Pressing flowers is a simple, easy way to preserve your favorite flowers or flowers from a special occasion, much like drying flowers. (To see how to dry flowers, click here.)
Of course, if you want to learn how to press flowers, then you obviously want to keep those flowers, whether they are special occasion flowers or flowers you picked from the side of the road.
Whatever your reason for wanting pressed flowers, you can get pressed flowers simply and easily with a few short instructions.
Items Needed to Press Flowers
Flowers (duh) Wax paper Heavy book or books
How to Press Flowers
Step 1: Choose Your Flowers
Pick out some flowers to press. Flowers that aren’t as full with thin petals, like daisies or impatiens, will press better than, say, a rose.
Step 2: Wrap Your Flowers in Wax Paper
Wrap your flower in wax paper. Don’t wrap them up all tightly. You are going to press them, so wrapping the wax paper around your flower in a rectangular shape will work just fine.
Step 3: Press Your Flowers
Now that your flower is prepped, place it in the middle of a heavy book and close it. You might want to stack another heavy book or two on top or something else heavy to help weigh the flowers down.
Step 4: Wait
This is the hard part. To get truly beautiful and well-preserved pressed flowers, you need to leave them alone under the weight for a couple of weeks.
After waiting for a while, your flowers should be beautifully pressed and ready for whatever you might want to do with them.
Sources:
Personal Experience