My Cards and Tags: Tea Bag Bookmarks using Inky Antics' Library Love Stamp Set

This week's Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge theme is "Happy Hour."  I'm not a drinker, but happy hour to me means curling up with a good book and sipping on some hot chocolate, herbal tea or apple cider.  With that as my inspiration, I made these tea bag bookmarks.

I started by cutting some tea bags and shaking out the tea.  Then I shook on some Infusions color stain and spritzed them with water.

While those were drying, I stamped and cut out four library due date cards using Inky Antics' Library Love stamp set.  I designed this set and one thing that was important to me (an eternal librarian) was that the stamp was the real-life size of a paper library due date slip.

Next I stamped my cards with Dina Wakley circles, then filled them in with white acrylic paint.

I colored my circles in with different colors of acrylic paint.

While that dried, I stamped, fussy-cut and painted in some twig sprigs stamped with Inky Antics' Branching Out set.

I stenciled in some polka dots and painted them in various colors.  Then I stapled the tea bags onto my due date cards.

I also decorated the tags on my tea bags with polka dot patterned paper, more stamping and some acrylic paint.

The tea bags were a little more vibrant than I had anticipated, so I added a bit of white to them and stuck on some Tim Holtz Washi tape.

I stamped and fussy-cut some "Carpe Librum" sentiments and stamped some scallop borders at the bottom.  I put some patterned paper onto some of the scallop ridges and outlined the bookmarks with black Sharpie.

I glued the tea bag tags onto some of these bookmarks and left them dangling on others for some variety.

And here they all are together:

Here are the supplies I used that you can find at Simon Says Stamp:

Inky Antics Library Love stamp set	Inky Antics Branching Out stamp set	Dina Wakley For the Love of Circles stamp set	Dina Wakley Text and Scribbles Cling Stamps	Dina Wakley Weird is Good Cling Stamps
Inky Antics BIG BOLD BORDERS clear stamp set	Inky Antics Long Hair Flair Clear Stamps	Pink and Main Sunset 6x6 Paper Pad	Idea-ology Ruler Ribbon	COLLECTOR Design Tape
Paper Artsy RUSTY CAR Infusions Colored Stain CS17	Paper Artsy SLEIGHT BLUE Infusions Colored Stain CS13	Paper Artsy SLIME Infusions Colored Stain	Paper Artsy THE SAGE Infusions Colored Stain	Paper Artsy Are You Cerise Infusions Colored Stain
Paper Artsy Orange County Infusions	Dina Wakley Ranger WHITE Media Heavy Body Acrylic Paints	Dina Wakley Fuchsia Acrylic Paint	Dina Wakley TANGERINE Heavy Body Acrylic Paints	Dina Wakley LEMON Heavy Body Acrylic Paints
Dina Wakley Lime Acrylic Paint	Dina Wakley Eggplant Acrylic Paint	Dina Wakley Marine Acrylic Paint	Dina Wakley Ranger Night Acrylic Paint	Dina Wakley heavy body acrylic Ocean
Dina Wakley Ranger Blushing acrylic paint	Dina Wakley TURQUOISE Heavy Body Acrylic Paints	Dina Wakley SKY Heavy Body Acrylic Paints	Ranger Archival Jet Black Ink Pad

I look forward to your interpretation of "Happy Hour"!  Upload your creations to the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog for your chance to win a $50 voucher to the Simon Says Stamp store!