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Day 55- #90daysofblogging

Today is my last post with the Arnold Grummer Design team.  Our tenure is normally six months,  I have learned quite a few things about creating my own papers and I know this is NOT the end for me!  As DT we were supplied with quality product to create our own handmade papers after recycling some papers available around the house.  I know for me personally, I will never look at a metallic or brightly colored paper the same way again! ((laughs)).  I can't tell you how many packages I have gotten in the mail that I was equally excited to see packing papers as much as the product inside.

For anyone who has yet to experience the man behind The PaperMill.  Check out the YouTube Channel here.  Don't forget to subscribe and like the videos.  If you would like to take a look at my project from today, click HERE! :)  Also take a look at his book here..  great read and awesome projects to inspire your handmade paper creations!!

Arnold Grummer DT Post.

Happy Wednesday good people!  Come on over to the  Arnold Grummer blog today.  See what I did with my handmade rose papers that I made HERE, a manila tag and some Helmar pva glue, as seen below.. :)

Also check out what I did with my recycled purple Christmas paper, Jamie's Bloom Girls Stamp- Summer and some Lindy's Stamp Gang!

You can CLICK HERE for the finished product!  I can't express how much I am thoroughly enjoying this paper making experience folks.  I hope you enjoy it too!!

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Love me Tender with Arnold Grummer DT Post

Today on the blog I am showing what happened when I added a palm full of dried roses to my blender full of paper slurry.  :)  Practice, practice, practice I tell you!! :)  I hope you go to the Arnold Grummer blog and check it out by clicking here.  I am really having a ball creating my handmade papers!! :)

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Guess who is finally making her own papers???

  First thing I did was get a NEW BLENDER!!  Why in sam hell could I not find one of the three we have?  Must be in the garage!!  It's COLD and DARK in the garage.. GUESS who isn't going in there ON PURPOSE!! Then ripped up some brown paper bags.. One about the size of stationary paper.  Until I am more comfortable in knowing what pulp textures, I will probably make small batches at a time,, 

Ok. you take those ripped papers.. (get them to about size of an inch if you can) and place them in the blender with about 2 cups of water..  TURN the BLENDER ON!!   Watching it all!!  Soothing.. isn't it?  Gonna get a video for you soon.. PAPERMAKAVISION.. yeahhh!

Prepare the contents of the almighty Arnold Grummer  Paper Mill.  Take the deckle (the thick wooden frame piece and remove the green velcro straps.. make sure your layer the deckle, screen (white) then the grid piece.  Wrap the velcro around that bottom and pull tightly.  You don't want the screen to slide while the pulp is poured.    The take a flat wash pan.. or any kind of flat container with sides that come equal to or higher then the deckle when flat.  Let the layered deckle be submerged in water like the picture below.. 

Pour the pulp (this was a lousy color to use.. but hey.. it is what it is.. ) into the deckles and take your fingers and swirl them around in the deckle, to move the particles around.  Make sure you DO NOT touch the bottom near the screen.  YOU CAN and I have.. thinned my paper in sections, because I did so.  

I skipped the next picture, because I needed both hands to remove the deckle from the basin annnnd my hands were wet.  No wet hands on electronics!! ::laughs::  In that process I carefully lifted the mold from the water, trying to keep it level. Removed the velcro and supported the grid with one  hand and remove it with the screen.  I then placed it on a flat surface/drain pan.  Now with the cover screen on top.. pulp.. hen white screen... on the pan.. i push a cello sponge into the paper to soak up extra moisture.  Be careful to press down and release then squeeze out water.. (back into deckle if you want..) If you press down and release and down again.. you are only putting the water back!!  

     

Once you have removed as much water as you can from the paper.. you can remove the screens one by one and slip the new made paper between couch (koosh) sheets (feels like a padded paper.. sorry no photo) By this time I was so in awe of what I had made.. I forgot all about taking pictures of the steps.  You can choose to let your paper dry naturally or you can use heat.. like from an iron.. not a #heatgun.. :) 

Below is the loveliness that follows the NOT so HARD after work of recycling and creating my own handmade papers.. I just sat in bed watching awesome videos from Arnold Grummer and loving the awesomeness that is.. MY OWN dang papers.. lol

Note.. the month of Jan 2015.. the discount code is Jan20!! 

Thanks for stopping by.. and if you want to see my first project with AG's DT.. click here!!