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I decided to use these colorful pieces of paper after finding outside wet from rain. Earlier that day a pipe under the sink had broke and leaked water in to the basement on to dirty laundry. I had asked little sis to take them out and hang them on the fence for them to dry while I cleaned the water up. She instead spread them around on the ground so when I finally got back out to puck them up they were frozen and I then found the paper and put it on top of the close in the basket. The next day Stylish Sis told me that I had washed a book with the close I washed I realized then that it was the same paper and that It was definitely time to put it to use. So the following is how you make paper ornaments like I made from well washed paper.
What You'll need
Paper in the color of your choice
Blender
Water
Screen
Bucket
Pitcher
Pressing cloths
Iron
Ironing board
First collect colorful pieces of paper. If they've been printed on look to see if the ink is glossy and ever so slightly risen. This paper when blended the ink becomes black flecks in the paper that will affect the look of you paper.
Rip the paper in to small chunks and loosely put them in the blender till its 3 /4 full.
Add warm water till it covers the paper at least an inch. Then blend till its the consistency you like. Well blended makes less visible contrast colors light blending makes a colorful chunky paper.
Pore the mush into something that you can pore easy from.
Next you need to put your paper screen on something that can catch the water. Then look through your cookie cutters for the shapes you want.
Put the cookie cutters on the screen and scoop or poor the paper mush in to them.
Carefully pull the cookie cutters off the screen and move the screen on to a towel with some white cotton over it. Carefully flip the screen over and while the screen is still over the shapely paper mush press a sponge over them to get out all the excess water. Then remove the screen you may need to tide up the edges with a fork. You can fold the paper thats out of place back up on itself.
Then put another piece of cotton over the top of the ornaments. Press till dry. Then punch a hole in the top and thread a ribbon through the hole and tie.
Ta da!
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