So after going about collecting a few different views online about how to make paper at home in your kitchen. I decided give it a try after all basicly all of them came down to put paper bits and water in blender, mix well, pour out on a mold with screen material on one side, press out the water and let it dry. Sounded simple to me.
I was happy to tear up a pile of juck mail in to bits and dump it in to my handy blender with some warm tap water and push the on button. I watched bit of credit cards ads and car dealer promotions whirl around whipped, pureed and even liquefied into greyish pulp. (Next time I will have to try adding a dye of some sort.) Looking at my pulp I decided it needed to be more, not just boring normal square sheets of paper, in come the cookie cutters. I used stars, trees and a moon as the molds set out on a cheap ready made window screen from the "do-it-yourself" store. Once enough of the water had dripped out the bottom, I removed the molds and gently pressed more water from my shaped paper. I found the second screen (they came in a two pack) handy when trying get even more of the water out of my new paper. Who knew that junk mail once blended would hold more water than bounty. I finally did manage to get a fair amount of water out of my new paper and the stars, trees and moon should dry nicely in a day or so. I have to warn anyone wanting try this beware of the mess potential and time you think it will take, both will be double. But then again so is the fun part of the process :)
bye bye junk mail
hello grey pulp
2 stars, 2 trees and the moon
they lost a little of their shape in squeezing process.
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Colouring your paper- could be paint, water colour probably best, acrylic would probably colour the blender.
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