Hello crafty friends and welcome to a card with a bit of a difference today – I’ve stamped the images onto a dried teabag! Barbara Gray of ClarityCrafts has recently resurrected this style, (which I think has been around for years – there are a few books on it) and it was one of the techniques we did on the Clarity crafting retreat earlier this month. I really love the effect of the dried teabag, which I thought would be perfect for the ‘neutrals’ theme at Inspired by, together with the bottom row of free/leaves/CAS from TicTacToe‘s grid and Happy Little Stampers birthday challenge.

I took my used & dried teabag and opened it with a small tear to empty all the tealeaves out. I then covered it with a glue stick (work from the centre outwards) and attached it to one of Clarity’s small squares of stencil card.

I ran a piece of low tack tape along the card at the bottom of the teabag and stamped the ‘birch trees’ onto it, using black ink for the outline and ‘shadow grey’ Archival for the infill stamp. masked off the other sides as well and added the leaves in ‘shadow grey’ and ‘potting soil’ Archivals.

I then used an embedder to create a frame on a 5×5 kraft card blank, attached the teabag topper onto it and finished with a word sticker.

What do you think? It’s the very defintition of recycling, isn’t it, and you can use the tealeaves from the bags to fertilise your roses and tomatoes! Of course, you need a supply of dried teabags – mine were sat on the windowsill on kitchen paper getting ready for the retreat, but my sister really got in the swing of things….! 🤣