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The Art of Pressed Flowers and Leaves: Contemporary techniques & designs

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Drill a hole in each corner of the boards, about 1 inch from the edge. Make sure you match the size of your bolts and line up the holes on both boards. Step 2: Arrange flowers in between cardboard and paper Using a microwave and cooking the flowers for short periods of time, you’ll be able to see a difference in a matter of seconds versus waiting weeks using the old-fashioned methods. Perfect for impatient folks!

Spring is just around the corner and already some of the early bloomers have been peeking their floral heads out, teasing us with the promise of warmer days. While there’s nothing better than filling a vase with stems you’ve snipped from the garden or foraged on a walk, this year we are loving the idea of preserving those delicate finds for even longer. Maker and blogger and long time flower presser Claire Holland shares her passion for the art along with knowledge and tips on how to prepare and then press your flowers for the best results…If you want to press flowers properly, it takes time. We definitely recommend the book method or using a proper wooden flower press. Forget-me-nots, dog violets, snow drops, snowflakes, tete-a-tete dwarf daffodils, crocuses, primula, snake’s head fritillaries, bluebells

Whether you’re a beginner looking to learn more about flower pressing or a seasoned vet who is looking for inspiration and advanced topics, this book has some value for you. If you’re a beginner or buying it for a child, then make sure you get a flower press kit that is designed to be easy to use and very approachable for someone who has never done this before. Failure to get the right difficulty level can turn out to be a very boring experience or a very difficult one, depending on where you missed the mark. Value However, there are several other ways you can press your flowers. Read on for a few different options. Use a wooden flower press: If you're trying to press a bulkier plant, add extra paper and card to ensure that every part of the plant and flower is being directly pressed, to avoid bits shrivelling up. Celebrate all things botanical and learn about the art of pressing flowers with this beautiful new book by the florists of South London’s beloved JamJar. The Modern Flower Press is a bible of fascinating floral facts, tips, myths and, above all, glorious illustrations and photography.' Tatler

Some other flowers that work well for pressing are violets, baby’s breath, lilies, hydrangeas, Queen Anne’s lace, buttercups, lavender, cosmos, pansies, daisies, and larkspur (aka delphinium). You can also dry small herb stems or fern leaves. The faster methods sort of work, but the flowers don’t get fully dried and they end up much more fragile. No idea how to press flowers? Catherine Brant, founder of Precious Petals, is here to talk through the basics of getting started, with handy tips for using household items to create beautiful results. How to press flowers: an easy guide Selecting the flowers Once you’ve placed your flowers on the kitchen roll, put a few more layers of kitchen roll on top and close the book,” she added. The Modern Flower Press is a storybook full of entertaining facts, myths and legends about flowers. Melissa and Amy explain all aspects of the history of pressing flowers, from its origins to the present day. They show you how to choose the right flowers for pressing, how to prepare and press them, and share ideas for projects and artworks to display them in all their perfectly preserved glory. From their own small and large-scale commissions to lovely ideas that you can make at home by following their clear, full-colour illustrated step-by-step instructions, there are designs here to make best use of your favourite garden or wild flowers.

Fred adds, 'Try drying your plant specimen next to a radiator or central heating boiler if you have one - these provide a nice flow of warm air. Even warming the newspaper before using it helps drive moisture off.' It’s best to press a variety of flowers just in case. Out of all of the flowers we pressed, we only had one white lily type of wildflower turn brown. The rest of our flowers kept their beautiful colours, but it would have been disappointing if that was the only flower we tried! How long to press flowers? Step 1 — First, sandwich your flowers between two pieces of paper. (You should be pretty familiar with this step by now.) Step 4 — Repeat this process until the flower is dry. You can also use this method to jumpstart the more traditional pressing method and transfer your flower to a book or a press to finish drying. Then they should be dried after a couple of days instead of weeks.The florists behind JamJar Flowers share their modern take on the lost art of pressing flowers' Gardens Illustrated Professionally, we would leave them for a good month but you can probably get away with a couple of weeks before you take them all out. Then you’ve got the fun of recreating the flowers and designs.”

Try and minimise the amount the petals touch each other. At Precious Petals we take them apart and press each petal individually; then, when we create pictures we remake the flower again. This minimises the moisture that can be trapped in the flower as it’s being pressed.The easiest way to press flowers is definitely using a book, as described above. It’s a simple method that’s accessible to almost everyone, with no special supplies or techniques required! When shopping for flower presses, be sure to consider who you’re buying it for and the difficulty level that they can handle. If you’re buying for an adult you can get a flower press kit that’s more complex to use but yields better results. Some may have issues with the cooking time on their microwaves as it does vary between each kind of microwave depending on what power is being used, but once you get used to your own microwave, flower pressing will be a breeze. What Others Are Saying While this method is successful at pressing the flowers flat, it doesn’t truly dry them. You need to leave the flowers under a heavy object for at least several days after microwaving them for the flowers to dry out. We didn’t get great results with the microwave method. Our flowers became very fragile, and the petals shriveled up a bit and fell off more easily. Since you have to remove the parchment from the microwave before the flowers are completely dry, the flowers are also more easily damaged.

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