"Food or Drink" is this week's Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge theme, so I decided to incorporate tea bags into my tags. I love using teabags for the texture they bring and because they're a great surface to spray, paint or stamp on.
I started by sprinkling Paper Artsy Infusions color stain onto some tea bags and spritzing them with water.
Once they dried, I added some paint, stenciling (using Tim Holtz's Gradient Dots) and scribbling (Distress Watercolor Pencils).
Next I grabbed some AALL & Create tags to use as the base for my tea bag tags. These are from the Rainbow Reflections and Faded Memories ephemera sets.
I cut the top and bottom edges of my teabags off and glued the center of the teabags to the tags.
Then I glued the tops of the teabags (the part with the drawstring) to the tops of the tags. I blended the teabags into the tags with paint.
My tags needed another element, so I cut some shapes out of Kraft cardstock and AALL & Create dies.
I painted the Kraft pieces with paint.
I glued the layers together and added some pieces of patterned paper from Amy Tangerine's Paper Play book. I also put paper behind the empty number spaces I'd cut so the numbers would stand out a little more. I did some final blending and scribbling and added some pops of color to the #17 tag, which I felt needed a little more oomph.
To finish off the tags, I stamped some sentiment words from Tim Holtz's THMM137 stamp and stencil set. These tea bag tags were done!
Once they dried, I added some paint, stenciling (using Tim Holtz's Gradient Dots) and scribbling (Distress Watercolor Pencils).
Next I grabbed some AALL & Create tags to use as the base for my tea bag tags. These are from the Rainbow Reflections and Faded Memories ephemera sets.
I cut the top and bottom edges of my teabags off and glued the center of the teabags to the tags.
Then I glued the tops of the teabags (the part with the drawstring) to the tops of the tags. I blended the teabags into the tags with paint.
My tags needed another element, so I cut some shapes out of Kraft cardstock and AALL & Create dies.
I painted the Kraft pieces with paint.
I glued the layers together and added some pieces of patterned paper from Amy Tangerine's Paper Play book. I also put paper behind the empty number spaces I'd cut so the numbers would stand out a little more. I did some final blending and scribbling and added some pops of color to the #17 tag, which I felt needed a little more oomph.
To finish off the tags, I stamped some sentiment words from Tim Holtz's THMM137 stamp and stencil set. These tea bag tags were done!
- Paper Artsy Infusions Colored Stain: Blackcurrant, Violet Storms, Royal Blood, Emerald Isle, Lemoncello
- Tim Holtz Gradient Dots Stencils
- Dina Wakley Paint
- Distress Watercolor Pencils: Set 1, Set 4, Set 6
- AALL & Create: Rainbow Reflections and Faded Memories Ephemera Packs
- AALL & Create: Numberama Die Set
- Sizzix Big Shot
- Paper Play Collage Paper Book
- Tim Holtz Stamp and Stencil Set: THMM137
- Ranger Jet Black Archival Ink
We're excited to see the ways that you incorporate food/drink this week! Upload your projects to the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog for your chance to win a $25 voucher to the Simon Says Stamp store!
