A few (more) minutes of fun with recycled teabag sachets
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- In this series you can join me at the craft table once a week for a few minutes of art and craft creativity - between ten and twenty minutes usually. But sometimes a project needs a little MORE than just a few minutes... so in A Few (More) Minutes of Fun, you'll be invited along for a deeper dive into my creative process.
Today I'm sharing a set of six altered teabag sachets. Follow along as I create a series of tiny collaged artworks using recycled teabag sachets, gesso, Distress Ink and Oxide sprays, Tim Holtz and Rubber Dance stamps, flower and butterfly stickers and Idea-ology ephemera.
I bought all the products used in this video myself.
Distress Ink Spray - Broken China; Distress Oxide Spray - Speckled Egg
Ranger Archival Inks - Olive, Pebble Beach, Potting Soil
Tim Holtz Field Notes stamp set by Stampers Anonymous
Weed Love stamp set by Rubber Dance stamps
Idea-ology Snippets - Curator and Number Strips
Flower and butterfly stickers widely available online - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
Omg! Shut the front door! I love these! I’m really regretting all of the hundreds of tea bag papers that I threw in the trash. Ok, I’m ok now. I’m have almost stopped thinking of how many thousands that are gone. Just kidding. 😢 these are lovely. I really like the idea of making them in groups of 6. Great idea! I already have everything I need to do this project. I could make some papers lol. I’ll go get a cup of tea. 🫖 thanks for sharing! Hugs, treen 💕🫖💕🫖🎨🎨🎨
So happy you're inspired to play... that's the best possible feedback - though I'm sorry to hear about all those lost teabag papers!! Enjoy your tea and your playtime, and thank you so much for taking the time to comment.
Keep the little square tab too, I use them a lot in little clusters
I just happened to come across your video on the tea bags.
How Fun! How Beautiful too!
I absolutely love your work.♡
You are so creative!
I subscribed to your channel and so look forward to catching more of your projects (-: Oddly enough I have been saving tea bags and have not done a thing with them as of yet...
Imagine that....what perfect timing. Thank you for sharing your ideas.
@@debragentosiroberts7491 So happy to hear you found the channel and enjoyed it once you got here. Thank you so much for commenting and subscribing.
Lol
You are so utterly adorable the way you mentally process the placements of things and verbalize it out loud for us. I have so thoroughly enjoyed this. I just subscribed because I am certain I will love everything you do. ❤
I'm so happy you're enjoying my "thinking-out-loud"! Welcome on board. I've really only recently started to add videos here regularly, so there's plenty more to come this year. Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to comment.
You have a very calm & soothing manner which makes it a pleasure to watch & listen to you. I just love your little projects
Thank you so much for that lovely feedback. Have a great weekend!
I think your amazing. Only just found you recently, but, man, Im having so much for fun. You are the best thing on you tube . Easy to follow, inspiring (for someone thats been uninspired for 3 years),exciting, smart, you just make me want to pick up my 'stuff' and play. You are so easy to watch. Looking forward to anything you do xxxx
Ahh, what a lovely comment... thank you so much - that's made my day! I'm so happy you're finding inspiration from the videos. I've only recently begun to add content here regularly (compared to IG and my blog where I've been active for years) so there's much more to come!
Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to comment.
Oh my! I love these little sachets. I throw away those little bags but No more!
Excellent - something else to hoard! Hope you have fun playing with them. Thanks so much for watching and commenting.
I love your teaching style and the way you explain various options as you randomly layer backgrounds, stamps, and ephemera. I learn so much watching you, and suddenly, it doesn't feel intimidating to create beautiful collage. Thank you for sharing your knowledge! 😍
What a lovely comment, thank you so much. I'm so happy people are finding my "thinking-out-loud" useful!
Your work, words/voice, process are all PURE POETRY ❤️❤️❤️
Oh, what a lovely comment - thank you so much. That's put a big smile on my face. (And if you want poetry, here's one of my Books, Books, Books videos you should try out if you haven't already... th-cam.com/video/lCP5JpwYs0M/w-d-xo.html )
Need to make a label using your quote of, “ messy fingers is a sign of a good time.” These are absolutely adorable and I’ll be making some just for kicks and giggles to put in my journals or little happy mail to my messy fingered friends. Have a great weekend.
Sounds like the perfect way to use them... hope you have lots of fun playing, and I'm sure your messy fingered friends will love them. And yes, I suddenly noticed I kept saying that!! Thanks so much for your lovely comment.
I could watch you create for hours! Love your little tea bag packets. I'm off to take the tea bags out and use the packets. I'm a coffee drinker so not sure why I have so much tea but I'm sure glad I do now! Thanks for sharing your amazing talent. xx
I'm definitely a coffee drinker. I don't drink much tea (I do like the occasional chai), but thankfully my mother does! Thank you so much for your lovely comment - it's really put a smile on my face.
Oooo-kay. Just walked back to my recycle bin and grabbed the 4 sachets I had just debated putting in there after making hubby some iced tea. (Were you spying on me having that internal debate? :D)
I promise I wasn't spying!! So happy you rescued the sachets from the recycling... this is a much lovelier way to recycle them, I think. I hope you have lots of fun playing. Thanks so much for watching and for your comment, which made me laugh a lot!
Bonjour 🙂et merci pour cette belle idée récup 🤩👍
De rien! Hope you have fun playing.
I drink a lot of tea, and I save these papers. They're blank on thei inside. Free paper! This would be a good 100 day projcet.
Impossible to throw away free art supplies, right?! Thanks for watching and commenting.
Love your work, thanks for sharing. Checked the plastic PET flowers, mine are stickers..total fiddle to get backing off though. 🦋
Interesting - somebody else has just mentioned that. I seem to remember trying in the early days of having some, and either failing to get them off at all, or just deciding it was too much time and effort and grabbing the glue instead!!
Thanks so much for watching and commenting.
Wunderschòne Inspiration Danke dafùr ❤😊
So happy you enjoyed it, and thank you for letting me know!
Te quedaron hermosísimos los sobrecitos de té. Les diste un toque romántico con la gama de colores elegidos. Me enamoré de este trabajo.
Gracias por compartir esta idea.
Saludos desde Argentina 🇦🇷
Muchas, muchas gracias!
I really love this idea….
I’ll be making some tomorrow
That's great - I love it when people are inspired to play. Hope you have lots of fun.
What a wonderful idea ❤. Something so simple turned into gorgeous little pieces of art.
I love working small - there's so little pressure - and if I can recycle at the same time, then I'm happy. Thank you for watching and for your lovely comment.
Thanks for a half hour of reasuringly imperfect creating the results are lovely time well spent for us as well as you x
Thank you so much - that's definitely what I'm trying to do with this series... just invite you all along while I genuinely have a few minutes (or a few more minutes!) of fun. Very relaxed, very gentle - I'm so happy you enjoyed it.
Omg I love these! They are just the prettiest little collage canvases from junk that I have seen in years on TH-cam! Thank you for sharing, I'm off to watch all your other videos now 😂 xXx
Oh, that's lovely to hear! I hope you enjoy the other videos. I've only recently started to add content regularly here on TH-cam, so there's plenty more to come this year. Thanks so much for watching and for your lovely comment.
Super sweet - I need to change my tea brand now to get envelopes instead of the rip open satchets 😂- I adore mini things - thank you for sharing - take care
I think you're not the only one going tea-shopping! So happy you enjoyed the video, and thanks for taking the time to comment.
I'm def gonna remember to save my tea bags now. Such a cute, fun & easy idea! I often use Lipton tea...(decaffeinated) for my iced tea...that I drink a lot of, and I used to save the boxes, (not sure if Lipton is as popular or as available in the UK as it is in the states.) Anyway, their box is such a nifty design with little tabs that help to keep the top secure when closed. It's just so well designed. Some years back I made my mom in-law a little covered trinket box using one of the Lipton boxes. I covered it inside and out with some pretty paper and fabric and used a die cut on the top center of an 18th century style silhouette of a dancing couple and embellished it with ribbons and pearls and made a little closure. It turned out so nice and my mom in-law loved it. I thought I'd make some more, but never did. It did take a lot of time and I'm doing other things now, but your project reminded me of mine...the tea connection! 👍
That sounds charming! Yes, I do know the Lipton boxes. They are quite similar to the boxes these ones come in (these are Norma supermarket's own brand Cornwall teas, but Lidl also have the little envelopes on their own brand Lord Nelson teas).
And yes, I keep quite a few boxes for storage... but mostly I just paint them white or cover them with some paper rather than full-on decorate them like yours!
Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to comment.
This is such a cool video. I have used the teabag covers as a envelopes for a mini cards (tea themed). I must say what you have done with yours is fantastic! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us all. Take good care of your creative self. 🌽
What a lovely comment... I love the idea of using the envelopes for tiny cards (and the tea theme!). Thanks so much for dropping by.
I had no idea that tea bag sachet's could be so beautiful! I love what you did and thank you so much for sharing with us! ♥
Thank you so much for that lovely comment - I'm very pleased you enjoyed it.
I really love your work. I just binge watched all of your videos! Thank you!!!
Oh, how lovely... thank you so much for watching (lots!), and for taking the time to comment too.
So glad I stumbled across this channel. Amazing❤
Very happy you found your way here. I've only recently started to add content regularly, so there's plenty more to come this year.
I already kept the tea bags which make lovely designs when they dry, but, I never thought about the packaging😮 It's such a great idea and you turn them into fabulous creations. 👍🤩
Yes, I love playing with the teabags themselves too... but I couldn't bear to throw away these adorable little envelopes! So happy you enjoyed the video, and thanks so much for taking the time to comment.
Love this❣️ and mostly that you’re wearing lace, long sleeves also😅❤
Thank you... it's a very old top that I love (I have it in two colour ways), and it's starting to become my "filming uniform"!
Amazingly beautiful ❤
Thanks so much, Luise - means a lot coming from you!
I'll take a longer version of your videos anyday however I now have to start collecting something else lol! Love this one and so much my style!
I think you're not the only one going tea-shopping! So happy you enjoyed the video, and thanks for your lovely comment.
Lovely! I see a garland made out of these in the near future.
That's a lovely idea! Thanks for watching and commenting.
This is so brilliant. I truly adore your talent and will try this myself. Thank you for sharing this with us. 💝
Thank you so much - happy you're inspired to play. I hope you have lots of fun.
I've been using my sachets to make tiny pockets too. I need to get some gesso to try your method. I've just been gluing paper on them to make them decorative and give them extra stability. I also turn them over and make mini library card pockets, leaving the flap upright.
Yes, I have done a couple in the past with paper stuck on, and the extra stability is great, as you say... but in the end I usually prefer the au naturel look. Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts. Love the mini library card idea!
Oh, and white paint would work just as well as gesso, by the way!
Great for seed packets
Absolutely - what a brilliant idea!
The result on these tiny sachets is great. I love watching how you make your compositions and 6 together in 1 time.
As you know, I love working in series - whether that's 2, 3, 4 or 6!!
They are fab. Great project. New subby. This Popped up on my feeds. So glad i watched. TY💜💜
Welcome - so happy you decided to watch and then subscribe. Plenty more to come this year now that I've started to add videos here regularly. Thanks so much for watching and commenting.
Now I must start saving tea bag jackets. Brilliant! What a lovely set you created - so inspired.
Thank you so much. I hope you can track down a brand of tea that uses them. Mine come from own-brand teabags from Lidl and Norma supermarkets (Those are both German supermarkets which are here in CZ, and in many other countries of course, including the US... but I heard from other crafters that, for instance in the UK, they now sell the teabags without the envelopes 😪).
If you can't find the teabag sachets, then cash envelopes are a good alternative - I'm planning a video using those some time soon too.
Thanks so much for watching and commenting.
These sachets are beautiful and I loved watching the process of altering them. So very sweet!
Thank you so much, Patty - happy you enjoyed it.
Truly enjoyed and subscribed. I’m already thinking do I have tea bags with envelopes 😮
Excellent... hope you have fun playing! Thank you so much for subscribing and commenting.
Hi, my name is Bonnie and I just love, love, love this project. So simple and fun. I hope to use this in the future. Thank you for sharing. :)
Happy to hear you're inspired to have a play with these ideas. I hope you'll have lots of fun. (It would be great if you can mention this video if you're sharing anything you've made in the future!) Thanks for watching and commenting.
These are so cool❣️❣️❣️. You are a very good instructor with a good, clear voice. I’m in love with your art💙💛🦋
Thank you for that lovely feedback - so happy that you are enjoying the videos.
I LOVE this!! I don't have tea bag sachets, but I'm going to give this a try with 'After 8 Mint' envelopes. I have lots of those 😂 xx
That'll work... I do love an After Eight mint!! Have fun playing.
So happy to have just been recommended your wonderful channel today - I subscribed right away! Can I ask what brand of glue you use? I love that bottle!
Oh, that's lovely to hear, thank you. The glue is by Cosmic Shimmer, and I suspect it's something that is only available in the UK - so depending on where you are based, that's either good news or bad news! Thanks so much for watching, subscribing and commenting - much appreciated.
Love this project! Thank you for sharing your process! Only wish some of the views were zoomed in more! Maybe next time! Love how you just have a knack for putting things together to look so good!
Thank you for your lovely comment. This is really just a few minutes of fun. I don't particularly want to spend longer editing than I get to spend making art, so I think I'll be saving fancy camera work for more in-depth work or full classes. If I look at it on my laptop rather than my phone, I can zoom in on a bigger picture anyway!
These are beautiful. New subscriber here. TFS. Fantastic idea.❤
So happy you decided to subscribe - welcome! Thanks for watching and commenting.
New subbie here. These turned out so pretty. Thanks for sharing 💕
That's great to know - thanks so much for signing up! Happy you enjoyed the video.
I so enjoyed watching your video! I love how you present and make it look so easy. Also these colours are beautiful, thank you ❤❤❤
That's great to hear, thank you so much - I hope you'll be inspired to have a few minutes of fun of your own!
Hi, I was thinking about using the covers. I buy. The ones is the protective covers with the silver linings, and I am going to stamp them. Also, cut them open with the v cut in the middle and put little things in them. You can pull out. Thank you
Sounds like a great plan - happy you enjoyed the idea!
I believe those floral ephemera pieces that had the blue and purple flowers are actually what they call pet stickers, and they are stickers but the backing is difficult to get off. The best way I found is to take a piece of Scotch tape attaching it to any edge of the flower and then try to get your fingernail in between the two layers and the tape will hold the one side as you pull off the top layer. Hope that helps so that you don't have to glue everything down Plus I have also found that putting glue on the back of those type of stickers is very Persnickety as far as it drying because they are not porous😊
Oh, interesting... I'll give it a go. I don't mind gluing, and I can't say I've noticed that they are problematic drying, but every little helps. MInd you, given I'm often sticking down over quite textured surfaces, I usually put extra glue even on sticky stickers!
Thanks so much for watching and taking time to add that information about the stickers.
@@w0rdsandp1cturesI watched someone on you tube get them off easily. She put the sticker face up on the table, got her pokey tool, she put her nail about a 1/4 inch from an edge and used the tool to gently pull up the sticker. Then she slid her nail in and Bob’s your uncle! I hope this makes sense. lol. Hugs, treen 💕💕💕
They sell a sticky mat. You press the sticker down, and that frees you to have 2 hands to use a pokey tool to lift and remove sticker.
I have been looking for the perfect green in an archival type of stamp pad. I had never tried olive. I ordered it and BAM! Now I have it!
So happy to hear that... it's always been my go-to green for stamping - I love it! Great to know that it has solved your problem.
These are beautiful! Can’t wait to try making them, since I have all the supplies.
Oh great - I hope you have lots of fun playing. Thanks so much for taking the time to comment.
I just came across you channel and it’s absolutely amazing!
So happy to hear that, thank you. I've only just started adding content here regularly, so there's plenty more to come... Have a great weekend.
I subscribed as soon as you said you don't mind getting messy/mucky ! That is soooo me!
Inky painty fingers are the sign of a good time!! Thanks so much for watching and subscribing, and for taking the time to comment... much appreciated.
Oh Alison! These are just deliciously delightful! I need to start drinking more tea 🤔 Such a simple idea but so effective. Thank you for sharing the process 💕
I don't drink much tea (I'm a coffee drinker) apart from the occasional chai... but thankfully my mother drinks a lot! Happy you like them. Thanks so much for stopping by.
Amazing and beautiful idea! The results are just lovely!
Thank you so much - happy you like them.
These are amazing! So cute! Love the idea!
Thanks so much - happy you enjoyed it.
I have enjoyed it. You explain so good what your thoughts are while creating. They turned out wonderful. See you in your next video.
So happy to hear you enjoyed it - thank you so much for taking the time to leave a comment.
I absolutely LOVE this project! Thank you, once again, for sharing! Now I have to go find some tea envelopes! 😅
I think you're not the only one going tea-shopping! So happy you enjoyed the video, and thanks for taking the time to comment.
Breathtakingly lovely!
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Wow, those are really pretty! 🤩
Thank you!
This was awesome! New subbie here. TFS xoxo….
Oh, that's great to hear. Thanks so much for watching and commenting.
What a wonderful idea and so beautifully executed ❤
Thank you so much.
Absolutely lovely thank you for the wonderful idea!! And the poetic process of creating these beauties!!
Thank you so much for that lovely comment.
How cute is this!? 😍
I love these sweet Envelopes.
Thank you for sharing!
So happy you enjoyed it - I love working small and in sets... Thanks for watching and commenting.
I would like to try this and I'm curious if I were to ink the edges with the gesso, would it take? Very pretty upcycle.❤
Also I have real pressed flowers I would like to glue on instead. ❤
I see no reason why using gesso on the edges wouldn't work - although if they are already gesso'd it wouldn't show up very much. But if you're gessoing on a contrasting colour that would show. Best thing is to experiment and see if it gives you the look you want.
And absolutely, if you've got real pressed flowers, go for it! They will be beautiful. You might want to seal them with some matte medium or other sealant to give them more longevity.
So happy that you are inspired to play. Thanks for watching and commenting.
I enjoy hearing your thought process. These are beautiful!
Thank you - I'm so happy to find that people are finding my "thinking-out-loud" helpful and enjoyable!
Thank you that was a fab tutorial xxxx
So happy you enjoyed it... it's not even really a full-on tutorial in my book - just me thinking out loud as I'm having (genuinely) a few minutes of fun!!
Your creating style is so interesting to watch! I learn so much in your few minutes of fun. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you so much - that's really great to know!
Sooo cute !! Certainly enjoy your talents and style, as well as your personality 🎉❤
That's such lovely feedback - thank you so much for watching and commenting.
These are so gorgeous! Well done indeedy. I've saved quite a few of these sachets and look forward to having time to get back in the studio and start creating mixed media again... I'm currently doing an online fine art course and working in the sitting room so I've got access to the big screen TV. My studio has been relegated to a dumping ground which is always what happens when I'm not using it! I have a Graphics Fairy Premium Membership and they have several albums of printable paper dolls amongst other things - very free and easy use rules, and excellent and varied materials. I've printed and cut out loads of stuff for collage work. You can change the sizes and colours to your heart's content.
Sounds as though you're very creatively busy - that's great. Hopefully, your studio will come back to its creative use soon rather than just being used to store stuff.
I do love the Graphics Fairy (there are so many amazing digital creators around), but I find I can't get the cost of the printer ink out of my head!!
Thanks so much for stopping by - it's great to see you here!
@@w0rdsandp1ctures Thanks for your lovely reply! My poor studio is a tip at the moment. I need to have a major blitz on it before I can use it again! As for the Graphics Fairy, I do agree - if you are printing out a lot of full-sized backgrounds you certainly get through a lot of ink!
Talking of teabags, I meant to ask you - what brand is that tea - "Cornwall"? I looked it up and couldn't find it. The sachets are better than most because they have a flap. Also, I often dry teabags, scrunched up, on watercolour paper. They make the most fabulous stains that you can then doodle on. I've just done some on a scrap of paper that was much more absorbent than usual and the stains spread right out, with gorgeous crinkly edges that looked as if they'd been burnt. I overlapped the stains and have now added detailing with Tombow Dual Brush Markers to create flowers. They came out great!
@ShoshiPlatypus Sorry for the delay responding. I've only just worked out that TH-cam doesn't tell me when there are replies to replies... I have to go looking for them!
Cornwall is the own brand of Norma, a German supermarket which is pretty widespread in Europe. Lidl's own brand Lord Nelson has the same envelopes, but someone else who has been on the hunt told me that particular packaging is now only in Europe, not even in the UK, so I have no idea whether they have it in their US stores.
I love actual teabags for creating art too - fragile as they are. Your scrunchie ones sound fabulous!
@@w0rdsandp1ctures Many thanks for your reply and no probs! Following all the replies and comments is not easy. Thanks for the info about the teabag sachets. I’ll ask my hubby to look out for them next time he is in Lidl’s. We are in the UK.
Beautiful a great idea to use the little tea bag pockets ❤
So happy you like them. Thank you for taking the time to comment.
Yay for the splatters.
There must always be splatters!!
Beautiful! Great idea using the tea packets.
Thank you... I'm sure you know the feeling, when you can't bear to throw something away because you know it's going to be useful somehow!
Something fun to try.
Hope you have fun playing!
Absolutely lovely! I keep saving these sachets but haven't been inspired until now. My fingers are itching to give these a try! Thank you for all the inspiration!
Oh, that's wonderful... I'm always so happy to hear when people are inspired to play. Hope you have lots of fun. Thanks so much for taking the time to share your thoughts.
@@w0rdsandp1ctures ❤
The teabags are so beautyful. I love it ❤ thank you for watching.
Best wishes Renate
So happy you enjoyed it - I hope you'll be inspired to play!
@@w0rdsandp1ctures absolute 👍😊
Thank you so much for all you do, I love your Artwork
You're very welcome - so happy that you're enjoying it all.
A fabulous idea and beautiful execution!
Thank you so much.
Wonderful creations! I see that these can be used in junk journal and tags. I love rubber dance stamps too because I watch Susanne Rose’s channel too! ❤
Thank you - happy you're enjoying the ride!
Woooooaaaahhh how sweeett!!!
Thank you, happy you like them.
I would never have thought of using tea bag envelopes for crafting before seeing this. How clever of you!
I just couldn't bear to throw them away... I knew they'd come in handy for something!! Thanks so much for watching and commenting.
SO Gorgeous!! In LOVE with them..what a super idea! Love all the idealogie items you use didn´t know the flowers..
Thank you - happy you love them. The flowers aren't Idea-ology... there are lots of paper Idea-ology flowers in various packs, but these acetate ones are around on Etsy, Amazon, Temu and Ali Express (if you can bear to put a bit of money in the pockets of the evil giants!).
@@w0rdsandp1ctures I was already looking for them..but couldn't find them..!
Thank you for your reply...!
just went back to have a better look in the video what it said on the package!
I don't like to buy from the evil ones 🥴.Which ones did you buy which company..I am so in love with the flowers that I am so temped to buy them!!
Found out too i motslu have other teabags which don't have a foldpocket but they are cloesd I you need to wrip the top off..😔
I live in the Netherlands....Groetjes Holly.
@@Holly-s4o Golly, I'm not sure any more - they've been sitting around in my craft stash for years. It may well have been Ali Express before I realised exactly how evil they are! Temu (who seem to be marginally less evil - at least they haven't yet been stealing PaperArtsy copyright designs and reproducing them as cheap bad stamp sets) have some nice ones... just go to Temu and search for "flower stickers" (but remember they are not actually sticky).
I can't help with Dutch teabags, I'm afraid, but I have also often used cash envelopes in the same way... They're mostly a little bit bigger, but still a great substrate to work with. You can usually get them in UK pound stores, 100 or 200 in a pack for a couple of pounds - something like these, but less expensive, hopefully - www.amazon.com/Envelopes-Gummed-Wedding-Favors-Showers/dp/B0CR6N3N55?th=1 I should think there's something similar in the Netherlands. Have a look online for mini envelopes, cash envelopes, wedding favour envelopes, and even teabag envelopes, and you can probably track something down.
@@w0rdsandp1ctures Thanks for all your help and advise..I shall have a look at the envelopes..also found some tea with the style packing 🙂 you have . On Amazon I also found the flowers...
I really enjoyed this, now to find tea bags with little envelopes! I thought the flowers were stickers - I have the same ones. I wondered why I couldn’t get the “back” off 🤦♀️!
They are stickers! I discovered they would peel off, but it's really hard to do. Somewhere in the comments here somebody gave some advice about using a pin or something, I think. But I still wouldn't peel off the backs for projects where they are floating in a dimensional collage (which is where I most often use them... like here th-cam.com/video/vHZ-skrLSx8/w-d-xo.html for example), because the stiff plastic helps make them more sturdy.
Happy you enjoyed the teabag sachets... good luck with the search, and thanks so much for watching and commenting.
Ohhh I love this idea ❤
Thank you... when I see a little envelope like that, I just can't bear to throw it away!!
Absolutely magical little works of art!!! I love this idea of the tea bags as mini canvases, brilliant!!!! This I will certainly try! Thank you so much!!!🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
These are actually the little paper envelopes that these particular teabags come in. You absolutely can use dried used teabags to create art (that's one for a future Few Minutes of Fun, I guess!)... they are very fragile and beautiful to play with.
If you can't get hold of the teabags which come in envelopes (these are from Lidl's own brand teabags - and from another German supermarket, Norma too - but apparently only if you buy from Lidl Europe now. In the UK they no longer come in the paper envelopes) then a good alternative is something like cash envelopes (little envelopes sometimes used for paying wages - you can usually pick them up in a dollar store or pound shop or euro equivalent for about 100 envelopes for £1ish).
Hope you have fun playing, whatever you play with!
Thank you Alison. I totally enjoyed every minute of this video. Your tea sachets are stunning, I love everything about them and your process of making them. My tea comes in little sealed foil packets, I will have to see how they work for this.
Well, foil will be fun for some techniques (good in an embossing folder for textured metal!), but it might not play very nicely with paint. You could always use those little cash envelopes instead (you can usually pick up a pack of a couple of hundred in a dollar store type place). I use those quite a lot too, and I have it on my list to have a few minutes of fun with them some time soon...
So happy you enjoyed watching, and I hope you'll find a way to play somehow.
So beautiful ❤
Thank you so much.
Thank you so much Alison, you can stay as long as you like, I will never tire of watching you create such beautiful and adorable pieces of ephemera. Now I’m going to have to buy some of those tea bags that come in those little packets!!!!!!!! Your creativity and your talent is outstanding and out of this world. You make my heart happy too. Please stay safe and well too xxxx Mags ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you for that lovely feedback, which put a big smile on my face! I hope you can track down the right kind of teabags, and that you'll have fun playing when you do. Happy weekend (when it gets here)!
Recently found your channel and I’m thoroughly enjoying everything!!!! Thank you for the wonderful ideas.
That's such lovely feedback to receive, thank you so much. Delighted you're enjoying the videos here.
I'm rather new to watching your lovely talks and demonstrations. My take each time is "permission" is given to me to be what I am artistically. I also am a person who likes to adventure and what happens, happens. I have always marveled at and felt unprofessional when seeing artists work their magic. I don't know what is going to happen, and I am terrifically fine with that. I feel as though I will know instinctually if it's correct. Most times, I'm good with the outcome, sometimes not. I am always inspired by your videos to explore as me. Thank you for that.
What a wonderful comment... thank you so much for sharing that thoughtful response. I'm so thrilled to hear that you are finding the inspiration to be your own artist through watching my playtime videos. When I don't know what's going to happen, that's the most joyful journey for me!
Must do that🎉
Great to hear you're inspired to play - hope you have lots of fun when you do!
Very lovely 😊
Thank you.
Beautiful!!!
Thank you.
Oh rats! I’ve been tossing them but saving now!! Awesome!! Thank you! 😊😊😊
You'll be fine... it's surprising how quickly you build up a stack to play with. Hope you have fun! Thanks so much for watching and commenting.
Nice job❤❤❤❤❤❤
Thanks! Happy you like them.
LOVED IT !!
Brilliant - so happy to hear that!
I think the flowers and butterflies are stickers. Use a pin and separate the plastic backing off.
Yes, they are... but I find them really fiddly to get off, and there are also times when I like the extra sturdiness (like here, where it allows them to hover in a dimensional collage - th-cam.com/video/vHZ-skrLSx8/w-d-xo.html ). I'll give a pin a go next time I'm playing with them on a flat surface - thanks for the tip.
So pretty! ❤
Thank you!
Never thought of this! Thanks for the inspiration. Also, I remain amazed that you never seem to get your lace sleeves messy in any of your videos. My clothes always look like under paper.
Your comment about the sleeves made me laugh. I use fingerless gloves in the winter (it gets pretty cold here in rural Czech Republic), and they do tend to get grubby... but for some reason, so far these sleeves have survived! So happy you're enjoying the fun and inspiration - thank you so much for taking the time to let me know.
I’m sure you do it/have done it but I snip my tiny snippets if they are too long. You are a joy to watch and listen to
Thank you for that lovely feedback.... and yes, I'm not shy about snipping things when they don't fit!