One of my favourite crafts is pressing flowers. If you haven’t tried it yet you don’t know what you’re missing!
I use pressed flowers to make greeting cards and pictures and they always attract attention. But most of all, I enjoy making them.
Greeting cards made with pressed flowers are completely different from the ordinary printed variety. And you don’t have to be particularly artistic – the flowers do everything for you!
Here are 5 of my flower pressing tips to get you started:
I have discussed several types of crafts in these posts where I have introduced some of my own interests and many others. Of course there are many more crafts that I have not yet touched upon. But I do have plans to do so!
But before I get diverted, there is one type of craft that I think is far more important than any of the others and I would like to spend a few minutes discussing it because it is so all encompassing.
I am talking about crafting your own life.
So many of us go through life from day to day at half mast! We get through the boredom of our daily tasks and sigh with relief as we tick them off our “to do” lists.
Do you remember playing cowboys and crooks as a child? Or cricket or rounders in the back garden? Do you remember climbing trees and building tree houses? Or making furniture for dolls houses?
Did you ever make your own bows and arrows or build kites and fly them in open fields? Or galloped on a horse so fast that your hair blew in the wind?
When I was a child we did all these things and more. We knew how to entertain ourselves without electronic or adult input. We ran, climbed and jumped. We were healthy and wiry and we learnt how to build and design things.
We used our imaginations to create plays, puppet shows and concerts. We discovered or made secret hideouts under arching trees and overhanging branches.
We found solutions for practical problems and we were physically confident and self-sufficient.
Or let me phrase it another way – do you wish you could change your handwriting to make it more beautiful?
So many people admire good penmanship. The type of handwriting that looks artistically designed with pretty little scrolls and curlicues. Anyone with a pretty or decorative handwriting is much admired – even envied.
Then there are those less fortunate individuals with really ugly handwritings. We’ve heard such handwriting described as “chicken scratchings” or worse.
Anyway, I think it’s time to dispel one of the many myths about pretty handwriting.
There’s something very special about the craft of pressing flowers. Maybe it’s so special because it involves working with real flowers at the peak of their beauty.
Nothing can compare with the joy of working with real flowers. Not only because of their beauty but because they hold a special meaning for us.
I think that part of this meaning lies in a flower’s fragility and fleeting existence. We know that it will only last for a short while.
A flower is but a brief moment in time.
When you press a flower you capture that moment in time and preserve it in a picture where it will always be able to jump-start a memory.
It can be a flower from a wedding bouquet, a leaf from a memorable holiday or a gift from a loved one.
Pressing flowers isn’t just about sticking flowers to cardboard. It’s so much more than that. Pressing flowers connects us with nature.
It’s a way to appreciate the joyful little things that money can’t buy, like a new bud, a curved tendril or a delicate petal.
It makes us more aware of the beauty in nature and gives us a way of looking at the world with appreciative eyes.
Here is a simple collage of pressed flowers that I made for one of my greeting cards. As you can see it’s very colourful. No touching up – all the colours are natural.
The only difference is that the actual picture is larger than the one I have reproduced here.
Flower pressing is a wonderfully creative craft. And it’s such fun. You don’t even have to be artistic. The flowers do it all for you!
If you would like to find out how to press flowers like this – you can. Because I have written up a detailed manual with all my flower pressing secrets.
“Flower Pressing Secrets” is a detailed and illustrated course that will help you to master the art of flower pressing – perfectly!
Not only will I show you how to press flowers step by step – you will also find out how to make lovely greeting cards, pictures and more – all with that polished, professional look.
I have put everything I know about flower pressing into this course. I have held nothing back. I show you exactly which flowers to use and how to press them; how to preserve the colours; how to create easy designs that you will love – and so much more.
This course contains every bit of information that I collected personally over years of flower pressing. And I have many innovative and original methods that are inexpensive and easy to use.
I know they work because these are the identical methods that I have used!
You’ll find this flower pressing course practical and easy to follow. It’s perfect for the home user because the materials you’ll use are inexpensive and easily available.
You won’t need expensive flower presses or kits either. Simply follow my methods that I have tried and tested personally- and you’ll get excellent results.
” Flower Pressing Secrets” is a complete course that covers everything from the picking and pressing of flowers right up to marketing your cards and pictures.
It’s packed with real helpful information, clear instructions, many good tips and colourful pictures of real pressed flowers and designs. You’ll be thrilled at how quickly you can start producing your own designs and pictures.
One of my favourite crafts is pressing flowers. If you haven’t tried it yet you don’t know what you’re missing!
When you press a flower you capture that moment in time and preserve it in a picture where it will always be able to jump-start a memory.
I have put everything I know about flower pressing into this course. I have held nothing back. I show you exactly which flowers to use and how to press them; how to preserve the colours; how to create easy designs that you will love – and so much more.
