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This is a coffee filter flower. First I mixed yellow petal dust with vodka to do the edges of the petals. A learning experience for me. Now I know that the petal needs to be damp to evenly blend in the added color. I applied it to dry petals, and, well, you can see how the edges look, blunt mostly, with some running of the color down the petal. The yellow that I used looks orange here. Then I lightly sprayed it with the Wilton yellow food spray color. Mainly because I did not want to go to all the trouble of setting up my airbrush! lol I enjoyed making this one, and will be doing it again! I didn't get out the glue gun either, just used the hand stapler and a glue stick. Got the pattern from the internet. When I found out that I had 2 filters stuck together on the base, I separated them, and added the color. It is a fantasy flower after all! lol

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Comment by Bonnie Willey on March 24, 2015 at 8:31pm

Thanks guys!!  I doubt if the wafer paper could ever be made to look so uniformly ruffled!  Or, at all, really!  When I tried to dampen it enough to be able to toll it back some, for the edge of a rose, it just stuck to itself, flattened out too, so there went the 'roll effect'!  lol  Went to town today & got a bottle that would 'mist', s now maybe I won't get them quite so wet! lol   Thought I had one, but couldn't find it anywhere!  

Comment by art deco cakes by galidink on March 24, 2015 at 9:19am

pretty , nice job

Comment by Sandra Smiley on March 24, 2015 at 8:51am

Oh, didn't realize this one was coffee filters, too.  Thought it was wafer paper.  Yeah, definitely like the coffee filters better!  Still like your color, though :o)  I, too, did the tissue flowers about 100 years ago.  I can remember a bunch of us making them for our graduation party when I was in 12 grade.

Comment by Bonnie Willey on March 22, 2015 at 7:09pm

Thank you!  I will bow to your superior knowledge in cases like this! {:o)

Comment by Goreti on March 22, 2015 at 7:07pm

No, I mean it.  I really like it.

Comment by Bonnie Willey on March 22, 2015 at 7:02pm

Ha ha ha!  Thanks, but NOW you are just being kind!  The colors are crying out for help! lol  I uploaded it because it is part of the learning curve/process for me. 

Comment by Goreti on March 22, 2015 at 6:14pm

so pretty

Comment by Bonnie Willey on March 22, 2015 at 5:14pm

Thank You Betty!!  I know!  I used to do them to, but that was waayyy back, in my 4-H club days! lol

Comment by Betty on March 22, 2015 at 4:44pm

You're on a roll Bonnie...Looks pretty... Reminds me of the tissue paper flowers I used to make, that was fun too. :))

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