I ’ve been tear a band of newspaper publisher of late to make diary and ended up with a bag of food waste . You may have some fighting from those plane from the printing machine , that only print a couple lines at the bottom of an account or east - postal service you need to keep in print kind . There ’s only so much “ scratch ” composition you may utilise . It ’s frustrating , but now you have the fresh fish to make homemade paper . report from composition ? I know , it sound crazy . But it cultivate .
This combined with the flowers from a bouquet that were decline provided me the inspiration to create poured paper gift tags . get poured paper gift tags is a fun labor that you could do with the fry and does n’t need any particular equipment other than a craft dedicated blender , which is easy to recover at service department sale or second - hand stock for a few dollars .
I pick off the petals from the bouquet and position them out on paper to dry for a week or so . Not only does our scrap newspaper get fresh use in this project — our prime get an “ upcycled ” sprightliness , as well . You ’ll be able-bodied to make about dozen rag from a handful of paper and petal .
What You’ll Need
Equipment
Materials
Step 1
set a handful of theme garbage in the blender , and tote up water to fill it three - quarters full . blend in on high for a minute or more , until the theme has broken down into fibers .
Set up the net filmdom in a container of some sorting to catch the water , or work over a cesspool .
Step 2
grade the cookie stonecutter on top of the screen as a mold , and pelt the paper flesh into it . The 4 - column inch circle cutting tool I used required about 1/4 cup pulp . Spread it to the edge with the back of a spoon if necessary .
Step 3
Lay dried efflorescence and leaves in a pattern or scattered all over the top of the flesh . Dip your hand into the pulp , and layer a very modest amount of pulp over the botanicals to secure them into the newspaper publisher . You do n’t have to wrap up them completely — just to tack them down .
Step 4
allow the water system drain for a minute and off the cutter .
Step 5
With the felts laid out next to your screen , set the edge of the screen on the cloth and quickly turn it over so the pie-eyed newspaper publisher is lying on the cloth . habituate another cloth to douse up the water in the paper and carefully remove the covert . reiterate with as many tags will correspond on the felt . Lay another feel at once on top and cover , making a stack of felt , each with three to four tags on it .
Step 6
Lay a cookie sheet on top of the stack and weigh it down with brick , heavy iron pot or several gruelling Scripture . Lay some towels around the stack to soak up excess body of water as it drain from the newspaper publisher .
Let set for three to four time of day .
Step 7
Remove the weight and lay out the felts to dry . If the paper coil as it dries you’re able to press it down again overnight under leaden books .
Step 8
Punch each tag end with a hole lick , and ribbon with ribbon or raphia .
Patricia Lehnhardt
Patricia Lehnhardt
Patricia Lehnhardt
Patricia Lehnhardt
Patricia Lehnhardt
Patricia Lehnhardt
