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©Michele Emerson-Roberts 2014 I love creating small gift items for special friends and family to include with a handmade paper card. These tag necklaces can be made ahead of time and stashed away for later gift giving.  Since I make dozens of sheets of paper at a time and always have scraps, I will often use leftover handmade papers and simply draw around the template and cut the tag shape with scissors. Great way to use up leftover papers and beads too! Supplies: Any of the Arnold Grummer™ paper making kits A sunny window Blender, cello sponges and soft towels Arnold Grummer tag template #360 Personal paper cutter, scissors Scraps of white or ivory paper, scraps of colored paper (think junk mail, etc.) ColorBox ™ Ink pads in various dark colors to match the hand made tags Decretive stamps (patterns for the covers… words would be great for the inside pages) Clear embossing powder Heat tool Standard size round hole punch Four f...

If you follow my projects, then you know that I gravitate to jewelry items. Today, I've combined mica, handmade paper and dried botanicals to make this gorgeous OOAK piece. One of a kind because each leaf, each piece of mica and each piece of handmade paper has its own characteristics. I dried the leaves using Arnold Grummer's Garden Press . The paper I made by adding tissue tints and dried rosebuds to the paper pulp. I started with mica tiles from USArtQuest. Mica is a rock that is composed of several layers. After selecting a piece for my necklace, I easily delaminated the layers by gently slipping a fingernail between the layers. Next, I arranged the leaves and paper on top of the bottom piece of mica. I tore the paper so it would have feathered, irregular edges. You can see that the leaves extend beyond the edges of the mica. I used small pieces of Cut-Bond-Create , a double sided adhesive, to bond the two pieces of mica. You can see the blue grid backing on th...