ILoveMusic - Not sure how you are using cardboard, but using phone books is better because the books are thick, soft and absorbent. The flowers need to be pressed in thin smooth paper and then placed in the phone book to dry. Flowers pressed in cardboard might be hard to remove if they stick. They are fragile when dry and can tear easily when removing from the paper.
iamleothelioness - you can get end rolls of unprinted newsprint from a newspaper company - they can't use the rolls when they become too short to pass through the printing presses. They usually give them away. You can also buy this paper in pads or by the sheet through art supply or school supply companies. But any unprinted, smooth absorbant paper will work.
I have been asked many times about pressing them in wax paper. I just use plain phone books and computer paper and load up the phone books with flowers spaced out between two sheets of paper and space those throughout the phonebk with about 30 pgs between and I put weight on top of many stacks of phone bks and leave in for 1-2 wks. I remove them and store in a closet in stacked plastic bins. Choose thin flowers. Then you could put between wax paper and seal around edges.
i tried this with some very important flowers i really needed preserved and after waiting for them to be flat over a week i then pressed them using the wax paper technique you said and my wax paper refused to seal all the way no matter how long i tried to do it, so i finally gave up and now im stuck and am worried about my flowers being ruined.
It can take longer than a week to press and dry flowers. Do NOT use wax paper. Use unprinted newspaper, or layers of other clean, smooth absorbent paper. Put them in phone books. Put at least 10 pounds of weight on top of the books. Stack them in a warm dry place,like an attic, or hot place like your car in the sun. Check every few days and replace any damp paper layers with dry paper. Do not attempt to remove the flowers until they are stiff and dry.
Please do not waste your time with this bogus "technique". Pressed flowers are only preserved when they are dried - which cannot happen when sealed in waxed paper. They will rot with this method.
Place your flowers in unprinted newsprint paper, and insert those between the pages of old telephone books. Stack the phone books with at least 10 pounds of weight on top. Check them every few days and put the sheets of paper containing flowers into dry phone books until the flowers are stiff and dry.
@petalpusher03259 Hi thanks for this advice. One question though - re: unprinted newsprint paper? Forgive me, I am in Australia so perhaps there is a different terminology. But all newspaper has print on it, how can you get your hands on the unprinted stuff? Can you be more specific about unprinted newsprint paper? Or alternatively - would plain brown paper suffice or regular white paper used for printing out documents. Apologies for my newbie question! Thanks : D
@petalpusher03259 Hi, I thought that was great advice! I am going to do it right now. I hope card board would work..... does it? Because that's what I am using.
Can u remove the flowers from the wax paper after they dry and how long do you let them dry? Please answer...A.S.A.P.
sheila8930 5 days ago
ILoveMusic - Not sure how you are using cardboard, but using phone books is better because the books are thick, soft and absorbent. The flowers need to be pressed in thin smooth paper and then placed in the phone book to dry. Flowers pressed in cardboard might be hard to remove if they stick. They are fragile when dry and can tear easily when removing from the paper.
petalpusher03259 9 months ago
iamleothelioness - you can get end rolls of unprinted newsprint from a newspaper company - they can't use the rolls when they become too short to pass through the printing presses. They usually give them away. You can also buy this paper in pads or by the sheet through art supply or school supply companies. But any unprinted, smooth absorbant paper will work.
petalpusher03259 1 year ago
cool the sexy iron has farted on the flower XD YIPPIIIIIIIIII
LTANCELIN 1 year ago
Can this be done to a flower like a Snapdragon?
I know it is more of a tubular flower, but they are my friends favorite flower.
Please let me know, and thanks for the post!
Secrectasiaman43 1 year ago
Is it possible to use this method for sunflowers? I've been told that they might have too much dimension
lilmateo91690 1 year ago
Can't hear the words because of the confounded guitar music in the background.
creamtt 1 year ago
Forget the flower pressing, I'm digging this great guitar playing in the background!
BenNCM 1 year ago 12
I have a question...i have some flowers from my grandmothers funeral about 2 years ago..they are all stiff and dry is it too late to press them?
misstori7 2 years ago
I have been asked many times about pressing them in wax paper. I just use plain phone books and computer paper and load up the phone books with flowers spaced out between two sheets of paper and space those throughout the phonebk with about 30 pgs between and I put weight on top of many stacks of phone bks and leave in for 1-2 wks. I remove them and store in a closet in stacked plastic bins. Choose thin flowers. Then you could put between wax paper and seal around edges.
mypetalpress 2 years ago
i tried this with some very important flowers i really needed preserved and after waiting for them to be flat over a week i then pressed them using the wax paper technique you said and my wax paper refused to seal all the way no matter how long i tried to do it, so i finally gave up and now im stuck and am worried about my flowers being ruined.
reganandsteve 2 years ago
It can take longer than a week to press and dry flowers. Do NOT use wax paper. Use unprinted newspaper, or layers of other clean, smooth absorbent paper. Put them in phone books. Put at least 10 pounds of weight on top of the books. Stack them in a warm dry place,like an attic, or hot place like your car in the sun. Check every few days and replace any damp paper layers with dry paper. Do not attempt to remove the flowers until they are stiff and dry.
petalpusher03259 2 years ago
Please do not waste your time with this bogus "technique". Pressed flowers are only preserved when they are dried - which cannot happen when sealed in waxed paper. They will rot with this method.
Place your flowers in unprinted newsprint paper, and insert those between the pages of old telephone books. Stack the phone books with at least 10 pounds of weight on top. Check them every few days and put the sheets of paper containing flowers into dry phone books until the flowers are stiff and dry.
petalpusher03259 3 years ago 11
@petalpusher03259 Hi thanks for this advice. One question though - re: unprinted newsprint paper? Forgive me, I am in Australia so perhaps there is a different terminology. But all newspaper has print on it, how can you get your hands on the unprinted stuff? Can you be more specific about unprinted newsprint paper? Or alternatively - would plain brown paper suffice or regular white paper used for printing out documents. Apologies for my newbie question! Thanks : D
iamleothelioness 1 year ago
@petalpusher03259 Hi, I thought that was great advice! I am going to do it right now. I hope card board would work..... does it? Because that's what I am using.
ILoveMusic288748 9 months ago
@petalpusher03259 how long will this preserve the flower?
95lamp 5 months ago
@petalpusher03259 please respond my grandma died and i am trying to preserve the rose from her funeral how long will this preserve the flower?
95lamp 5 months ago
After it dry out, I tried to remove the wax papter, flowr gets ripped, can you please tell me how do you removed the wax paper?
would you also post more video of the projects you done. Thanks a bunch!
christine008 3 years ago
@christine008 You're not supposed to remove the wax paper.
The point is to seal the flowers and preserve them in the paper.
Why are you trying to press flowers if you're just going to tear the wax paper off?
digestherlimbs 1 year ago
How long do you let them dry after you've ironed them? :o)
melanie22282 4 years ago
what setting would you put the iron on...when you iron the flowers and or leaves?
thanks!
brnbear99
brnbear99 4 years ago
Hello. after the flowers have dried can you remove them from the wax paper? Thanks!
alvin05jenn 4 years ago