Dried Pressed Flowers: Make your own dried pressed flowers
Dried pressed flowers are one of the beautiful forms of flowers. With pressed flowers you can make you can make numerous things. These pressed flowers give a touch elegance to even the most ordinary of things. For example a simple bookmark is an ordinary form of stationery. But if you make one using pressed flowers it becomes priceless. However, for makings articles using pressed flowers you need to have pressed flower first. That is, the first step of making pressed flowers articles is the pressing of flowers. Drying and pressing flowers is very easy. To do it you just need the following requirements:
· A thick book (a phone directory will serve fine)
· A set of blotting papers
· Newspapers and
· Fresh flowers and foliage to dry and press.
Firstly, start by selecting the fresh flowers and leaves that you want to dry and press. Then gently squeeze the calyx of the fresh flowers so that it flattens. Use your thumb and the index finger for this purpose. If you want to press your flowers and leaves in a desired design, then arrange your flowers and other flower materials on a tracing paper. Arrange your leaves and other foliage like moss and grass in the background of the fresh flowers. After arranging your fresh flowers in the desired fashion that you want to press them, place it in between two sheets of blotting paper. Then take out two sheet of your old newspaper and place one underneath the blotting paper, and one on the top. The newspaper will give a covering to your fresh flowers and leaves. After the covering you will have to get hold of some thick books like your phone directory. Place the thick and heavy books on the top of the newspaper. Leave the arrangement for about two weeks in a cold but moisture free place. This will help to retain the rich hue of the flowers.
With the completion of two your fresh flowers will be nicely dried and pressed. Though thicker flowers may take longer than two weeks to be well dried pressed. This is how to make fresh flowers into dry pressed flowers.
