This is designed for classroom use, far as I can tell, and advises using 2 large coffee cans to help with the support and molding of the pulp into a nice, pretty shape of paper. As I'm quick to stick all recyclables outside for pickup, I have a dearth of cans and cardboard and other crafty supplies around my house. Enter the tupperware!
Turns out a pitcher works just as well to catch the squeezed-out (squoze? squozen?) water from my pulpy messes. This photo is actually from the third sheet. I started with a torn-up cover of an old issue of The Nation to make a pretty light green sheet, seen drying below.
It didn't take long for things to get fairly fabulous, as I added sequins to the second batch. Fittingly, the two sequinned papers are made from an old AC Moore ad. Craft stores tend to have really colorful inserts, so they pretty much beg to be recycled into something fun.
So I now have three irregularly shaped pieces of home-made paper to play with. As I get better at this, they may become fun inserts for the journal decorating kits I was thinking of getting into. Making these three pieces took well under an hour, so this especially fun for me - jewelry often has a much longer turnaround time. It's nice to get instant gratification once in a while :)
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