Paper making

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You can make your own floral paper and then use it to make the prettiest cards, bookmarks, and more. This activity is great for all ages!

Dive into the art of paper-making with The Dabble Spot's latest blog! Discover step-by-step guides, expert tips, and creative ideas on how to make paper from scratch. Unleash your creativity and explore the world of handmade paper crafts. #HandmadePaper #PaperMaking #DIYCrafts #CreativeProjects

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

How to make plantable paper. Craft directions for Seed Paper Hearts made with flower seeds. Easy Earth Day craft idea, Mother's Day and more.

Looking for a fun project to get into? Look no further than making your own paper clay! Not only is it a great material to work with for Christmas crafts, but you won’t believe what this clay…

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 …

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…

Taking paper scraps and recycling them into plain, but lovely, handmade paper is fun all by itself. After a few times though, you’ll likely want to spice things up a bit and broaden your horizons, but how? Step your hobby up a notch with the addition of color! How do you add color to handmade paper?

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

These floral handmade paper cards and tags were beautiful. A very romantic feel

In this blog post I’ll show you how to dye paper with homemade plant dyes. The pink dye is made from avocado skins and the yellow is from pomegranate skins. With just a few tweaks to my usual fabric dyeing method, we can easily dye paper. Can you see the patterns on the pink paper?...

In this tutorial you will make seed paper really easily and inexpensively from items that you probably have at home already.

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

Making paper teaches children how one of our most ubiquitous materials -- PAPER -- is made, and it's also a fun sensory project for kids of all ages.

A video tutorial sharing how to make prints using just the sun and turmeric! A great technique for journaling ephemera and cardmaking!