Colorchallenge Monday Red + Frichallenge Tea bag Creations!
First day of my resumed Weekly Challenge #frichallenge where I picked Teabag Creations and #colorchallenge!
Read more about the #frichallenge here
So the idea with tea bag creations came when a friend of mine was making a lampshade of old teabags, and it looked super cool! Here is her lampshade in progress, I've actually never seen the end result:
(not my work, but my pictures)
So I started drying my used tea bags myself and put "tea bag creations" in my jar of creative ideas!
Together with Tea Bags I picked #colorchallenge, which is a challenge made by @kalemandra and Monday is RED!
I wanted to do something with my dried leaves, so I collected all my red leaves and flowers:
and tried experimenting. I've never done anything with teabags, so it's all really an experiment!
I placed the dried flowers and leaves into the teabag, folded it over and put glue all over!
I just use normal paper glue (PVC - PolyVinylAcetat, in Danish..) mixed with water, no special decoupage glue, though I think it works pretty much the same way.
I made four and hung them to dry
Stitched them together..
.. to a square :) For a tealight :)
Got the idea for the "candle shade" from this awesome blog by Kim Henkel: Letting in the Light She uses a lot of tea bags in her beautiful creations.
I am quite excited by the result of gluing the dried plants into the teabags, I think I might make a plant book this way :D Maybe tomorrow, all week is Tea Bag Creation week! Tomorrow will be TuesdayOrange!
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Wow, this is a really beautiful lamp shade that you have created! My daughter has a similar one, but with wood cut outs rather than the transparent teabags. Does it get too hot with the tealight candle?
This is a first try for me, so I don't know! I am guessing that it will stay fine, since the temperature doesn't get so high, but I'll just have to try it out for a while to see how it reacts over time! The first time try was completely fine, but who knows Maybe it's a burning hazard! :S Don't try this at home kids! ;D
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It looks amazing!
Beautiful illustrative post.
This is amazing, I really admire how you devote your a lot of time in doing something like this. You have a deep love for art... You were curied and you deserve it for such a wonderful work.
thank you! Yes I was a bit surprised, but very happy to get a curie! :D