Preserve your sunny days and nature memories with beautiful pressed floral craft.

Gilded herbariums, bold botanical frames, cutout abstracts, meditative mandala creations—each of the 11 projects here features detailed step-by-step photo instructions. Additional tips and tricks help you play with plants: What if you mix large with tiny leaves, red with blue petals? There's plenty of creative advice to power your ideas, including basics on botanical shapes, design and composition facts to help you, and more.

First you'll learn to choose the best method for what you're making: press, dry, or preserve. Directions are included for each process, including instructions for making your own flower presses. As you select, pick, and preserve the right plants for each project, you'll explore ways to experiment with using grasses, leaves, roots, seaweeds, and more.

If natural colors aren't enough for you, or if your flowers have lost their brilliance while drying, follow the instructions to experiment with dyeing, painting, and other techniques to color your plants. The goal is to help your pressed-flower adventures move into your own creative directions, so this book urges you to follow your ideas, even—especially—the craziest ones.

Whether you roam in the yard, park, or flower garden, these projects give you ways to bring the charm of flowers to your own personal crafting adventures. Preserve your sunny days and nature memories with beautiful pressed floral craft. Gilded herbariums, bold botanical frames, cutout abstracts, Zen creations, plant pictures with striking black backdrops—each of the 11 projects here features detailed step-by-step photo instructions. Additional tips and tricks help you play with plants: What if you mix large with tiny leaves, red with blue petals? There's plenty of creative advice to power your ideas, including basics on botanical shapes, design and composition facts to help you, and more.

First you'll learn to choose the best method for what you're making: press, dry, or preserve. Directions are included for each process, including instructions for making your own flower presses. As you select, pick, and preserve the right plants for each project, you'll learn ways to experiment with using grasses, leaves, roots, seaweeds, and more. If natural colors aren't enough for you, or if your flowers have lost their brilliance while drying, follow the instructions to experiment with dyeing, painting, and other techniques to color your plants. The goal is to help your pressed-flower adventures move into your own creative directions, so this book urges you to follow your ideas, even—especially—the craziest ones.

Whether you roam in the yard, park, or flower garden, these projects give you ways to bring the charm of flowers to your own personal crafting adventures.

A compact but complete guide to seeing, choosing, and using the nature around you to make gorgeous items
Covers techniques for pressing, drying, preserving, dyeing, and painting various botanicals
Thanks to this guide, you'll now think of weeds as floral surprises

[AuthorName]By Laëtitia Lazerges[/AuthorName][AuthorBio]Laëtitia Lazerges fled a gray office in greater Paris to live out her creative passion. She worked at Etsy for seven years as community manager, then as community and sellers manager. She runs a creative content studio, blog, web shop, and two crafting Facebook communities and is the author of several craft books published in her native France. She lives in Paris. www.vertcerise.com[/AuthorBio][NumIllustration]350 color images[/NumIllustration][CoAuthor][/CoAuthor][SubTitle]All the Basics Plus 11 Projects to Inspire You[/SubTitle][ColorPattern]350 color images[/ColorPattern]

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