Lockets for pressed flowers from Michaels While on holiday to the US last month, I came across a great craft store called Michaels. Much like Hobbycraft in the UK, it is maybe not the cheapest place to buy bits and pieces, but makes up for it with a fantastic range. Amongst quite a large bagful…
Category: Dry flower art
Vintage images with dry flowers
Floral illustrations from the British Library My husband Mike – who is into all things vintage – spotted recently that the British Library had uploaded a million images to Flikr for public use. These are illustrations covering the 1600s, 1700s and 1800s. There is quite a variety, from maps to satirical cartoons. A Victorian circle…
Quick pics with dried flowers
Images with dried flowers I think it’s fun to add dried flowers to existing images and this can be a quick way to make something new. Mona Lisa with dried daisy flower Last year I had a lot of fun drying marguerite daisies from my garden in various ways. This one was simply pressed. Bocca…
More fun art with dried flower petals
Further pictures with dried flowers & petals I recently revisited and improved my image of Fair Rosamund in dried flower petals. I was very pleased with the result and thought I’d try two more quick dried flowers projects in the same vein – the first one took about a half an hour and the second…
Rosamund in dried flowers revisited
Fair Rosamund in dried flowers This was one of my dried flower art projects last year (see my original Rosamund post). Rosamund in dried flowers before & after This is what it looked like before, and there were aspects I wasn’t happy with. How I improved my dried flowers picture Rather than gluing down every…