LavenderPaw
Sounds fun!
When you blended them did that tare them up more? I have a blender and haven't used it before, but I think sticking to mixing it by hand would work too.
Do you think the tissue paper helped to stick the harder papers together?
If I were to make it I was thinking of using soft leaves,grasses, and/or dried flowers to the paper to add more of a natural artsy feel.
Course I think I would be using them for writing on, maybe making little books and sending them to people. ^_^
But you pretty much used water to mesh them together then?
I used the blender + water in the blender with paper to create the paper pulp you need in order to create the new paper.
It does chop the paper up finely, I bought a blender specifically for making paper pulp.
Tissue paper really had no effect other than tinting the white paper and leaving specks.
You can use plants and flowers and things in your paper pulp but be prepared for it to possibly fall off over time.
Basically it'd go like this:
Soak paper in water in the blender for 30 minutes.
Blend paper & water.
Place 1 mesh screen into the tray.
Pour blended paper pulp into the tray on top of the mesh screen.
Even out the paper pulp.
Add flowers & leaves.
Top off with the second mesh screen
Squish out all the excess water as much as you can.
Having a block or something heavy with a flat bottom that fits perfectly into the tray sit on top of it over night as the paper dries would be ideal to help flatten it so it doesn't turn out fluffy and unwritable.
You could also blend the flowers and leaves into the paper pulp as well but you don't want to blend them too much or you won't be able to identify them in your paper.
If you do this, blend the paper first, then add the flowers/leaves and blend just briefly before pouring into the tray.
