Making a Pressed Flower Picture
Have you ever seen flower pictures hangin in craft stores, or in the gardening centers where you shop? You can make those same pictures from flowers growing in your own garden, pictures that you can use to decorate your home, give as gifts, and that are going to display your love of flowers.

Posted Wednesday, April 5, 2006

A flower display can be of various colors, one color, one type of flower, or a mixture of flowers taken from gardens over the years. If you are interested in making your own pressed flower pictures you are going to need a press for your flowers. You can spend a few dollars to buy a flower press, or you can make your own. A flower press is created from two boards, four screws, four bolts, and a few pieces of paper for drying up moisture. The two boards should be the same size, each with four holes- one for each corner.

Honestly- If you can make a sandwhich- you can press flowers! Putting one board on the table, put a piece of paper on top. Lay a flower or two followed by two more sheets of paper and then a sheet of wax paper. Laying another sheet of paper you can repeat the process. The papers are going to absorb the moisture left in the flowers. The wax paper is going to prevent the coloring of one flower from affecting another.

When you have enough flowers, papers, and wax paper, how ever many that you want, you can then lay the final board on the top of your flower press. Screws are going to be put into the four corners of the boards, and then you put the nuts on the screws/ bolts. Tightening the bolts to keep flowers in place as they dry. You can tighten a little at a time, over the course of drying, or you can tighten the flowers down all at one time.

Leaving your flowers to sit for a few weeks, remove them when dry enough to be placed in a picture frame of your choice. Using a variety of coloring in the back of the flowers that you have pressed you can create various types of picture arrangements for your walls.