Hand Made Paper Notes

Personal Touches

Hand made paper thank you notes, menu cards, place cards, favor tags add a huge personalized touch to your event. There are several companies that you can buy these specialty papers from or you can make the paper yourself (depending on how crafty you are). For those of you who love DIY, this is a great project.

Items you can Recycle that you will need:

Newspapers

Playing Cards

Paper Bags

Napkins

Egg Cartons

Tissue

Supplies you will need:

Sponge

Window Screen in a frame of any size

A container to totally submerse frame

Blender

White Felt

Stapler

Liquid Starch

Instructions:

1. Fill blender half full with ripped pieces of items and then add warm water and blend until smooth with no pulp.
2. Fill your container half full and add at least 3 blender loads to it (the more you add, the thicker the paper), mix well.
3. Stir 2 teaspoons of liquid starch into mix.
4. Submerge frame with screen into mix and move it back and forth to place pulp onto the screen.
5. Gently lift frame up and flatten pulp onto area.
6. Take felt and place on top of pulp, use your sponge to press water out and off of pulp.
7. Very gently peel fabric and paper away from the frame and screen (this may take practice).
8. Stack paper with felt onto a plate or baking sheet, press sheets together and squeeze out excess water with another plate or pan if needed.
9. Carefully separate sheets and hang to dry on clothes line or placing them on dry newspaper.
10. Cut to desired size and they are ready to use.

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