Today I made recycled paper

@ABCDEF7 I would love to because i actually improvised the entire recipe and was thrilled when it still turned out :)

I took my discarded paper and ripped it up until it was really small. I blended it with a lot of water until the pulp was very fine. The water ratio doesn't matter just make sure you use a lot. The longer you let the pulp sit, the softer your paper will be. 3 days will get tissue paper. One more day you will just get soft paper. I didn't let mine sit for any length of time so my paper is rough. which is okay for what i'm using it for (cards and tags)

then I took a baking tin and put a non-textured cloth (dish towel cloth) over it. I put the pulp over the "screen" as evenly as possible. Then I covered the wet pulp with another cloth. Then i took a sponge, and went all over the screen sucking out as much water as possible and wringing it out.

Then you have to take the top cloth off and flip the paper (its more like a paper now and will hold up if you sucked all the water out) and I personally wanted mine done immediately otherwise it takes 7 hours to air dry. but that method is technically more eco friendly

anyway So i put my paper on a baking sheet (by flipping it) and baked it 375 degrees for 12-15 ish minutes checking it frequently because it IS a piece of paper. and it was done. Then a good method is to lay them on top of each other and place something very large on top of it to make them completely flat. I used a textbook.

@DeluxedEdition Thanks for sharing. :) That's really wonderful. 👍
But how did the color of ink doesn't have much effect on the resultant paper?

@ABCDEF7 Actually no. The papers I blended up were yellow and pink a few were white. I kinda thought the papers would be yellowish or pink. But they actually turned back white when they were blended up. The reason mine are blueish is because I dyed it with food coloring. I forgot to add that part 😊

My intentions are making more and adding seeds to them so if someone discards the paper and it finds its way back to the ground maybe something could grow 😊

@DeluxedEdition Don't know if the seeds would actually work after being blended. Which seeds you added to it?

@ABCDEF7 Then i would add them after i blend it and mix it together with my hand 🙂 i hadn't thought of that.

I wasn't sure what seeds to add to it. What do you think would be the most useful?

@DeluxedEdition Orchid seeds are smallest, I think it would be easy to add them in the paper.