Making DIY Tea-Dyed Tags
Today is the perfect fall weather. A little warm and breezy, with just a touch of underlying coolness. The sun is shining and someone is burning so there is a bit of campfire smell. I’ve been busy Making DIY Tea-Dyed Tags for the sale.
Tea-Dying Paper or Tags involves brewing strong black tea
After brewing the tea to a dark color and letting it cool. Pour into a containers and let your heavy card stock tags sit and soak for atleast an hour. If you don’t want your string dyed, remove them before immersing them in the tea bath. You may need to use a rock or weighted container to keep them from floating. If you are using paper or a thinner cardstock, only let it sit for a few minutes. Here is a post for how to age paper with a tea bag. After they have reached the dark color you would like, hang them up somewhere to dry. I had hung them on my clothesline to dry. Tea-dyed tags are so easy to make. I either spread mine out to dry on towels if it’s yucky out, or in the warmer months, I can hang them to dry outside. Once the dry, they are ready to be stamped on.I thought they looked so pretty in the breeze almost like mini-paper wind chimes.
The sun was at just the right angle to give then a kind of glow. They dry a little lighter than they appear when they are wet. desoending on how long you soak them for and the thickness of your paper they may buckle and warp a bit. You can always press them flat later.
After my tags dried, I stamped them with black ink and some pretty, artsy stamps.
I love the pretty warm tone they are, and how they transform the manilla colored tags. They also have a earthytea smell to them which I love.
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I have always loved seeing laundry drying on lines in the breeze. How wonderful to see your tags!
Hugs,
Penny
i’ve been thinking so much about bridgette and the girls who are telling her story, may the prairie whisper her truths to you…so wish i could join you…
your tags are absolutely amazing!!
prairie hugs,
kristin
btw~where did you get your face stamp? have been looking for one everywhere..
I know you must be working like a mad woman!!!
Jennifer,
Those tags are really pretty. You could probably sell the photos you took of them drying too.
I wanted to share a book with you that I know you’d be interested in. It’s the Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan. It’s definitely full of more information than any one person would want to know, but NEEDS to know, about what we’re having for dinner. Literally! From grains in America, farming, soil fertilization; he follows a steer from weening to slaughter and documents the cows life, how he’s feed, where it comes from, what’s put in his food and that’s just the beginning of the story. It’s quite an enlightening read and all true. I follow your other blog but can’t seem to find it or I’d post over there. You of all people will appreciate this book.
Blessings,
Shanna
those tags are so cute – are you going to let the buyer take them home? I think they would like that!!
they are almost keepsake 🙂
looooong night last night – clean up day today – and then ‘diving in’ tomorrow………….
Ahhh, to be at the NaDa sale with some of my most favorite people!
I usually am thankful for being a Texan, but I’d give my right-something to be a mid-Westerner every once in a blue moon. 🙂
Beautiful tags!
XO,
Anne
Your tags look wonderful, I so wish that there were events like what you are going to here in NZ…..
I’ve used the key stamp over and over and over … a favorite for a couple of years … it somehow always makes me smile …
I love them as art … that’s you, Jen
These tags are gorgeous – perfect on the clothes line!
Those are sooo cute! I love tea-stained tags! When I was at the last Na-Da barn sale I bought a ladder that I think had that same cage stamper on the tag! 🙂 I can’t wait to see all of everyone’s lovely work!
🙂 Lara