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Pressed Flower Picture Frames

What you’ll need

Frames (I did one 8″x10″ and two 5″x7″) (you’ll need two of each because you’ll be needing two pieces of glass to display the flowers in between)
2 Fire bricks (you can get away with using one if you use your microwave tray instead.
Cotton fabric or paper towel (if using fabric stay away from polyester fabric it might melt)
Flowers (I picked mine from my Garden and my friends Garden (Shhhhh she will never know) Weeds look great as well)
Hot glue

The firebricks are made to go in the woodstove as insulation to keep the heat in for longer.

Step one. Lay your fabric onto your brick.
Step two. Lay your flowers onto your fabric.
Step three. Lay more fabric over your flowers.
Step four. Finish it off with another brick! pretty easy so far right?!!

And step 5 is to nuke it in the microwave! TA DA!!!! You should have flat colourful little flowers! Whatever you do DO NOT and I’m saying this again DO NOT press down onto your bricks once your flowers are sandwiched in there. It will break your flowers. Trust me on this. Don’t worry about them flattening out. They will do it on it’s own. The heat will cause the water to evaporate from the flower and the weight of the brick will flatten it down as the water evaporates.

How long to Microwave them

Oh yes how long should you nuke them for? I held mine in the microwave from 1-3 minutes. The bigger or thicker flowers definitely took longer. For the smaller or white ones I did one minute then removed the top brick left the top fabric and did another minute or two. I feel like leaving the brick on top all three minutes keeps bringing back the moisture into the flower. That said, either way any flower needs to be microwaved for at least 30 seconds without the top brick to completely dry it out. (note: don’t microwave without the top fabric. It helps keep the flower flat. Also white flowers burn super quick so, check every 10 seconds if you have to until you get your time down)

Putting it together

Display your flowers in the glass frame. Ahh those flowers look so pretty!

Install the other piece of glass on top and hot glue it! Okay here’s a tip you won’t want to miss. If you want your flowers to move between the glass use something lightweight (like a can of pop or your phone) to lay on your glass while the glue is drying. If you want no movement use your bricks! YEP. Just make sure you don’t use to many your glass might break.

And Ta Daaaa a Beautiful keepsake.

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