This is so beautiful....and amazingly easy.
This is my wreath under glass. While I was collecting flowers to press, I kept seeing leaves and some were so beautiful. I kept thinking there must be something we can do with these, rather than turn them into mulch. I collected many, pressed them in my phone books,without having any idea what to do after they were dried.
Pressing leaves and flowers: Pick flower heads with no stem. Pick large flowers and small ones. Pick a lot, because they don’t all dry well, and you won’t know until you try. Place them face down in pages of a phone book to dry. Depending on how thick they are will dictate how long to dry them, but count on 2 weeks. Dry leaves to go with your flowers for projects.
Fall leaves: Find the prettiest ones you can and fill a large phone book, or two, with these leaves. Leave for two weeks.
The wreath: I still don’t know how I came up with the idea. I did try pinning the leaves to a straw wreath but they cracked because they were dry and brittle. Anyway, the idea was born.
This frame is 16×16. Find a piece of card stock….craft store…and draw lightly around a plate in the center of your paper. Lay your outer row of leaves around the circle, following the pencil marks. If you have a lot of room left around the outside, move your leaves out. Start your second row in about an inch from the tips of the outer edge. Continue the rows until your wreath is done.
Pour Elmer’s glue on a throw away plate. Carefully pick up a leaf and put a few drops of glue under it. Put the glue under the outer leaves and every leaf on the inside that you can. Let dry overnight.
Frame the wreath . Accept the compliments!
This is my wreath under glass. While I was collecting flowers to press, I kept seeing leaves and some were so beautiful. I kept thinking there must be something we can do with these, rather than turn them into mulch. I collected many, pressed them in my phone books,without having any idea what to do after they were dried.
Pressing leaves and flowers: Pick flower heads with no stem. Pick large flowers and small ones. Pick a lot, because they don’t all dry well, and you won’t know until you try. Place them face down in pages of a phone book to dry. Depending on how thick they are will dictate how long to dry them, but count on 2 weeks. Dry leaves to go with your flowers for projects.
Fall leaves: Find the prettiest ones you can and fill a large phone book, or two, with these leaves. Leave for two weeks.
The wreath: I still don’t know how I came up with the idea. I did try pinning the leaves to a straw wreath but they cracked because they were dry and brittle. Anyway, the idea was born.
This frame is 16×16. Find a piece of card stock….craft store…and draw lightly around a plate in the center of your paper. Lay your outer row of leaves around the circle, following the pencil marks. If you have a lot of room left around the outside, move your leaves out. Start your second row in about an inch from the tips of the outer edge. Continue the rows until your wreath is done.
Pour Elmer’s glue on a throw away plate. Carefully pick up a leaf and put a few drops of glue under it. Put the glue under the outer leaves and every leaf on the inside that you can. Let dry overnight.
Frame the wreath . Accept the compliments!
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