25:02 I just saw your video and haven’t been creative, your honesty made me cry, which is a good thing. I am going to my craft room right now and pulling some things out and find my creativity again just because you inspired me so much this morning. Thank you thank you so much
Awwww it's so hard when our muse goes off on vacation and we are left behind stumbling through our creative process. When my Muse is present I truly crave creating! My new motto is "Create with Wild Abandon!" Ignore the outcome, just enjoy the process. Hope you have continued with your creative process!!
I’ve wanted to try making junk journals for a couple of years now but was so overwhelmed with the videos I’d seen. Then a few weeks ago I stumbled across your channel. You are so inspiring and explain things so well. You make sure everyone knows they can use whatever they have on hand and it doesn’t have to be a huge production to make something beautiful. I’ve now watched most of your video from the beginning till now. I also purchased the few little things I needed to get started. I have dyed paper, cutouts, napkins, ribbons, lace, everything I need to really start making my first journal. Thank you so much for inspiring and encouraging me to get to this point. I can’t wait to really dig in (when I find the time LOL).
@@joyjournal6157 I’m definitely saving up boxes and matching the colors on the back with things I want to add to it. I MAY have also stolen a couple books (they where already torn up somewhat) from my teenage daughter. 🤷♀️
Yes you can definitely do it, I made my very 1st junk journal months ago. I used a cereal box and diet Coke box, for a cover. I have 3 signitures in my journal. I made several mistakes, but again it's my very 1st journal. I watched tons of videos, how to's. So I just went for it, now I'm excited to create a Halloween journal then a Christmas journal. Just have fun, take your time. You'll learn what works best for you and what dosen't. 😊💖
@@shabbyrosecreationsbykem Thank you. Thought now I’m trying to get some of the things together I’ll need. Waiting for napkins and tissue paper to dry now. Also finished my first tea dyed paper and envelopes. I think once I make a few tags I’ll be ready to jump into my first journal. I’m so excited!
How exciting! I just started in June and I can't stop now. There is so much free stuff out there too. I used up old file folders, old placemats, old craft supplies, old office papers I'll never use. It's so fun! Enjoy :)
Yes ! I sat here with a bit of a stiff neck and worried a bit about the world and I came upon this video, and it made me smile, laugh, and raise my eyebrows in amazement. I am filled with inspiration, so love how you express how your feeling and how you give hope if we get stuck. I have not a care in the world except to journey into making a Treasure Book. Wee !
I love this idea. I have stamped on tea bags before and cut windows in tags using them, but never thought of this process. I drink blueberry flavor tea and those tea bags turn blue and make wonderful bases for stamping.
I don't feel this was a bit of a waste of time. It is wonderful putzy work we can do when we are feeling a little less inspired. This way when we have more time or more inspiration we can easily pull out a couple of these and have them partially done. Simply paste in one step! Love that!!! Thank you again so much for how you create without limits or boundaries!
You are creative, brilliant & inspiring but you are also so dang funny (even if you don’t mean to be!). My favorite new quote: “so even if you think it’s crap and you hate it, at least you didn’t sit there and wallow in despair.” Definitely going into my journal. You’re such a joy!
Thank you Natasa, for sharing your gift of creating something beautiful and unique out of the ordinary and unexpected! Even when you don’t feel like it, your gift shines through. Thank you for sharing ! Love 💜 this project!
I so needed to hear you talk about being in a rut. We are on day 12 of no power from hurricane Ian. I am definitely in a big rut. But now that I have watched your video today, you have inspired me to get up and just work on my JJ. You got me up instead of sitting in despair. Thank you for your positive words. God bless. Love the video
This looks like so much fun, I love the results, especially the little journal. I thought another idea to use them is to tear a hole in your page a little smaller than the teabag piece, ink the edges, then glue the teabag piece into place, so you can see it from both sides of the page like a window. I hope you know what I'm getting at. xxx
When a YT video causes you to stay up late & you're smiling from ear to ear, despite being so tired.😁🥱😁 Natasha is the best Mixed Media Artist I've found on the platform! 💖
"Not everyone's cup of TEA" she says, as she creates art with tea bags!! Did anyone else catch that? I like her ideas for using tea bags to make embellishments for a Junk Journal! Genius!! ~Janet in Canada
I can never just watch Natasa's videos. I always have to stop to make notes, to save it on Pinterest on various boards (each for a specific reason), to order something for the demonstrated process, to text my daughter-in-law to reserve stuff for me (cereal box liners in the case of this video). The 3-tea-bags combined (with s alight overlap) to cover a larger image is brilliant. Stamping on the colorless plies of the napkin and making that into an embellishment is blazing (I just went ahead and ordered some similar stamps from AliExpress). The composition of 3 of the same pieces (hearts in this case) is dazzling. Thanks for sharing how that playing card fail led to the layered transparency success. Also I liked creativity in the video production itself, that entertaining heart-and-tea theme throughout: “Not everyone’s cup of tea” (about the vintage look made with tea bags), “I really have my heart set on a heart shape’…. “A bit of a broken hear there, we shell mend it”…
Just gorgeous, I've used tbags to decoupage before, always looks antique and authentic. It can be used for tablecloths and window coverings in miniature dioramas. Make old onion and potatoes bags out of them for your miniature kitchen too.. Thanku very much, freestyle is great fun.. It evolves as u go x
Great technique. Normally, I put teabags in my garden cause I hate throwing them out. This is a great way to re-use them into something old and vintage looking.
These are just CHARMING! I feel these would sell really well, too, for people who just want something small and elegant to jot down some feelings/ideas that are 'in-the-moment'... and collect them. Really LOVELY idea! Thank you!
when I get into an creative rut I watch videos from other creators and I find an idea or a trick or a way to look at something differently. You are very creative and your videos leave me feeling uplifted
When I watch your videos, I sometimes wonder how you manage to come up with so many brilliant projects. I appreciate your honesty, your creativity and all that you share with us. Thank you
I tried these and I'M OBSESSED. These are SO fun to make and when they're dry, it's like magic pulling them off. The texture is fantastic. I don't have many napkins, so I stamped on some plain white ones and played with coloring with markers. Was great fun letting colors bleed and create a grungy look. Then went on ebay and ordered a few lots of napkins! Thanks for this! Your videos are great!
I recently unearthed a box of teabag papers I had saved probably 10 years ago and had misplaced. I can't wait to get into doing some of these little embellishments. They are delightful. Thanks for sharing.
You say you are stuck in a rut but I want you to know you always inspire me and I enjoy everything you do. You are a great teacher and I appreciate all that you ever share on here.
Natasha, watching you create 'on the fly' so to speak is so inspiring. When something was disappointing you just move on and come up with something to creative. You're a treasure. The 'treasure' in Treasure Books. Thanks for sharing all your creative ideas.
Even when you are feeling some kind of way you really make some lovely creations and teach us how to do them to! This was a great idea - it’s a pity all my tea bags are the bad sort!
Oh WOW...such a cool video! Total genious! Just loved the "Mending the broken 💔" You always have the most inspiring tutorials for using things you already have. But truly, I could watch you boil water, Natasa, and it would be fun! 😍 I may have to try this. I've kind of gotten away from creating vintage things at the moment. Making small flip calendars for gifts. And Christmas cookie books. But I will definitely be putting this on my list to try! Have a great week!. Hugs dear crafty friend... ♡♡♡ Suzy
I love watching your creative juices brewing ! You make it look so easy. A creative inspiration of creative fluidity! Lovely as usual. Thank you so much for sharing!
What is encouraging & lifts my own heart about this project is that you totally proved it's possible to create something beautiful - even on a 'bad day'❣
Dearest Natasha, I soooo appreciate the time you take in creating the goodies, researching and trying out new techniques, and then making the BEST videos on youtube! And it’s easy to tell you are a very warm person with a truly big heart that you aren’t afraid to share! Thank you for all you do and of course for being a bright spot in my day! Love to you always!
You are quite inspiring and the way you tell us your ideas is inspiring as well. It seems you are creating right in front of our eyes instead of teaching, like we are learning together. I love it.
Natasha, even if you really were in a slump, the creativity never ends with you! Each project becomes my next favorite. This is so brilliant and what fun! Even if they had been flops, you would had to have had a blast playing! Twinings teabags (and tea) are awesome!❤️
This was lovely. I’m inspired to make some of these. I love how you created a journal in a few minutes just by letting one thing lead to another. Sometimes we over think things. Note to self, “just follow the process, pluck out some scraps and supplies and let it create itself.” Love your channel- can’t get enough!
Hi Natasha 😊 You’re so creative You always inspire me.. I’m not creative, but I desperately want to be😢 And watching you always inspires me to create even if I don’t believe I can Thank you❤
I'm so happy you made this video! I have a journal I'm making for a customer and this will be a nice addition. But I think the real game changer is doing this with the muslin/calico base! It will be such a great way to use my lovely stamps.
I have made something similar to these where I stamped on tissue paper, instead of using tea bags I put the image on wide lace. As always I love how creative you are.
This was GREAT motivation for some projects! I have a big pile of tea bags, including from hibiscus teas. Those make the tea bag really pink. Valentine's Day, here we come!
Oh, dear Natasha, I have benefited SO MUCH over the years from your uplifting outlook on creativity, with your playful focus on exploration and experimentation. I’m not sure how often I’ve told you-certainly not often enough!! Your focus on the importance of approaching creating as an experimental process rather than as a means to some predetermined end-point has transformed how I think about my ability to be a creative person. Of course, approaching an endeavor with curiosity and a sense of exploration is a helpful mindset for every aspect in life, not just our creative outlets, but this wisdom is so easy to forget under stress and during depression and anxiety. That’s when I start to think in black and white, like “if I don’t know what to do or don’t have much energy, I guess I can’t create anything,” which is SO self-limiting! Those are the most important times for me to do something creative, and just finding something to be curious about and then trying something to see what happens-that IS creativity!!! Sometimes I need to watch one of your videos to help me remember this. I also love how you share with us your thought processes and the things you get curious about and how you “accidentally” discovered new techniques, which invites us to pay close attention to, and even seek out, our curiosity as well. It means so much to me that I have some tears in my eyes as I’m writing this. I think you must be helping a lot of people change their lives in ways you may not even be aware, and I’m truly grateful for the generosity of your spirit, along with your impressive skills and talent ❤. Thank you so much for everything you do. I love your creations and ideas; I love listening to you speak; and your videos are such a comfort to me, like a warm cup of tea for the soul! ❤
That journal is so cool, Natasa! :D I actually started saving the tea bags after I used them for tea dyeing. I didn't know what to do with them exactly except for simply using them for decoration purposes or glueing them on images to make them look vintage. But your idea is even better! I'm excited now
I love this! I just cleaned out a bunch of tea bags…. So there ya go! I know what doing in the morning 😊 I’m sorry you’ve been in a funk! Praying you feel better!
If you’re worried about mold save the little desiccant packs that come in vitamin bottles. Throw them in a sealed container with the dried tea papers. They come in a lot of other products too. Even seen them in boxes with new shoes. Just be careful not to let little ones or pets get them. 😁
Probably one of your most inspiring (to me at least) videos ❤! The fact that you continued with your ideas and did not stop once you reached the initial goal. Taking an idea to the next step is how we continue to learn, the more mistakes the better the lesson! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 thank you
I love what you made and how you made it. It was a pleasure to go along on the ride. I must tell you it’s refreshing how you are so yourself. I lost that part of me. I want that back. Thank you for the inspiration ❤❤❤
O Natasha ! I enjoyed this sooooo much!! Good to hear your voice again🤗🙂. Still amazing, still explaining very well, still beyond creative. How I have missed you my friend.I hope to write you a letter. I remember you did something similar to this a long time ago w/ pics of women with serious faces. You sad they had to be serious looking in order to look vintage because people did not smile in photos back then. I have done very little crafting since the Spinal Neck surgery last June. Too much pain. Because of YOU, this became my passion. YOU were my only teacher from day one when I knew nothing. YOU ARE the BEST and beautiful besides! Such happy and fond memories with you!
Hello, everyone! I'm from Brazil and absolutely love crafting, especially when paper is involved 😄 I've been working with watercolors for 3 years so far. I also work with collage, scrapbooking and journals since I was a teenager. I'm 62 now and still have the bug. Simply love it. Thank you, Natasa for being such a great added inspiration and contribution you give to my work. ❤
YES!!! Thank you for sharing how you tackle being in a 'rut.' Practical, inspiring and so hopeful! You don't always have to have a plan, just go with your muse and do the next thing, then the next thing. Thank you! I just ordered your book Treasure Book Making: Crafting Handmade Sustainable Journals. Mahalo Natasa! You are amazing just being yourself 🏝 🥰
Lovely! Good ole school glue! I did this many years ago to make window hangers with children. But now I can put some in my journal! Thanks for the reminder! TFS 🤗
I love your enthusiasm when you are making and looking at your own work, you are so funny. I love how you say what you are thinking "what am I trying to achieve - I don't know?" "What can we do with this?" "Not everyone's cup of tea" when you are making things out of tea bags (pardon the pun!). Love your videos - very creative and charming...
Natasha I just want to say I love your videos. Your "leather look" journal was the first one that I made and haven't stopped making all of your kinds of journals. Your channel is amazing, your instructions are easy to follow. Thanks so much for sharing all your talent and for the amazing projects you do. I also love that you don't promote any companies and encourage us to use what we have. 💮🌼🦋
Your ideas really help me to feel better about MY ideas. I am intrigued about how my own ideas feel a lot more fun now. (Of course there is really nothing that is truly original,) so I can stop bashin myself and just have fun.
Genius! You just gave me an idea! I have these pressed flowers that I hadn’t figured out how I was going to use them. I think I might try laying the white back of a napkin down and then arranging the pressed flower pieces over it and then sandwiching that with the teabag over the whole thing and then brushing it with glue. I’m thinking that in this way I can sandwich the delicate flower in between two layers and it will be transparent like what you created. I will have to try this! Thank you for another great video and inspiration!
I’m always TOTALLY INSPIRED by your creativity!! Thank you for sharing. You help me when you get stuck and wonder what next…..you just keep coming up with fresh ideas. Love love your channel.
I really love the tip about kind of bunching it up around the edges to create the look, but, more importantly, help hasten the removal process. Thanks for all you do. You have been entirely instrumental in my budding artistic processes over the past year.
No I'm serious. I was once in a museum in south Germany (in Bietigheim-Bissingen) and they showed the works of new artists. One of them had a space with all kind of objects made with natural and rare materials, like a leather glove with 7 fingers and parts of chickenfeet sewn into to form claws. Or seashells with bookpages inside and catwhiskers and turtle shells, and amber glued to other things. It was so wild and stunning.
Natasha, I was scrolling through videos and stopped to view this video of yours. I really liked what you said in this video about not knowing what to do, being in a rut where to start and just start creating and it will come together! You are amazing with your creativity and as a person teaching and talking to your viewers. Thank you so much. Keep bringing us your creations and videos. From California❤️🙏🤗
I thought you did an excellent video and i loved the transformation of Christmas card into Christmas Journal ! SO clever and SO easy to do. THANK YOU NATASHA!!!!!!
Loved this idea and the video! Love the beautiful results. Thank you so much for sharing even when you felt uninspired o In the beginning. And for sharing your wisdom to just get started and the muse will follow ❤️
I really appreciate that you have no annoying music playing while you are talking. I’m a senior with a little hearing problem so all the music so many use with their tutorials just drives me mad. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼🥰🥰🥰
Great advice of how to keep creating when you are in the doldrums, uninspired. I don't have lovely napkins to make these but I am inspired to do some tea dyeing, saving tea bags and watching for thrifty napkins. Thank you.
Oh, I haven't gone farther than the introduction, and I already love it. I am in a real problem now 😒 because I am into crochet, knitting, macrame and other crafts, and... I want to get into this amazing things that you are doing and showing to us, BTY, thanks. I came across this video and noticed that I was already subscribed to your channel, good! So far I like that your introduction is not so kilometric long, and you go straight to the point. Thanks again.
Was about to say _"Your teabags are _*_massive!*"_** before I realised it sounded like some kind of euphemism... 😂 This project is **_*fabulous,_* Natasha - thank you!! I'd no idea the tagged bags open out so big! We have a fabulous tea company here in the UK - *Clipper* - not only do they make the _best_ tea, but they pioneered the very first completely plastic-free teabag in 2017. I was shocked to discover that just ONE of those designer 'nylon' teabags releases *15 billion* micro- and nano-plastic particles into the cup, then into the drinker. 😔
25:02 I just saw your video and haven’t been creative, your honesty made me cry, which is a good thing. I am going to my craft room right now and pulling some things out and find my creativity again just because you inspired me so much this morning. Thank you thank you so much
Awwww it's so hard when our muse goes off on vacation and we are left behind stumbling through our creative process. When my Muse is present I truly crave creating! My new motto is "Create with Wild Abandon!" Ignore the outcome, just enjoy the process. Hope you have continued with your creative process!!
I’ve wanted to try making junk journals for a couple of years now but was so overwhelmed with the videos I’d seen. Then a few weeks ago I stumbled across your channel. You are so inspiring and explain things so well. You make sure everyone knows they can use whatever they have on hand and it doesn’t have to be a huge production to make something beautiful. I’ve now watched most of your video from the beginning till now. I also purchased the few little things I needed to get started. I have dyed paper, cutouts, napkins, ribbons, lace, everything I need to really start making my first journal. Thank you so much for inspiring and encouraging me to get to this point. I can’t wait to really dig in (when I find the time LOL).
Welcome to the mad world of junk journalling! You'll never look at a cardboard box the same way again! 😂
@@joyjournal6157 I’m definitely saving up boxes and matching the colors on the back with things I want to add to it. I MAY have also stolen a couple books (they where already torn up somewhat) from my teenage daughter. 🤷♀️
Yes you can definitely do it, I made my very 1st junk journal months ago. I used a cereal box and diet Coke box, for a cover. I have 3 signitures in my journal. I made several mistakes, but again it's my very 1st journal. I watched tons of videos, how to's. So I just went for it, now I'm excited to create a Halloween journal then a Christmas journal. Just have fun, take your time. You'll learn what works best for you and what dosen't. 😊💖
@@shabbyrosecreationsbykem Thank you. Thought now I’m trying to get some of the things together I’ll need. Waiting for napkins and tissue paper to dry now. Also finished my first tea dyed paper and envelopes. I think once I make a few tags I’ll be ready to jump into my first journal. I’m so excited!
How exciting! I just started in June and I can't stop now. There is so much free stuff out there too. I used up old file folders, old placemats, old craft supplies, old office papers I'll never use. It's so fun! Enjoy :)
Natasha you are a gifted mixed media artist and a great teacher. Your attention to detail is incredible.
Thank you so much 😊
I've said this b4 "your the best." Very descriptive, no chatter and you get the job done.
Thank you so much :)
Yes ! I sat here with a bit of a stiff neck and worried a bit about the world and I came upon this video, and it made me smile, laugh, and raise my eyebrows in amazement. I am filled with inspiration, so love how you express how your feeling and how you give hope if we get stuck. I have not a care in the world except to journey into making a Treasure Book. Wee !
I love this idea. I have stamped on tea bags before and cut windows in tags using them, but never thought of this process. I drink blueberry flavor tea and those tea bags turn blue and make wonderful bases for stamping.
This is AMAZING! I now can use the dozens and dozens of tea bag papers I've saved. I knew I was right to hang on to them. LOL
TY Natasa!! I love how you prove that even when we're not feeling great,we CAN create! You lift my spirits,hope you're feeling better also
Love that! Thank you so much!
I don't feel this was a bit of a waste of time. It is wonderful putzy work we can do when we are feeling a little less inspired. This way when we have more time or more inspiration we can easily pull out a couple of these and have them partially done. Simply paste in one step! Love that!!! Thank you again so much for how you create without limits or boundaries!
'putzy' is a word I've not heard in years. It meant easy where I'm , (easy as in easy to do) 😃
You are creative, brilliant & inspiring but you are also so dang funny (even if you don’t mean to be!). My favorite new quote: “so even if you think it’s crap and you hate it, at least you didn’t sit there and wallow in despair.” Definitely going into my journal. You’re such a joy!
Brilliant, thank you so much for sharing!
Thank you Natasa, for sharing your gift of creating something beautiful and unique out of the ordinary and unexpected! Even when you don’t feel like it, your gift shines through. Thank you for sharing ! Love 💜 this project!
I so needed to hear you talk about being in a rut. We are on day 12 of no power from hurricane Ian. I am definitely in a big rut. But now that I have watched your video today, you have inspired me to get up and just work on my JJ. You got me up instead of sitting in despair. Thank you for your positive words. God bless. Love the video
Love the idea of stamping on the white tissue from the Napkin! Thank you!
I enjoyed that too. Love napkins!
Yes! I love that. So much to try. Plenty white napkin leftovers.
Yes! Me too my sister and I were just discussing projects to do with the white parts of the napkins.
I had the idea to stamp directly onto the teabag & it also looks great & even more transparent.
❤love this. I’m going to have to collect tea bags and drink more tea! Ha.
This looks like so much fun, I love the results, especially the little journal. I thought another idea to use them is to tear a hole in your page a little smaller than the teabag piece, ink the edges, then glue the teabag piece into place, so you can see it from both sides of the page like a window. I hope you know what I'm getting at. xxx
Really cool idea. Like it a lot
Love that idea...:)
What an excellent idea!!
@@cherylpesutimassie5010 FC
Love this technique. These would make great cards. A bundle of these cards in a folder of the same , would make a wonderful gift. Wel done
When a YT video causes you to stay up late & you're smiling from ear to ear, despite being so tired.😁🥱😁 Natasha is the best Mixed Media Artist I've found on the platform! 💖
"Not everyone's cup of TEA" she says, as she creates art with tea bags!! Did anyone else catch that? I like her ideas for using tea bags to make embellishments for a Junk Journal! Genius!! ~Janet in Canada
Made me laugh!
Fabulous video so full of inspiration! I’m going to have to start drinking tea 😊
I can never just watch Natasa's videos. I always have to stop to make notes, to save it on Pinterest on various boards (each for a specific reason), to order something for the demonstrated process, to text my daughter-in-law to reserve stuff for me (cereal box liners in the case of this video). The 3-tea-bags combined (with s alight overlap) to cover a larger image is brilliant. Stamping on the colorless plies of the napkin and making that into an embellishment is blazing (I just went ahead and ordered some similar stamps from AliExpress). The composition of 3 of the same pieces (hearts in this case) is dazzling. Thanks for sharing how that playing card fail led to the layered transparency success. Also I liked creativity in the video production itself, that entertaining heart-and-tea theme throughout: “Not everyone’s cup of tea” (about the vintage look made with tea bags), “I really have my heart set on a heart shape’…. “A bit of a broken hear there, we shell mend it”…
Das sieht ja alles soooo toll aus !!!! Das mach ich auf jeden Fall nach 🎨🤝👍💐
Just gorgeous, I've used tbags to decoupage before, always looks antique and authentic. It can be used for tablecloths and window coverings in miniature dioramas. Make old onion and potatoes bags out of them for your miniature kitchen too.. Thanku very much, freestyle is great fun..
It evolves as u go x
Great technique. Normally, I put teabags in my garden cause I hate throwing them out. This is a great way to re-use them into something old and vintage looking.
These are just CHARMING! I feel these would sell really well, too, for people who just want something small and elegant to jot down some feelings/ideas that are 'in-the-moment'... and collect them. Really LOVELY idea! Thank you!
when I get into an creative rut I watch videos from other creators and I find an idea or a trick or a way to look at something differently. You are very creative and your videos leave me feeling uplifted
When I watch your videos, I sometimes wonder how you manage to come up with so many brilliant projects.
I appreciate your honesty, your creativity and all that you share with us. Thank you
Thank you very much!
Your welcome
I tried these and I'M OBSESSED. These are SO fun to make and when they're dry, it's like magic pulling them off. The texture is fantastic. I don't have many napkins, so I stamped on some plain white ones and played with coloring with markers. Was great fun letting colors bleed and create a grungy look. Then went on ebay and ordered a few lots of napkins! Thanks for this! Your videos are great!
Okay, this is just pure crafty recycle wizardry! Awesome reckoning of successes for sure!!! Fun vid! Thank you!
I recently unearthed a box of teabag papers I had saved probably 10 years ago and had misplaced. I can't wait to get into doing some of these little embellishments. They are delightful. Thanks for sharing.
You are brilliant even when you're not feeling it. Watching your videos is therapy for me and I just wanted you to know how much you are appreciated💕
You say you are stuck in a rut but I want you to know you always inspire me and I enjoy everything you do. You are a great teacher and I appreciate all that you ever share on here.
“Not everyone’s cup of tea”. Pun not intended but I love it Natasa! Great idea, will be trying it for sure!!❤
I caught that, too!!😂 She’s used this phrase in other videos without the tea bags. She’s such a hoot!! I love her sense of humor!!!
Hehe I didn't catch that, but I'll pretend it was on purpose :))))
@@TreasureBooks I thought it was a funny play on words!
I really like it. Thank you for sharing
Natasha, watching you create 'on the fly' so to speak is so inspiring. When something was disappointing you just move on and come up with something to creative. You're a treasure. The 'treasure' in Treasure Books. Thanks for sharing all your creative ideas.
I'm So glad to know that I am not alone with getting stuck. I can just start.
Yes! Absolutely :)
Even when you are feeling some kind of way you really make some lovely creations and teach us how to do them to! This was a great idea - it’s a pity all my tea bags are the bad sort!
Consider them little modules, like quilting squares, and glue together for larger piece. Use what you have.
Oh WOW...such a cool video! Total genious!
Just loved the "Mending the broken 💔"
You always have the most inspiring tutorials for using things you already have.
But truly, I could watch you boil water, Natasa, and it would be fun! 😍
I may have to try this. I've kind of gotten away from creating vintage things at the moment. Making small flip calendars for gifts. And Christmas cookie books. But I will definitely be putting this on my list to try!
Have a great week!.
Hugs dear crafty friend...
♡♡♡ Suzy
I love watching your creative juices brewing ! You make it look so easy. A creative inspiration of creative fluidity! Lovely as usual. Thank you so much for sharing!
Thank you very much!
Oh goodness, you say stuck in a rut then create a beautiful wee journal. ⭐️
What is encouraging & lifts my own heart about this project is that you totally proved it's possible to create something beautiful - even on a 'bad day'❣
Oooh, now I have a great idea for the cover of the woodlands journal I'm gathering stuff for! Fun project!
Dearest Natasha, I soooo appreciate the time you take in creating the goodies, researching and trying out new techniques, and then making the BEST videos on youtube! And it’s easy to tell you are a very warm person with a truly big heart that you aren’t afraid to share! Thank you for all you do and of course for being a bright spot in my day! Love to you always!
Will give this a go once I have a few dry teabags. Thank you for this cool tutorial. Be well and craft on. 😻
You are absolutely awesome, Natasha. I hope you keep inspiring us with your wonderful teaching…and your great sense of humor.
Very interesting technique! I love the result
Thank you 😊
You are quite inspiring and the way you tell us your ideas is inspiring as well. It seems you are creating right in front of our eyes instead of teaching, like we are learning together. I love it.
Thank you for making videos even when you’re in a rut. It was very interesting and informative. You’re amazing.
Natasha, even if you really were in a slump, the creativity never ends with you! Each project becomes my next favorite. This is so brilliant and what fun! Even if they had been flops, you would had to have had a blast playing! Twinings teabags (and tea) are awesome!❤️
You are magical and extremely valuable in our world. I'm grateful I found you. Thank you for sharing "you" with "us".
Thank you so much :)
This was lovely. I’m inspired to make some of these. I love how you created a journal in a few minutes just by letting one thing lead to another. Sometimes we over think things. Note to self, “just follow the process, pluck out some scraps and supplies and let it create itself.” Love your channel- can’t get enough!
I absolutely ADOORE the handwriting stamp one!!
They are so delicate and beautiful! I love these trash to treasures projects. As always, thank you for the inspiration.
Thank you for the Sunday morning gift. I have been saving my tea bags and look forward to this new journey ❤
Love the video. I was excited about the cards. Wonder if you used clear gesso before you add glue???
Natashaaaaa 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻only you.!!!! Amo tú creatividad 💯👍🏻.!
Thank you so much :)
Hi Natasha 😊 You’re so creative
You always inspire me..
I’m not creative, but I desperately want to be😢
And watching you always inspires me to create even if I don’t believe I can
Thank you❤
WOW! Vintage, grunge, love it.
I'm so happy you made this video! I have a journal I'm making for a customer and this will be a nice addition. But I think the real game changer is doing this with the muslin/calico base! It will be such a great way to use my lovely stamps.
I learn something new every time I watch your videos. Thanks! ❤
I have made something similar to these where I stamped on tissue paper, instead of using tea bags I put the image on wide lace. As always I love how creative you are.
This was GREAT motivation for some projects! I have a big pile of tea bags, including from hibiscus teas. Those make the tea bag really pink. Valentine's Day, here we come!
This is absolutely great! Can’t wait to create some of these!
Have fun!
Oh, dear Natasha, I have benefited SO MUCH over the years from your uplifting outlook on creativity, with your playful focus on exploration and experimentation. I’m not sure how often I’ve told you-certainly not often enough!! Your focus on the importance of approaching creating as an experimental process rather than as a means to some predetermined end-point has transformed how I think about my ability to be a creative person. Of course, approaching an endeavor with curiosity and a sense of exploration is a helpful mindset for every aspect in life, not just our creative outlets, but this wisdom is so easy to forget under stress and during depression and anxiety. That’s when I start to think in black and white, like “if I don’t know what to do or don’t have much energy, I guess I can’t create anything,” which is SO self-limiting! Those are the most important times for me to do something creative, and just finding something to be curious about and then trying something to see what happens-that IS creativity!!! Sometimes I need to watch one of your videos to help me remember this.
I also love how you share with us your thought processes and the things you get curious about and how you “accidentally” discovered new techniques, which invites us to pay close attention to, and even seek out, our curiosity as well. It means so much to me that I have some tears in my eyes as I’m writing this. I think you must be helping a lot of people change their lives in ways you may not even be aware, and I’m truly grateful for the generosity of your spirit, along with your impressive skills and talent ❤.
Thank you so much for everything you do. I love your creations and ideas; I love listening to you speak; and your videos are such a comfort to me, like a warm cup of tea for the soul! ❤
That journal is so cool, Natasa! :D I actually started saving the tea bags after I used them for tea dyeing. I didn't know what to do with them exactly except for simply using them for decoration purposes or glueing them on images to make them look vintage. But your idea is even better! I'm excited now
I love this! I just cleaned out a bunch of tea bags…. So there ya go! I know what doing in the morning 😊 I’m sorry you’ve been in a funk! Praying you feel better!
If you’re worried about mold save the little desiccant packs that come in vitamin bottles. Throw them in a sealed container with the dried tea papers. They come in a lot of other products too. Even seen them in boxes with new shoes. Just be careful not to let little ones or pets get them. 😁
Great idea!
Such a great idea ! will do
Now I know why I have saved them. Thank you
Another great idea to try with old teabags, Natasha . Thank you so much.
You are the treasure Natasha ❤
Thank you so much!!
Probably one of your most inspiring (to me at least) videos ❤! The fact that you continued with your ideas and did not stop once you reached the initial goal. Taking an idea to the next step is how we continue to learn, the more mistakes the better the lesson! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 thank you
Love it 😍 I will try it 😍 the time is 17.04 in Arctic Norway and it is alredy dark. Wonderful time to make and have some te 😍😊🙌🌹🌼🌺🏵🌻
Now I really need to make some tea dyed paper so I have tea bags! Thanks for sharing!
What a great tutorial on using tea bags. I have plenty of tea bags. Now I just need to find some tissue paper with images.❤
Happy happy accidents ... these teabag images are stunning and your quick journal inspirational ... thank you 😍
You’re so very talented and we are so lucky you share your gifts with us! Thank you!
I love what you made and how you made it. It was a pleasure to go along on the ride. I must tell you it’s refreshing how you are so yourself. I lost that part of me. I want that back. Thank you for the inspiration ❤❤❤
If this is your "stuck in a rut" I'd be absolutely enraptured by you on your "A" game because this turned out INCREDIBLE!
Thank you so much 😊
O Natasha ! I enjoyed this sooooo much!! Good to hear your voice again🤗🙂. Still amazing, still explaining very well, still beyond creative. How I have missed you my friend.I hope to write you a letter. I remember you did something similar to this a long time ago w/ pics of women with serious faces. You sad they had to be serious looking in order to look vintage because people did not smile in photos back then. I have done very little crafting since the Spinal Neck surgery last June. Too much pain. Because of YOU, this became my passion. YOU were my only teacher from day one when I knew nothing. YOU ARE the BEST and beautiful besides! Such happy and fond memories with you!
Hello, everyone! I'm from Brazil and absolutely love crafting, especially when paper is involved 😄 I've been working with watercolors for 3 years so far. I also work with collage, scrapbooking and journals since I was a teenager. I'm 62 now and still have the bug. Simply love it. Thank you, Natasa for being such a great added inspiration and contribution you give to my work. ❤
YES!!! Thank you for sharing how you tackle being in a 'rut.' Practical, inspiring and so hopeful! You don't always have to have a plan, just go with your muse and do the next thing, then the next thing. Thank you! I just ordered your book Treasure Book Making: Crafting Handmade Sustainable Journals. Mahalo Natasa! You are amazing just being yourself 🏝 🥰
Lovely! Good ole school glue! I did this many years ago to make window hangers with children. But now I can put some in my journal! Thanks for the reminder! TFS 🤗
I love your enthusiasm when you are making and looking at your own work, you are so funny. I love how you say what you are thinking "what am I trying to achieve - I don't know?" "What can we do with this?" "Not everyone's cup of tea" when you are making things out of tea bags (pardon the pun!). Love your videos - very creative and charming...
I love these ideas, i love the old vintage looks
Natasha I just want to say I love your videos. Your "leather look" journal was the first one that I made and haven't stopped making all of your kinds of journals. Your channel is amazing, your instructions are easy to follow. Thanks so much for sharing all your talent and for the amazing projects you do. I also love that you don't promote any companies and encourage us to use what we have. 💮🌼🦋
Your ideas really help me to feel better about MY ideas. I am intrigued about how my own ideas feel a lot more fun now. (Of course there is really nothing that is truly original,) so I can stop bashin myself and just have fun.
Fabulous!!! I am a card maker and now have and new way to create Amazing Vintage Cards! Thank You for Sharing! Love this!
Genius! You just gave me an idea! I have these pressed flowers that I hadn’t figured out how I was going to use them. I think I might try laying the white back of a napkin down and then arranging the pressed flower pieces over it and then sandwiching that with the teabag over the whole thing and then brushing it with glue. I’m thinking that in this way I can sandwich the delicate flower in between two layers and it will be transparent like what you created.
I will have to try this! Thank you for another great video and inspiration!
I’m always TOTALLY INSPIRED by your creativity!! Thank you for sharing. You help me when you get stuck and wonder what next…..you just keep coming up with fresh ideas. Love love your channel.
I really love the tip about kind of bunching it up around the edges to create the look, but, more importantly, help hasten the removal process. Thanks for all you do. You have been entirely instrumental in my budding artistic processes over the past year.
That makes me so happy to hear, thank you :)
Fantastic! I immediately brewed a cup of tea and started following your steps. I plan to make paper beads with this wonderful paper. Thank you!
This is a piece of art and deserves a place in a museum, with the video playing on a screen next to it.
Hehe thank you. I think you're joking with me, but thank you :) I'm giggling here
No I'm serious. I was once in a museum in south Germany (in Bietigheim-Bissingen) and they showed the works of new artists. One of them had a space with all kind of objects made with natural and rare materials, like a leather glove with 7 fingers and parts of chickenfeet sewn into to form claws. Or seashells with bookpages inside and catwhiskers and turtle shells, and amber glued to other things. It was so wild and stunning.
Natasha, I was scrolling through videos and stopped to view this video of yours. I really liked what you said in this video about not knowing what to do, being in a rut where to start and just start creating and it will come together! You are amazing with your creativity and as a person teaching and talking to your viewers. Thank you so much. Keep bringing us your creations and videos. From California❤️🙏🤗
I thought you did an excellent video and i loved the transformation of Christmas card into Christmas Journal ! SO clever and SO easy to do. THANK YOU NATASHA!!!!!!
Loved this idea and the video! Love the beautiful results. Thank you so much for sharing even when you felt uninspired o
In the beginning. And for sharing your wisdom to just get started and the muse will follow ❤️
You are a blessing.
Thank you for this video. I have saved everything you mentioned in this video, even the cereal liners and especially the tea bags.
I really appreciate that you have no annoying music playing while you are talking. I’m a senior with a little hearing problem so all the music so many use with their tutorials just drives me mad. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼🥰🥰🥰
Music drives me mad too :)
Great advice of how to keep creating when you are in the doldrums, uninspired. I don't have lovely napkins to make these but I am inspired to do some tea dyeing, saving tea bags and watching for thrifty napkins. Thank you.
Oh, I haven't gone farther than the introduction, and I already love it. I am in a real problem now 😒 because I am into crochet, knitting, macrame and other crafts, and... I want to get into this amazing things that you are doing and showing to us, BTY, thanks. I came across this video and noticed that I was already subscribed to your channel, good! So far I like that your introduction is not so kilometric long, and you go straight to the point. Thanks again.
I love how happy you become with your projects. Inspiring!
Thank you :)
Was about to say _"Your teabags are _*_massive!*"_** before I realised it sounded like some kind of euphemism... 😂 This project is **_*fabulous,_* Natasha - thank you!!
I'd no idea the tagged bags open out so big! We have a fabulous tea company here in the UK - *Clipper* - not only do they make the _best_ tea, but they pioneered the very first completely plastic-free teabag in 2017.
I was shocked to discover that just ONE of those designer 'nylon' teabags releases *15 billion* micro- and nano-plastic particles into the cup, then into the drinker. 😔