How you can press flowers and leaves from your personal yard to border as cheap, vintage-inspired wall decor.
We’re shifting proper alongside on the visitor bed room makeover saga, and it seems, in spite of everything this time, the proper wall decor was rising proper in our yard.
In the event you’ve been round these components awhile, you then already know I’ve a “factor” for botanical prints… regardless that I couldn’t maintain an actual plant alive if my very own life trusted it.
So hey! Let’s simply kill ’em and stick ’em in frames. That’ll do it.
Some individuals make lemonade out of lemons. We’re making artwork out of useless vegetation. Logic.
DIY Pressed Flower Artwork
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Provides Used:
- A wide range of leaves and flowers (choose them on a sunny day after the morning dew has dissipated)
- Flower press (I purchased this fancy little contraption, but when you have already got parchment paper and numerous massive, heavy books, save your cash as a result of that may do the trick simply advantageous.)
- Textured paper
- Picture frames
The Steps
1. Robert, Olivia, Regan, and I all took a bit stroll across the yard collectively to select just a few totally different leaves and flowers for the job, which makes it much more particular.
Take a look at this candy face. She’s so proud!
2. Be sure that your leaves/flowers aren’t moist in any respect earlier than urgent. Place every particular person flower/leaf on a chunk of blotting paper with about an inch between every and place one other piece of blotting paper on high.
3. “Sandwich” the blotting paper with the flowers/leaves between cardboard and proceed stacking them.
4. Place the big, heavy books on high or between the 2 boards within the flower press.
5. Let the flowers/leaves sit within the press for 2-3 days to completely dry out.
6. Rigorously take away the pressed flowers/leaves and place right into a body with a chunk of textured paper behind it and press with the body’s backing.
Simple peasy… flower squeezey. 😉
I picked up the frames from Walmart for $28 whole for all 6 and the paper items have been simply textured scrapbook pages I grabbed at Michael’s for about 80 cents every.
So now the visitor room goes locations with some artwork! What’s even higher is all the vegetation have a little bit of a significance to the place we dwell – magnolia, crape myrtle, palmetto, and gardenia.
The frames are on the small aspect since I plan on placing a big leaner mirror proper beside them, and an enormous piece of artwork will dangle on the alternative wall.
The opposite two are ginkgo and what I feel is snapdragon? See? I do know completely zilch about vegetation… which might be why they endure a tragic, pathetic loss of life with me as their mama.
Since we’re coming as much as fall actually quickly, that is a kind of tasks that may be so fairly with totally different coloured fall leaves too, so possibly I’ll need to whip up one other set when the leaves change throughout a #crafternoon.
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