It’s been a while since I posted about making tea tins. I made a bunch this winter of the collage type after getting some interesting and inspiring potluck packs of paper from Gallery Shibui.
I was particularly pleased with this one. The extreme thinness of the green paper with the gold and silver inclusions allowed it to sort of blend into the burnt orange background paper, allowing the chiyogami leaf print to stand out.
I will probably still spray paint the lid black, but the weather was too cold to do it whenever I thought about it.
[...] struck me as a nice spring-y tin, after the last tea tin post’s autumn [...]