How to Use Dried Flowers on Handmade Cards

Many, many years ago my daughter gave me some dried flowers she purchased from somewhere and then she gave them to me because she thought I could use them on a card.  Well those flowers sat in my craft room unused for years until I discovered them while cleaning out my craft room.  My winter project this year was to clean out and reorganize my craft room.  It was a huge undertaking and I still plan on doing a blog post about it.  I donated truck loads of supplies I never used.  When I came across the flowers, I felt bad that I never used the flowers given to me, so I decided to finally make that card with them.

Unfortunately, the flowers were so old by now they were very fragile;  but I did my best trying to keep the blooms for disintegrating as I worked with them.  To make my card I carefully glued the flowers to a white card panel, then to keep them from disintegrating further, I sprayed them with a fixative.

The flower panel looked very vintage to me, so I decided a vintage style card would look best with the dried flowers.  I used designer paper that reminded me of old wall paper;  it is from DCWV "Tres Chic".  Then I added some lace and ribbon and put gold gems in the corners of the flower panel.  the sentiment is a sticker.

 Creating this card made me think that I should really press my own flowers from my garden.  I have some Bachelor Buttons that would be perfect for drying.  But if I do that, hopefully they won't sit for years before I finally use them 😀.

Have A Great Day!  Amy

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