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Flower Pressing
by Sandra Fisher
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If you're looking for an inspiring and creative hobby that you can really enjoy, then look no further! Flower pressing will bring out your creativity, reduce your stress and allow you to earn money at the same time.
You'll be surprised to discover how quickly you can learn to press flowers, and once you know how, you'll be able to make all kinds of lovely articles.
Pressed flowers are used for decorating greeting cards, pictures, telephone directories and photo albums. Even school bags, candles and lampshades can be decorated with sprays of pressed flowers. There is no end to the variety of ways in which you can use them.
Fortunately, the tools you'll need are simple and easy to obtain. You'll probably find that you have most of the equipment for flower pressing in your home already.
You'll soon discover that flower pressing is not only limited to flowers. You can use leaves, grasses, tendrils and ferns as well stamens, fennel seeds and even carrot tops. Fine seed heads of ordinary lawn grasses will give a touch of finesse while bits of bark and little patches of lichen will give your designs originality.
And don't spurn the different types of weeds lurking in your back yard. You'll be amazed to see how well some of them press. Many of them are quite pretty so you just need a good eye and a bit of imagination.
Of course, there's a lot of scope for experimentation and that's half the fun. Just remember that flowers in a pressed flower collage should never look stiff but should always look natural and appealing.
Because pressed flowers are flat and two-dimensional, you should aim for a flowing, graceful appearance. You can easily accomplish the desired effect if you work cleverly with curves.
Try to use elegantly curved tendrils and curled leaves in your flower designs as this will give them the natural flowing look you need. You can even give a straight stem a gentle curve if you bend it gently by running it between your thumb and the back end of a pair of scissors. But remember to do this before you press the stem as once it is pressed it will be dry and brittle.
When picking greenery, it's important to take note of the individual stages of growth of the plant as well as the different seasons. For example, the gently curving tendrils and new leaves of the Virginia creeper are best picked in spring. And tender maple leaves picked in spring are completely different from the red and gold leaves harvested in autumn or fall.
There is so much you can do with leaves and flowers. You'll find that flower pressing is not only a creative hobby, but also you can easily turn it into a work from home business, too.
Sandra Fisher began pressing flowers as a hobby and turned it into a successful "work from home" business. The illustrations at her website flowerpressing.com are worth viewing.
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