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
Pressed flower project with daisies Mini canvas with pressed daisy in painted grass I bought such a cute little stretched canvas and easel the other day for £2 in a craft shop – the canvas is only 7cm across! I do love an excuse to get my paints out. I pushed the pressed daisy into…
Pressed flowers from my garden Following on from my previous blog post about pressed flower lockets, I thought I would try something a little larger. This time I used dried flowers pressed from my garden. A few weeks ago I cut some large pieces of viola plant, with stem and leaves, and pressed them. After…
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…
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…
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…