 Hey guys, we are here. We're going to make some more paper. Whoo. So I've got my Tray that I used to do acrylic pouring in on the table Just in case I get extra sloppy. It'll help contain some of the mess this is The tray kind of a tray that goes underneath a washing machine in case your washing machine overflows to catch some of the water Though I have to say it's not very deep. So I think if you're washing machine overflowed Yeah, this wouldn't catch a lot of water, but it's great for art I also am going to be using a dishpan from the dollar store And I've got a bucket of water just off-camera that way Of course my ninja blender my paper-making screen and Some cookie sheets to dry the paper on on my drying rack, and I've got different kinds of pulp If you will so we've got chopped up Junk mail envelopes no plastic windows, of course because we're making paper, right? So you want don't want anything with plastic on it. I have This is from these are a couple of coffee filters from the Paint water bucket in the other room if you haven't seen that video. I'll link it in the description below These are some various Cellulose pulp fibers some paint chips and things like that Although I do see a piece of metal in there and that would be bad to have Go in the blender. Yeah, we don't want that Not sure how that ended up in there, but anyway And then of course I have our pinecone pulp that we made before and I also have some of this sort of very cellulose e Cardboardy packaging material you guys have probably seen this if you've gotten any kind of Like Ikea furniture deliveries or anything like that. You know looks like this It's kind of the same stuff I think that like drink holders are made out of from the fast food restaurants So I've got some of that too. The first thing we're going to do is take The bottom of our ninja blender and I'm going to put some of my pinecone pulp in there I'm just like guesstimating. I have no idea. I don't know. Maybe that's like a quarter cup and Then I'm going to put some water in there. It's about a cup of water And we're going to just let that sit for just a minute And we're going to let that pinecone pulp sort of absorb some water and get a little softer than I know it already is So I'm going to let it sit for about five minutes or so and I'll be right back Okay, it's been I don't know six minutes or so. I watched a friend's YouTube video I'm going to add a little bit of my junk mail paper And then I'm going to add one piece of this weird cardboard packaging stuff We're not like break it up. So it's the smaller you can break the things up the Easier it's going to be for whatever you're using to chop your pulp up Now because we're working on my acrylic pouring thing I actually don't need to necessarily dip into my paint ship jar because This thing's got paint all over it and I can just pull up a few chips So we'll do that for now put that blender lid on And let's do some blending Maybe we need power first There we go Electricity helps. Okay. I think it's probably blended enough, but I guess we'll find out. I've got one of my silicone Painty scraper tools things Just scrape some of the pulp off the lid There might still be some big chunks in there the pine cone pine cones as we said before are kind of hard to chop up and we're gonna put our tray over and I'm going to pour Oops majority of the pulp out. I need some more water to spread the pulp out. It's a little bit dry Plus there's still some pulp in the container. So I am I added some more water I'm gonna scrape it down There we go I'm gonna lay this in the dish pan You can always tell when you don't have enough water because then it's hard to spread the pulp out I'm no expert with making paper. Let me say that I've said it I said it in the other video. It's been up until recently. It was like 20 years since I made paper. So There's lots of YouTube videos and there's probably better ways to do things This is just how I'm doing it. I'm gonna rest it on the edge of the dish pan And I'm gonna take that off I'm gonna put this on Pushing should probably do it this way. I'm trying really hard not to make a mess as I'm doing this Which is really funny because paper-making is very messy So there's our first sheet of paper. Now the trick is to get it to transfer to here So I just need to push down on one end and get it to with a sponge and basically get it to release from this Sheet and then it goes into here and I can put this on my drying rack to let it dry I am going to make some more paper So what I'm gonna do is take what's in here and put it in here. That's more bits and pieces Then I have next to me on the table. Okay, we got 11 sheets of paper made I did Use up one. I had one in a partial jar of the pinecone pulp and I used up one jar Which is fine. I live next to the woods. I got plenty of access to pinecones The painting Bob bits jars a little low But that tray is covered in painting blobby bits and I think I have more like paint skins around here somewhere So I'll be adding some of those to this jar at some point the Scrap paper junk paper pulp jars like almost empty. So I went in my husband's office and He pays he has the bill paying thing in there Let's be honest. I try not to pay the bills. I let him do it and I just get all the envelopes Without the plastic windows or I cut off the plastic window And then I just chop them up into this to smaller pieces. So they'll fit this into this jar and It's less work for the Ninja blender to cut up. So I try to keep these on hand for paper-making and keep these jars full I don't you know make 50 sheets at a time or anything. I just make like 11 or 12 pages at a time 12 if I have a another spare sheet But usually I can just do 11. That's how many cookie sheet spaces. I have to dry things on Who didn't mean to do that Some of the last few bits of paper these two included Get that off there without messing up the paper. I put some glitter in there we go and That's going to be really fun When it dries so as I said before When it dries, I will be adding some of this paper to the Etsy shop So you can check the link for my shop in my link tree link below I Live next to the woods. So as it warms up right now. It's still a bit rainy cold outside I will be collecting other things to try to make paper with like flowers Now that things are starting to just starting to bloom so I'll be collecting and drying flowers Maybe some pine tree needles Things from nature to add Not only make paper from but to add to some of these other things like the junk mail envelopes that we would normally throw away and make Paper from them paper we can use in our mixed media projects. We can use to make a tag or a card It's not really the kind of paper that you write on I suppose you could try but it's pretty rough Paper, which is white what I like Hang on one wanted to dig these two out for you These are the first two pieces of pinecone paper I made and this gives you a rough idea of what it's like when it dries it shrinks up just a little bit Lightens up kind of a lot actually, but it's a rough textured paper You could write on it. It'd be difficult though You could paint on it, but I wouldn't recommend doing like watercolor or anything Maybe acrylic paint, but if you could definitely glue to it and use it in your glue projects collage projects Again, make a tag out of it something like that. I really think it's cool. So I'll be making more of that For my own stash, but also again to sell in the Etsy shop I hope it gives you some ideas of what you can do in the way of Making your own unique art supplies. That's kind of the whole purpose of this little series that we're going to be doing Is exploring making our own supplies and our own materials to make works of art with and to make projects with and to use in our art journals Without buying necessarily a lot of store-bought stuff and using what we have So I hope this gives you some ideas if you want links to my Etsy shop or anything else Follow me on social media support the free content here on YouTube There's a lot of different ways to do that click on my link tree link in the description below You'll find my Etsy shop my patreon my Amazon store where to buy my book like there's a whole bunch of stuff my Instagram my Twitter all that stuff so Click on that and check it out. Don't forget to like share and subscribe Hit that little bell icon if you want notifications of future videos and the most important thing go out and have a great day Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it. I'll see you later. Bye guys