I'm helping Cathy make paper flowers for her granddaughter's open house next weekend, I've never seen flowers made from dyed coffee filters - they're so pretty!! And really easy. She has a couple others I'll show you after we work on them some more today, in the meantime check out these...
She flattened and stacked 8 filters together, folded in half, in half again, and in half again creating a cone shape. Dip one end in a cup of water dyed with food coloring, then dip the other end into a different cup with another color (she did pink and peach). Open the filters back up and lay on a plate to dry.
Once they are dry (you can speed up the drying time with a hair dryer) fold the whole stack in half and staple in the middle close to the fold to hold them together. Starting with the top layer, pull a filter up and fluff it into a flower shape, continue with all the layers until you have a pretty, full, ruffly flower.
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