This fun and simple craft can be easily made with any dried flower. Here we created one with shadow box peonies and a burlap backing.
Memory or shadow boxes are great for keeping a collection of something special, and hanging it in your home. In this post I’ve created shadow box peonies, mainly as a decoration, in homage to my favorite flower.
I love peonies and am always so sad when they stop flowering. I always pick as many as I can when they are getting close to the end, and this year I decided to try to preserve a few.
I cut some of my double herbaceous peonies along with one ITOH hybrid, and hung them in the basement for a couple of weeks.
The doubles did much better than the ITOH (yellow one) but they all looked pretty good.
Using a rustic wood shadow box from Hobby Lobby with a little burlap for the backing, the peonies were gathered and glued into place.
Shadow Box Peonies
A small jute bow completes the look.
Make A Dried Peony Wreath
Amy Renea, Looksi Curator says
peonies are my FAV! I love this idea!
Patti says
So glad you like it Amy. Thanks for stopping by.
Heather says
Did you spray anything on the flowers to seal them before placing them in the shadow box? I am trying to create something like this with assorted flowers from previous special occasions. Thanks!
Patti Estep says
Hi Heather,
I did not spray my peonies. I’ve used hairspray (the aerosol kind) on dried flowers before but since these were going under glass I didn’t bother. THey still look good so maybe you don’t need it? Hope that helps.