Pressing flowers is a fun project to do at home.
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Decorating walls can feel like a daunting task, but the two greatest forces are here to help — nature and time.
Pressed flowers can transform any space and mould to any aesthetic and you can create your own to find any wall, room or just for fun.
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The process of pressing flowers has been around since the 16th century, with Japanese artists using the process to create large artworks.
Pressed and dried leaves can add to any flower arrangement or artwork.
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There are many ways to press flowers to create your desired look, and these processes can be found on websites, in books and through video tutorials, so we won’t bore you with the details.
However, here’s a quick run down so you can feel confident in getting started.
Pressed and dried delicate transparent flowers isolated on a white background.
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The first step is to gather your flowers, pick them from your garden, use up the flowers from your vase or support local florists and use their petals, leaves and buds to create your artwork.
Then we press them. There are multiple methods to pressing flowers including using a book, a clamp to hold down wood pieces or purchasing DIY flower pressing kit, this process tends to take two to four weeks.
Artistic arrangement of petite garden flowers.
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Cecilia Bajic
Once the flowers have been dried and pressed, feel free to use them to create your final piece in anyway you like.
An Our Home favourite display, is to place the flowers on a glass frame, and using a second piece of glass to hold the flowers together, creating an illusion of floating.
