Rescued Paper Notebook

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Rescued Paper Notebook

I saw these Rescued Paper Notebooks at a museum shop and I just had to check them out. Inside are pages of discarded paper, each sheet is blank for writing on one side, and covered with printing on the other side, a peek-a-boo of its former life. I love the intentionality of it -- scrap paper bound together for jotting down ideas.

In the past, I've made something similar using packaging paper and paper collected from various notebooks that I bound together by hand. 

Let me show you a new one that I made:

I call it the Rescued Paper Collection inspired by the Rescued Paper Notebook. It's a book full of hand-painted pages. 

The pages all begin with this. Brown paper used to stuff boxes from online shopping. Time to turn it from blah to TADA!

After each page was painted, I bound them together with glue. I used binder clips to keep the spine in place as the glue dried.

Here is a flip through.

As you can see, the papers vary in size.

The colors and prints made from watercolor are pretty wild.

I also snuck in some printed tissue gift wrap and plain ones that I painted.

This can work as a scrapbook.

Or I can use the pages for my collage and scrapbooking needs (just cut the desired size of paper).

I also included an envelope filled with handmade fodder (fodder = anything you can use for collage).

Fodder samples include these hand-stamped quotes and hand-drawn flowers (use glue to attach them to a page).

Why buy when we can D.I.Y.?

And that is how I turned brown packaging paper from blah to TADA!

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