Love your your circular floating frame particularly and would like to have seen the finished product. I appreciate your clear instructions on all your videos. Thank you!
Four family funerals within a year. Dried flowers for memorabilia art. Set out to be original but quickly became open to suggestions after many fails 😊 Your teachings are so simple! I love when you humbly share what works & what doesnt work "for you" Thanks so much! Look forward to a pressing flower binge with you!
Hi. Thanks for your comment. Pressed flowers are going to naturally fade over time. The leaves fade the quickest. To slow down the fading process for leaves, I paint a thin layer of glue over them. Flowers tend to retain their color longer and therefore I don’t do anything to the flowers.
Beautiful work and I loved the tips. They are so delicate I'd be afraid petals would catch when going in and out of envelopes. It would be a shame to have all that work and beauty fall apart. Do you protect the flowers after applying them to the cards? If yes, what do you use? Thanks.
Hi Lynn. Great question. I do not protect the flowers. However, I do place a piece of protective vellum on top of the card prior to placing in the envelope. This protects putting it in and taking it out of the envelope. I buy the vellum on Amazon and purchase a size that matches the size of the card. Hope that helps! Thanks for watching.
So, this seems like a wonderful idea, but how do you keep the dried flowers in place? There is no weight or adhesive to keep them from sliding around inside the sleeve. In the video, yours seem to be staying in place even as you flip the pages, but mine move around with even the slightest movement. I definitely could not move the sleeve from even a flat position.
I'm just looking for ways to store my flowers, too. I'm cleaning out all of the books today. I have an idea for the ones with stems. I use acid free photo sticker squares to hold things in place. They do that job well but are gentle enough not to do any damage to the plant. I will say that if the stickers are in place for a long time, they may pull a small amount of paper up, but that's a tolerable downside for me & it very rarely happens.
A couple of important things I left out. The squares I found are small so sometimes I have to "layer" one end with another to get it fully secured around the stem if it's a little larger. The second thing I forgot to mention is that I leave the waxpaper on one side of the sticker for obvious reasons. If it's removed, it will stick to anything put on top. The kind I have come in a small box with a spool of stickers inside and they're fed out of a slot at the bottom of the box. I think the brand I have is Pioneer Photo Albums ❤
Awesome! Thanks for sharing. I saw in the comments that someone asked where you purchased the frame. I contacted Joanne Fabrics, just to verify if there are two pieces of glass in them. She said no. I gave her the item number so she was telling me the right one you used. Are you just buying 2 and using the glass from the other?
Here is the link to the actual product for the 12x12 inch frame: www.joann.com/12x12-wood-float-frame-white/12531422.html Yes, it has two pieces of glass. Their frames are on sale now.
Thank you for sharing what you have learned. Mine is to come today and I’m anxious to try it. I’ll have to purchase flowers at the grocery store now since it is early in the spring and I don’t have any in my yard.
