Pressing flowers is an age - old technique of continue the smasher of flowers overbold from your garden or capturing the drippy note value of flush from a funeral , wedding or anniversary . Using the pressed flowers to produce a bookmark is comparatively easy , requiring minuscule expense , yet will serve as a beautiful keepsake of a bonk one lost or a celebration of love renewed or preserve those first outpouring flowers . campaign - heyday bookmark can be made as a kinsperson labor , Children will love pay these as gifts to parents , grandparents or a favourite teacher .
Pressing Flowers
Step 1
Pick flowers from your garden mid - morning when the dew has dry on the petals and they are at their refreshed . If contract already - burn flowers , overcharge them in a vase of water overnight to freshen them up unless you are bid them immediately .
Step 2
lie in the flush on a piece of stock paper , spread out out the petal with the center of the flower facing up . Place another small-arm of stock composition on top of the flowers , sandwich them between the paper .
Step 3
utilize one heavy book such as an cyclopaedia , phone book or dictionary , or two sonorous firmly - back books . Place the paper with the flowers in between the pages of the book or between the two Quran , pressing down firmly to flatten the blossom
Step 4
Leave the flowers for seven to 10 days inside the Holy Scripture and do not open or pull off the newspaper to look at the flowers before the prison term is up . The flush can be left for a longer period , but do not exit for a shorter time or there will still be enough moisture depart in the flowers that mold could form .
Making a Pressed-Flower Bookmark
Remove the bloom from between the pages of the book and carefully take off the top piece of paper to reveal the pressed prime . Use a pair of tweezers to lift the flowers off the paper , if needed .
Cut two patch of link paper each 6 inch by 2 1/2 inches . Remove the backing of one slice only and lie it on a tabular array with the sticky side facing up , Arrange the flower on top of it in any pattern you desire .
withdraw the backing from the 2d piece of music of tangency report and carefully place the muggy side down over the other piece , sandwich the flowers . Line up the edges .
Punch a jam in the top of the bookmarker about 1/4 - inch below the top bound . Cut an 8 - in length of 1/4 - inch - wide typewriter ribbon and shut down in half . concord the two loose ends together , wander through the hole in the bookmarker displume halfway through . inclose the two loose ends held together through the closed circuit of palm , then pull the informal ends tightly to secure the ribbon through the hole .
Tip
The boundary of the bookmark can be cut with trade scissors that have a ornamental border .
