Dried flowers projects
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…
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 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…
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…
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…