Learning how to press flowers is not as difficult as you might think. The technique makes an ephemeral beauty eternal by flattening the daisies, pansies, violets, and wildflowers that color your ...

Press flowers with an iron, book, microwave, or by making your own flower press. Pressing flowers yourself is an easy and rewarding craft. They can act as a keepsake, framed artwork, a meaningful gift ...

Bring the outside indoors by creating pressed flower art with your child while discussing the properties and appearance of different blossoms. Flowers (Note: Press the flowers soon after picking or ...

Lynn Pitts credits childhood days spent in Golden Gate Park for her becoming a botanical artist. There as a Girl Scout, she collected, identified and pressed more than 200 tree leaves. Today, Pitts ...

There’s something so magical about a pressed flower. The beauty of the fresh bloom is preserved forever in time, with a delicacy and fragility that reminds us of just how elegant nature can be.

Nature-themed crafts never go out of style, and the classic technique of pressing flowers is something that anyone can have a go at. Flower pressing is a way of preserving flowers by flattening them ...

Or perhaps, there’s a wildflower that never fails to capture your attention when you’re strolling through the park, or in the garden? Enter the crafty practice of flower pressing – a simple method of ...

My compulsion to garden vividly and expressively comes from Grandma Marion, who always made room for masses of marigolds and zinnias that echoed the colors of the Fiestaware on her pantry shelves. But ...

When harvesting flowers for pressing, pick the freshest blooms and wait until the morning dew has evaporated. Then sort the flowers into ones that are fleshy or less fleshy before drying them in you..