Many Uses for Scrap Paper

Scrap paper is common among crafts, or even daily duties. Scrap paper can be found in the form of excess printed paper from your printer (ever had your printer shoot off 7 pages when all you needed were the the first 2?), newspaper that you don’t want to throw out but have yet to recycle, work documents that you no longer need, or even leftover paper scraps from scrapbooking or making homemade cards. What do you do with all that excess paper scraps? Here’s a few ideas.

Reuse printer paper by putting it back into the printer to print documents for your home use. Just because you have some dumb advertisement you didn’t want all over the first page, doesn’t mean you can’t reuse the paper. Just put it back in the paper holder for your printer face up. It will print on the other side instead of the printed-on side, and this will save you money and keep you from throwing away a lot of paper that could have otherwise come in handy.

Newspaper makes great crafting paper. When you get newspaper wet and then press the newspaper to a dry cardstock or printer paper (rice or homemade paper is best though), the color and print will transfer onto the other paper, creating a cool design you can then use for scrapbooking, bookmarks, etc. Or, you can make homemade kitty litter- see Homemade Kitty Litter and find out how! If nothing else, you can use newspaper instead of paper towels for cleaning your windows or drying your windows when you wash your car. Newspaper won’t leave streaks.

Doing crafts and you have leftover scraps that are too small to work with? Paper scraps can be super handy- cut them into triangles for borders on the corners of pictures for scrapbooking, use those little scraps to cut out bubble letters (trace your letter on the back with pencil then cut out) in varying sizes and colors for future crafting, or simply hole punch the scraps and save those little circles for homemade confetti or little dots to use for crafting. You can use those tiny scraps as accents, borders, or make bookmarks out of them. Save these scraps in an envelope or sandwich bag. You never know when they will come in handy. They can even be used for gift tags come holidays or birthdays!

When you’re at work and going through paper like crazy, especially fax confirmations and printed emails you don’t need, why not turn those into scratch paper for writing down phone calls and notes/messages to your boss and coworkers? So long as the information doesn’t need to be shredded, you should be fine to cut those papers into 8 little scratch papers, which come in super handy when you don’t have a sticky note! Even a used envelope can be used to write notes on- don’t throw that stuff away!

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