Pressed flowers

Pressed flowers are just as lovely as fresh flowers and they last forever. Pressing your own flowers can be a very fun project. There's not much to it. Just follow my easy instructions.

First you need the following materials: your favorite flowers or foliage picked and ready to press. A large phone book or dictionary, a sheet of newspaper and more heavy objects enough to equal about 20 lbs. worth. If you have kids, you can always find some kids books or toys so you can stack it on top as weight.

Then you need to take your fresh flowers and place them in the refrigerator or in an ice chest to keep them from wilting. If you let your flowers or foliage wilt then it will give you a discolored flower. You can do this while preparing the rest of your pressing materials.

Next, you need to place the flowers or foliage on the inside fold of the sheet of newspaper, do not overlap the leaves, stems or petals and then fold the top half of the newspaper sheet down onto the flowers. If you do not have access to a newspaper, you also can use sales advertisements or thrifty nickel pages. Anything with a fold with generally does.
The next step is to open the dictionary or large book and place the newspaper in the middle of the book, close the book and place your heavy objects on top. The drying process will take about three days. Three days is generally a rule of thumb, this is a good amount of time so that all of the moisture is absorbed out of them and this makes for a pretty dried flower.

Once the flowers are dry and pressed you can use them however you like. Some people like them in arrangements, gifts, artwork, etc. You can even use pressed flowers to make drink coasters. The ideas for using pressed flowers are endless. It is all up to how creative you are and how what kind of ideas you have in mind. I know many people who press holly and use it in floral arrangements. It is gorgeous. The sky is the limit.

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