Tea bag art

I drink hot tea and I like lots of different flavors. I buy different brands, like Stash, Steep, or Twinings. All three brands have tea bags that are the same size, no staples, and have similar texture. Since I drink so much tea, it always pains me to throw out the used tea bags (I think “Oh no, th

Making art using tea bags is kind of like going on an art mini-vacation. You have your regular work, but you stop to take a break and make art on a tea bag. It’s quick and you feel like you’ve been a way for a while. I like to use a tea bag for an art-making mini-vacation because: Tea bags are s

Here is a super-messy, goopy, fun paper pulp bowl project for kids. Dive in and get your hands all immersed in paper pulp with them!

My SCS tutorial here: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/teabagstamping

The other night I was sitting there, thinking what to do and spotted my stack of tea bag paper.. i did not feel like drawing, so I played around with other ideas.. i am almost out of my paper string (used for gift wrapping etc) and wondered what kind of sting the tea bags would make. Well, let's just see, shall we?I tried it and absolutely love the result! So many ideas for uses for this gorgeous stuff.Gift wrapping, of course, but could you imagine a basket woven from this? Or a wall…

Today I felt my collection of tea bags calling me and I think I may have started a new obsession with tea bag art. I am in love with tea bag art <3 p=""> I'm even thinking of starting a tea bag art only journal.

Artists are reinventing the humble tea bag, letting its contents and simple shape and color shine in beautiful, fragile art. Some are even farming out the tea drinking to get to the used bags.

New York-based artist Ruby Silvious reuses old tea bags as canvases. On 3 January 2015, Silvious embarked her project 363 Days of Tea. “I don’t plan ahead [what to paint],” she says. “I want to engage people and get them to reimagine discarded objects. I want them to look at tea bags in a different … Continue reading "363 Days Of Tea: Artist Paints Beautiful Pictures On Old Tea Bags"

Apparently, there are many different ways to keep a diary and this unique artist from New York, Ruby Silvious, has discovered an amazing one. While some of us tend to throw away used tea bags after finishing our tea, Silvious reuses them... as canvases for her miniature paintings.