Shizen Decorative Handmade Paper- Half Pound Scrap Pack

The product description was accurate, and paper is all that I expected. I am very much into making journal books of all sorts, artful mini albums (sorry, not the kind that are covered in flowers and has everything including the kitchen sink glued onto each page), books and cards utilizing some recyclable material. I look for beautiful papers or creating my own papers and use them in my projects to showcase the beauty of the papers in dramatic ways. Which is why these papers are a great find for me.

This paper is the most stunningly gorgeous paper I've ever seen. There is so much of it and so many different beautiful designs. It's probably my favorite thing I've bought in the past year. :-D

I absolutely love this sampler package. Ordered them for endpapers in little blank notebooks, and they work well (planning notebook size to fit the three sizes of paper). There are no repeated patterns, so the overall impression is eclectic. One warning: there are about 2 paper samples in each size group that have *glitter*, and that gets over EVERYTHING. I sparkled for days. Hard to get off other papers once it spreads. Best advice: open the package outside. Locate the sparkled pages and put into a ziplock. Shake off the others (if you do this right away, there won't be much spread). But overall, you get a good sample of fun patterns and textures.

I was very pleasantly surprised at the quality of the paper. It's a little thicker than what I was expecting, but will work great. The paper has a texture almost like fabric.

Oh my goodness, these are GORGEOUS. Flocked, sparkley, metallic... a HUGE selection of very high quality papers. Absolutely beautiful papers for lovely handmade cards, etc.

Huge selection of designs and styles. Only a few designs had doubles. There were some themed papers but most were patterned with metallic embossing or glitter. They are great for my handmade cards. The sizes are very workable. they are of great quality too.

I had purchased this set of paper before, so I knew pretty much what to expect. This one did not disappoint, with an excellent selection, and quite a bit of gold foil, of which I am insanely fond.The previous set was better though. This time, there were a few sheets that were covered with glitter, so there ended up being a bit of loose glitter on the papers. This does not bother me in particular, but I can see it being annoying to others, so I took off a star.Other than the glitter, it again had an excellent selection of velvety papers, heavy like I wanted, and with a fantastic assortment of patterns. There were a few duplicates, but that is often to be expected in a grab-bag set like this. Fortunately, the duplicates were of what I thought were some of the nicest patterns, so I'm extremely happy, over all.

I would NEVER ORDER THIS AGAIN!!! If I could do no stars I would. I never review anything but I want to WARN BUYERS. This is nothing but duplicate paper that doesn’t even feel handmade and for the cost I expected better. I have gotten a 6 dollar pack on amazon with a lot more and better items. Just because the color varies doesn’t mean it is unique. I know packs vary and some duplicates happen but the entire bag of items except for 7 pieces! DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY