How To Print on Tea Bags
Hello everyone. I wanted to share a quick and easy project idea with you - how to print on tea bags. We drink a lot of tea at home and save the tea bags for all kinds of things, from feeding our rose bushes to refurbishing old furniture. But they also make lovely gifts when you print on them and it's surprisingly easy to do.
Last year we made a whole bunch of these herb infused bath bags for friends. They're filled with all kinds of yumminess to make bath time more relaxing. But what makes them extra special is the "You are Brewtiful" message that we printed on them. Here's how to do it. You'll need some used tea bags and a printer. Laser or inkjet will both work.
Let the tea bags dry out before cutting one side open and carefully empty them out. Save the tea leaves for your rose bushes. It's a great fertilizer 
Measure the empty bags and resize whatever image you'd like to print so it fits nicely. Place a blank piece of paper in your printer and mark the paper so you remember how it feeds through the printer. Print the images.
Remove the paper from the printer and tape the empty tea bag over the image. Tape along all the edges so the tea bag doesn’t get stuck inside the printer.
Place the paper in the printer using the mark you made as a guide and print the image again. Viola - printed tea bags 
Carefully remove the tea bags and fill them with herbs, dried flowers or anything that will give off a lovely fragrance when they're immersed in a warm bath.
It's such a lovely way to spoil someone special and recycle those used tea bags too.
You can even use them in multi media craft projects and they're great for scrapbooking too. What would you use printed tea bags for?
Frequently asked questions
Have a question about this project?
Do you glue the open side shut to keep the filling in?
I know that the weave and thickness of tea bags can vary considerably across different brands. Is there any particular brand of tea bags that you found works best for this project? ( I imagine the pot size rather than the individual cup size is preferred, simply because they are larger.)