Gifts From the Garden~ Make a Pressed Flower Picture
December 9, 2008 by Linette Gerlach
Filed under gifts-for-the-gardener
I love to press and dry flowers during the summer, then I have them in the fall and winter to make presents and projects. I even have my own flower press.
I usually use my dried and pressed flowers to make a few pressed flower pictures, and some dried floral arrangements. They make wonderful gifts.
I bought the frame for the picture here, but sometimes I make them from old barn siding and boards.
I make my own card paper for the backgrounds, and add a little texture with small seeds and pieces of plants that didn’t survive the drying or pressing process.
Have you made any gifts this year from your garden?
Image (c) me
Just lovely. The frame is so gorgeous.Is there a trick to keeping the dried flowers from fading>
Lona~ Putting them under the glass helps, but also keep them out of direct sunlight. The one in the photo is several years old, and it’s held up fairly well. I normally keep it on the living room wall, but just took it outside to get a better photo in the sunlight.
Once they’re pressed and dry many flower varieties hold up well.