Uses for handmade paper

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True-Blue Recycled Paper From Old Jeans: There is untapped potential in glass jars, old pallets, junk mail—all of it. Finding new uses for the flood of post-consumer leftovers which surrounds us is a puzzle, a delight, and more important than ever. By day, I am a freelance writer covering …

Making paper by hand at home can be a pretty simple process. It's also a fantastic way to use up your old receipts, scrap papers, junk mail, and copy paper that you were about to throw in the recycling bin, and instead create a thing of glorious handmade beauty. Have those&n

How to Make Paper: Make beautiful paper with easily found items and recycled paper!

This bundle of handmade paper includes 10 sheets of assorted textured varieties made from 100% sorted recycled waste. Including road map, sheet music, phone books, newsletters, broken brown bags, string, flower petals, sawdust, onion skins,manilla folders, cotton t-shirts, leaves, plant materials, junk mail and more. Each of the sheets in the packets have some unique variety of speckles and fragments of interesting texture, there are no added dyes. Each sheet is 8 1\/2" x 5 1/2"…

Super-Green Celery Paper!: Maybe the celery in your refrigerator's "crisper" drawer isn't quite as crisp as it used to be? Or, perhaps, you spy a whole box of miserably limp celery slated for your local grocery store's Dumpster? Then this is your lucky day. You, friend, get t…

Learn How to Age Paper! Fun, easy methods for Aging Paper for aging paper to use in your Crafts and DIY Projects! Great for Junk Journals and Mixed Media projects. By Rebecca E. Parsons

24 different uses for shredded paper ensures your private information doesn't end up in the wrong hands and gives you creative ways to recycle scrap paper.

If you know how to make paper from cotton, you can grow it and/or recycle old cotton material for your homemade paper.

Taking paper scraps and recycling them into plain, but lovely, handmade paper is fun all by itself. After a few times though, you’ll likely want to spice things up a bit and broaden your horizons, but how? Step your hobby up a notch with the addition of color! How do you add color to handmade paper?