You could also run a clean wet old towel through the dryer for a bit to see if it picks up any dye. I did not have any dye when I wiped mine, but better safe than sorry. Note: When you finish drying your coffee filters, give the inside of your dryer a wipe to make sure no dye remained behind. They will take over your entire house and stain anything they come into contact with until they are dry. If you do not want to use your dryer, you can lay them out to dry.īut, be warned. Putting the coffee filters through the dryer creates that ruffled look you can see below in the photo. To help the drying process along, separate your stacks into groups of four or five when you add them to the dryer.ĭon’t do different colour batches at the same time and stick to one colour (trust me on this). Once they are no longer dripping wet, toss them into a cool dryer for about 20 minutes. Let the stacks of dyed coffee filters rest on an old towel for a few minutes to allow more of the moisture to runoff. STEP 2: DRY OFF NEWLY DYED COFFEE FILTERS I will be sharing the instructions for each of these methods below! The coffee filter pom poms look a bit like lanterns and I feel they have a texture that compliments the fluffy tissue paper flowers nicely.
The last method I tried was using coffee filters to make the tissue paper pom poms, which did take a bit more work but have a very unique look about them. They are the perfect paper pom-pom if you want something smaller. The second pom-pom method I tried was with crepe paper streamers wound around a pom pom maker. They most resembled flowers and had the best fluffy layered look. I first started out by making the traditional tissue paper pom poms, which I think were the best looking.
Tissue Paper Pom Poms Made With Crepe Paper Streamers.When it came time to make the decorations, I decided to try 3 different methods: 3 DIFFERENT WAYS TO MAKE TISSUE PAPER POM POMS