Receiving flowers from your close ones unarguably feels good, right? Yes, it does. The joy of keeping the flowers close to your bedpost or in your living room is just so relatable to everyone. Well, keeping the freshness of the flowers live a little longer and the right usage of the recycled flowers is something that is really cool. Yes, when you get an online flower delivery of your favorite flowers from your favorite person, make full of those flowers. How? Well, it is all about using recycled flowers and believe me, it is not even rocket-science. Here is an essential guide and hacks to recycle your received flowers and use them for creating photo frames. Additionally, who would not love receiving beautiful photo frames decorated with recycled flowers? It is also a simple DIY for making your regular photo frames into extraordinary ones. So, let’s dive into the article to know the easy peasy steps for creating beautiful photo frames using recycled flowers.
Pressed Flowers Photo Frames:
Are you one of a kind who always wants to stay close to nature? How about bringing nature home? Cool, right? Pressed flowers photo frames are just an alternative for bringing nature home since you cannot do it practically. All you gotta do is to preserve all the beautiful flowers that you wish never to die. Press the flowers when they start losing their freshness and wait till they get all dried up. Isn’t it the best way to keep the flowers that you received at some special events and are close to your heart.
Right Steps To Press Flowers For Further Procedure!
Aren’t you all excited to make the frame using all the recycled flowers? Yes, I can sense that totally. However, before you jump into the procedure, let us talk about the right process of pressing the flower in case you don’t want to ruin your favorite ones. Let’s get started.
- Carefully remove the flowers head from their stem in a way that you don’t harm any of them.
- Take a thick book and part it in its one third part and place a printer sheet on one side.
- Gently place the flowers on the printer sheet maintaining the adequate space between them.
- If the desired flowers have thick centres, pull off all the poetrals of the flowers and keep them separately in the printer sheet.
- Once you are done placing the flowers in the sheet, place another sheer on the flowers and close the book right away. Doing so, you will be sandwiching the flowers perfectly.
- To exert more pressure, place more thick books on that book.
- The process of drying the flowers will take upto 2 to 3 weeks. The dried up session of flowers will depend upon the type of flowers.
- Collect the dried flowers from the book after removing the sheet.
Procedure:
Carefully, remove the glass from the frame and measure the frame using a ruler. Now cut a decorative sheet of paper as per the measurement of the frame. Now, cut a white sheet an inch smaller than the original height of the frame. You have to place the flowers and petals on the white sheet using glue. Place glue on the white sheet by a toothpick. Now, place the flowers on the glue in an artistic manner and make it look much more appealing. Leave the sheet to dry overnight. Now you have to fix the wheat sheet with the decorative sheet and make the frame come back to its original shape having the floral design in the centre.
Here you go with a gorgeous photo frame made of recycled flowers. Next time, when you send flowers online to your close ones, do tell them the easy-peasy procedure of preparing a photo frame for themselves as well.
