Dried flowers projects
Flower pressing and pressed flowers. If you don’t want to make your own pressed flowers you can buy them in the UK at daisyshop.co.uk
Valentines Day dried flowers projects Here are some ideas if you want to add a handmade touch to your Valentines Day gift this year. Making something yourself shows your willingness to put in time and effort for another person. What could be more romantic than that! I’ve also included some ideas for preserving a fresh…
Here’s how to make a pressed flower card I wrote about how to make a pressed flower Christmas card for the Herb Society about ten years ago, but when I look back it looks somewhat dated! These days I believe in less is more! Keep it simple I love the mantra KISS – Keep It…
How to make a framed pressed flowers picture This year I’ve been pressing larger flower specimens. It’s time to put them in a frame. The great thing about having had a dried flowers workshop for twenty years is that I can just wander in and find something suitable! I found some modern box frames and…
A herbarium is a collection of labelled dried plant material UK botanists and other scientists have historically collected plant specimens from around the world to catalogue and research back on their home territory. Herbaria boomed in Victorian times when explorers and plant collectors were constantly finding new species of interest. Not every plant could be…
Spring is coming! Floral craft ideas for February It’s the first week in February and as I look out the window at 3pm I can’t tell if it’s overcast or starting to get dark. But there are some hints that spring is just around the corner. Garden flowers already in bloom here are daffodils, early…