Recycled handmade paper -- 30 sheets of 4x5 brown

Description

This paper is made from 100% cardboard, paperboard, and scraps of magazine pages that I have collected and recycled myself. I was SO excited when I discovered how to recycle cereal boxes, the clippings from making my paper beads, and the cardboard snippets left over from making journal covers. I'm thrilled to be able to make them into this wonderful brown paper!

Making paper is a meditative process for me. There's something very relaxing to the simple, repetitive process. The end result of having a crisp, clean sheet of paper brings to mind endless possibilities. Anything that may have been upsetting or stressful before just melts away after I open up a whole world of opportunities with that one simple sheet of paper.

You could write a letter; bind a book; draw a picture; send graduation, birth, or wedding announcements; use as wrapping for soaps, gifts, or other small objects; or anything else you might use decorative paper for. These small sheets fit perfectly inside my large envelopes: http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=16069236

Each sheet is inspected for holes or weak spots, wrinkles, tears, and other major imperfections and those that have them are set aside, insuring that your order will hold up to your art! See the last photo to see what media it will hold up to! Those are the only ones I have tested. If you want to use any medium that is not listed, convo me and I will test it if I have the medium available. The only things that I tested that bled through the back of the paper were the sharpie pens and the highlighter. Everything else stayed put!

Each sheet is approximately 4 inches (10.16 cm) by 5 inches (12.7 cm).

3rd photo shows a comparison between my brown and white paper (you only receive the brown with this listing). 4th photo shows a close up view of the brown paper. 5th photo shows what media you can use to write on it.

Tying paper and envelope orders with hemp thread is not standard, but I will happily do so for you upon request. Journals can be gift-wrapped in brown paper.

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Added on Nov 02, 2009