Veterans and Handmade Paper
I am blessed to have the opportunity to conceive, develop and teach “Healing With ART” classes to some of the 40,000 Veterans and/or Veterans spouses that we have here in Cochise County. June’s classes focus on making handmade paper and handmade paper casting. Last week’s paper making class was a wonderful experience for all of us. The attendees each created 10 to 15 sheets of handmade paper. I warned them that creating beautiful as well as useful handmade paper is addictive and they agreed. Bet they will LOVE paper casting too! Here are just a few sheets of handmade paper we created in a few hours “playing”. Some of these sheets will be used for July AG blog projects….so stayed tuned…..smile.
Papers above:
Red, white & blue papers: used construction paper and red napkin for the red sheet, white scrap and Iridescent flakes for the white sheet and dark blue paper napkin and white scrap with AG Iridescent flakes for the blue sheet.
Pink and blue papers: Added some additional white scrap to reserved red slurry. Added additional white scraps to the blue slurry.
Ivory, lavender and yellow papers: Shredded money was added to the ivory slurry while after being poured. Dried rose petals were added to the lavender slurry during the last few seconds of blending. Dried onion skins added to the yellow slurry during the last few seconds of blending.
White, lavender and cream papers: Plain white slurry. Dark purple paper napkin added to left over lavender slurry, more dried rose petals added. Dried spices added to leftover yellow & white slurry to create the cream paper.
AG Template: Dried flower petals and a bit of metalic candy wrapper added to white slurry
Supplies:
• Any of the Arnold Grummer® paper making kits and paper press
• Arnold Grummer #556 Large Template: Note Card & Envelope
• Blender, cello sponges and soft towels
• A sunny window
• Scraps of white and colored paper (think junk mail, colored napkins, etc.)
• Inclusions: dried rose and flower petals, spices, dried onion skins, shredded paper money, etc
Instructions:
1. Follow the instructions found in any of the Arnold Grummer™ paper making kits to create
white and/or colored slurry and create numerous sheets of different weights of paper.
2. Add inclusions to some of the sheets.
3. Reserve some of the colored slurry and then add more white paper scraps to lighten the
color and create a “color wave” of papers.
4. Experiment using some of the wonderful AG Templates.
5. Place the papers between couch sheets in the paper press.
6. Change the couch sheets often.
7. Allow the sheets to dry.
8. There are so many uses for these wonderful handmade papers!
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TAGS: Arnold Grummer, Michele Emerson-Roberts, handmade paper, “Healing With ART” Veterans program.
Papers above:
Red, white & blue papers: used construction paper and red napkin for the red sheet, white scrap and Iridescent flakes for the white sheet and dark blue paper napkin and white scrap with AG Iridescent flakes for the blue sheet.
Pink and blue papers: Added some additional white scrap to reserved red slurry. Added additional white scraps to the blue slurry.
Ivory, lavender and yellow papers: Shredded money was added to the ivory slurry while after being poured. Dried rose petals were added to the lavender slurry during the last few seconds of blending. Dried onion skins added to the yellow slurry during the last few seconds of blending.
White, lavender and cream papers: Plain white slurry. Dark purple paper napkin added to left over lavender slurry, more dried rose petals added. Dried spices added to leftover yellow & white slurry to create the cream paper.
AG Template: Dried flower petals and a bit of metalic candy wrapper added to white slurry
Supplies:
• Any of the Arnold Grummer® paper making kits and paper press
• Arnold Grummer #556 Large Template: Note Card & Envelope
• Blender, cello sponges and soft towels
• A sunny window
• Scraps of white and colored paper (think junk mail, colored napkins, etc.)
• Inclusions: dried rose and flower petals, spices, dried onion skins, shredded paper money, etc
Instructions:
1. Follow the instructions found in any of the Arnold Grummer™ paper making kits to create
white and/or colored slurry and create numerous sheets of different weights of paper.
2. Add inclusions to some of the sheets.
3. Reserve some of the colored slurry and then add more white paper scraps to lighten the
color and create a “color wave” of papers.
4. Experiment using some of the wonderful AG Templates.
5. Place the papers between couch sheets in the paper press.
6. Change the couch sheets often.
7. Allow the sheets to dry.
8. There are so many uses for these wonderful handmade papers!
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TAGS: Arnold Grummer, Michele Emerson-Roberts, handmade paper, “Healing With ART” Veterans program.
Lovely! And what a grand thing to do with our military heroes! You always make these projects so easy to understand. Thanks for another great project.
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