Tutorial - Coffee Filter Pockets & Ephemera 

That ruffle would be so cute with those tiny little flowers in the center and a flat back pearl in the center of the flower. You could even dress it up more by adding a small narrow piece of lace. Love these ideas great video .

Fun, fun, and more fun!!!!!!! I had a blast watching you have fun and now I've got to get started!!!!!!!

I think it would be cute to add pressed flowers to the front pocket. Very nice. Your so upbeat thank you

So many possibilities with coffee filters.Who knew?Thank you so much for all the great ideas. the pink ones are so pretty.

I am so glad this is still available to view!

You can never ever throw any away! Lol. Love the flower on it 😘💋🇨🇦❤️

Thanks for the 5 ways to fold the coffee filters. I made mini pockets using cupcake papers. They work just the same but you can buy them with cute designs on them. Especially during the holidays! Love watching your videos!

Thats what i was thinking about the leftovers! Cute little ruffles!!

Wonderful, wonderful. What fun to have you share with us. You're my daily dose of creativity. TFS

I enjoyed this very much, especially the last ruffle but when you added the little flower! Great ideas, tfs!

Such great ideas, thanks so much. After I make my coffee every day, I remove the coffee filters & grounds and use them to coffee dye paper. Much easier than baking, etc. After filter is dry the next day, I brush off the coffee and put in folder. When I get a bunch, I then decorate. I use a doily as stencil & use other stencils & stamps to decorate. I used pink on the last bunch. I can use them instead of doilies in my journals. I also save teabags, strings & squares. Use the squares as tabs on pages, use the strings to make flowers & altered paperclips (will be sharing pictures), and use the teabags to cut & make flowers. Can use the leftover ends on the flowers & paper clips.

Gayle if you didn't want all the pockets you could sew around the curved edge and then fold and sew the rest. Great ideas as usual. Love watching you as you craft. Hope to start making a few journals myself in the near future.

i love making coffee filter pockets they are so soft and pretty.i make the corner pockets.i love all your ideas.

OMGoodness, so many fun ideas at little to no cost. TFS!!:)

Thank you for all the neat ideas! It will be fun making them.

Love these. I’ve been making doily pockets out of coffee filters. Love them. They also tear really cool and leave a great edge when torn. I have also taped them to a piece of printer paper and printed digital things onto the filter before making the different pockets

Loving all the fun craft brain storming!! I love seeing your results!! Great job!! k :)

Gr8 ideas,love them esp the little flower u put on the scrap at last

If you don’t sew down the Center of the ruffle, you can put the ruffle over the outside edge of your page and some filter will show on 2 sides of your page. They are so beautiful. Love these coffee filter things! Thanks.

Thank you for the coffeefilter ideas! About the shank buttons: you can make a little cut in a page and glue the button on the page, then you have at the other side a hanging point for an embellishment.

Fabulous ideas for use of coffee filters. I have some available since I now use a coffee press. Thanks for the tutorial.

Great and fun ideas Gayle!

Awesome ideas for filters.. Love your videos.. Tfs Love from Missouri.

These are really great. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience with us

Very inspirational, Gayle--thanks for sharing! Now I am off to look through my pantry for the coffee filters!

Awesome ideas! Thank you for showing us💟

I loved them!

These are great ideas Gayle! I also run them through my big shot to make tags etc.

super ideas Gayle going to go and try some of these

Gayle, this has nothing to do with filters or junk journals, but I just wanted to tell you that your voice and personality remind me of one of my favorite aunts, so I really love watching your videos because of that! 😙

I love these!

Really love the idea, I'm for sure going to try them today.🤗🌞🌻

You're the Bomb Gayle!!

So grateful for you sharing this, I have loads of filter papers & I was wondering what to do with them all.

Love these!

Love all your ideas. I am new to junk Journaling.

You are so creative! ❤️❤️❤️

Great ideas! I didn't have coffee filters handy so used doilies. So pretty! Thank you. I love watching your videos.

What a great idea I’m going to try some..if not all..thank you for a great tutorial..✂️

Nifty ideas! Thanks! Jennifer

Loved this, Gayle! Thanks for sharing! Hugs~~Chelle

Gayle, I came across this video again and realized I never told you how these filters were dyed. When your felt -tipped colored markers are almost used up, remove the felt tips and put the tip in a pint of plain rubbing alcohol. Put the top of the alcohol bottle and let the color leach out of the felt tip. When the alcohol is the color you like put the white filters in a plastic container deep enough to hold the filters submerged in the colored alcohol. If the filters are not submerged add a little water. Put the lid on the container and let the filters absorb the color. Put on gloves and squeeze the excess liquid from the filters, separate the filters on a tray or other flat surface to dry. DO NOT POU IN THE OVEN, IT'S ALCOHOL INK!! For stronger colors use new markers for more intense colors. I hope this is understandable.

Whouaaaa it s very very good ideas 👏👏👏👏

About 5 years ago I was in a swap that exchanged coffee filter books. There were 20 of us which meant I had to make that many coffee filter books. A month went by and finally received 20 different books. They are beautiful and awesome,and all in different sizes Great tutorial Louise

These are so fun, Gayle! About a week ago, I found a coffee filter envelope I'd made and forgot about... and not long after, this video pops up. Surely this means I need to make more things with coffee filters? ;). Love all the different things you made with them!

Using coffee filters will be so fun and inexpensive. Your tutorials are so easy to follow. Thank you for taking the time to share projects in detail. I am glad I found your channel.

I figured it out made some very cool!!!

Brilliant!!! Tutorial was precise, to the point and fun to watch. Coffee filters, it's on. :- ) TFS. I'll be watchin. ;- )

Great ideas Gayle! I use these natural colored filters and instead of throwing them out after using, I rinse them off, and let them dry. I have a bunch collected, just never knew what to do. Thank you for your awesome tutorials! 😊

Great video Gayle!! The other place you can get supplies is the second hand store!

Thank you for your wonderful ideas Gayle, your so generous with your time and for encouraging us and giving us great ideas to try ourselves. So many just show the finished products anymore. I hope you have a wonderful week!

I needed more ideas for coffee filters.I save all my used coffee filters . I use the coffee grounds to boil in water as coffee stain paper. I strain the grounds so it's not too messy Then I dry them in the backyard on ground cover rock in the backyard on a retainer wall. I like the little journal pages the best. Right now I tear them into strips and make flowers then layer them with other flowers on top.☺💕

Love them! Thank u

Oh Gayle it just gets better and better watching you. Thank you for sharing. You teach us in such a good way, very understandable. Bless you lady ❤️

Love what you did with the scraps. You are so creative. And generous for sharing all your talent. Thank you so much.

Fantastic ideas thank you

Thank you Gayle, gives me other ideal's that may be used for pages. Your tutorial is so worth watching.

I am so late to the party but omg the double ruffle reminds me of a leaf ❤🌹💯

Great ideas Gayle. I've been trying to use my coffee filters since we went to a Keurig. I've just been tearig pieces to use in collage and pleating strips to use as trim. They're so versatile😊

Love the idea

I love making things with coffee filters! I made a few pockets and envelops a few months ago! I really need to make more for sure :) lol What i love to do with coffee filters is get them wet then splash some inks and watch them spiderweb around the coffee filter. If you use black inks it makes it look like the moon. I used a lot of them in my Supernatural themed journal i uploaded a few months ago :) Love you Gayle! Your always playing in the background while I make journals!

Awesome ideas♥️

Thanks for this creative idea...another fun source for junk journal materials I've never thought of! The pockets are so cute! Thanks Gayle!

Great ideas. Love the envelope. Thanks for sharing.

Great ideas!

Great tutorial! I have been using the brown coffee filters in the guy journals and have made pockets with the white filters. I had not thought of folding them in half twice for a corner pocket tho! I'm excited to try that! I wait until I have used the filter for a pot of coffee and then shake most of the grounds off into a can to put in the composter. Then I rinse the little that's left under the kitchen faucet and let it dry on the drainer. It helps with getting rid of the winkles so no ironing! That's a plus! Also it drives it a little distressing. I like the scrunched ends left from the notebook. Love your lessons. Thanks.

Love love 💖

I can tell that you love what you do. I am new to junk journaling. At first, I didn't like it, but I started watching videos and how they are made. It is really interesting and I love the recycling part of it. Your video was very informative. Thank you for sharing. I am going to enjoy this journey.

Wonderful ideas!! I used of my "cupcake" coffee filters in a coffee journal I just made for my sister as a Christmas gift. I also used the regular ones; they were white so I coffee dyed them ...I coffee dyed a coffee filter haha. I also carefully opened a regular one, used it as a template and traced the shape onto a few coffee dyed papers and slipped them into a filter! This gave me a neat little "hidden journal" tuck! I didn't think to sew mine foey!!! Your ideas are always such fun! The stitch you chose really makes the envelope pop!! I cant wait to see how you decorate and incorporate them into your journal. It's late my side, everyone is sleeping but I am wide awake so thank you for keeping me company! Crafty hugs Janine :) PS Your craft iron is adorable!!

Loved it 💕❤️💕

yay happy to be here as you posted! allows me to watch & leave the dishes soaking a little bit LOL!

Hi Gayle, I am sooooo pleased to see you using the coffee filters! I have made some envelopes using filters and decorated them. I have also stamped on some. I thought about sending some to you but wasn't sure if you would want to use them in any of your beautiful journals. I am sending a personal message to you to explain further. Have a happy crafty day -- Helen

Great tutorial thank you for sharing

Have been using them in my journals forever...easy to sew together too. Make MM puffy girls with them too.

such great ideas! thank you! i just recieved a sewing machine, lol havent used one since grade 7 just need to learn how to use, but first how to put in the thread and get it into working order

As always, wonderful ideas and a great tutorial! Love how you even used the scraps at the end and they are too cute! I paused this video to run to the kitchen and put coffee filters on my shopping list! (Not a coffee drinker and my husband will still understand! Lol). Thank you for sharing, hugs, Debra

You could run a gather stitch on those scrapes and pull it up to make little flowers.

These are so cute and fun Gayle!!! I did not know you could do so much with a coffee filter!! The idea's are spinning around in my head!!!

Thank you so much for showing all ideas, so grateful for your channel, I try to craft along with you and I am learning so much Thank you for your time, just love your way , you make everything seem warm and cozy😊great personality

These are so fun. I am now worried that I’m missing more “hidden” ephemera videos. You are amazing. Thank you...Janet

Oh my goodness, Gayle! What wonderful ideas to incorporate coffee filters into journals! Love these! Love the texture! A change up from coffee dyed paper! Love the envelopes and pockets! TFS, dear! ☺❤

Such a cute idea! Loved the leaf stitch on the envelope. ♡ Will probably make the those envelopes for love letters to my Hunny Bunny. 🐰

Wow...what awesome ideas from a simple coffee filter! I just love the little book! Great video!

What fun ideas!! My favorite is the envelope pockets!! Tfs💕

Thank you for showing my " coffee cutees" again Gayle....I'll be making ripples with my big ones now as well as with the scraps. Oh and the sewing on those was an awesome idea. Nothing like being on a sweet "roll" with your coffee project😊

Awesome!! Used to make jack-o-lanterns out of coffee filters when I taught kindergarten with felt pens and eye droppers!! Forgot how versatile they are!! Thank you!!

What great things you do with coffee filters & envelopes. Who knew not me . How do you coffee die $ Kool Aid die . 🌺

Thank you for this great tutorial. I didn’t know you could do so many things with the filters. You explain everything so well. I think I am addicted to your videos lol ❤️

I've been saving my used coffee filters so I love all these ideas! Thanks!

Thanh’s for sharing!!! I have a couple of hundred after my kids bought me a Keurig (of course I couldn’t throw them out...lol) and the koolaid & food coloring. Can’t wait to try. I am so lazy I will probably try my heat press....

Thank you for sharing the process you used to make these little coffee filter embellishments. Each is so sweet! I also love the idea of using Kool-Aid to color them.

OMG.....I love these ideas! I don't drink coffee anymore, but I'm going to have to buy some coffee filters to use them in my Christmas journals that I'm working on!

Gayle thank you so much for taking the time out to do all the tutorials they are absolutely awesome love the idea's you have for coffee filters. the ends that are left i was thinking maybe make small ruffles for the edges of your pages. Thank you once again for all you do im definitely a gayle addict 😊 and yes i was talking to you sitting here saying ink the edges gayle my other half thinks ive lost my marbles 😂😂😂

Hi Gayle Thank you so much for all your great tutorials. I'm just starting out and I'm watching all your vids to get ideas. I'm a caregiver for my mother and decided to scrounge around for filters. Instead of koolaid I used water enhancers! No koolaid in the house LOL. Would you mind me contacting you for some advice and suggestions? Again thank you! Love your "bumbling"artistic ways😂

So fun, love all the great ideas. thanks for the great video.

Thank you for sharing all of these wonderful tutorials!! So much inspiration 😊

This is sooooo darn adorable!! 👏TFS, excellent tutorial! 👏Happy Veterans Day 🇺🇸XO🇺🇸XO🇺🇸XO🇺🇸XO🇺🇸XO🇺🇸XO🇺🇸

That was amazing Gayle. I kool aided some filter papers yesterday afternoon so this came in really useful. Thank you so much xxx

Gayle these coffee filter ideas are awesome❣️ I know it was a little while ago(2018), but I learn so much from you❤️❣️ I love the little book❣️

Love the new ideas! Still have coffee filters from an old coffee maker that I no longer use, so I'm going to get busy creating with them. TFS the inspiration, Gayle!