I’m doing a craft fair in St Andrews next weekend and thought I would put a post up requesting donations in exchange for goods to see if I can entice anyone to give me lots stuff to recycle into lovely notebooks.
I’m on the look out for A4 and large format envelopes with interesting patterns within them as well as flattened cereal boxes.
Why you may ask?
Well I’ve started making cereal box notebooks and I use the cereal boxes for the book covers and I cover the outside with the lovely patterns found on the inside of the A4 and large format envelopes. The paper within the books is also recycled from student notebooks and sketchbooks.
My partner lectures at Napier University in Edinburgh and his students hand in their work at the end of the year and the majority fail to come back and collect their sketchbooks. He holds on to them for a while, but then ends up using the blank pages for notepaper himself. He brought me a stash of paper recently and this weekend I’ve been putting it to good use making these notebooks.
Here’s one that I’ve just finished:
They are all around A5 size, but all vary as their size depends on the size of the cereal box used.
So if you’re going to be in St Andrews on Saturday 16th May and have a few empty cereal boxes and/or large format envelopes sitting in your recycling bin, why not bring them along to the Craft Fair in the Town Hall between 10am and 4pm and I’ll be happy to take them off your hands.
In return for your donations you can get your hands one of the following:
– a free packet of milomade gift tags (pack of 10) made from either Maps, Music, Envelopes
– a free packet of milomade envelopes (packs of 5) made from Music, Girls Annuals, Envelopes
– a milomade cereal box notebook for half price
Clever idea! and they look good too
these are so pretty, and such a good use of ‘rubbish’ too. I’m a big fan reusing envelopes myself – I love all the patterns on the inside, and get a bit too excited when I find one I have never seen before!
Hope the fair goes well and that you get lots of donations.
Monda
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I’m the same. I got a new pattern just yesterday and can’t wait to use it. This is why I love getting envelope donations from people as you often get a few suprises like that. I’m often more interested in seeing the pattern on the inside of the envelope that the actual contents!
I’d be interested in a swap. I can offer ten sheets of my handmade papers (5 yellow / 5 white) made from recycled bills, etc, and one of my Bank-Note-Books with handmade bank note paper endpapers, for something you’ve made. If interested email me. Regards Simon