Flowers. Floral decoration tips for your home - Continued

This is the most inexpensive method of pressing flowers. There are flower-pressing devices that you can purchase, which may only cost a few dollars, but they have screws to tighten the pages together. Flower presses often come with thin transparent paper that you can remove and change as needed when pressing and drying flowers. They are a bit nicer to use, but if you have a few heavy books around the house they will work well also.

How long do you have to dry the flowers before pressing them? Usually if you are picking the flowers in the morning, you can wait until later that same afternoon and the moisture will be gone from the exterior of the flower. The interior of the flower will dry while it is being pressed. Pressing a flower that is still wet from the dew or rain will make the flower turn black or sometimes you will see fungus or bacteria grow on your pressed flower because it was wet. 

You can use the same book to press a number of flowers. Putting the book on the bookshelf where it is tight or putting more books on top of the book that is pressing flowers inside of it will ensure that your flowers will be pressed flat and smooth. 

You can put any type of flowers, ferns, leaves, colored leaves, and even tall grasses in a frame after they have been pressed and dried. Drying and pressing flowers of the same variety, and then putting them in the similar frames will create inexpensive and beautiful decorations for any room in your home. Kitchen pressed herbs in frames are great display ideas, roses or petals of roses pressed and in frames are great for displays in the bathroom, and any type of flower or color of flower that you like can be used!