Make small art that begins with a tea bag. Mount this and other small art pieces to create a fabric page journal from fabric and heavy cardboard. Create several pieces during our time together to add to your journal.

Price: $125

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Description

Begin with a used tea bag which has interesting marks from brewing—or I’ll show you how to add rust to create patterns and colors on a clean tea bag for an organic, aged look.

Most of us already have a stash of embellishments like old buttons, art paper scraps, beads, and fabric laying around. With a few simple supplies like embroidery floss and glue, you’ll create an interesting landscape on a tea bag filled with clouds, hills and valleys, a house, birds, trees, a river, and a sun or moon. If you like to work small, this is for you. Maybe you haven’t tried to work small and want to, then it’s for you, too.

You’ll love it when someone sees your one-of-a-kind Snippet and says, "Wow, that's a tea bag?"

Supplies STUDENTS MUST provide:

• Cover fabric - 2 square feet in favorite colors

• Liner fabric - 2 square feet

• 3 or more men’s ties

• Other favorite fabric scraps 6” x 2” approximately

• Embroidery thread - 2 colors and needle

• Buttons and/or beads

• Bits of old crochet/tatting or anything that has a sentimental quality and can be stitched down.

WHAT YOU’LL CREATE

• Several pieces of small art that will be mounted into a fabric page art journal

• Different ways to add color and pattern to tea bags

• New enthusiasm for your stash. Even tiny pieces have big value in small art. You'll find lots of opportunities to embellish your small art with stitching, beads, buttons, ribbons, lots of texture, color, and pattern.

• The know-how to make small art you can work in your lap or on the go

• A sturdy, expandable art journal with fabric pages

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

• How to pick out just the right tea bag and either add marks with rust or use the marks made from brewing tea

• How to add strength and structure to the tea bag so it can be stitched and glued

• How to design a layout using your marks as guidelines for elements such as clouds, the sun, or the moon

• How to choose a needle and embroidery floss and learn five embroidery stitches to add birds, trees, plants, and other elements

• How to make rusty bits of metal to add texture and variety

• How to use bits of thread to put clouds in the sky

• How to attach embellishments such as buttons, beads, or yarn.