What you'll need:
A very cute assistant.
Check!!
A cute basket (if you're going to take pictures) or whatever you want for carrying the flowers and keeping your assistant occupied and helpful.
Scissors for clipping the flowers.
Flowers that will flatten well. I used pansies, but you can use almost anything that will lay flat and allow a book to close on them. Make sure the flowers aren't wet, or you could end up with moldy flowers rather than dried, flattened ones.
A phone book or other book that you don't mind getting some possible staining on. Or you can be fancy and use some blotting paper. Newspaper between books works well, too. Just don't use paper towels. They leave bumpy marks all over the flower petals. Lay the flowers as flat as you can get them and be careful as you close them in to make sure they stay the way you've placed them.
Lots of big heavy books to put on top of it all.
Two weeks or so to wait depending on how thick your flowers are.
Check on them and when they are completely dry, take them out of the phone book. Be careful of how much you handle them. They will be fragile.
These are dry, though in the picture they don't look all that different from the just picked ones.
Now you are ready to get creative! I got out my laminator.
I made little bookmarks for myself and a few people who I have yet to decide on. I also made a larger card for Princess to play with. Now, she can play with flowers when the ones outside are covered with snow!
Have fun! I'm excited for spring, so I can do this again when I have more flowers to choose from!
7 comments:
That's a great idea - have you ever candied them?
What a clever use of a laminator!
Beautiful (especially your assistant)!
what a fun idea! how lucky for you to have such a cute assistant and basket model all rolled into one!
Wow those still have a lot of color to them for being dried; they look good!
That's really cool. I'll have to remember to try this with Becca.
what a fun and cool idea!! they are so pretty :)
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