Gorgeous! I love working with my dried flowers. I think they add so much beauty to anything you make. Thank you for this tutorial and for the reminder to get my flowers out more often. 😊❤
It’s always a pleasure to see your creations with dried flowers! They are always beautiful, I love them. I look forward to seeing how you will integrate them into your journal. Good Sunday.
Fabulous embellishments! And thanks for the wonderful tip on using brewed tea in a spray bottle! This is a much easier way than soaking papers and using the oven. I'm glad to hear you survived Toby's visit. They're like grandkids - a lot of work when they're around, but you miss them so much when they leave. 😊 Thanks Nina! Janet 💕
These are so beautiful Nina, I really must give them a try. It's cheered up my day as I've been really poorly with the flu, since Tuesday, and still no sign of getting better. I've never been so poorly. Thank you Nina, for brightening my day with your lovely tutorial. Take care, Val xx
Gorgeous dried flowers and a lovely way to display them in your nature book. I, too, am a crazed dried flower collector. Well they are dried once I press them. Back a while ago, I saw your other video on this subject and you used marker pens to colorize some flowers. I love the process and outcome so I've done this myself. I decided to put a small seed I found that looked like a miniature pinecone with a few of the needles still attached (along with a wee bit of sparkle glitter for interest) into a little coin holder. My plan is to use it in my ongoing Forest journal. Not sure if I'll put it in a pocket or glue it on the outside of the pocket. But what fun it is to create with these flowers. When I began looking for weeds and flora, I found myself shocked at the sheer number of them. When I had imagined what might be here to look for, I thought there wouldn't be much. Instead I found all kinds of flowers from wild yellow poppies to seeds of all shapes and sizes. I've gone places in the mountainous woods and found beautiful oak leaves (some were very small and cute, others full size) as well as tiny acorns with little caps still on their heads. Nature is nearly everywhere if we look. This tutorial for my tea bags is wonderful as always, Nina, I feel so inspired and will look in my files for my used ones and then make some more😊🌲🐿🌸🌸🌼🌺🌻Thank you soooo much, M'Lady. XOXOJANE
Hello Jane. Some flowers just naturally loose their colour during the drying process and alcohol markers are a great way of bringing them back to life. So glad you have tried it. As you say, it’s amazing how many different varieties you can find if you look hard enough. Our garden is slowly starting to come into bloom again, and so I will be taking advantage and drying more of this years specimens, as well as some that I am sure to find whilst out walking Toby. Hope you are having a good week 💕 xo
The flowers look so lovely preserved in that way. I live in the desert here in Texas so it is very difficult to find the types of flowers small and able to be dried. I will have to put on my thinking cap for ideas- maybe small leaves ( though they are hard to find too!). Thanks for the inspiration!
Thank you so much Nina, I really really enjoyed and loved watching you creating this Ephemera for your journal and you could make cards from them too. Sunday is always a real treat for me. And I really really love ❤️ the small bit’s of tea left in the bag’s too. Please stay safe and well too xxx Mags
These are not only gorgeous but perfect for my tiny dried flowers I have kept from gifts. I watched you do this between acetate but I think I like this better, super tutorial, Thank you.
They are beautiful Nina, I love the extra color. My dried flowers will definitely benefit from a bit of added color. Thanks so much, have an awesome week.
This is an awesome idea!!! I’ve done a similar thing using napkins over dried plants on cardstock (which I think was your inspiration originally too), but I love the translucent effect & colours involved by using the teabags. Especially since I tend to have rosehip & hibiscus coloured tea bags (tasty tea too!). But I also bought some empty teabags online, so could use any of my ink sprays/watercolour/Brushos etc to colour them first & give them a unique look. Would never have thought of enhancing the flowers & leaves using alcohol markers either 😱 You are a genius!!!
Good morning nina, loved your flowers and using the alcohol markers to make them "bloom" again. Today will be a sunday spend mostly inside, it is grey and wet and cold. So first I am going to follow the prompt and have a nice cup of coffee. This afternoon I will watch the world championships speedskating, something we love in holland..Hope you will have a good sunday and a good week. Love and hugs lena xxx
Good morning Lena. I am glad to say it is a dry, albeit a grey and very cold day here today. Snow if forecast for next week. I hope you will enjoy the speed skating and wishing you a wonderful week ahead. Love and hugs 💕 xxxx
What a lovely idea Nina. They look absolutely gorgeous. Never thought to do this. Thanks so much for sharing. Your videos are so easy to follow along and its very easy to listen to you. Love your channel.
These are wonderful Nina! I love the inspiration! These are amazing just how you've created, I thought about adding some stamped features onto the teabag, then adding the flowers...🤔 thanks again for awesome creation and inspiration!!😍
I just found your channel and am now binge watching 😊 I also dry flowers to use in my non-paper crafts, but you are giving me loads of inspiration!! Thank you!!
Hello PF. Just another gardening injury. Had a fight with some barbed wire whilst clearing the rest of the leaves! Note to self, don’t take your gardening gloves 🧤off next time! 💕 x
What a wonderful tutorial!! Thanks so much for the lovely ideas! I have so many collected tea bags that I wasn’t sure what to do with all of them but I LOVE pressing flowers and nature journaling so I’m so surprised that I’d never thought of this. I’m incredibly excited to try it now. 🤩👏🏻👏🏻
Absolutely stunning Nina! I have tea bags, but not dried flowers at this time, but spring is right around the corner so I will be gathering some things from my garden. Thanks for the sharing of this fantastic idea. Have a great week! xx
Hello, I just saw your video for first time, I’m just getting started with dry flowers I love what you’ve done with the tea bags, I was wondering if pan pastels could be used before ? Hum Thank you Cricket
So beautiful, I have started saving tea bags but I was not sure what I was going to do with them, thank you for the brilliant tutorial and some inspiration too 🥰
In the one with the gorgeous heather, could you possibly take a syringe and inject some more matte gel beside the flower then press it down? Would it negatively affect the entire teabag and flower? These are SO beautiful! I have a flower press I haven't used for decades. I'm going to get busy with it! Thanks for sharing!
@@NinaRibenaMixedMedia AWESOME! I love that heather one. I am from California and when I traveled to UK I collected and pressed lots of heather. I simply love their tiny beauty!
Hello Nina. - thanks for this video. I am a big tea drinker and have saved many many bags to learn how to use them. Now I have your ideas to use! What would you use if you didn't have any dried flowers? Also, could you use 'Gel medium' or 'Gloss medium' as well as 'Matte' ? I am very much a beginner in this sort of thing and would love your answers. I do have Modge Podge however. What would be your ratio for mixing it with water? I also love to see you put together your Daphnes Diary pages. Do always use the elastic to create the way you attach the signatures or could you use string, embroidery thread, or cord? Love your procedure for them! Hi from Utah, USA!
Hello Debbie, leaves would also look wonderful with these tea as, even craft skeleton leaves if you have any. How about feathers? You could also use any type of paper ephemera, or even postage stamps. Hope this gives you a few ideas. As for glue. Gel medium will be fine. Gloss medium will just give you a shiny finish instead of matte, but will work just fine. If you are using ModPodge, I would water it down to a 3 parts glue 1 part water ratio as it will be much easier to handle. Here is the link to my latest DD journal as I have used string for the binding. Hope this helps ruclips.net/video/YOcX2O5ArHk/видео.html 💕
Oh, thanks for answering my silly questions. Like I said, I am such a beginner. - I am more of a scrapbooker, but love what you do. When I look to buy the glues, I get kind of confused. I want to make the DD journals that you do, so need the right stuff. I have years of the magazine, double copies. I guess I love to collect too!
They are all so beautiful! Thank you for sharing the process.
I though about makin a picture frame when I try putting the flowers in. Thank you for giving me an idea.
So glad this has inspired you. Happy Creating 🌸
I really enjoyed your presentation. It is lovely to have such, from you, in the UK. Thank you. I have subscribed to your channel 🥰
Thanks so much for subscribing Cathryn. Welcome to my channel 🌸
Absolutely inspirational & totally gorgeous thank you
Glad you enjoyed it. Thank you 💕
Fantastic!
There are many plants in my garden I can use for this. I'll be going over to check out your dry flower video, so I can do this next year. God bless 🥀
That’s lovely to hear. I just love creating with dried flowers and hope you will too 💕
I really love these! …not got many dried flowers left,so idea for later in year 😁X
thanks for the inspiration Nina...have many dried flowers so am going to make cards with this idea
They’d look lovely on cards 💕
I just dried some rose petals. Love the idea of using tea bags with the dried flowers.❤
Oh they will be beautiful with teabags 💕
Awesome I have some dry flowers from years ago. I must give this a try. I love adding color with alcoholic markers. Thanks
Thanks Debbie, it’s a great way to bring them back to life. Especially old faded ones. Enjoy 💕
Beautiful Nina, will be giving this a go! Thank you for sharing xx
Thanks Andrea. Happy Creating 💕 xx
Clever idea
Love your technique…I have both dried flowers and dried tea bags in my stash….I never thought to combine them
Thanks Noreen, I think they look lovely and it’s a great way to stabilise them 💕
I have to try these. They are so wonderful! 🌷
Such a clever idea! Can't wait to give it a try! TFS. 🥰🙏
So beautiful!
Wonderful idea!
These are so pretty Nina
Thanks Angie 💕
Gorgeous! I love working with my dried flowers. I think they add so much beauty to anything you make. Thank you for this tutorial and for the reminder to get my flowers out more often. 😊❤
These are absolutely gorgeous xxxxx ❤
Thanks so much Annie 💕 xxxx
It’s always a pleasure to see your creations with dried flowers! They are always beautiful, I love them. I look forward to seeing how you will integrate them into your journal. Good Sunday.
Thanks Zeb, I’ve got a few ideas as to how I will use these and will share soon 💕
Fabulous ideas! 😃
Love it, it is beautiful Nina.
Thank you Marie 💕
Thank you! 💗
Love extending the life of flowers and leaves this way. Great video Nina. So easy to follow along 💕
So beautiful
I love them!
They are beatiful 😍 must check out the dying flowers video 😍 Thanks for sharing 🙏 lots of love from arctic Norrway 🙌🌼🌻🌺🏵🌹
Beautiful as usual Nina!!
Thanks Susan 💕
I love them.
Thanks Yolanda 💕
Awesome!
Love these Nina. I wouldn’t have thought to enhance them with markers, great idea! 💜
Really lovely idea
so beautiful Nina
Thanks Roz 💕
Gorgeous
Beautiful!
Thanks Susan 💕
2 things I love working with … tea bags & pressed flowers!
So beautiful, and such a relaxing video to start my Sunday morning with.
Wonderful
Beautiful ❤️
Grunge leftover tea bags haha, love it! 😍
Fabulous
Fabulous 🤗
Great
Fabulous embellishments! And thanks for the wonderful tip on using brewed tea in a spray bottle! This is a much easier way than soaking papers and using the oven. I'm glad to hear you survived Toby's visit. They're like grandkids - a lot of work when they're around, but you miss them so much when they leave. 😊 Thanks Nina! Janet 💕
Thanks Janet, it’s so much easier 💕
New subscriber here! Love your videos! Very inspiring and your voice reminds me of Emma Thompson! ♥️🤗👏
Thank you so much for subbing. A few people have said I sound like Emma Thompson 💕
These are so beautiful Nina, I really must give them a try. It's cheered up my day as I've been really poorly with the flu, since Tuesday, and still no sign of getting better. I've never been so poorly. Thank you Nina, for brightening my day with your lovely tutorial. Take care, Val xx
Gorgeous dried flowers and a lovely way to display them in your nature book. I, too, am a crazed dried flower collector. Well they are dried once I press them. Back a while ago, I saw your other video on this subject and you used marker pens to colorize some flowers. I love the process and outcome so I've done this myself. I decided to put a small seed I found that looked like a miniature pinecone with a few of the needles still attached (along with a wee bit of sparkle glitter for interest) into a little coin holder. My plan is to use it in my ongoing Forest journal. Not sure if I'll put it in a pocket or glue it on the outside of the pocket. But what fun it is to create with these flowers. When I began looking for weeds and flora, I found myself shocked at the sheer number of them. When I had imagined what might be here to look for, I thought there wouldn't be much. Instead I found all kinds of flowers from wild yellow poppies to seeds of all shapes and sizes. I've gone places in the mountainous woods and found beautiful oak leaves (some were very small and cute, others full size) as well as tiny acorns with little caps still on their heads. Nature is nearly everywhere if we look. This tutorial for my tea bags is wonderful as always, Nina, I feel so inspired and will look in my files for my used ones and then make some more😊🌲🐿🌸🌸🌼🌺🌻Thank you soooo much, M'Lady. XOXOJANE
Hello Jane. Some flowers just naturally loose their colour during the drying process and alcohol markers are a great way of bringing them back to life. So glad you have tried it. As you say, it’s amazing how many different varieties you can find if you look hard enough. Our garden is slowly starting to come into bloom again, and so I will be taking advantage and drying more of this years specimens, as well as some that I am sure to find whilst out walking Toby. Hope you are having a good week 💕 xo
The flowers look so lovely preserved in that way. I live in the desert here in Texas so it is very difficult to find the types of flowers small and able to be dried. I will have to put on my thinking cap for ideas- maybe small leaves ( though they are hard to find too!). Thanks for the inspiration!
Thank you so much Nina, I really really enjoyed and loved watching you creating this Ephemera for your journal and you could make cards from them too. Sunday is always a real treat for me. And I really really love ❤️ the small bit’s of tea left in the bag’s too. Please stay safe and well too xxx Mags
These are not only gorgeous but perfect for my tiny dried flowers I have kept from gifts. I watched you do this between acetate but I think I like this better, super tutorial, Thank you.
I adore this sweet and stunningly beautiful idea, thank you so much for sharing.
Beautiful Nina , very delicate natural ephemera. They will certainly add to your nature Journal. Thank you . Kay x
Hello Nina, what a lovely way to use dried flowers, and going over them with the markers is absolutely brilliant. TYFS 🤗
How lovely! They would look beautiful in a simple frame. 💜
Thanks Shell. I think these will be best kept simple too 💕
I would frame these and hang them in my house. Just beautiful can't wait to see what you do with them!
Thanks Lynn. I’ll be using them soon 💕🌺
Beautiful way to use tea bags and dried flowers! Love this, Nina! TFS the inspiration!
Hi Gail. Glad you enjoyed the video 💕
I agree ---- absolutely beautiful. Thank you for the great info on preparing your tea bags for your projects.
Glad it was helpful 💕
They are beautiful Nina, I love the extra color. My dried flowers will definitely benefit from a bit of added color. Thanks so much, have an awesome week.
I am definitely going to do this. A great way to use dried flowers and preserve their integrity. Thanks for sharing. Happy creating!
Love these, I have books of dried flowers and tons of used tea bags, so saving this to my "to-do" sooner rather then later list 💜😅💜
Oh my, these are so gorgeous, I've tried with teabags and I can never manage it lol. Tfs xo
This is an awesome idea!!! I’ve done a similar thing using napkins over dried plants on cardstock (which I think was your inspiration originally too), but I love the translucent effect & colours involved by using the teabags. Especially since I tend to have rosehip & hibiscus coloured tea bags (tasty tea too!). But I also bought some empty teabags online, so could use any of my ink sprays/watercolour/Brushos etc to colour them first & give them a unique look. Would never have thought of enhancing the flowers & leaves using alcohol markers either 😱 You are a genius!!!
Love these Nina. I have oodles of tea bags and all sorts of things to sandwich between. Thanks for the idea. Have a wonderful day!
They look very pretty. Like the idea of touching up with the markers. .have nice day.
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Great Nina will look fwd to seeing them in your journal. Have a great week and thx.
Gorgeous! What a great way to use tea bags and dried flowers! Love this! Thank you! 💙
You are so welcome!
STUNNING ... what a fabulous idea. Thank you so much for sharing this technique.
Wow Nina! These are stunning. I am been so busy, but will absolutely be doing the tea or coffee challenge.
Good morning nina, loved your flowers and using the alcohol markers to make them "bloom" again. Today will be a sunday spend mostly inside, it is grey and wet and cold. So first I am going to follow the prompt and have a nice cup of coffee. This afternoon I will watch the world championships speedskating, something we love in holland..Hope you will have a good sunday and a good week. Love and hugs lena xxx
Good morning Lena. I am glad to say it is a dry, albeit a grey and very cold day here today. Snow if forecast for next week. I hope you will enjoy the speed skating and wishing you a wonderful week ahead. Love and hugs 💕 xxxx
Love your dried flower embellishments.
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What a lovely idea Nina. They look absolutely gorgeous. Never thought to do this. Thanks so much for sharing. Your videos are so easy to follow along and its very easy to listen to you. Love your channel.
Thanks Sophie, that’s lovely to hear 💕
Love when you do dried flower ideas!!!
Thank you 🌺
These have turned out so well. I love them! Many thanks, Nina.
Absolutely lovely! Can’t wait to try this! Thanks for sharing your talents with us.
So pretty! I started drying flowers last fall and have so enjoyed it.
How exciting!! I have many pressed flowers but have not used them! Now I will do this. Thank you.
Glad this has given you some ideas 💕
These are wonderful Nina! I love the inspiration! These are amazing just how you've created, I thought about adding some stamped features onto the teabag, then adding the flowers...🤔 thanks again for awesome creation and inspiration!!😍
I just found your channel and am now binge watching 😊 I also dry flowers to use in my non-paper crafts, but you are giving me loads of inspiration!! Thank you!!
Welcome to my channel and happy creating 🌼❤️
I love dried flowers and this is a beautiful idea.
I'm glad you like it 💕
Here’s some I made earlier, 😂 they look amazing, 🥰 I hope your hands ok! (I did notice a few week ago)😊💜🧚♀️
Hello PF. Just another gardening injury. Had a fight with some barbed wire whilst clearing the rest of the leaves! Note to self, don’t take your gardening gloves 🧤off next time! 💕 x
@@NinaRibenaMixedMedia aww bless, 🥰💜🧚♀️
Another wonderful idea....thank you! What a brilliant way to enhance the color of the flowers! 👌🙌🫶
Thanks Linda, it works like a charm 💕
Great idea on how to use tea bags. I'll have to try it.
What a wonderful tutorial!! Thanks so much for the lovely ideas! I have so many collected tea bags that I wasn’t sure what to do with all of them but I LOVE pressing flowers and nature journaling so I’m so surprised that I’d never thought of this. I’m incredibly excited to try it now. 🤩👏🏻👏🏻
That’s fantastic. I hope you enjoy putting some beautiful ephemera together. Enjoy 🌺
Absolutely stunning Nina! I have tea bags, but not dried flowers at this time, but spring is right around the corner so I will be gathering some things from my garden. Thanks for the sharing of this fantastic idea. Have a great week! xx
Thanks Lin, you too 💕
Hello, I just saw your video for first time, I’m just getting started with dry flowers I love what you’ve done with the tea bags, I was wondering if pan pastels could be used before ? Hum
Thank you
Cricket
Thank you!! Yes, it has given me great ideas!!
So lovely❤. Going to watch the how to on drying next. Tyfs
Awesomely pretty and precious!
Thanks so much Ineke 💕
SO beautiful, thank you for sharing your talent with us.
Interesting and beautiful. Great idea for our journals.
So very pretty, Nina! One to add to the Ideas journal.
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Love this what a great way to use the dried flowers... :)
So beautiful, I have started saving tea bags but I was not sure what I was going to do with them, thank you for the brilliant tutorial and some inspiration too 🥰
Thanks Heather, glad this has given you some ideas 💕
What a great idea!! I can’t wait to try it. Thanks so much for a great video.
In the one with the gorgeous heather, could you possibly take a syringe and inject some more matte gel beside the flower then press it down? Would it negatively affect the entire teabag and flower? These are SO beautiful! I have a flower press I haven't used for decades. I'm going to get busy with it! Thanks for sharing!
Hi Sherry, I did take a sharp pin to the bubbled area and added some more glue and it has done the trick 💕
@@NinaRibenaMixedMedia AWESOME! I love that heather one. I am from California and when I traveled to UK I collected and pressed lots of heather. I simply love their tiny beauty!
Hello Nina. - thanks for this video. I am a big tea drinker and have saved many many bags to learn how to use them. Now I have your ideas to use! What would you use if you didn't have any dried flowers? Also, could you use 'Gel medium' or 'Gloss medium' as well as 'Matte' ? I am very much a beginner in this sort of thing and would love your answers. I do have Modge Podge however. What would be your ratio for mixing it with water? I also love to see you put together your Daphnes Diary pages. Do always use the elastic to create the way you attach the signatures or could you use string, embroidery thread, or cord? Love your procedure for them! Hi from Utah, USA!
Hello Debbie, leaves would also look wonderful with these tea as, even craft skeleton leaves if you have any. How about feathers? You could also use any type of paper ephemera, or even postage stamps. Hope this gives you a few ideas. As for glue. Gel medium will be fine. Gloss medium will just give you a shiny finish instead of matte, but will work just fine. If you are using ModPodge, I would water it down to a 3 parts glue 1 part water ratio as it will be much easier to handle. Here is the link to my latest DD journal as I have used string for the binding. Hope this helps ruclips.net/video/YOcX2O5ArHk/видео.html 💕
Oh, thanks for answering my silly questions. Like I said, I am such a beginner. - I am more of a scrapbooker, but love what you do. When I look to buy the glues, I get kind of confused. I want to make the DD journals that you do, so need the right stuff. I have years of the magazine, double copies. I guess I love to collect too!