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How to press flowers – for pretty homemade decorations

flowers of dicentra laid out in a flower press

A wonderfully mindful activity, learn how to press flowers and preserve the fleeting fragility and beauty of garden blooms by turning them into pretty decorations or accessories.

If you've mastered how to grow a cut flower patch then pressing flowers is a perfect way to extend the enjoyment of some of the blooms you've grown. You can use the pressed flowers to make mini artworks to hang on walls, pretty bookmarks or gift tags, to decorate cards or journals, decoupage candles ... the choices are endless. You could start pressing flowers now for beautiful DIY Christmas decor ideas.

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