April Fools Day..no tricks just tips
I enjoy pressing flowers leaves and fernsa single flower can capture the memory of a special season
the above pansies I pressed last spring.
Pressed flowers and leaves often recall memories of pleasant walks through
fields and woods. Wildflowers such as Queen Anne's Lace dry beautifully!
Delphiniums and PansiesYou can allow your personal creativity to guide you in adding your
pressed flowers to journals greeting cards scrapbooks decoupage techniques
and more! I have made greeting cards but unfortunately have none left to show.
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Pick specimens when they are free of moisture from rain or dew
and press them promptly before they wilt. You can use a commercial gardener's press
sold in many garden specialty stores or an old phone book. *I use both
Choose flowers of equal thickness to press together placing between 2 pages
being sure that the petals are spread out flat in the position you desire.
When fully pressed and dried store in a flat box between layers of tissue paper.
It's time to press your pansies!
*enlarge the photos for closer look*
"Every season brings us magic wonder in the light and shade.Nature gives us endless bounty, memories that cannot fade." Iris Hesselden
Pick specimens when they are free of moisture from rain or dew
and press them promptly before they wilt. You can use a commercial gardener's press
sold in many garden specialty stores or an old phone book. *I use both
Choose flowers of equal thickness to press together placing between 2 pages
being sure that the petals are spread out flat in the position you desire.
When fully pressed and dried store in a flat box between layers of tissue paper.
It's time to press your pansies!
*enlarge the photos for closer look*
"Every season brings us magic wonder in the light and shade.Nature gives us endless bounty, memories that cannot fade." Iris Hesselden
34 comments:
Your pressed flowers would make beautiful, gentle botanical wall art too. They're lovely. Pansies are my fav flower.
Oh so pretty!!! I should pull out my flower press and look at my beauties from last summer. Soon we will be clipping and pressing the flowers of 2007 to add to our collections.
I don't have Pansies to press, but yours turned out really pretty. I like the soft yellow with the blue mix.
Oh wow, stunning naturegirl. Even more spectacular when enlarged. You could use those as "greeting" cards. Well done. TWT
Which for a nice idea, very beautiful
Lis
I love the pansies with the sweet "faces"
:)
As I have just started making ATC's these would be a lovely addition.
That is a lovely quote at the end!
your pressed flowers are so lovely! Now I wish that I had planted some this year...but have a wonderful idea for next year, thanks to you! :)
Ohhh..I love pressed flowers! On more than one occasion ,a dried flower has spilled out ..long forgotten...from between the leaves of a book I picked up around the house!! ha!
Oh I just got goosebumps reading this... because I just uncovered two pressed 4-leaf clovers about an hour ago that my daughter and I found last summer! I LOVE your pansies!!!
Pansies, or any blue flowers make my heart beat just a little faster. These are lovely NG, and I would love to have seen your cards.
My tough little pansies from last Fall are coming back and will soon flower again.
Hugs
xx
They are very delicate and pretty! I used to press flowers as a child - I loved to preserve them like that. I will have to try it again - after some bloom!
Happy Gardening!
Why Mz Nature I have missed you! =^..^=
Yes!! I am "back" visiting and posting again (long story for private email) ... Oh I am running so behind ::giggle::
It was more than wonderful to find your notes on my blog and that you were there right by my side the entire time as I was off puttering in the gardens.
I am always tucking flowers and leaves into books. It is such fun to find the ones long forgotten ... I seem to do this a lot. They make a perfect bookmark to remind me later of a passage I was touched by and want to remember. Pressing bits of the gardens gifts into my journal is something else I am forever doing. Tucking them in next to a drawing for later ... Ferns are a favorite!
And my little secrets ::peep::peep:: may surprise you! Such wonder can happen when you least expect.
=^..^= love, zU
These are lovely. It has occurred to me recently that it would have been a good idea to make a notation if the flowers are saved from a special occasion.I keep coming across flowers I've pressed between the pages of books and can never remember what they were supposed to be a memory of!
Wow! Your pressed flowers look GREAT! Of course, I especially LOVE the pressed pansies.
I'd like to press pansies, too (it's already on my to-do list since long). I should really give this a top priority now - and it doesn't take much time, does it?
Have a great start in the new week!
Pansies are my favourites too. You know what, I used to do this pressed method before I found even better way: drying in the sand. I've dried also roses that way. The result is beautiful! You should try that too...
Oh my pond project..havent quite decided yet. I think I wont leave it that way though. Lets see what's gonna happen.Hugs M
Your pressed flowers are lovely. I did one of foxglove a few years ago. The colours didn`t keep as well as I hoped but it has lots of memories attached :)
tea
xo
How do you press flowers???
I've put them between wax paper in a book...yours are so pretty.
NG, I also love pressing flowers and leaves, but I forget to use them. I also have a flattish tupperware-like container filled with the dessicant used to dry flowrs, then put blooms in them and microwave them. Think it keeps colors better, and I am always amazed to shake away the sand like material and see the dried flower in just a few minutes!
Yours are so pretty!
Lovely pansies - we have a few flower presses and the pansies always retain their colour nicely. I like to gather up things from walks and put them randomly between pages of books, I came across some pressed leaves the other day in an old phone book :-)
There are few things more lovely than coming across a flower pressed between pages of a book.
Every fall, I press fall flowers and leaves in random books and put them back on the shelves just for the pleasure of coming across them many years later!
Your pressed flower arrangements are beautiful ... have you ever used a microwave flower press? I have done so with morning glories and they have retained their colour (though they are touchy to work with!) I used them to decorate the back of a child's rocking chair.
I've always wanted to press flowers, I have some but just in books, would love to find a press and do them up right! Pansies are so pretty!
Your delphiniums and pansies look so pretty! I love pressing flowers too. In fact, I'm forever tucking them into books and forgetting about them only to have them fall out sometime later. ♥
Beautiful! That is a great tip dear NG I should really press some flowers this season! Hugs & Smooches Carol xox
NG, go check out Pam's Wisteria. You'll love it!
Delphiniums are one of my very favs! Don't they just knock you out!
thanks for the tips.
Hi NatureGirl, you really should check out Pam's flowers. Very fun.
How beautiful these pressed flowers are - little works of art that you could incorporate in so many ways. Even between glass hanging in a window like a sun catcher.
XOXO
Hi I haven't been able to stop by lately and I've missed soo much, off to check on your v beautiful photographs.
It's amazing how long some of these pressed flowers last. I have flowers in my Missile that go back to 1965. Yours are beautiful and the colors so rich.
I've never tried pressing flowers though I like to see the results of other peopl'e efforts, they make lovely cards - so delicate and pretty.
Amazing that you are sharing about pressing flowers! I hadn't done it in years and just started again this spring. I'm using old phone books and they work wonderfully. I'm going to use the flowers to create digital scrapbook kits. xoxo
I enjoy pressing flowers as well and have made them into wonderful crafts.
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