How I Tea Stain Paper / Tea Stain Chat

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[@vblack7770]

I started coming here for the booksmith content. Now I come for the Nik dialog as well. Love the silliness and light hearted chat.

[@ellabella2603]

Love these tea staining chats. Hope the bread works out. I also hate cleaning. I watched my non-ADHD sister clean once. She is very efficient and it doesn't take her long because she focuses on one thing at a time. My cleaning looks more like - sees a plate and goes to put it in the dishwasher but wait! There's that can from last night's dinner and it's dry. Leaves plate on counter and takes can to recycle bin. Sees a piece of paper in the recycle bin that should be shredded. Grabs it and takes it to the office to be put in the shred pile. Sees a sweater that needs washing on the chair in the office..... okay you get the picture. Happy New Year! Hopefully this one will be much better. 🙂

[@sharonmika4786]

I will happily listen to you ramble while working with paper! Thank you for the short respite from life. 💫

[@JP-xp6pf]

I try to do most of my paper dying (tea, coffee, beet juice, food coloring, etc) during the winter when we burn wood for heat. I wait until the fire is just about right (not too intense) then pile the wet paper in disposable aluminum tins on the top of the cast iron wood stove and baby sit it until dry.

[@treemerryweather]

i wait for the Santa Ana conditions to stain papers. The humidity is usually in the single digits and drying is quite fast.

[@bettejowelton7459]

Love to visit and chat with you, about anything at all. May your New Year be blessed with Peace and Joy.

[@shabbyrosecreationsbykem]

OMG!!! I thought I was the only 1 that despises cleaning out the refrigerator. Not to mention cleaning the oven 😂. I have a bread maker, and I love it. Thank you for sharing this video. Happy New Year's🎉🥂🎊 stay safe and healthy.

[@lyninraleigh1389]

You are the 1st person I have seen on YT of the MANY videos about coffee/tea dying paper to address the importance of neutralizing the acid. We all have been buying acid free paper supplies for so many years, so it seems like more people would understand the importance 🤷‍♀️ Anyway, thank you for always being so thoughtful & thorough. That sheet is pretty awesome, btw. Yes, please let us know how your bread turns out. I made sourdough & slow rise bread for years & found it much more digestible.

[@carolstern3647]

Yay Nik..I love tea staining as opposed to coffee staining..xx thank you 💗 Also love the effect you achieve from your drying sheet x👌😁💗

[@kellysweeney3842]

I have been gluten free for about 10 years now. It was very hard for about the first 3 months or so, but now, it's no big deal at all. With your knowledge of baking, which I did not and still do not possess, you should be just fine. There really are some awesome hacks out there that make gluten free foods almost identical to wheat containing foods. Gluten free has come a long way, even in the decade I've been following this diet. You're gonna be ok!

[@cherylcox2056]

Thank you for sharing your method of tea staining

[@JannyHaak]

Hey Nik, thanks for the chat and Happy New Year to you from The Netherlands! ❤️

[@louisesouza6627]

Thank you for sharing.

[@chrissy24-7]

I went gluten free after my husband did, I have had a significant lessening of arthritis pain. I highly recommend it, and on pintrest you can find dozens of good recipes! 💕

[@sveapea72]

Never thought of having a sheet under the papers 🥳👍 awsome, thank you for sharing, looking really gorgeous 🥰❤️🙏

[@danaroth1525]

Oh man Nik!!! You are a genius. I don’t know how you think of all this stuff. I would love to walk around in your brain for a day. I would be yelling “the lid, the lid, the lid” 😂 For those of you that have not enrolled in one of Nic’s Teachable Classes, you are missing out! I have learned so much from them. Lastly, Nik you mentioned using the paper from Pepin. I am obsessed with it. So beautiful. I ordered the Vincent Van Gogh one, it is exquisite!!!! I hope your feeling good. Hang in there lady.

[@veronicawhite398]

I'm so jealous, Nik, so jealous! 😉 Thanks for the handy tip about the sheet. 🤟

[@AzaleaLala]

I don't know why, but I love tea staining paper. I even tea stain scrapbook paper. I make the biggest mess in my kitchen. Happy New Year. I am very hopeful for this year. Please show us your finished tea dye papers.

[@annedwyer457]

Thank you for the great chat Nik - please share he bread recipe if "approved" as my daughter is also gluten intolerant and is always looking for something easy, tasty and gluten free. Hope you had a really lovely Christmas and a great New Year - cheers from Australia

[@shirleymccullough2515]

Thanks Nik and Happy New Year 💖

[@annkathy257]

Enjoyed watching you work through your process! Yep, I 'member when that sheet wasn't quite so patinaed(ish)! Lots of lovely sheet staining ago, I'm sure!! 😊

[@clc3897]

Happy New Year, Nik!!! We all have very high expectations of this new year, let’s hope it will stand up to our wishes. All my love to you. ❤️❤️❤️🥰❤️❤️❤️

[@MakingMelodyCrafts]

I love staining paper. I just use plain coffee and bake it but yes, it takes me HOURS. This seems like a more efficient way to do it. Also, I wanted you to know, a little while ago you shared about your recent health challenges and I have pretty bad eczema, especially on my hands, and I was hesitant to get on you tube because of it. Well, one day about a year ago or so, I watched a video of yours where you mentioned that you had some, correct me if I'm wrong, small motor control issues and that gave me courage. I thought, I can be on you tube, even with my eczema. Just wanted you to know that YOU ARE AN INSPIRATION. Thanks so much!

[@angierahui]

Kia ora from Aotearoa New Zealand, peace, love & good health to you & your whaanau (family) Nik. x

[@crozlowcrafts]

Just stumbled across your channel after searching for junk journal. Loving the content so far... I cleaned out my fridge yesterday too 😉

[@sarahscraftyallsorts6482]

Happy new year to you and your family . Am in uk and where I live we have gone into yet another lock down. I work in a supermarket so you can imagine the all kinds of crazy that is right now. I so hope 2021 gets better. Best wishes xx

[@roseanndeighan5872]

Happy New year ❣️ I've been busy relocating to be near my grandson 💙 what a good idea during a pandemic... furniture shortage as I am shopping for new furniture to fill my new house 😁 Be well 🙏🏽💗

[@LamiaFox]

I love listening to your rambles. I wish I could say I’ve had a productive day, but, this past year plumb tuckered me out and I spent most of the day relaxing. I did think about you last night as I took the time to watch a movie with Micheal Keaton in it. It was “The Dream Team”, it was one of my sisters favorites, so of course she was on my mind as well. One of my least favorite things to do is to tea stain paper. I love the way you do it without an oven. I agree about not having time to babysit the paper in the oven. Knowing my luck I would find a squirrel and burn my hard earned paper and catastrophic things would happen. I’m really glad that we have a new year too. Hopefully it is a real new beginning and not just a continuation of last year. Here’s to a great new year...unless we end up having to just continue counting up from December. That would be awful to have December 354th. Please don’t jinx us that way. Lol! I hope your bread turns out!

[@francinegobeil2429]

Happy new year! What a good idea! Bonne chance with your bread and don’t get discouraged if you don’t succeed the firs time! It’s a learning process, for me anyway

[@VondaBlackbournbooks]

Nil you are a really, really cool chick. Loved learning your tricks. Happy New Year!

[@tuthillg]

Great recipe and technique! TFS the inspiration, Nik!

[@margiesmith1045]

Yep, thanks for reminding me. I'm off to clean out my refrigerator...

[@katpaints]

Happy Tea Staining!!! I love the idea of the sheet being part of the process... thinking of just coffee and tea staining a sheet. Right now my Dollar Tree cookie sheets stacked on top of each other is my method. I can just spray a few sheets, layering them on plastic lace, etc, and pile the trays up on top of each other until I have no more. In the summer, they are done in a few hours - the benefit of no AC. It takes longer when it is not as hot. I do have a huge cutting table but it has become just one more surface that holds slowly-done projects. :/ I hope your bread recipe is yummy!!!

[@secretsquirrelaimee7721]

A very long time!! Good to see you pop up! Happy New Year!!!

[@sallygreenhead9708]

Well every day is a school day, I never knew you could layer the papers. I assumed they’d stick together and tear easy when trying to separate. I’ll give this a go. Thank you Nik. Hope you show us the dry papers x

[@tattoolane1]

Happy New Year Nik. Loved this tea staining chat, and I'd love to dry mine outside, but unfortunately I live in the UK, and our climate just doesn't allow for outside drying. So it's oven drying I'm afraid. I love your crazy chat, you keep me insane, which is so cool, you're inside my head so much it's not true. Stay safe lovely lady ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ ps people who love to clean? Really?????

[@debbiecarter6430]

Thanks Nik. How lovely to hear you rambling. Wishing you and yours all the very best for 2021. 😘

[@Bellablogger]

Always enjoy watching your channel and learn something. I wanted to share with you a flour (with gluten) my husband can eat with his intolerance to wheat flour (gluten). Spelt flour from BERLIN BAKERY in Berlin, Ohio is the only place we get the spelt flour (precursor to wheat flour) it is from Germany. Spelt from other sources makes him ill. We use it just like flour. bread, rolls, cakes, pancakes, cobblers, pies. No wheat flour in our home. Hope this is helpful.

[@kathleenseligmytatterednto8560]

I needed your whit today. Good luck on the bread recipe! Hugs and happy new year!

[@NorthlightsStudio]

Happy New Year! I was tea staining as well! Through I don't have a nice big table and had to babysit my stove. I'm looking forward to completing some of your courses this year!!

[@rosemarylevin5267]

Happy new year from Maine! 🎉

[@susanmary4752]

would love to see the results after the paper is dry

[@1771bubba]

Me too. Are you going to do a part 2 so we can see the finished paper? Hope so.

[@Meanne77]

oooh, this is how you get these awesome patterns on your sheets! Happy new year Nik! :)

[@joannepeyton1654]

Happy New Year, Nik! Actually enjoyed listening to you and watching you dye all that paper. My husband makes fun of me because I take over every spot on my kitchen counters.🥴 While they dry I can clean out the frig. Really do enjoy that chore. The oven is another story. 💜😎

[@teresemartinez6215]

Also thankful for the new year, love the chat!

[@michelles9117]

Loving the colour match of your jumper and tray of tea/coffee! Thanks for the baking soda tip. Happy New Year.

[@deborahm.2460]

Thanks for the Nik chat!

[@maiotm]

Hiya Nik! Hope you’re well. Can you recommend some virgin copy paper? Weight? Much obliged!

[@angg645]

Happy New Year! I totally hate cleaning the fridge too... and mine is over due for a clean...oh and add the oven haha.

[@smchalk3535]

It is so nice to hear your voice. Happy new year

[@HooliganMomma]

Love to you Nik...and Happy, Healthy New Year! I LOVE all your video/chats..not matter what you're doing!! This was fun and I LOVE your sheet...we all need a Nik-don'twashyoursheet- sheet!!! xo

[@mycreativelife-renee6315]

You seriously got me in the mood to go and do some dyeing. My supply so low. Thanks for sharing!

[@mickansj334]

A really good continuation of the year 2021.

[@bshelley0]

I live in a humid climate so I wouldn’t use a sheet or the paper would never dry in the summer but I DO reuse, without rinsing, the same plastic sheeting.

[@lalagamma4452]

Stunning!! Great tutorial. I'm in a humid climate what do I need to do differently? Otherwise I will wait till our move to Jamestown NY... When it's cold I can dye there without humidity issues. Do you do onion, avocado, berries, beets, food color, Kool aid or other things to dye with? I'd love tutorials on those. Happy New Year🐞🥰⛄❄️☃️🌨️

[@junkjournalgirl]

Hi Nik and Happy NY from Australia :) Great idea with the sheet. I just did a heap and had a warm day and hung it on the line hehe. Not windy lol!!! I don't bother with the oven either, I agree waste of time. I dye everything lol! Have a great night x

[@johnibrazzell764]

Great sheet concept. Happy New Year

[@maureenmunro2826]

Love the sheet idea! It would be yummy to use in mixed media....if some was ever available. ❤️

[@fondahorton6248]

This was relaxing to watch, thank you 💗

[@marcellavanos5537]

TFS You all have a Happy, healthy 2021!

[@MaximumCC]

Morning from a freezing Scotland, wish I could leave it out to dry but definitely an oven girl (lack of room and heat) have fun with the fridge 🤣 rock star 😎

[@ruthbryant3929]

Thank you.

[@MarjorieSnyder]

Happy New Year

[@teresitalamas5304]

Happy New Year. Hope you had a peaceful one. Thank you for sharing the tea/coffee staining chat and Tips.

[@valeriehayne]

How funny. Today I'm going to coffee dye paper because it's such a sunny and beautiful day. KZbin might be a witch.

[@eff237]

Happy New Year Nik cannot believe you are doing this as my job for tomorrow ready in the worktop fi or me xxxxxxx

[@kkinn33]

I don’t know why it took me so long to find you but gosh i love you! I was diagnosed with a gluten allergy (i was so mad.. i love baking from scratch.. breads pies cakes you name it) and switching to gluten free baking made me angry 😂😂😂 I hope you have a better path than me!!

[@donnahunter3488]

Happy New Year to you as well.... I wished I had the room in my tiny house to tea stain paper like that. I would even break down and lay in on the floor but it would confuse my dog as a puppy pad and go potty on it! 😂😂😂

[@whisperingbotanicals5304]

Happy new year Nik. Here’s to your health this year. Hopefully now that you know what’s what, you can feel better this year xoxo. I had to cut out gluten for an auto immune disease I have & sorry to be the Debbie downer but I hate being gf. You’re totally right. Nothing is as good as wheat flour. I’m not a huge bread person but I miss pasta and nice breads/fresh soft buns or pizza on occasion. The holidays are the hardest. There is nothing even close :( nothing has that chewy goodness of wheat lol. Plus I’m vegetarian and I used to use gluten for veggie meats (wheat meat! Gluten is high in protein). Anyway enough of my moaning about it. If anyone can find any good recipes it’s you :) yay!! Please keep us posted lol. Nice to listen to your chats as always

[@craftsnhaulswithlela]

I love the look of tea stained. Would you do a studio tour of your craft space?

[@karenpruis501]

Have a healthy and happy new year!

[@lianelinner9594]

Thank you Thank you Thank you :)

[@yvethemetriccrafter688]

Nic if you find a good gluten free bread please share it as bread is so hard to find a good one

[@NiteOwlCrafter]

Happy New Year Nik!! I never knew to put baking soda in the mix! Well, in the back of my brain somewhere I knew that acid and paper don't mix!! Thanks Nik and Happy 2021!

[@nancylemieux8058]

Now THAT'S a Measuring Cup!!!...Hello neighbor can I borrow a CUP of sugar??

[@mycreativespace]

Happy New Year from me in Norway 🤗 A brand new year with “blank sheets” 😉 - I’ll guess it’s time for me too to fill up the shelves with some tea/coffee dyed paper. I rather do that than to clean the freezer 🤣 Stay safe and take care, hugs from Helen

[@karmakauffman7445]

Noooo! No refrigerator cleaning!! I Hate that chore. It’s exhausting and time consuming and usually gross in some way. And then I usually have to clean up the kitchen afterwards because I get water everywhere. Yuck. Do let us know how the bread turns out. Finding a good bread recipe, gluten-free or otherwise, is always a delight. 😊

[@mariannevandermarel4665]

Happy and creative new year, Nik! I do teacoffeestaining about the exact same way, except for the bedsheet. It works super for me! Nice video again! Thanks! 🙏😍

[@penelopemarshall6320]

Groundhog Day 2020! Nooooo way glad it's gone! No Dec 32nd. Happy new year Nik. 😊❤

[@Jeannette.akaJnett]

How did your bread work out? I would love a good recipe for gluten free bread, only because like you, I love a good bread. I went gluten free for 6 months (right down to the ingredients in mustard). The neurologist wanted to see if it would help my migraines. Nope, but hubby and I did find a wonderful pancake mix that we loved the flavor of. I was not a pancake person until we tried it and now that's the only mix I buy. Also found I much prefer Nut Thins, almond with light sea salt, crackers. Don't eat any other kind. They are rice based and yummy.

[@collettekunkler7211]

Been doing it this way ever sense you did the last video,, find it the easiest! Oh if you find a good bread recipe please share! 🥰

[@joygoodloe1263]

Not sure if you have it where you live but we use Krusteaz Gluten Free all purpose flour as a replacement for all our family recipes that call for all purpose flour. We love it and my picky eater kids can't even tell the difference. (hint: I always shake my flour container before measuring to make sure it doesn't become densely packed.)

[@ImGinaMarie]

LOL December 32!!!! Too funny!!! Not a good year!! Looks like at some point you will have a fantastic sheet for snippets!! 😯

[@angiehallhaviland]

Happy Happy New Year!!! Hope 2021 is a Great one for you!!

[@JennsCorner777]

Your tea staining sheet is "seasoned" or patina'd. Niice.

[@uniqueunicorndesign6535]

Hey Nik, could you share the gluten-free bread recipe....I, too, have been struggling to find a decent piece of bread since I was determined to be gluten intolerant about a year ago. The struggle IS real.... going to try the sheet thing too, have the perfect one up in my closet.

[@betsinewbury4670]

I'm a couple of weeks late to this party and am surprised at how differently we do staining. One of the primary ways is your use of baking soda. What does it do to the solution? Thanks much!

[@StaceysStash]

I need to get a good tea staining station lol. Sadly the only table we have big enough is wood and I don't think that would end pleasantly lol

[@donnakennedy87]

I use a paint tarp, possibly that would work for you too? Donna, in California.

[@RockinStacy]

In the beginning of the video, you can Nik has used a plastic drop cloth. I bought a heavy mil plastic drop cloth to use on my wood table and have had no issues. Have a happy, healthy New Year! :)

[@StaceysStash]

@@RockinStacy If it were my table I probably would try it but it belongs to my dad and since I'm living in his house right now I'm not going to take the chance! Hopefully I will be able to get settled in a place soon that I can have the space and furniture to use for it!!

[@RockinStacy]

@@StaceysStash I would have respect for my father's table as well. :)

[@barbaramorck2933]

Do you have floor space in a garage? Or, climate permitting, you could do this outside.

[@donnakennedy87]

Do you plan to recycle that sheet? I can see some wonderful journal ephemera from this dyed fabric. Covers would be really nice I think? Happy New Year!. TYFS, Donna, in California.

[@melodyveit3014]

Aww wanted to see how you lift them up once dry and end product😩😩

[@Diana0802]

Happy New Year, Nik! Have a Blessed Year.

[@jyi5506]

Very interesting to add baking soda to cut acid. I was wondering about the acidity of staining paper. For me, your conversation was fun and knowledgeable. I’m supposed to avoid wheat and have found for store brands of gluten free breads, the further down the ingredient list I find any guar or xanthum gum, the better the texture and the less rubbery the breads. Do you find the same for recipes? I can’t bake bread right now or I’d love to. At one time I baked all my family’s breads. Yum! ;) Looking forward to seeing your finished paper! ps I love your saved sheet stains method.

[@amythomas9204]

Happy 2021 Nik!🎊🎉

[@alituttle-easton8857]

I loved the Dec 32st comment!

[@LiterarySnob]

Happy New years to you!! Love your don't wash be sheet. I be cooked a 24 pound turkey yesterday... Can I send you some turkey sandwichs???

[@LedgerAndLace]

I think the last tea staining chat was when you got your car . . . a coupla years ago? I haven't cleaned my fridge since last year. (Harhar) I can imagine Marie Kondo asking if your fridge "sparks joy." NO!!! I need gluten!!! Don't try to duplicate your pastry chef days with GF, it will only lead to the taste of sawdusty disappointment. Eventually you'll get over it and find a few good substitutions that aren't too horrible. * Le Sigh * I miss pizza and real pies . . . . :-)

[@sherryvanderpool4024]

Happy New Year 🎈

[@angelina_133]

Happy new year tea staining community

[@prof.mommyarty]

Hi I'm new, thank you for this as I'm new to this as well

[@LeeAnnH7878]

Rockstar lifestyle is where it’s at!

[@recoveringsoul755]

I was wondering how you did this. Pretty new to your channel. Thanks for refreshing others and teaching the new people. So no recycled paper huh? I will keep that in mind I'm still not sure how Avocado and green and pink are dyed. I think the avocado pits are used for the pink.