7 Ways to Create Teabag Collage Papers
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- Опубліковано 21 лип 2024
- Learn how to create teabag collage papers 7 different ways, all of which will add a lovely translucent finishing layer to your collages. This super cool technique can be created with any type of tea bag, each of which will have a slightly different look when they are brewed, emptied (of the tea leaves) and dried out. Stay until the end for the reveal of my happy little teabags experiments!
Chapters
00:00 Introduction to 7 ways to create teabag collage papers
06:28 Using ink and stamp pad on teabags
07:15 Creating teabag papers with stencils
12:42 Using fine point markers on teabags
15:14 The final results
*SUPPLIES to make these papers:
Tea bags - green, black, herbal, butterfly pea (purple) amzn.to/3wAgbxr
Stamps with words
French messy type amzn.to/4bmTV9j
Script amzn.to/3K68VfI
And more script! amzn.to/451AGA1
Ink pads - black, brown and/or colors that match palette
Stazon amzn.to/3V4DYyI
Ranger amzn.to/3WJw92Y
Favorite stencils with smallish holes
Plastic file folders amzn.to/3V2ujsv
Spray bottle with water amzn.to/3K5YvNi
Wood coffee stirrers amzn.to/4akagKx
Paint sprays
Dylusions Shimmer Spray
Pure Sunshine amzn.to/3UI7Tvj
White Linen (many yummy colors) amzn.to/4bDgVRa
Tim Holtz Distress Sprays - Brushed Pewter (and many more)
Staedtler Pigment Liner- mult color box of 5 pens amzn.to/3ykgNHP
Staedtler Pigment Liner - black with 4 tip sizes amzn.to/3K23YEK
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Catherine, I so appreciate your videos. I just watched this one before heading to clean some of my moms old stuff that is still in storage. In one box, she had blueberry tea from 2007.
I didn’t feel comfortable drinking it after being in storage for so long, so I decided to try using it to make stained bags. They came out a lovely mauve. Which is perfect for a new baby girl journal I plan to make for my daughter’s friend. I wish I could show you how lovely they came out & now I have a large bottle of the same soft mauve/lilac to use as for other projects.
I'm thrilled that you enjoy my art demos. How fabulous to use old tea from your mom for art. Love it!
Giving one thumbs up wasn't adequate. I wanted to give one for each stamped tea bag. Caught this at the right time as I've been collecting my used tea bags. TY!
You made me smile! Thanks for the double thumbs up for each tea bag - I'm honored!
I love this... I had never heard of butterfly pea tea before and have found some on Ebay so have ordered it. That colour is beyond fabulous!!! I have been using teabags in art for many years and love them. One of my favourite things to do is to dry them, crumpled up, on watercolour paper. This creates gorgeous stains that you can then doodle on. Recently I've been using some paper that I thought was watercolour paper (out of my scraps box - no idea where it came from) - it doesn't do well with watercolour as it seems to have some sort of glaze on it, but when you dry the teabags on it, the stains spread into fabulous random flower-like shapes with a dark edge - almost fractal-like around the edges. Green tea and peppermint tea make lovely stains, as well as regular black tea. Once this is done, of course, you can empty them and use them as normal in teabag art, but you get double for your money doing this!!
Here in the UK nearly all our teabags are the "pillow" style which I don't like as much. One thing I do is to open them along one edge, and insert a small square of book page inside. You can then embellish them as you want, and build up layers to create little collage fragments. I am currently working on a project where I have machine stitched teabags onto a piece of card in a grid pattern and am adding small collage elements on top, with extra doodling on the grid. It's coming out super-cool! I will be posting this on my blog once it's finished (same username as my UA-cam channel - shoshiplatypus). My other teabag art stuff is on there too.
I'm really excited by the stuff I'm seeing on your channel! New subscriber! Thanks so much.
Thanks so much for sharing yet another way to create with teabags. Will need to try this for sure! I appreciate that you choose to subscribe to my channel!
@@catrains.artist You're welcome! You have no idea how much fun this teabag stain thing is. I think I can say it was my discovery because I've never seen anyone else do it. I tried it once with some fruit tea that was pink, but when exposed to the air for any length of time it oxidised to grey. This didn't deter me - I just doodled on it with black markers instead of my usual sepia for the brown stains! They came out awesome. Always experimenting, always having fun. Mad scientist Shoshi! I love to make art out of trash and stuff that people would never associate with art. It really gets the creative juices going.
Another thing I've been doing with the weird non-watercolour paper is: when the first stain is dry, I put another teabag on it and it spreads to another layer. I remove the bag before the stain reaches the edge of the first one. You can do this several times and it's really 3-dimensional.
Your channel is amazing and I'm already having great fun exploring it and signed up for your free collage course.
Thank you lots of cool ideas here, I’ve been collecting my rooibos teabags to do some art on them…I now need to drink some different teas cause they are all so different! Staton is solvent based and dries very quickly, if you use the Tim Holtz distress ink pads the stencil can be spritzed with water to activate them and will make awesome patterns both positive and negative impressed
Thanks so much for letting me know. I didn't realize this!
I like using the family sized tea bags because they are so much larger.
I actually never hear of family size tea bags. Will need to try them out! Would be easier to use for sure.
❤ thanks Catherine I love your ideas for tea bags I have a collection of them I have rust dyed so I’m going to try your stamping process. I enjoy your classes very much. I have done your collage papers class.
I hope you enjoy it! Thank you for participating in my courses, and joining me on this channel! Happy you're here 😊
Wonderful. I remember doing this for Collage Kickstart.. but what I didn't know then and learned this time around.. let the tea bags dry before taking the contents out. I always did it when the bags were wet.. and HOT! ouch... !!!! Tomorrow morning when I have my breakfast tea.. I will let the bag dry.... 🥴
Yes letting them completely dry first is a very important first step😉😜. Glad you are going to make these again!
Thanks so much Cathrine for a fabulous lesson. I love using tea bags and have stamped them but seeing you apply stamps in a different way and stencils was awesome!
You are so welcome! I agree, it's stunning the effect that stamps and stencils have on the teabags!
So glad that you enjoyed the demo!
Love these ideas! Just a suggestion from a stamper, try a twisting motion with your ink pad. Lay it on the stamp and twist, twist, twist. Move to the next area and repeat. This will be better for your ink pad and still yield full coverage. 😊
Ahhh brilliant! Will try this next time!
Very cool ideas!! I've experimented with all kinds of teabags and coffee filters for my mixed-media collage works.
Thanks!!
Thanks so much for watching!
I love using tea bags, there so many things you can do with them. Love these ideas!!!
Me too! They're so versatile!
Thank you, thank you. I use tea bags a lot and will definitely be trying some of these ideas with them from now on.🇦🇺
I'm thrilled that you found this demo useful! Have fun making them.
Hi, Catherine I enjoyed this video so much I decided to check out other videos. I was surprised that I apparently have looked at a number of them. I suspect I found them interesting but was not really doing anything with collage yet. My interest has grown quite a bit in the last 6 months and soon we will have the nice hot summer weather to help hasten the drying time. So - New subscriber. Nancy
I'm truly honored that you choose to subscribe Nancy. Have you taken my free 5-day workshop? Since you love collage, you might enjoy the class. The link is under the video under "show more".
I’m going to have to start drinking tea! These look so interesting!
They are so fun!
I no longer drink tea, but still buy the bags for this technique!
One of my favorite techniques so far. I have lots of tea bags
Thank you
So love that you love this technique. Have fun making these!!!
Thank you!😊
Thanks so much for watching!
Such great ideas. Thank you for sharing. These will fit in nicely with collage kickstart
So happy that you find that these papers will fit into your collage grids!
I love these!
Awww thanks!
As always, terrific. Thank you.
Ahhh thanks!
Great demo. Thank you
Thanks so very much!
❤❤❤awesome - thank you ❤❤❤
Awww thank you!
This was fabulous!! Thank you!
You are so welcome!
Thank YOU Barbara for watching!
Thanks for another fabulous demo 😊
So glad you liked it Maggie!
Catherine- love the teabag process and examples! Can’t wait to do some myself. ❤
I love these too, and love adding them to my collages even more! I used them in my last video that just posted.
Rooibos is tricky to pronounce. It's roy-bos. I drink it all the time and will be using the tea bags now. Thanks for this video.
Thanks for sharing how to pronounce this! Enjoy making paper with them.
You are so inventive. Love these ideas.
You're very sweet, thank you!
Great idea I drink lots of tea.
Hope that you enjoy making these magical papers!
Thankyou for sharing your techniques .....love using tea bags in art.... can't wait to try this!!!
So glad that this demo inspired you to try some new ways to use teabags!
Hibiscus tea will give you pink and turmeric tea bags will give you yellow.
Good to know! Those are two teas I don't drink so I didn't know about these options. Thanks for sharing!
Wow! I had NO IDEA tea bags could be so beautiful and used so many ways! I have quite a stash and now am going to play! Thank you so much for sharing! ♥
You are so welcome!
Thank you so much Catherine for your videos, you're a great teacher! xxoo
You are so welcome! Thank you!
Looooove your art 😍I would like to know which dark red you are using? Thanks Catherine ♥️
Thanks so much! My red is created by mixing hansa yellow light with Quin Majenta. Could be a very small drop of black too!
I love working with teabags, ever since covid confinement I started using this material . Thanks for sharing !!
It's so versatile and fun to work with! Thank you for watching!
I saw a brief glimpse of a video using teabags in crafting. I started collecting but meantime forgot to save the video and don't remember what the you tuber was actually making. So lucky I came across you today!
So glad you found me too! Enjoy making these fabulous little papers!
Thanks for another great demo, Cat! ❤
Thanks for watching!
@@catrains.artist Your videos are always inspiring! It’s a pleasure to watch them! 😀
@@maryorr467 You are so dear Mary, thank you !
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Yay! Thank you!
Such lovely ideas. Btw, rooibos is pronounced ‘Roy boss’ 🇿🇦
Good to know! Thank you!
Ahhhh good to know! Who knew?#?!
I just made a heap of tea with every tea bag I had. They are all monotone in colour. I left them seep for a long time, squeezed them then laid out to dry. Am I missing something?
Some of my bags don't have much color either. The black tea bags and the purple ones will leave the most impression on the bag.
Please Catherine, could you tell me in witch town or city you live please? Thanks a lot
I live outside of Charlotte, NC
@@catrains.artist Thank you very much Catherine. But, unfortunatelay, I think l'll never go there ! Maybe a workshop on internet ? One day ? Your website is very Beautiful ! Good luck !
Where is the collage?
I'll be using these papers to make a collage in a couple weeks, along with 4 other papers that I've most recently shared a demo on how to make.
Luv it, just use colour palette a bit less.
So glad you enjoyed this!
I enjoyed your ideas. A couple of things....First, why don't you just gently stencil on top of tea bags? Secondly, I noticed you held your stamp while adding the ink. Do you always do it that way? If you lay the ink down on the table, then tap, tap, swirl, or whatever, the stamp in the ink, it should ink better. When you do it while holding, it doesn't have anything to stop it from moving, so you won't get the coverage you get with the hard surface behind it. Hope I made sense. I have Fibromyalgia, and my cognitive issues are now flairing up. Sorry. 😏😊
I very much appreciate the suggestions for doing this better. I'm not a stamper, although I do use stamps in my collage papers every now and then. So the suggestions are much appreciated!
Store your ink pads upside-down, you get more ink off
Great tip!
1:12 wth?
I'm not sure what you are asking about. I was showing Rooibos and Butterfly Pea tea at that marker. Can you clarify what you are asking about?
@@catrains.artist are you sure thats how its pronounced? it sounds crazy!