- 1). Remove the glass and backing from your picture frame and lay it on top of your screen. Cut the screen around the edges of the frame with scissors. Flip the frame over and staple the screen to the frame. This ensures your paper sheets will be uniform sizes.
- 2). Tear up all of your paper into pieces about the size of a quarter. Fill your blender full of loosely packed paper bits.
- 3). Add warm water to the paper, filling the blender, and cap it. Pulse the blender on low until the paper and water begin to mix. Run the blender on high until the pulp looks mixed and smooth. Pour into plastic tub.
- 4). Make two more blenders full of paper pulp, pouring each one into your plastic tub. Mix in about one handful of seeds per blender-full of pulp and stir thoroughly. In this case, you need about 3 handfuls of seeds.
- 5). Submerge your wire frame into the pulp so it's completely covered. Lift the frame up and shake it slightly to even out the pulp gathered on the screen. Wait until the water stops dripping and quickly flip the frame paper-side down onto a piece of felt.
- 6). Gently press a sponge against the screen to remove as much water from your paper as possible. Lift up the frame; the paper should remain on the felt.
- 7). Repeat until all of the pulp is formed into paper or your felt piece is full. Let the paper dry for about 48 hours, flip it, and let the other side dry as well.
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