Can anyone give me advice on how to do it? I saw this great idea in a catalog that had pressed flowers in a picture frame. The artist gets them from her own garden and sells 8 of them for $559. That's waaaaay too much for me. So I figured I could try a do-it-yourself thing. Where do I start???? TIA

By Kaye on Thursday, March 9, 2006 - 11:07 pm:

I know you can buy little pressing kits at michaels and such. I tried as a child to press flowers and only recall them looking ugly. There has to be a secret to keeping them pretty and bright colored!

By Ginny~moderator on Friday, March 10, 2006 - 07:52 am:

I googled and posted but forgot to make my post final. Anyhow, if you google - pressed flowers how-to, you will find on the first page a number of sites. One of the early sites directed to kids tells you how to make your own flower press. I'll see if I can find it.

Here it is:

http://www.vandycks.com/kids/projects/flowerpressing/default.htm

And here's a site where the owner is now selling pressed flower arrangements, but has lots of links to what look to be good advice sites:

http://www.preservedgardens.com/how-to-press.htm

and here's the e-how page

http://www.ehow.com/how_1350_press-flowers.html

By Enchens on Saturday, March 11, 2006 - 02:20 am:

Cool deal! Thanks for the links.

By Reds9298 on Saturday, March 18, 2006 - 08:33 pm:

I've pressed and framed lots of flowers! I hang them upside down for about a week so they are completely dry. Then I simply put them in the pages of a very thick book(and one you don't mind damaging) until they are flat.

I love pressed flowers in frames. I'm sure there's more that you can do than just the way I do it, but I've had most of mine for years and years and they still look just as great as the first day. I think the key is drying them out.