make handmade paper

for the past 2 years now i’ve made my holiday cards from homemade paper… sometimes recycled wrapping paper. it’s lots of fun and definitely worth doing, and worth buying a kit. two birthdays ago i invited friends over and we all made paper with my kit… it was a huge hit! everyone loved doing it.

I was waiting for something the other day…oh yes, for the thunderstorm to go away so that I could go out. My wrists hurt from doing too much knitting and typing so I wanted a couple days off. I decided that making the paper would do the trick.

I produced 5 sheets of aqua colored paper. I could probably have made a 6th one, but I saved the pulp to use in the future. It was easy and I was pleased with the results. I’ll be doing this again, and then I need to figure out what to make out of the paper itself. Another day.

It worked well here in this place because I have a nice deep, big kitchen sink that worked perfectly. The sink in SLC is too small for the paper making frame. Anyway, out here is my craft making place. I think I will just confine myself to knitting in the city and doing everything else here.

i treated myself to a pour-mold (as opposed to a dip-mold) kit made by arnold grummer. it comes with an instructive video, and is really pretty easy to do! you just need a blender and a wash bin (and an iron if you want your paper to dry fast). oh, and water and some scrap paper to recycle, of course.

I’m going to take my equipment to the country and hope I get this done over the summer. I have a better sink there anyway plus time!

I took a few lessons for making handmade paper a few years ago, but then I didn’t have any time for doing it so last summer I decide to try again, my nieces love it and I even made some christmas cards with it!

this will be a fun thing to do with the smalls. And as wee one is currently crazy about recycling it will help her learn about reusing more things…not that she doesn’t see her mum recycling constantly :D

Did this some months back now. Got a whole heap of shredded paper from an office and used it to make some really cool speckled sheets of paper. Great for craft projects. Will have to do it again sometime.

I just need to have a go at it.

Okay, so I have found instructions for this project on about dot com, and it seems simple enough.

I have a blender, just need to collect up white paper, and some snips of thread to blend in with it, maybe some flower petals too.

I need some strips of wood to make the mold and deckle, and some netting or screen.

I want to get this done before the end of the summer. Wish me luck!

haven’t even thought about it in months. so it’s gone.