Thanks for the tips. I've been meaning to have a go at pressing for ages – I figure they'd look really pretty on cards, and maybe even wrapping paper. Good time to start with all these pretty autumn colours around.
these are so pretty. I have always like the idea of keeping a notebook of feathers I find when I am out and about. I think you have just inspired me to actually do it, thank you! x
I was just recently introduced to this awesome thing called the Microfluer that dries leaves and flowers, etc. Basically it is a press that you use in your microwave that presses and dries plants within mere seconds. It's great because unlike other drying products that I've seen that use silica gel, there are no replacement parts. Once you have the contraption you are set to make as many dried leaves as you want. It leaches the moisture out of the leaves. My sister said bulky flowers don't press that well. Also, the woman who first introduced it to me has been using hers for over 10 years and still have preserved leaves from that long ago. Unlike when you press leaves in a book, these leaves don't get dry and brittle. I posted about it here: http://www.robayre.com/news/2012/10/23/12-hour-craft-extravaganza-and-fall-leaf-garland/
These are great tips! I've just started pressing recently and it's nice to know that there isn't any "right" way to do it. Your pressings are so pretty, too! This post makes me want to start doing it more regularly 🙂
I like to hang flowers upside down to dry them out, it preserves their shape and they get a bit darker but a bouquet of dry roses can be really pretty. I just tape them upside down to a wall and I can see their progress in drying out
Hi Kaylah! Thank you so much for choosing me as the lucky winner of Rachael's giveaway and also for linking to my blog. You gals have made my day and I honestly cannot thank you both enough.
amazing tips! I'm sort of sad I missed out on dressing flowers this spring/summer, I thought I had a good idea to press them in my airing cupboard but they went brown and shrunk up. Boo!!
thanks for tips! I put my fresh specimens between recycled brown paper bags and then like you, I also stack heavy books on top! ferns are really pretty but Boston ferns and the like are very fragile when dried, they shed their leaves easily. the other species are fine though!
Yes! I've been waiting for this post! Thanks so much, I think that covered all of my previous questions and then some. I'm excited to try it out again. Paper towels is definitely the way to go since mine always seem to have too much moisture and end up getting moldy, also I supposed tissue paper isn't the best method, I used it because I skimmed something online about it. I can't wait to try again and we have two ferns in our backyard that I can't wait to pick from 🙂
Awesome tips, thanks! I already press leaves during the fall for Halloween decorations, but would love to get into pressing flowers. I'd like to try out making collaged images of things with the leaves and flowers (like animals and such). I think that'd be neat! Anyway, thanks again for the tips! 🙂
These are awesome! I have heard that hanging them upside down works or putting them in phone books or spraying them with hair spray will preserve them and I've tried everything except using paper towels!
I'm going to try it and see how it works, though it's really hard to find paper towels that don't have patterns on them!
And thank you for sharing your methods. I collected and pressed flowers when I was in 8th grade for a biology assignment, and seeing your pretty notebooks made me want to start again, but I couldn't remember how my teacher had shown us to do it. I'll definitely be starting up again soon.
I used to press flowers with my Granny as a young child. I have a couple of old bookmarks we made with them still! So beautiful! Your post brought back a lot of lovely memories for me. 🙂
Thank you for the wonderful tips! I've been attempting to press plants for most of the year, and these are super helpful. Sadly, I live in the desert and there's not many pretty plants for me to press :c
Ooh, thanks for the tips! My mom and I have always pressed leaves from when we'd travel to the mountains during fall, but I'd like to get flowers and other things too. Your collection rocks!
Just got back from a nice walk with my son, rushed on the laptop to read your post, because i saw it few days ago and i just picked some pretty leaves. so i knew where to go to get some advice for beginners like me 😀 thanks for sharing! btw i LOVELOVELOVE cats. I have one, her name is Mila and she is alsmot 15 yo O_o I had to leave her with my folks though because I was moving to USA. Miss her every day! 🙁
This was such a cute tutorial and tip for saving pretty plants. I love reading all your posts! Mentioned this one on my blog recently, too 🙂 http://tinyurl.com/cvs2avh
Awesome post! This might be kind of silly, but what do you do with the plants after they're dry? Plant pressing seems right up my alley, but I don't want to hoard dried plants… :-/
I really love this post! I've been wanting to make my own journal for flowers and plants, but I just wasn't sure how to press them right. I'd always end up ruining the plants with my methods. So I'll defiantly be giving you advice a try, and hopefully it works a lot better than mine did. http://charlottecountyflowers.com
You're really inspiring me to want to start pressing plants! I did it a couple of times when I was young, sometimes we'd find plants stuffed between pages in the bookshelf months later, but I would love to do it again and properly display them this time.
I tried pressing flowers in a plastic bag in a textbook and all I got was gooey, flat, but smelly flowers. So I assume the paper towels are essential haha
KaylahJuly 2, 2017 - 11:01 am
Haha, yeeeah. The plastic bag is just trapping all the moisture while the paper towels will absorb it.
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amazing tips 🙂
I love this post!
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Thanks for the tips. I've been meaning to have a go at pressing for ages – I figure they'd look really pretty on cards, and maybe even wrapping paper. Good time to start with all these pretty autumn colours around.
Great post! I haven't pressed plants in ages, but my mom used to keep a photo album filled with things we'd find out hiking. I should start again..
these are so pretty. I have always like the idea of keeping a notebook of feathers I find when I am out and about. I think you have just inspired me to actually do it, thank you! x
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Awesome tips!!
Lovely tips! I've been wanting to start regularly pressing plants for ages, so far I only have a couple from trips abroad.
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I was just recently introduced to this awesome thing called the Microfluer that dries leaves and flowers, etc. Basically it is a press that you use in your microwave that presses and dries plants within mere seconds. It's great because unlike other drying products that I've seen that use silica gel, there are no replacement parts. Once you have the contraption you are set to make as many dried leaves as you want. It leaches the moisture out of the leaves. My sister said bulky flowers don't press that well. Also, the woman who first introduced it to me has been using hers for over 10 years and still have preserved leaves from that long ago. Unlike when you press leaves in a book, these leaves don't get dry and brittle. I posted about it here: http://www.robayre.com/news/2012/10/23/12-hour-craft-extravaganza-and-fall-leaf-garland/
Thanks so much for sharing this! I've been so excited to see your process.
These tips are great! I can't wait to go out and find some plants to press!!
<3 Melissa
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These are great tips! I've just started pressing recently and it's nice to know that there isn't any "right" way to do it. Your pressings are so pretty, too! This post makes me want to start doing it more regularly 🙂
♥ Brooke
http://youreinbrookelynn.blogspot.com/
I like to hang flowers upside down to dry them out, it preserves their shape and they get a bit darker but a bouquet of dry roses can be really pretty. I just tape them upside down to a wall and I can see their progress in drying out
Those would be great for framing as art!
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Great post!
Hi Kaylah! Thank you so much for choosing me as the lucky winner of Rachael's giveaway and also for linking to my blog. You gals have made my day and I honestly cannot thank you both enough.
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Thank you so much for the tips 🙂 Hopefully I can try my hand at pressing soon!
Caleisha
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amazing tips! I'm sort of sad I missed out on dressing flowers this spring/summer, I thought I had a good idea to press them in my airing cupboard but they went brown and shrunk up. Boo!!
chloe.
thanks for tips! I put my fresh specimens between recycled brown paper bags and then like you, I also stack heavy books on top! ferns are really pretty but Boston ferns and the like are very fragile when dried, they shed their leaves easily. the other species are fine though!
TFS! I wanna give this a try 😀
Yes! I've been waiting for this post! Thanks so much, I think that covered all of my previous questions and then some. I'm excited to try it out again. Paper towels is definitely the way to go since mine always seem to have too much moisture and end up getting moldy, also I supposed tissue paper isn't the best method, I used it because I skimmed something online about it. I can't wait to try again and we have two ferns in our backyard that I can't wait to pick from 🙂
xomando
Beautiful. I love to press them on my journal. it is such a beautiful thing to come back to an old page and be pleasantly surprised by them.
I love this post! I recently saw a flower press in a charity shop, and I have no idea why I didn't buy it! I might just have to go back 🙂 xxx
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I've been doing this passively for years, but it's an on and off thing. Thanks for the reminder of what a beautiful hobby this can be. Great post!
Awesome tips, thanks! I already press leaves during the fall for Halloween decorations, but would love to get into pressing flowers. I'd like to try out making collaged images of things with the leaves and flowers (like animals and such). I think that'd be neat! Anyway, thanks again for the tips! 🙂
– Sasha
http://www.lacewinged.com
Thanks for those tips! I'm totally going out tomorrow to get some leaves and flowers for pressing!
-Kati
These are awesome! I have heard that hanging them upside down works or putting them in phone books or spraying them with hair spray will preserve them and I've tried everything except using paper towels!
I'm going to try it and see how it works, though it's really hard to find paper towels that don't have patterns on them!
Sara
http://saraivy.org
So cool! I've always wanted to get into pressing plants. Thanks for sharing your method 😉
I stumbled upon these floral x-rays by Brendan Fitzpatrick the other day and thought of you. http://thisiscolossal.com/?s=floral+x-rays
And thank you for sharing your methods. I collected and pressed flowers when I was in 8th grade for a biology assignment, and seeing your pretty notebooks made me want to start again, but I couldn't remember how my teacher had shown us to do it. I'll definitely be starting up again soon.
I used to press flowers with my Granny as a young child. I have a couple of old bookmarks we made with them still! So beautiful! Your post brought back a lot of lovely memories for me. 🙂
Great tips too!
Victoria xx
irisandevelyn.blogspot.co.uk
Thank you for the wonderful tips! I've been attempting to press plants for most of the year, and these are super helpful. Sadly, I live in the desert and there's not many pretty plants for me to press :c
Ooh, thanks for the tips!
My mom and I have always pressed leaves from when we'd travel to the mountains during fall, but I'd like to get flowers and other things too. Your collection rocks!
Just got back from a nice walk with my son, rushed on the laptop to read your post, because i saw it few days ago and i just picked some pretty leaves. so i knew where to go to get some advice for beginners like me 😀 thanks for sharing! btw i LOVELOVELOVE cats. I have one, her name is Mila and she is alsmot 15 yo O_o I had to leave her with my folks though because I was moving to USA. Miss her every day! 🙁
This was such a cute tutorial and tip for saving pretty plants. I love reading all your posts! Mentioned this one on my blog recently, too 🙂 http://tinyurl.com/cvs2avh
Love this post, very helpfull!
Awesome post! This might be kind of silly, but what do you do with the plants after they're dry? Plant pressing seems right up my alley, but I don't want to hoard dried plants… :-/
This was so helpful as I'm about to embark on flower pressing myself!
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they look awesome!! thx for your tips!!
I really love this post! I've been wanting to make my own journal for flowers and plants, but I just wasn't sure how to press them right. I'd always end up ruining the plants with my methods. So I'll defiantly be giving you advice a try, and hopefully it works a lot better than mine did.
http://charlottecountyflowers.com
You're really inspiring me to want to start pressing plants! I did it a couple of times when I was young, sometimes we'd find plants stuffed between pages in the bookshelf months later, but I would love to do it again and properly display them this time.
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Thank you for this post!! You and another person I follow on IG have made me want to start doing this, I think I'll give it a shot!
I tried pressing flowers in a plastic bag in a textbook and all I got was gooey, flat, but smelly flowers. So I assume the paper towels are essential haha
Haha, yeeeah. The plastic bag is just trapping all the moisture while the paper towels will absorb it.
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