Upcycle Coffee Filters Into Stunning Faux Hydrangeas With A Crafty DIY

If you're a coffee lover and often make your caffeinated beverage at home, then you're probably very familiar with white, flimsy coffee filters. While they're incredibly helpful in keeping gritty coffee grounds out of your vanilla latte, there are also many creative uses for coffee filters around the house. Since these filters have a similar texture and thickness to tissue paper, they're often used in crafts and DIY projects because of their affordability and versatility. In a TikTok tutorial from @diyjoycrafts, you can even learn how to turn your extra coffee filters into a bouquet of faux hydrangeas, taking them from functional to fabulous.

Hydrangeas are characterized for their beautiful colors and full blooms with oodles of petals squished together to form their famous clumps amidst their leaves. While they typically require moderate maintenance in the garden or in your house, faux versions can be more cost effective, require no upkeep, and are just as beautiful with personalized colors. The tutorial by @diyjoycrafts shows how to use a stack of unused coffee filters, food coloring, floral wire, and hot glue to personalize your very own bouquet of faux hydrangeas in a matter of minutes.

To start crafting your own hydrangea blossoms, you'll want to first lay out your unused coffee filters and fold them in half four times, then draw the petal pattern lightly with a pencil onto the filter. After cutting it out and unfolding the filter, add some color with either watercolor paints or, for an even easy DIY, a bit of food coloring mixed with water. While pink, blue, purple, and white are the classic colors of hydrangeas, you can mix it up here with whatever shade you like, or even combine colors on the petals to create a personalized ombre effect. After they dry, you'll poke the wire through the center of the filters and hot glue them to it, adding more to the bottom to create the signature 'clump' look. Add as many as you like until you're satisfied with the shape!

Once your flowers are done, you can use them however you wish. Fake flowers can be used to create inexpensive wall art, bouquets, or even affordable and long-lasting wedding décor. If you to use your faux hydrangeas as décor for an event or wedding, they can become a decoration you can reuse after the big day as a mementos of those special moments or to introduce added flair in your home. One way to dress up fake flowers as décor is by using an elegant vase. The extra detail of the vase can help tie in the colors, as well as make the blooms look more real and intentional.