Hello Friends! Hope you are enjoying your weekend, especially if this is a long weekend for you! It seems like I've been drinking a lot of tea lately, so I thought it was time to get out my tea bags and get creative! This is a mixed-media piece on watercolor paper. First, I tore pieces of the tea bags and glued them to the watercolor paper to start my background. This is another piece I started just today where I decided to use a rubber stamp before applying the tea bags for added interest. I love the color and texture the tea bags create. After the background was dry, I started to sketch out my design. The dragonfly is a rubber stamp. Finally, a little simple hand stitching on linen for added texture. The light was so beautiful and inviting on my desk today. Oh, and don't you just love my new pencil box I got at the...
As summer approaches and the sunshine is plentiful here in the desert southwest, I drink a lot of this... Making sun tea here only takes a short time. I've been using 6 regular size tea bags for the above container. (I like a pretty strong flavor) You can add sugar or not, I enjoy it with a little mint leaves & lemon and sometimes an added sweetener. I started having so many tea bags and I've seen my friend Kimmie create art with them, so I thought I'd give it a try! I just let the bags completely dry, remove the tag & staple then open them up carefully and empty the tea. Open the bags at the seam line and this is what you have, beautifully tea stained papers for collage, sewing, etc. Here, I used old dictionary book paper to create my flower design on water color paper. I painted the flowers with watercolors. Collaged torn tea bags onto the background, then stitched around each flower for ...
Hi friends! Well, I said I'd be back with some crochet stuff I've been working on, I just didn't think it would take me so long. So, I found this cute coaster pattern on line that uses "jute" and yarn. They were easy to make, and the yarn adds so much to them, don't you think? Look at the back, I think even the back looks interesting! Click HERE for the link if you want to make these. I've been working on this afghan for a while now. I love it because the squares have been pretty easy to make even while watching TV. The colors remind me of the blue hydrangeas I love so much! Finally, I've been going nuts about adding crocheted edgings on things. I made a couple of tea towels for gifts, and I'm still working on more of these. Don't you just love ticking fabric? Well, there ya ha...