Bridal Shower Part 3: Coffee Filter Flower Centerpieces

Hello craftsters! I'm back in action in the blogging world... AND now I am Broke Craftster, M.A. No more grad school for me!

Time to finish up these long-overdue bridal shower posts. If you recall, my wonderful sister-in-law allowed me a plethora of crafting projects at her shower in March. I was able to make use of the coffee filter flowers previously discussed in this post. We made a LOT of them, stuck them in cheap glass vases with some candy as filler, and each guest was able to take a few home as a part of their gift. This was a super-easy (and budget-friendly) centerpiece solution and was perfect for the occasion.

SIL also saw an idea for place settings on Pinterest that ended up working out really well. She went around to some thrift stores and picked up mismatched, very pretty china plates, which she then used as for the place settings. Each guest was able to take home her plate as a memento. Cute!

Coffee filter flowers!

Hello craftsters!

After a long hiatus due to finals and general grad-student stress, Broke Craftster is back. I actually have quite a few Pinterest accomplishments to share, I just haven't gotten around to posting about them. So, here we go!

Coffee Filter Peonies

Inspiration:


My version:

Cost: about $5 for floral tape and wire. As two graduate students, we obviously have tons of coffee filters.

Rating: Excellent

Comments: These turned out awesome! Find the tutorial here. The instructions call for 2 different sizes of coffee filters, but since I only had the larger size I just cut some of them down. I only used 8 filters (it calls for 10), since my flowers looked fluffy enough and were getting a bit hard to manage. The only difficulties I had were keeping all of the filters jammed up enough at the top and wrapping the floral wire, which is much more difficult than you might think. They look awesome and I'm planning to make some more.