Homemade Paper

By

Jen19027

It's actually incredibly easy, but really messy You need
* about a bazillion old towels
* shredded up or torn newspaper
* a handful of dryer lint
* Water
* A food Processor
* As many metal clothes hangers as you have kids (more if you're energetic)
* Old pantyhose (runs are fine)
Start by making your mold: Straighten out the metal hangers and form it into an approximation of a square. Cut the panty hose off at mid thigh--and put the metal frame into the leg, then tie or rubberband it so that it doesn't come off the frame. Essentially you have created a screen.
Now stick everything into your food processor or blender and whir it until it's a pulp. Pour it into a dish tub, push your frame in under the pulp and scoop up the pulp, making sure it covers a good amount of your frame. Now set this to the side somewhere it can drip. Keep it as flat as possible.
You can add dye, small leaves, dried flower petals, etc. to make it a tad bit more interesting. It will take a few days to truly dry, and it's sometimes a little uneven, but it makes very pretty bookmarks, when cut into strips with a ribbon and beads, or lovely notecard fronts. Don't do without the lint. It keeps it from being too brittle.

By

Bamnlyz

Well the easiest and fastest way to make home made paper is to make them from junk mail
Before you start making home made paper you will need:

Junk or used Paper.
Blender Dedicated to craft.
A screen to pour the pulp on. (I use window screen. Got the person at the hardware store to make me the size of the screen that i wanted for my desired size of paper. )
some food coloring.
and texture material.

1. Collect all the junk mail in a container
2. Tear up the papers into small pieces ( 2-3"sqs are fine )
3. Using a blender dedicated to craft place some warm water, and the paper pcs and blend them, until you see a paper turn to pulp.
Add color if you desire.
4.) Pour the pulp on top of the screen. and smoothly even out the pulp.
5.) With a dry sponge try and sponge off excess water, and turn over the paper on to a towel and let it dry.

I am looking for homemade paper recipes. Can anyone point me in the right direction or share what you know?