Dyed Coffee Filter Wreath for the 4th

 We currently have a ton of projects going on around here right now, one of which is having our hall bathroom remodeled--always awesome right before you go out of town, right?  It should be finished up today, and we'll be back to having 2 toilets in the house.  Woohoo!

But I've wanted to throw this wreath together for a while now, and not being able to leave the house (since we've had workers here) gave me the opportunity to get it done.

I made colored coffee filters the same way I did for my yellow wreath in my porch makeover.  

I used paint to make red and blue colored water and dipped the filters down in it.

When they dried (helped by my hair dryer) I cut them into flower shapes (several filters at a time).

I cut a circle out of cardboard (doesn't even have to be perfect, but the rounder the better of course :) and painted it white.

Then to assemble it, I made blossoms by pinching the center of each coffee filter and pulling it down into a "badminton birdie" shape.  Then with my glue gun I glued 3 of those together, just at the point.

Then I glued 4 blue blossoms down on the top left part, and filled in the rest with red ones.

It's now hanging from the same burlap strip that the yellow one was--and I attached it using a small binder clip!

How's your 4th of July decorating coming?  (To be honest, this is probably all I'll do--ha!)

 
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