Fancy a cuppa?

Some tea bags, candle wax, some dried leaves and an iron. Well I guess I’m ready for a little bit of experimenting.

Tea bags make great mini picture frames; all you have to do is cover them in wax!

I gathered a few bits and pieces together to go in my tea bag, including a little sketch I had done. The candle I will use for wax, but batik wax pellets are really good too. I have some thread, buttons, dried leaves and flowers.

I made a cut at the top of the tea bag and emptied out the contents.

I then placed a selection of items inside the bag.

I scraped some wax off my candle onto the tea bag. I then covered this in layers of newspaper.

Warning! If you have an old iron use it, or be prepared to clean your normal iron really well after. I use lots of layers of paper over my wax to avoid the iron getting dirty. I also put an old towel on the ironing board to protect it.

After all the wax had melted I removed the paper and allowed it to dry. Don’t pick up hot wax!
If I find I have used too much wax then I use the iron on it again, but I put kitchen roll over the tea bag to soak up some of the wax.

They dry with a waxy finish, but are translucent when held up to light.

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