learning from people of different spiritual paths than our own. I strive to live my life in the same way and am grateful for each person I’ve encountered over the years who has broadened my knowledge and understanding of spirituality + the world in general care of their own belief systems.

Likewise, I nodded in agreement regarding what you said about digital products. The scope and span of options and diversity that digitally delivered goods opens up is pretty much limitless and I sense we’ll gradually see more and more representation (across a wide spectrum of areas) here as the years roll on. I really hope that will be the case and welcome it big time.

Really, thank you again, Kate, for your reassurance, support, and kindness.

Abundant hugs & sunny April-into-May wishes coming your way!
♥ Autumn

PS: A very big thanks as well for your lovely feedback about my Springoween card. Absolutely! With a few basic items and some creative thinking, it’s incredible just how many occasions we can come up with amply suitable paper crafting projects for. Love that! 🥰

Hello lovely Alicia, thank you wholeheartedly for your immensely kind comment and the fantastic eBay resources you included with it.

Discovering your awesome blog a few months ago, I suspected based on its name and the background graphics used that you were a fellow witch/Pagan.

I have a strict persoinal policy of respecting people’s privacy and not asking them outright about their faith/beliefs though (especially since plenty of us are not out of the broom closet), so didn’t want to ask you directly about it. Learning now that you are indeed a fellow witch/Pagan makes my heart do backflips of happiness!

While we’re not the only two Pagan/Wiccan/witchy paper crafters out there, of course, as a collective whole, we aren’t exactly the largest bunch and getting to connect directly with a fellow witchy crafter is such a blessing.

Please, really and truly, do not worry for a nanosecond regarding if you’re able to comment or not. I totally understand (goodness knows there are only so many hours in the day!) and am grateful for the support of your readership.

Just as I am for those fab links!

As a future follow-up to this post, I’m thinking that an entry focused squarely on indie Pagan and witchy paper crafting sellers would be a logical way to go (and hopefully help others like us who are seeking these kinds of products out).

The links you shared will be a perfect inclusion for that post. Thank you again for sharing them!

May you have a serene, sunny, abundantly blessed and wonderfully happy Beltane season!

♥ Autumn

Hello sweet soul, many thanks in turn for your reply as well. Across the blogging sphere, it tends to be the exception, not the norm, for folks to swap back and forth (especially animble ones!) in the comment section of blog posts.

I’m very appreciative to you for letting me know that nothing rubbed you the wrong way in this post. I cannot stress again how much it was not my intent to say anything against Christians here, and really do hope that most folks who read this entry understood as much and were not put off by my discussing the prevalence of Christianity in the paper crafting world.

Aww! Thank you so much! I think you’d make for an excellent self-published author as well. If you opt to go down that path, please be sure to let me know when your first title is released. I’d love to support your book writing however I possibly can.

Wishing you a safe, serene, and very enjoyable April-into-May!
♥ Autumn

As an Accessibility Advisor, I work extensively with individuals with disabilities. Many of my students are marginalized in other ways as well. Communication is the key to education and we cannot advocate for change if voices are silenced (or too afraid to speak up in the first place).

I do feel that the digitalization of our craft opens more doors and allows more smaller entrepreneurs, artists and businesses to delve into new territories with limited costs while reaching greater audiences. Supporting those who distribute items that work for you (and that includes anything – spirituality, favourite flowers, colours, etc.) will hopefully increase ongoing production of those items.

I noticed in your last post (which is actually your newest but I’m working backwards!), you used letter tiles to create your own sentiment. I’ve always loved papercrafting for the ability to do just that – take what I’ve got to make what I want/need. With a few tools and some creativity, we can fill in the gaps that are missing while we wait for the industry to catch up in certain areas.

Thanks for opening my eyes to an area of crafting (or, in this case, a neglected area). I always feel so educated and enlightened when I pop by to visit you – and I love that!!

I have always felt I need to keep my spiritual choices to myself especially in the crafting community primarily because it is so predominately Christian.

While I don’t announce my path in most situations, I also don’t conform to any social situations to blend. I am always the weirdo. I make a conscious effort to create based on my path but accommodate the recipients’ beliefs by remaining flexible.

All that said. I know of a fantastic stamp maker on eBay who has a great selection of pagan and other non-christian stamps. Pretty sure I got my Blessed Be and Have a Cool Yule stamps from him.

I loved so many, I reached out and I was able to buy an entire sheet of all the great stamps I desired.

Check out Amazing Arts: https://www.ebay.com/usr/amazing_arts?_trksid=p2047675.l2559

I also lean heavily on Halloween themed products, and I find Harry Potter themed paper crafting goodies to be a good fit as well.

Thanks so much for all the bloggy love. Rest assured I read yours, I just don’t have much time to comment. But I just had to let you and your pagan readers know about Amazing Arts!

(Just found the set with all the great sentiments at a very reasonable price! https://www.ebay.com/itm/202630744421?hash=item2f2dbbc965:g:C2YAAOSwA3dYMTkN)

Thank you very much, dear Kmarie, for speaking so openly, earnestly, and at length about this topic. I really appreciate you sharing both your time and some of your own personal experiences + insights with me.

I’m deeply sorry that you’ve not been able to find a publisher for your children’s stories. Awesome job on creating them! You are an expressive, terrific writer and deserve to be published (self-publishing is a much more viable and, in some ways at least, accessible option these days if publishers aren’t seeing the worth of your work, and is something I’ve toyed with at times for various projects myself – perhaps one day!).

You are absolutely right regarding the complexities and challenges that can come with writing, even on a site that is 100% your own in every possible way, about your own faith and spirituality when it differs from that of most/many of your readers.

Prior to launching this site, I thought that a larger percentage of my audience would come (and hopefully stay) for my Pagan/witchy/spirituality-related content than what has thus far materialized. It has been very interesting then to see the paper crafting side of things prove to so popular and to know that many of my readers (by their own public admission on their respective sites/SM) are Christians.

Fortunately, and very thankfully, most people who comment here and on my IG are kind, open-hearted, accepting folks and I’ve not yet run into many hurtful, unkind, or disrespectful comments pertaining to my own personal spiritual path.

It’s beautiful that you are able to connect with elements of both Christianity and Paganism. While in no way a Christian myself, I sincerely appreciate certain messages, teachings, and traditions of this global faith and both have had, and currently have, many Christian friends (and relatives) throughout my life.

I knew going into this post that it was unlikely to receive many comments and that it might even cost me some readers. It was not, and is not, my intent to say anything negative against Christians here (or in general – I am a huge believer in live and let live, and to each their own on the spirituality front), but rather to explore a topic that I have never seen anyone in either the paper crafting or Pagan/witchy world discuss before.

Thank you again very much for taking the time to share all that you did and for feeling comfortable with discussing areas pertaining to your own path here on my blog.

♥ Autumn