How can dry up leafs or dry plants be used to make cardboard or paper?
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All paper is made from plant products.  Trees are used for the most part. You can find information on it at the second link below.\n\nMaking paper yourself is a fun and easy process. Your plant material do not need to be dried before hand.  For the most part you need to have paper that is able to be recycled. Shred it very fine using a blender, be careful not to burn out the motor by having to little water. You can add your plant mixture to the pulp at this time or later when you have pressed it.  I have included a link that tells you in detail how to do this.\nWhen I have made paper I have pressed it onto a window to get a really smooth side.  You can also use a turkey baster to add different colors on to a paper you have all ready pressed.  You can make different patterns in that manner.\nMy favorite paper project was covering a bowl with the paper and pressing dried rose petals into it.  It was very beautiful.\nOkay Now I have to go figure out when I have time to make paper again.  It is a wonderful expression of art.
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Cotton can be recycled through a process that boils the cotton to remove oils.  Then it is put in a chemical bath with bleach that removes all the color and impurities.  Then you can mix it with some other chemicals and you have cotton paper that can be used for nice cards and printing.
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You can get putty like ones from art shops that remove dark HB and pretty much destroy anything apart from the pressure on the paper. they need to be cleaned a lot but can be molded to an easy shape and are dabbed rather than rubbed which means less white flakes and little paper ripping.
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This has some really neat ideas, but my favourite project is making wreaths. You bend a clothes hanger into the shape you want and tie plastics strips all around until it is nice and full. You could decorate further with recycled ribbon, flowers, etc. You might even make the flowers from laundry softeners so they smell pretty as well! The plastics strips should be about 9 - 12 inches long and about an inch or so wide. Cut them from clean bread bags, grocery or store bags, garbage or leaf bags....you just tie the plastic onto the hanger wire so you have equal ends. Push together as you go and twist now and then to add fullest.
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Filter the solid out of the mother liquor and let it air dry or store it in an open container in a dessicator or bake it in an oven or...\nyou get the idea.
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Thinking out of the box:\n\n  Just crumple it up into a paper ball.\n\nRough texture but easily a sphere.
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to increase humidity so nothing dries out\n\nlike a cigar humidor
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Painted Cardboard\nIndex Cards\nFoam Blocks
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You could try lots of things, like:\nbeads\nfoam balls with pieces of wood to hold the sides together\npaper mache \nclay \n\nReally anything that you can mold or put together would work.
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squeeze them out a bunch and then use a hair dryer
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you can create numbers and shapes out of cardboard\ncreate cone/hat out of nice colored paper.\nand of course put a string trough with needle
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you could use alcohol extraction technique whereby you immerse the leaves in alcohol and let it sit for sometime until you see leaf extract. Or you can boil the leaves to get the extract this is called a decoction.
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just buy filt-paper and cut it into 5 oval shapes, glue their edges, attach strings which are bundled at the bottom, attach a tiny basket filled newspaper, blow hot air into ballon with hairdryer, set basket on fire and let it fly.
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get a plastic bottle\nput fins on it\nput in vinegar\nget a cork, cut it down and put a small hole in it.\nput in baking soda and jam the cork in  fast.
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I love crafts!  You can get a small Styrofoam disk from a store like Hobby Lobby or Michael's, whatever craft/hobby store you have in your area.  Get some colored cellophane paper and a very skinny dowel.  Cut the dowel to a lollipop stick length and stick in in the underside of the Styrofoam.  You may want to hot glue it to make it stay.  Cut some of the cellophane and wrap it around the Styrofoam and tie it with ribbon or whatever you have.  Get some gold cord or ribbon and hot glue it to the top to make a hanger.  They are very easy, you can even make giant ones to go outside!\n\nYou can also get some Crayola Model Magic and roll it into a "snake" shape.  Roll the snake starting in the middle and wrap it around and around making it as large as you want.  This will make one of those old fashioned looking lollipops that you can by at Cracker Barrel.  Stick the dowel into the stuff and let it air dry.  You can use craft paint to paint it any color you want.  Once the paint dries, brush craft glue on it and sprinkle with iridescent glitter or micro beads.  Wrap them in clear cellophane paper.  They are very pretty.  I learned about the last one from Michaels.com.  They have an interactive ornament making page.\n\nHope this helps!
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>>>1. Plant medicine\n>>>2. Dry completely\n>>>3. Grinding\n>>>4. Methanol extraction\n>>>5. Filtration using Watmann No. 5 filter paper\n>>>5. Concentration with rotary evaporator\n>>>6. Suspend in distilled water\n>>>7. Partitioning\n>>> 1) partition with hexane\n>>> 2) partition with n-butanol
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Yes. You need celulose to make paper. All plants (?) have celulose. \nPaper production have direct impact to our environment. Not about the trees but during the industrial transformation process too. \nUsually caompanies does not use any kind of tree. They have reflorest areas where they use Pinus (terrible, because they are also know as a Green Deserts). Companies have batter profits doing this. Theyplant their onw production to produce paper. \nPinus Eliotis (?) are most used. They need specific tree that grow fast and does not need to much care. Before they reach this standard, they have tryed a lot os possibilities like Araucaria, for example. \nTheir areas where they use to have their trees are good to decrease to global warming problem, but have impact to local flora and fauna, because companies can just substitute original florests to this artificial one. \nIts impact its bigger within tropical countries once Pinus are foreign trees. \n\nDo not forget that recycle methods are always an alternative and also genetics engineering are working to create faster trees.