PIN IT FRIDAY FAVS: Tea Bag Holder Version 2

Have you seen the new version of the tea bag holder popping up on Pinterest like this?

(CLICK HERE for the Original Pin)

My patient and talented paper crafter, Patsy, made me smile BIG TIME at work recently by giving me one for Easter:

The nice thing about this new version is that you can add some cookies to the center because there is plenty of room between the two sides! (See a bag a cookies in the very first photo above?) Now that Easter is over, I've been making all-occasion versions non-stop! The various double-sided papers make each one look entirely different:

Front View

Back View 

(Individual tea bags wrapped in cellophane

from Trader Joe's work well for this project!)

Love this paper!

I decided to make some directions for my card making friends using Patsy's tea bag holder. It started out with this photo:

Then I had a moment of clarity and decided to look for instructions online...and voilà!...here is the glorious pdf I found and a video tutorial, too! Maybe you'll become obsessed with making these --- just like me!

For the pdf instructions, CLICK HERE

and for the video tutorial, watch below:

NOTE: I discovered when folding the four corners to the fold lines to create a diagonal fold that it's best to leave a little space between the edges and the 2 1/2" and 6 " fold lines so the whole thing folds up better!

Here are more clever versions of the tea bag holder that I found on Pinterest this past week:

CLICK HERE for the Original Pin

CLICK HERE for the Original Pin

CLICK HERE for the Original Pin

CLICK HERE for Original Pin

and links to instructions