Newspaper Craft Idea

It is very easy to reach for my double sided tape or any of my various glues when newspaper crafting. One of the things I love about newspaper is that there are often many ways to achieve the result you want. Adhering things with glues and tapes are just one way of making your elements stay where you want them. Come with me to look at a few other ideas for making things stick!

You can make your project without any adhesives at all. Taking a challenge to do so is a fun way to inspire yourself.
If you have been a newspaper crafter for awhile, you are probably familiar with brads. They are made of metal and come with a split pin backing that can be pushed through layers of newspaper to hold embellishments together. You often see them used in the middle of flower layers. There is no reason why you cannot use them in other ways such as to hold mats in place, to place tags where you want them, to bind together a small album or booklet, to make a swing tag to cover hidden journaling, to provide an anchor for ribbon or braid or cord, or as an embellishment in their own right. Use an odd number of brads in a row to draw the eye to a place on your page or card, make a curved line of them, or use them as corner points.
Clever ways of folding or crimping newspaper can help you get by without adhesives too. Make slits in your newspaper to hold photos or mats at each corner. Make a row of slits and thread through ribbon, newspaper or a feather. Fold layers of newspaper together a few times and then punch through to add a brad or stitching. Use origami techniques on your project, folding flaps of newspaper over and tucking them under other layers of newspaper. Crimp newspapers together with a paper crimping tool. Investigate the stationers shop again to find newspaper binding tools that do not use staples, cleverly cutting and crimping the newspapers together without metals.
And there you have it - ways to adhere newspaper together without the use of glues or tapes! There are other ways of making cards, layouts and off-the-page projects without the use of tape and glues. I encourage you to challenge yourself to find new ways of newspaper crafting and to share your ideas with me if you know if another way or two to make things without adhesives.

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