Ageing paper with tea

A crafty nice seasonal way to enhance your paper with one of you favorite brews.

Using tea is an easy way to create a neat aged look to paper for crafts.

Difficulty: Easy 
Time Required: An hour and drying time

Here's How:
1.   Heavy bond paper or card stock works best.
2. a)  Soak 3 black tea bags in about 2 cups of warm water. Leave for about an hour.
2. b) Loose leaf tea will work just as fine, you might want to put it between gauze or use a kitchen cloth or hankerchief; the fabric may stain so choose carefully.

3.   Take the first tea bag out and blot all over the paper to be treated. Really saturate the paper.

4.   Do the same with the next bags, but lightly rub them over the surface of the paper. The tea bags will likely break open, but that's OK. Small flecks of tea will be left in the paper.

5.   The light rubbing will give the surface of the paper the appearance of wear.

6.   Use paper towels or a sponge to blot off the excess water from the paper.

7.   Place paper between sheets of paper towel and place under something heavy over night. If left to dry unflattened, it will warp pretty badly.

Now you have a nice paper to work with, write cards, make name-tags, send invitations for a seasonal party, write you favorite recipe and pass it on as gift to your friends.

How about your favorite tea recipe and a bag of tea as a perfect gift ?
Happy craft-ing.

Happy December