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    Home » Crafts

    Handmade Pressed Flower Gifts from your Backyard

    September 7, 2014 by Patti Estep 1 Comment

    Handmade pressed flower gifts are easy to create by simply using flowers and leaves from your own backyard.

    Pressed flowers on paper

    Before you toss out your containers filled with beautiful annual flowers that won't make it through the winter, try pressing some of them, to make original handmade pressed flower gifts. Pressed flowers can be used in a variety of ways, and with a little planning couldn't be simpler. 

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    Handmade Pressed Flower Gifts

    Before you toss out your containers filled with beautiful annual flowers that won't make it through the winter, try pressing some of them, to make original handmade gifts. Pressed flowers can be used in a variety of ways, and with a little planning couldn't be simpler. Don't have the time or patience to dry your own? You can buy them online.

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    Drying flowers and leaves

    PflowersphonebookYou know those phone books that keep showing up at your door, the big clunky books that no one uses anymore? They are great for pressing flowers. There's something about the paper that absorbs the moisture from the flower and they are so big that you can press quite a few flowers in one book. It usually takes a couple of weeks until they are ready, depending on how thick the flower or leaf. All you need to do is take a few flowers and leaves and place them in the book, starting somewhere near the back, leaving a little room between each flower. Then, flip to another section, making sure that you have 50 or so pages between each flower section.

    Here are a few projects ideas:

    Handmade pressed flower gifts are a great way to utilize all your flowers and leaves from the garden, to create something special for your loved ones.

    Framed Floral Wreath

    Just use Mod Podge (watered down Elmers glue works too) to glue each item to a sturdy white paper base cut to fit the frame. You can start by placing a circle of glue on the paper but you really need to put the glue on the back of  each flower also, before placing them on the paper.

    Handmade pressed flower gifts are a great way to utilize all your flowers and leaves from the garden, to create something special for your loved ones.Pressed Flower Card

    Here I used different leaf material to use as stems for the flowers. I've also seen a bouquet made on a card which looks great too.

    Handmade pressed flower gifts are a great way to utilize all your flowers and leaves from the garden, to create something special for your loved ones.Floral Bookmark

    This is probably the easiest one to make. You don't need a lot of flowers and you can simply glue the flowers in a collage on a strip of cardstock. To help protect the bookmark add an extra layer of Mod Podge on top. It will look messy at first but dries clear.

    Handmade pressed flower gifts are a great way to utilize all your flowers and leaves from the garden, to create something special for your loved ones.

    All of these projects cost little more than your  time and would make great gifts for the holidays.

    Don't have any pressed flowers of your own? Receive 10% off your purchase at Greetings of Grace. Use coupon code "HEARTHANDVINE10".

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    About Patti Estep

    Patti is the creator of Hearth and Vine, a home and garden blog filled with projects to inspire your creative side. She loves crafting, gardening, decorating and entertaining at her home in Pennsylvania. When she is not working on a project at home or searching for treasures at nurseries and thrift stores with her girlfriends, you’ll probably find her with family and friends, at a restaurant, or home party enjoying new and different food adventures.

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    1. Tricia the Good Mama

      September 20, 2014 at 7:24 pm

      I love the candle. This is a great idea! Pinned!

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