More dried flowers

Following on from my previous efforts with dried flowers, I decided to have another go.

This time I used a dried pansy.  The colours had remained quite strong after drying, so there was no need to recolour.  Working with the colours of the pansy, I chose a mauve card blank.

 

I carefully mounted the pansy on white card and then added a layer of acetate to protect the pansy.  I then mounted the whole lot onto gold card, finishing off with gold brads in the corners, to hold the acetate in place.

The last of the September birthdays

 
The 30th is our friends birthday.  With all the celebrations in September it can be difficult to continue to come up with unusual cards.  This year I was lucky – I had been messing around with some flowers that I had dried and I decided to use these to make our friend’s card.

During the summer I had picked some hydrangea (hortensia) flowers and put them in my flower press.  When I finally remembered them they were certainly dried but also quite colourless.


I trawled the web to see if it was possible to hand colour dried flowers and came across an article that gave instructions on how to colour dried flowers with pastels.  Well, after a bit of trial and error I was beginning to have a bit of success.


I coloured some more, this time with blue pastels and used them to make this card.


Our friend loved it, especially when I told her that the flowers were from my garden.