Pressed Flowers work the Cards

You can create your scrapbooking cards using pressed flowers to decorate them. Pressing flowers can be fun and useful to add color to other projects. Flat flowersw like pansies work well but many flowers can be pressed. I prefer the flat flowers to add to my cardstock projects.

Yellow in buttercups and daisiers holds well. Red and purpule flowers tend to turn brown. Use some leaves and stems for contrast.

Place your flowers and leaves between blotting paper. Over top of this put corrugated board. Stack up four to six layers then pile several heavy books on top for about a week.

The blotting paper absorbs the moisture. When the flowers are dry, you need to take care when touching them. Illustrations of dryed flowers can be matted and framed very inexpensively. You can add your flowers to cardstock, use some clear contact paper to hold them tight. You can wrap the adhesive paper around the card and trim the edges. The cards can be used for greeting cards, placecards and more.