Coffee Dyeing Paper

It was a warm day yesterday, really warm, but there was a bit of breeze in the morning. The perfect day for coffee dyeing paper outside on the front porch, I thought. So, I got all my supplies out, the clothes drying rack, a TV table, a bin with coffee in it and some security envelope papers to start with.

Well, it did not go quite as expected. The breeze, while pleasant, also blew the papers off of the clothes dyeing rack as they dried. They were scattered all over the porch and some even ended up in the grass in the front yard.

Anyway, I did manage to get them all coffee dyed and dry enough to put in the book presses to flatten them. Twenty-four hours later, see some samples of them below. I will use them for collages and embellishments in future journals.

I was hoping to do some full sheets of copy paper for journal pages to, but that will have to wait for another day.