7 Ways to Create Teabag Collage Papers

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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
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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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@lauriebaehr1789 10 күн бұрын

Catherine- love the teabag process and examples! Can’t wait to do some myself. ❤

@catrains.artist 9 күн бұрын

I love these too, and love adding them to my collages even more! I used them in my last video that just posted.

@kikibalden7462 Ай бұрын

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

@catrains.artist Ай бұрын

Thanks so much for letting me know. I didn't realize this!

@TheKathleensUTube 6 күн бұрын

Thank you so much Catherine for your videos, you're a great teacher! xxoo

@catrains.artist 2 күн бұрын

You are so welcome! Thank you!

@valeriesummers3809 Ай бұрын

I like using the family sized tea bags because they are so much larger.

@catrains.artist Ай бұрын

I actually never hear of family size tea bags. Will need to try them out! Would be easier to use for sure.

@juliehouck6154 Ай бұрын

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!

@catrains.artist Ай бұрын

You are so welcome! I agree, it's stunning the effect that stamps and stencils have on the teabags!

@catrains.artist Ай бұрын

So glad that you enjoyed the demo!

@ShoshiPlatypus Ай бұрын

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 KZfaq 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.

@catrains.artist Ай бұрын

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!

@ShoshiPlatypus Ай бұрын

@@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.

@EmilyBlitzer Ай бұрын

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.... 🥴

@catrains.artist Ай бұрын

Yes letting them completely dry first is a very important first step😉😜. Glad you are going to make these again!

@Shawsomestamper Ай бұрын

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. 😊

@catrains.artist Ай бұрын

Ahhh brilliant! Will try this next time!

@alisonpickard-is7oc 28 күн бұрын

You are so inventive. Love these ideas.

@catrains.artist 28 күн бұрын

You're very sweet, thank you!

@A727200 Ай бұрын

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!

@catrains.artist 29 күн бұрын

You made me smile! Thanks for the double thumbs up for each tea bag - I'm honored!

@karenmiller1996 Ай бұрын

Very cool ideas!! I've experimented with all kinds of teabags and coffee filters for my mixed-media collage works. Thanks!!

@catrains.artist Ай бұрын

Thanks so much for watching!

@trinapatterson8872 Ай бұрын

I love using tea bags, there so many things you can do with them. Love these ideas!!!

@catrains.artist Ай бұрын

Me too! They're so versatile!

@FrancesFraser-wl1je Ай бұрын

Thank you, thank you. I use tea bags a lot and will definitely be trying some of these ideas with them from now on.🇦🇺

@catrains.artist Ай бұрын

I'm thrilled that you found this demo useful! Have fun making them.

@lionunderthestars7019 Ай бұрын

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

@catrains.artist Ай бұрын

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".

@andreamack102 Ай бұрын

I’m going to have to start drinking tea! These look so interesting!

@catrains.artist Ай бұрын

They are so fun!

@catrains.artist Ай бұрын

I no longer drink tea, but still buy the bags for this technique!

@debikuennen-baker843 Ай бұрын

One of my favorite techniques so far. I have lots of tea bags Thank you

@catrains.artist Ай бұрын

So love that you love this technique. Have fun making these!!!

@sarahhutchison8190 Ай бұрын

Such great ideas. Thank you for sharing. These will fit in nicely with collage kickstart

@catrains.artist Ай бұрын

So happy that you find that these papers will fit into your collage grids!

@argosz8046 Ай бұрын

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!

@catrains.artist Ай бұрын

So glad you found me too! Enjoy making these fabulous little papers!

@solecl 28 күн бұрын

I love working with teabags, ever since covid confinement I started using this material . Thanks for sharing !!

@catrains.artist 28 күн бұрын

It's so versatile and fun to work with! Thank you for watching!

@Truthfully7 Ай бұрын

LOVE YOUR CHANNEL 🥰🥰🥰💐💐💐💐💐💐

@catrains.artist Ай бұрын

Yay! Thank you!

@katherineott7105 Ай бұрын

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! ♥

@catrains.artist Ай бұрын

You are so welcome!

@BarbaraTechel Ай бұрын

This was fabulous!! Thank you!

@catrains.artist Ай бұрын

You are so welcome!

@catrains.artist Ай бұрын

Thank YOU Barbara for watching!

@maryorr467 Ай бұрын

Thanks for another great demo, Cat! ❤

@catrains.artist Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@maryorr467 Ай бұрын

@@catrains.artist Your videos are always inspiring! It’s a pleasure to watch them! 😀

@catrains.artist Ай бұрын

@@maryorr467 You are so dear Mary, thank you !

@maggiefreeman6513 Ай бұрын

Thanks for another fabulous demo 😊

@catrains.artist Ай бұрын

So glad you liked it Maggie!

@JoanvanLeeuwen-ic6pl Ай бұрын

Great demo. Thank you

@catrains.artist Ай бұрын

Thanks so very much!

@kathyb5740 Ай бұрын

Thankyou for sharing your techniques .....love using tea bags in art.... can't wait to try this!!!

@catrains.artist Ай бұрын

So glad that this demo inspired you to try some new ways to use teabags!

@jeraldbaxter3532 Ай бұрын

Thank you!😊

@catrains.artist Ай бұрын

Thanks so much for watching!

@jwebber598 Ай бұрын

❤❤❤awesome - thank you ❤❤❤

@catrains.artist Ай бұрын

Awww thank you!

@lindyn7476 Ай бұрын

Such lovely ideas. Btw, rooibos is pronounced ‘Roy boss’ 🇿🇦

@catrains.artist Ай бұрын

Good to know! Thank you!

@catrains.artist Ай бұрын

Ahhhh good to know! Who knew?#?!

@PeachesandMoss Ай бұрын

Great idea I drink lots of tea.

@catrains.artist Ай бұрын

Hope that you enjoy making these magical papers!

@mayetmahulilileilani2501 Ай бұрын

As always, terrific. Thank you.

@catrains.artist Ай бұрын

Ahhh thanks!

@sherrydennis2419 Ай бұрын

I love these!

@catrains.artist Ай бұрын

Awww thanks!

@claudiasanders8372 Ай бұрын

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.

@catrains.artist Ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing how to pronounce this! Enjoy making paper with them.

@dianemcdaniel8284 29 күн бұрын

Hibiscus tea will give you pink and turmeric tea bags will give you yellow.

@catrains.artist 29 күн бұрын

Good to know! Those are two teas I don't drink so I didn't know about these options. Thanks for sharing!

@WeekOfTastes Ай бұрын

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?

@catrains.artist Ай бұрын

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.

@lindathornton3626 Ай бұрын

Where is the collage?

@catrains.artist Ай бұрын

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.

@pasqualebazin7964 Ай бұрын

Please Catherine, could you tell me in witch town or city you live please? Thanks a lot

@catrains.artist 29 күн бұрын

I live outside of Charlotte, NC

@pasqualebazin7964 29 күн бұрын

@@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 !

@bunabunatetu6130 Ай бұрын

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. 😏😊

@catrains.artist Ай бұрын

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!