Lately I've been loving more and more my daily doses of Design*Sponge, a fabulous blog where design and craft intersect more often than you might expect. (You can read more about my take on this here.) A favorite recent post featured graphic designer Katie Kulper and her store window installation of paper airplanes made from ordinary recycled binder paper. I love seeing such a simple repurposing of materials featured so prominently in an upscale place; to me this is just one more sign of a cultural shift toward the handmade--and, of course, toward sustainable art, however unlikely it might be.

Recycling paper in your mixed-media art might seem like the easiest way to incorporate an environmental awareness into your work, but we all know that sometimes what seems the simplest at first flush is often just the opposite. How do you use and reuse paper in your art? Share your ideas in a comment below, or enter a piece in our April challenge!

Happy Tuesday,

Jessica