Pressed Flowers By Preserved Gardens

I love to draw my Siberian Huskies. Using pressed materials to accentuate their personalities is something I find very rewarding.

Normally you should avoid displaying pressed flowers in a humid place. If you really want to do it, you must plan ahead.

 This is made with a combination of color enhanced materials and materials that are very stable, such as Birch bark.

Method: The framing is done with special attention to ensuring an airtight seal.

This picture layers glass, the pressed flower picture, drafting Mylar behind the picture and a desiccant pack and oxygen absorber tucked inside.

All these layers are held together with aluminum tape that covers about 1/4 inch of the front of the glass and wraps around to the back of the aluminum foil.

After this special preparation, the whole piece is framed as usual.

I like antiques. Sometimes I like to put pressed flower pictures under clear iridescent glass, in an antique or rustic frame to give the feel of age. It's a lovely effect, but very difficult to capture in a photo, so you'll have to take my word for it until you can see it yourself.

These are fun and easy to do. Cut a piece of glass, grind the edges and wrap with copper tape, then solder over the copper. Clean well, decorate with pressed flowers and seal with a clear varnish and attach a magnet to the back. This magnet uses a piece of foil wrapping paper in the design.

I really enjoy making pressed flower ornaments, it's a bit of work, but it makes me happy.

For Christmas I like using iridescent glass to add a touch of magic. My lousy photographic skills prevent the beauty to show in this image.

“Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify, simplify!”
-- Henry David Thoreau