hey guys it's Rae here and welcome back to my channel
so good news i might be moving next month and now that i'm cleaning out my apartment
the bad news i have a lot of junk i mean not just in the trunk but literally everywhere
but good news again i don't have to throw it all away in fact i could make
paper out of it so today i'm going to try my hand
at the ancient art that is paper making and i'm gonna make art from my my trash
now in preparation for this video i went down the rabbit hole that is paper making youtube
and it seems simple enough but we'll see what the real tea is and if this does end up working well i
think it'll be a game changer for a lot of people to be able to recycle their old paper especially
now with everyone stuck inside looking for a hobby so yeah with that being said short intro today
we're just gonna get right into it all right so the very first ingredient to making paper is paper
i know that sounds counter-intuitive but just hear me out i just so happen
to have this giant pile right next to me which actually is what made me want to do this video
but as you're about to see you can use any paper substance that you want so i'm going to look
around the house find all my little scraps that i have start collecting them and we'll go from there
okay so it is currently the next day and i'm not gonna lie i'm pretty proud of myself for filling
this box up halfway every type of paper that is known to man i can guarantee you it's in this box
so yeah now that i have all my paper collected this actually leads me to step two of the process
by far probably the most tedious part of this whole entire thing
basically i need to rip all the papers in here to tiny little shreds that way i can
blend them up later so let's get the work alexa play hot girl by megan thee stallion
you guys remember this when i tested out the amazon basic colored pencils yeah well it's going
in there now for all my shredded papers i want them more this size rather than this size i want
them smaller than bigger that way the blender will have an easier time making it into pulp
now as i mentioned earlier there is so many different types of paper textures there is so much
variety in this box so once we blend it up i'm very curious to see one: what the texture of the
paper is gonna be and two: what color the paper is going to be so i don't know let's find out
by the way guys i feel like this might go without saying but if you use your kitchen blender
do not use that blender again for food reasons you can either go to the thrift
store and find a good blender or you could be like myself and use like an old janky blender
this poor blender man it's been through it oh it's like a forbidden slushy it literally
just smells like wet paper i don't know what i expected so now that i have my mixture here i'm
gonna go ahead and just dump it straight into this giant plastic tub that i have into the tub you go
oh my god now obviously this is not enough pulp to make paper
so i'm going to repeat the blending process a few times until i get enough pulp that i need
okay so i'm back and here's what my mixture looks like
i'm not gonna lie it actually feels really nice because there's warm water in it
and like all the little bits of cardboard are like hitting my hand kind of like massaging it and it
feels kind of nice oh and by the way for this process you're going to need a mold and deckle
to create the actual paper you could easily make these at home with window screen and wood like no
problem but i just got these on amazon and then i ripped out one of the screens to make the mold
so the screen is up top right here i'm gonna put on the mold as so okay here we go
oh that's way too thick oh god oh god i'm gonna try this again i had it and then i lost it
oh there it is my first paper
now as soon as i took it out of the water the very very very first thing that i did was put it
on a non-water absorbing surface that way i can slowly start getting rid of some of this water
man this is like so therapeutic right now
i didn't think this would relax me as much as it has but i am in total zen mode right now
now i'm gonna flip it over onto this non-water absorbing surface dry the backside with a sponge
me dropping the hottest beats of 2020. i'm really impressed with the texture there's a
lot of speckles colors it's a lot smoother than what it looks like on camera it looks very bumpy
but i can assure you in real life it looks a lot more smooth so i saw this one tutorial in
particular where the gentleman who was making paper for drying your paper he gave two options
the first one is to wait 24 hours for your paper to dry but ain't nobody got time for that like
i hardly have time for a 60 second tick tock you think i have time for 24 hours for my paper to dry
no so the second option to get your paper to dry is on a low setting iron the paper
are you guys ready for the big reveal because i am oh oh she's lumpy i'm surprised with how
light the color is i thought it would be way darker than what it is and i'll have to take a
mental note that all the areas that have creases and folds when you hold it up to the light those
are the areas that are the thinnest so next paper i make will be a little bit thicker but
oh my god this is so freaking cool i made paper like here it is here's my paper i'm so excited
so now that i know how to make paper this actually leads me to what i think is probably by far one
of the coolest aspects of paper making you can actually embed whatever you want into your paper
and what i haven't told you throughout this video is that i actually purchased
a whole entire variety of dried flowers to embed into my paper
i don't know why i keep wearing long sleeves on the days that i have to do stuff with my hands
okay so it should be done by now or at least mostly done
and hopefully nothing fell out so let's see
oh my gosh it's so pretty the aesthetics oh my gosh this is so beautiful
the texture the crinkles the color
it doesn't smell like anything and even more interesting when you look on the back side
you can actually see some of the rose petals because they're like
embedded into the paper which is really nice
so now that we know how to make paper and flowers look so beautiful and classy
and paper i thought we could take it to the next level have some fun
try something a little out there if you will i'm gonna try to make
hot cheetos paper honestly cheetos have like a really interesting texture and they
have a really bright beautiful red color i know that's weird to say about cheetos but it's true
and plus at this point they're kind of like the internet's favorite snack
so the first thing i'm going to do is crunch up the cheetos not too much because i don't
want to breathe in the cheeto dust but just crush them up a little bit
now i'm gonna add in the cheetos to the paper sometimes i have these weird revelations where
i'm just like what is my life what is my job like and right now is one of those moments
oh it's probably too much oh well okay i'm just gonna spread it out a little bit oh bubble
okay i'm just gonna spread out the hot cheetos my hand is actually burning right now
my hand is slightly burning right now from the citric acid or whatever
oh oh no tati no honestly it kind of looks like a tortilla but i'm not gonna lie when you put it up
to the light it looks so bad ass that looks really really cool it kind of smells like hot cheetos but
not really if i'm gonna be quite honest here i don't really like the texture of the cheeto paper
but i am really happy with how the flower ones came out i am absolutely obsessed with
them i think they are so cool let me know if you guys would like to see a part two where
i put whatever you guys request into the paper that could be a potential video and uh yeah with
that being said guys thank you so much again for watching and i will see you next friday