4 Ways to Press Flowers

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One of my favorite ways to save flowers is to press them.

Little Roger Dale knows how much I love flowers and he is always bringing me all kinds of flowers that he finds.

But don’t worry, we have been teaching him that we don’t pick other people’s flowers without permission.

So now I’m doing my best to press his gifted flowers so I can cherish and keep them forever.

I think it may be fun to start a little pressed flower book collection where I write the date and place that he picked the flower for me.

Like a little flower memory book.

Over the last decade, my go-to has been to press them in books, but I thought it would be fun to try different flower-pressing methods.

What’s your favorite way to press flowers?

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1. Flower Press

I had a flower press when I was a child that had belonged to my grandmother.

Sadly, I have no idea what happened to it.

So I decided to get a new one that I will hopefully be able to pass down someday.

Click here to see the flower press.

2. Microwave Flower Press

This is such a cool concept!

I definitely didn’t use it correctly the first time as I over-sprayed it with water so it took longer to dry.

It also smelled a little funny (possibly from using too much water), but I’m hoping the more I use it the less it will smell.

Click here to see the microwave flower press.

3. Books

Books are by far the easiest way to press flowers, plus it’s free!

But I would note to be cautious of the flowers potentially molding in the book as it could ruin the book.

4. An Iron

I had high hopes for this method and tried it a couple of different ways.

The first time I tried it I placed the flowers between two sheets of parchment paper.

But the moisture in the flowers got trapped in the paper so it wasn’t drying/pressing properly.

I switched to something absorbent (an old cloth napkin) and this worked better, but I did find that it was easy to burn the flowers.

Click here to see the iron I use for all my crafts.

5. Buy it

While using a book is the easiest way to press flowers, it does take time.

The easiest way to get pressed flowers is to order them online.

And they are so pretty as I think they use color correction on the pressed flowers.

Click here to see my favorite pressed flowers.