Necessary, practical, useful...

Not the words that come to mind when I think ~ Mother's Day Gift.

More like luxury, beautiful, whimsical.

Add the words, sweet, handmade & thoughtful and it sums up the project I am sharing with you today.

Embellished Tea bags 

Nobody needs embellished tea bags, but that is what makes gifts like these so special!

Taking the time to say I love you in a way a pair of slipper never can.

If you already bought your mom slippers don't get me wrong, slippers are a great gift and you still have time to make my project too! 

Making Embellished Tea bags is easy and open to all sorts of creative interpretation. Love that in a project!

What you need to make tea bags like mine:

• 6 tea bags with strings & labels
• decorative paper ~ adhesive or not
• an old book
• paper flowers
• 1 medium & several small buttons or beads
• a jar
• ribbon, floss or twine
• glue

What you need to do:

• cut the decorative paper & glue or adhere to both sides of the tea bag label

• cut small flowers from the old book pages

• glue paper flowers to label

• glue book flower on top of paper flower

• glue a small button or bead in the center

• let dry - curl up edges of the book flower

• for variety, mix up the patterns & make some with hearts

• place tea bags in a jar & tie some ribbon around the top

• make a small tag using the decorative paper & a button

• return the slippers ( I am just KIDDING! )

The adhesive paper & flowers I picked up at Michael's and had all the rest in my stash.

Grabbed a box of Earl Grey at the market & I was ready to get my crafty on!  Love the bergamot scent of Earl Grey, don't you?

Can you guess the book I pulled the pages from?

That was fun & easy, right? Sweet, handmade, thoughtful, a luxury, beautiful & whimsical ~ just as it should be!

 Oh and, tell your mom, she can cut off the embellishment after steeping & re-use for another project!!

Let's raise our cups & toast to all the Moms out there ~ on earth, in heaven & forever in our hearts. 

xx Kelly xx

p.s. If your mom is a coffee drinker get her a French Press - here is how to use one!