A cute idea: Christmas tea bags.
The tea bag cookies match them wonderfully :)
Links:
Christmas Tea Bags (Homemade Christmas Gift Ideas: How To Make Your Own Tea Bags)
via: How To Make DIY Festive Tea Bags
Here at unikatissima:
Tea Bag Cookies
…compilation of tutorials
A cute idea: Christmas tea bags.
The tea bag cookies match them wonderfully :)
Links:
Christmas Tea Bags (Homemade Christmas Gift Ideas: How To Make Your Own Tea Bags)
via: How To Make DIY Festive Tea Bags
Here at unikatissima:
Tea Bag Cookies
I find it a really cute idea to make tea bag cookies (or better: cookie tea bags? ;-))!
Links:
Tea Bag Cookies
via: diy / Teebeutel-Kekse
I’m collecting nearly everything (and that’s how it looks here, too ;-)) and from now on I will collect used tea bags, too, to make beautiful envelopes from.
I’m really curious about it. ;-))
On the photo you see my Rooibosh tea bags. I find that the Rooibosh tea gives the most beautiful colour, a very warm red-brown :)
By the way it must look great, too, if the tea bags are sewn together and/or if they are embellished after assembly, e.g. by embroidering, painting or stamping them.
Links:
Recycling Tea Bags into Art Projects: How to Create Tea Bag Envelopes
“Tea Ceremony” – sewn tea bags
(via Wewer Keohane)
Sas Colby Teabag Art Discourse – stamped tea bags
T-Bag – Tea Bag Designs – painted tea bags
Here at unikatissima: Paper Crazy Quilt – embroidered paper
This time I don’t present a ‘real’ instruction, but even I should be able to sew those little tee bags ;-))
I for one find it always great if somebody in this throwaway society produces reusable items.
I’m thinking hard if I should dig up my sewing machine, but we don’t drink so much tea…
Links:
Reusable Tea Bags
via craftster
Aren’t the book pages scent bags cute? :)
Take also a look at the other ‘tea bag’ ideas here in the blog ;-)
Links:
Book Pages Scent Bags (A creative weekend…..)
via: DIY: Scented Sachet Tutorial – made from old book pages or scrapbook paper & tea bags
Here at unikatissima:
Entries containing the word ‘tea bag’
At craftster started the ‘Craft Challenge #47 – Reusable Shopping Bag Challenge 2’ and I had the idea of making a shopping bag from paper (see also the other entries).
In principle I really like it, but some things didn’t work the way I wanted them to (see also below) so that I didn’t finish the handle but only show how it can be made.
That’s how my shopping bag looks from one side…
… and so from the other.
I used clippings from a travel brochure, so my bag is not only multicoloured but gives me even wanderlust ;-)
That’s what you do:
That’s what you need:
First I layered three layers of my TV guide pages.
I used them askew as shown in the graphic so that they don’t always touch in the same place (every large rectangle is a page from the TV guide, the smaller ones are pages cut into halves in one or the other direction).
I taped them rarely so that the whole doesn’t fall apart.
On the future outside I laid on the clippings from the travel brochure and glued them on rarely to fix them slightly.
Note: Don’t use too much tape or glue because you can get bad problems with your sewing machine.
I laid the cut white plastic bag on the backside of my large paper rectangle with meanwhile four layers and begun to sew.
Note: It pays to fix the plastic bag somehow, too ;-)
Then I just started sewing (did I mention that I’m completely unexperienced in sewing? ;-))).
I wanted to sew (and have somehow sewn ;-)) lines but it was much more difficult than I thought.
Therefore I made a mental note of some points for the next bag:
That’s how my bag looks at the inside.
Actually I wanted to make a shoulder-long black with plastic bags filled I-cord as handle (I post-worked the photo to show you the knitting, originally it’s been completely black just as in the next photo ;-)) …
…but I don’t want to make it for a bag with lots of defects.
You can see here anyhow how I knotted the plastic bags together and knitted a little bit already.
The bag seems to be quite robust and I wanted to try out what it can carry.
Therefore I stuffed 1 l juice, half a kilo of bread, 2 appels, an orange and 5 tangerines in – in short a little shopping ;-)
Here I’m holding the bag with the content of the previous picture – no problems at all ;-)
Links:
Craft Challenge #47 – Reusable Shopping Bag Challenge 2
Entries for the Craft Challenge #47
Here at unikatissima:
Clothesline Knitting or Filled I-cord
The coffee filter bowl is made the same way than papermaché bowls, just from coffee filters.
Doesn’t it look great!?
And if you are rather a tea drinker you may want to look at the suggestions for used tea bags :)
Links:
Coffee Filter Bowl (Upcycle It! Coffee Filter Catchall Bowl)
via: 20 Beautiful Coffee Filter Crafts – Used Coffee Filter Bowl via POP Sugar
Here at unikatissima:
Entries with the tags‘paper mache’ and ‘bowl’
Tea Bag Envelopes
I showed before how to make mail envelopes from gift wrapping or the like, but sometimes mail envelopes are too flimsy (sometimes much too flimsy ;-)) and one needs something sturdier.
Then you simply make mail envelopes from cardboard.
Cereal box seems to look nice ;-))
(By the way: we had a TetraPak CD case before).
However I doubt that you then can make a gift bagalope from your sturdy mail envelopes ;-)
Links:
Sturdy Mail Envelopes (Recycled Cereal Box Envelope Tutorial)
Here at unikatissima:
Self-made Envelopes
Tea Bag Envelopes
TetraPak CD Case
Gift Bagalopes
Oh, you’ve knitted enough shawls and scarves already?
No problem, I thought about what else to knit with the YouKnits and that’s what I came up with:
We lace knitters wouldn’t have a YouKnits designer if RIAmore.eu wouldn’t have helped again (as for the other generators).
It is powered by AS3, Robotlegs, AS3 Signals, MinimalComps and AlivePDF and the font was designed by Yusuke Kamiyamane (Ronda Seven).
Thanks to everybody involved!