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    Home » Decorate

    Shadow Box Peonies - A Great Way to Preserve Your Garden Flowers

    June 21, 2015 by Patti Estep 4 Comments

    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.

    display - Shadow Box Dried Peonies ~gardenmatter.com

    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.

    Fresh Picked Peonies - Shadow Box Dried Peonies

    I cut some of my double herbaceous peonies along with one ITOH hybrid, and hung them in the basement for a couple of weeks.

    Dried Peonies - Shadow Box Dried Peonies

    The doubles did much better than the ITOH (yellow one) but they all looked pretty good.

    Shadow Box Peonies materials

     

    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

    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.

    A small jute bow completes the look.

     

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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. Heather

      November 05, 2017 at 2:58 am

      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!

      Reply
      • Patti Estep

        November 05, 2017 at 6:12 am

        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.

        Reply
    2. Amy Renea, Looksi Curator

      June 22, 2015 at 2:03 pm

      peonies are my FAV! I love this idea!

      Reply
      • Patti

        June 22, 2015 at 7:16 pm

        So glad you like it Amy. Thanks for stopping by.

        Reply

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