Lately I have seen a lot of wonderful art on the Internet using tea bags. As an avid tea drinker, I decided to start saving my used tea bags to make my own little book. Although mostly I use loose leaf tea, I do use some tea bags and got some interesting effects from black tea, green tea, and nettle tea, while some I left unstained.
I decided on a nature theme for my little book. I stitched down the center of the tea bags to bind them together, then added cardstock and vellum to the front and back covers. To embellish the tea bag pages I used stamped images, stickers, stamps, tiny pictures, pressed flowers and leaves, and washi tape.
Here are a few of the pages.
Finally I glued coloured hemp and recycled silk fibers to the spine.
This teeny tiny book is as light as a feather and fits into the palm of my hand.
Lovely! 😊
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Thank you so much!
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It’s so cute! 😍 thank you for sharing 😘
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Thanks, Kiotta!
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What a great idea, Kristah! I love how you made a mini book out of tea bags. So cute.Those pretty little embellishments and dried flowers are the perfect touch. But the spine is my favorite.
Kate
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Thanks, Kate!
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Just so lovely!!!!
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Thank you so much!
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Wow, what an amazing little teabag book! I love how you created each page from a teabag and your paintings and embellishments are so beautiful 😁. This is a fabulous idea and it must have been a wonderful project to create, and I adore how it just fits into the palm of your hand too – perfect! I hope you are having a lovely week! J 😊 x
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Thank you, Jo! It was so much fun to make!
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Amazing!
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Thank you so much, Linda!
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Super cute! I love your selection of pictures and nature theme.
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Thank you! It was fun looking for pictures small enough to use that were nature related. I was amazed to find how many I actually had in my stash!
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How pretty!! and very interesting and creative. ❤
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Thanks, Tam!
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You must have a lot of patience to work on such a tiny artwork.
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It did take some patience. Parts of it were quite fiddly, but lots of fun!
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That is such a cute idea!
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Thank you so much!
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