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This clever card came from Meg in North Carolina.  It is a beautiful teabag folded Christmas tree with an embossed background.

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This darling little card came to me from Penny in Arizona.  Penny is well known for her teabag folding and decorative tiles that she makes.

A Folding I Will Go

I tried out a new style card for Mother's Day for my sister.  I got the pattern from Penny and you can get it here.

I printed out different plaid sheets, tiles and a pyramid sheet that are all from Penny.  I took the tile and repeated it 12 times on a sheet in Microsoft Word and printed it out on glossy banner paper.  The rest of the sheets were also printed on the same type of paper.

I covered all the surfaces of the front of the card with the various pieces of the plaid sheets.  Then I attached the pyramid pieces and the teabag medallion.  Next the sentiments were added and lastly I applied "gems" to the medallion and the four inner corners.

Here is a side view that shows a close up of the back section.

This view is from the other side showing the pyramid head on.

This is what the front looks like when folded.  It fits in a business envelope.

The teabag medallion is a pinwheel pattern shown on page 13 in Tea-Bag Folding by Suzanne McNeil.

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Here's a darling card I received from Penny in Arizona!

Penny is well known for her teabag folding abilities!  Isn't it adorable!!!

Teabag Wings

Last summer I needed a thank you card and decided to make the following.

 

This is my version of a card I found on Card Inspirations.  The butterfly is teabag folding or origami and the flowers are both punched with Paper Studio punches and attached with a brad.

Fold 1, Fold 2, Fold 3

Surfing the web one day I ran across the Craft Creations Magazine.  They had directions for a Christmas tree using teabag folding titled "Tree Folds".

 

I changed the direction of the tree from the original and used silver cardstock for the base card.  The stripes of the left I cut from some fancy patterned Christmas paper that I had.  Originally the paper strip had no spaces between the stripes so I cut them apart leaving silver between each stripe.  I cut a tree pot from the same paper and I added a sticker star to the treetop.

The most work was finding a Christmas colored tile for the folding and doing the teabag folding itself.  The tile needed to have a border around the outer edges in order to recreate the look of the original.  One of the ladies in my card groups had the perfect tile for this card. 

Holy Cow

I combined tea bag folding and twisted pyramid on this "cow themed card".  I used a sheet made by Penny ( a member of a couple of my card groups).

Tea bag folding has been around a long time and ranges from simple to very intricate.  I did a simple fold on eight squares and then interlaced them to form a "star" shape.


Here are a some tutorials to get you started":
   Video Jug 
   What The Buz is About 
   Folding Trees
   Stamping with Lisa Tedder
   Origami Resource Center 
   Card Inspirations 
   Ruby's Tantalizing Designs 


The cow itself is a twisted pyramid which is done in the same way you do a regular pyramid except that the segments are differently shaped.

On the inside I used some more sections of the sheet and found a different cow picture to finish it off.