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Coffee Filters
winterrose@juno.com
Years ago, we used them when painting with acrylics to keep the acrylic paint from drying quickly when painting something large. We would wet the filters down, then put on our pallette, and add the paint. You could even take an extended break and the paint on your pallette was still fine. And if we had paint left on the filter when we were done, we put the filter in a margarine tub and the paint stayed fine for days.
Years ago, we used them when painting with acrylics to keep the acrylic paint from drying quickly when painting something large. We would wet the filters down, then put on our pallette, and add the paint. You could even take an extended break and the paint on your pallette was still fine. And if we had paint left on the filter when we were done, we put the filter in a margarine tub and the paint stayed fine for days.
Stampnyama@aol.com
TUB TEA,,,,,,, You can make TUB TEA fill it with bath crystals (then you get less particles to invade your body) or Epsom salts ,,,, or herbs and spices,,,,,, staple shut, Stamp a cute tea tag and staple to a string on the bag,,,,,,I use my Darcie bubble bath bear to make a card to go with it,,,You can fold them too look like tea bags too,,just tell the people to whom you give them NOT to put the TAG in the tub,,INK bleeds you know
TUB TEA,,,,,,, You can make TUB TEA fill it with bath crystals (then you get less particles to invade your body) or Epsom salts ,,,, or herbs and spices,,,,,, staple shut, Stamp a cute tea tag and staple to a string on the bag,,,,,,I use my Darcie bubble bath bear to make a card to go with it,,,You can fold them too look like tea bags too,,just tell the people to whom you give them NOT to put the TAG in the tub,,INK bleeds you know
jmorrison@nm-us.campus.mci.net (Jody Morrison)
Try cutting one side so they lay flat and then using different types of inks and brayering them. Should work out great as background and collage elements.
Try cutting one side so they lay flat and then using different types of inks and brayering them. Should work out great as background and collage elements.
stampatti@juno.com (Patti Welsh)
I expect they're very absorbent. Great candidates for tie-dye paper coloring = background papers.
I expect they're very absorbent. Great candidates for tie-dye paper coloring = background papers.
Rubrwoman@aol.com
I tried using in a paper cast....didn't work as great as I thought.
I tried using in a paper cast....didn't work as great as I thought.
Karen Harris harris@njcc.com
I wanted to share a tip today - you can make neat background paper using coffee filters and washable markers. Lay your coffee filter out onto scrap paper. Color with a few colors of markers. Designs can be random. Lay paper toweling under the filter. Then sprinkle water with your fingers onto the filter. The colors will run creating a beautiful design. When this is dry you can stamp a butterfly or flower onto the filter and cut it out. Or use the filter as a layered piece. Often the paper towel underneath comes out looking neat too.
I wanted to share a tip today - you can make neat background paper using coffee filters and washable markers. Lay your coffee filter out onto scrap paper. Color with a few colors of markers. Designs can be random. Lay paper toweling under the filter. Then sprinkle water with your fingers onto the filter. The colors will run creating a beautiful design. When this is dry you can stamp a butterfly or flower onto the filter and cut it out. Or use the filter as a layered piece. Often the paper towel underneath comes out looking neat too.
Leslie Callahan Ryan lcallaha@tuc.com
The coffee filter books/cards consist of a cardstock cover (which when fully open resembles a butterfly shape) into which coffee filters (the cone-shaped with the point cut off kind, not the Mr. Coffee kind) have been sewn or otherwise bound. You can design your own cover template by laying two filters back to back (cut-off point side to cut-off point side) on a piece of paper and tracing around adding one-fourth inch, or so, all the way around. Now fold this in half (left to right) and match up the edges, trimming where necessary. The kind I have seen and made are bound on the closed side of the filters leaving the open-ended filters as the pocket pages into which you can place confetti, a tea bag, a little note, a small baggie of ep, flat candy, or whatever. You can decorate the inside and outside front and back covers and the front and back of each "page" that you choose to include in your book. You can add ribbons to the inside of the cover to tie your little book closed. The filterscome in several sizes, in white and in kraft brown, and are very inexpensive. I hope that this description together with whatever you have seen will help you to picture how to assemble these delightful books!
The coffee filter books/cards consist of a cardstock cover (which when fully open resembles a butterfly shape) into which coffee filters (the cone-shaped with the point cut off kind, not the Mr. Coffee kind) have been sewn or otherwise bound. You can design your own cover template by laying two filters back to back (cut-off point side to cut-off point side) on a piece of paper and tracing around adding one-fourth inch, or so, all the way around. Now fold this in half (left to right) and match up the edges, trimming where necessary. The kind I have seen and made are bound on the closed side of the filters leaving the open-ended filters as the pocket pages into which you can place confetti, a tea bag, a little note, a small baggie of ep, flat candy, or whatever. You can decorate the inside and outside front and back covers and the front and back of each "page" that you choose to include in your book. You can add ribbons to the inside of the cover to tie your little book closed. The filterscome in several sizes, in white and in kraft brown, and are very inexpensive. I hope that this description together with whatever you have seen will help you to picture how to assemble these delightful books!
Shelle michele@ipa.net
I have a question about these books. I understand about the filters, I have a store that carries them. I understand about the shape of the book, and how to do the covers. I went to StampCity and read the instructions.
I have a question about these books. I understand about the filters, I have a store that carries them. I understand about the shape of the book, and how to do the covers. I went to StampCity and read the instructions.
Here are my questions:
1. Are the filters the actual pages??
2. Do the filters have to be cut along the edges after binding to open it up?
2. Do the filters have to be cut along the edges after binding to open it up?
East Coast Art Stamps artbyamy@kiski.net
Hi! I wrote the instructions, so I think I can help (g). The coffee filter will be open after they are bound. The "pages" are seperate little cardstock pages which go inside the filter "pouches". You can put anything you want inside the "pouches". I have a friend who made hers into a "coffee book". Inside each "pouch" was a little fact about coffee, and the last pouch contained $1 and instructed you to "go buy yourself a cup of coffee". Remember, there are no rules!
Hi! I wrote the instructions, so I think I can help (g). The coffee filter will be open after they are bound. The "pages" are seperate little cardstock pages which go inside the filter "pouches". You can put anything you want inside the "pouches". I have a friend who made hers into a "coffee book". Inside each "pouch" was a little fact about coffee, and the last pouch contained $1 and instructed you to "go buy yourself a cup of coffee". Remember, there are no rules!