Kamis, 19 Februari 2009

Pressing Fresh Flowers

By Steve Valentino Platinum Quality Author

Floral craft and floral décor are avocations which if passionately followed can become and addiction of a lifetime. Some floral crafts are pressing fresh flowers, waxing fresh flowers and drying fresh flowers. The easy thing about any floral art is just to have the knowledge to begin with and since none of these crafts are time consuming, you can easily squeeze this into your busy schedules - at work and even at home. We will concentrate on pressing fresh flowers.

This floral craft is the easiest of all. You have to carefully select the fresh flower you want to press. It's important that the flower is not wilting. Bring the flower home and quickly put them inside your refrigerator or an ice chest to keep them fresh while you organize your pressing material. For pressing you would require a newspaper sheet, a thick heavy book - preferably a dictionary or a telephone directory / yellow page etc., and some heavy objects weighing about 20 lbs. or above.

This done, take out the flowers from the refrigerator and put them in the newspaper fold in such a manner that all the petals spread out without folding. Next put the upper fold of the newspaper over the flower and open the dictionary or telephone directory from the middle and place the newspaper inside. Close the dictionary/directory and put the heavy weights over the dictionary. The pressing process takes about 3 days, so make sure you do it at a place which will remain untouched for three days. Once the flower is dry and pressed, you can do many a things with them, make greeting cards, use them in an arrangement, art work for wall or your dining table or even that tiny corner for your office place or even designing a perfect gift for someone you love.

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