Yet some artists are giving the tea bag a second life, letting their simple shapes and colors shine. Colorado artist Wewer Keohane has been making art from spent tea bags for over 20 years.

When Home & Backyard visited, Keith demonstrated the painstaking process of creating water color art work on a tea bag. Click here to find where you can purchase his artwork.

The relaxing properties of camomile tea are beautifully captured in these ingenious tea bags created by the Malaysian advertising branch of M&C Saatchi. Each sachet features an image composed of ...