Handmade paper art

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

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 …

Make your own marbled paper with this thorough how-to from Martha Stewart.

So...how exactly does one go about making handmade paper? Take a look at this illustrated summary of the hand papermaking process. Though not quite a tutorial, the hope is that you'll gain a sense of how hand papermakers, paper artists, and yes, how you too can create paper out of cloth rags, plan

Make handmade paper on the cheap! You may have seen our tutorial on making blender paper from junk mail and scrap papers . Well, here's instructions on how to make a mould and deckle -- it's an essential piece of equipment for the hand papermaking process. Of course, if you’re a

Handmade paper is easy to create in your own kitchen. Made from scrap paper and pressed flowers and dried flowers for a beautiful look.

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…

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