I love pressing flowers …In fact I often spend more time pressing flowers than I do crafting with them afterwards! Here are some flowers I pressed this Spring. Making my own flower press This summer, after a few failures pressing flowers using my ad hoc blotting-paper-in-a-scrapbook method, I thought I’d try and put together something…
Tag: rose buds
Dried Roses at the Chelsea Flower Show 2013
Innovative use for dried flowers Although I was unable to attend the Chelsea Flower Show this year, I was pleased to see some of our dried roses in attendance! We were very pleased to be contacted by Ernest George who was needing a decorative top dressing for two large planters for the GeoWear GardenGirl exhibit….
Dried flowers diaries February 2013
Dried flowers of love Earlier this month I celebrated Valentines Day with a sweetheart potpourri make and a rosebud heart make. Natural wedding confetti Continuing the love theme, I was really pleased to see our petals being used as wedding confetti, as mentioned in Bridal Musings blog, and captured in some great photography. Dried flower…
Sweetheart potpourri recipe with dried rose buds and petals
Valentines Day make – Sweetheart potpourri recipe Working in a dried flowers shop I always have some dried roses to hand so couldn’t resist making something a bit topical for Valentines Day yesterday. For this potpourri recipe, you will need: About 1 litre of assorted dried rose buds and petals. I used mainly bright red…
Valentines heart with dried rose buds
A quick Valentines make with dried flower buds Here is a very quick make with hearts and roses – only 10 mins! How to make this rose bud heart You will need: A solid heart wreath – the small criss-cross heart in the image is 13cm across. Dried rose buds – I used pale pink…