Discover 22 beautiful dried and pressed flower crafts, from wreaths and candles to botanical art, ornaments and DIY gifts.
Hi Friends! How are you today? I have such a beautiful collection of dried and pressed flower crafts waiting for you. These projects capture everything we love about the garden during summer and preserve it in ways we can enjoy as the softer colors and cozy feelings of fall begin to arrive. For those of you that adore Cottagecore, Cozy Chic and more… this palette has your name on it.
There is something special about saving flowers from your own garden, a meaningful bouquet or even a quiet walk through nature. Instead of watching every lovely bloom disappear with the season, you can turn those petals, stems and leaves into wreaths, candles, framed art, ornaments, handmade paper, bookmarks and so much more.
Today’s collection includes projects for many different skill levels. Some can be completed in just a few minutes with flowers and a little glue, while others let you settle in for a wonderfully creative afternoon. There are also tutorials that will show you how to press and dry your flowers so you can build a little botanical craft collection of your own.
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Start With the Flowers
Before You Begin
Flowers that are naturally thin and flat are usually the easiest to press. Pansies, violas, cosmos, statice, Queen Anne’s lace, small daisies and fern leaves are all lovely choices. Hydrangeas, lavender, strawflowers, baby’s breath, bunny tails and grasses are wonderful for dried flower arrangements and dimensional projects.
Always begin with flowers that are dry and free of morning dew. Handle pressed flowers gently because the petals and stems can become extremely delicate. Once your project is finished, keeping it away from strong direct sunlight will help the natural colors remain beautiful longer.
Now let’s enjoy these beautiful dried and pressed flower crafts that gently carry the garden from summer into fall.
DIY Dried Hydrangea Wreaths
Hydrangeas become even more beautiful as their bright summer colors fade into muted greens, creams, purples and soft golden browns. This tutorial shows how to arrange dried hydrangeas, roses and other garden flowers on a grapevine wreath, with helpful tips for attaching the blooms and protecting the finished wreath with a clear craft spray.
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Everlasting Seasons
This lovely wreath combines preserved roses, statice, sage and juniper on a grapevine base. The tutorial walks you through making small floral bundles, wiring them securely around the wreath and adding the roses as the beautiful finishing touch.
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DIY Lavender Wreath
Can you imagine how wonderful this wreath must smell? Fresh or dried lavender is gathered into generous little bundles and wired around a wreath form to create a lush design that will naturally dry and remain beautiful for months.
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How To Dry Flowers In Seconds
When you do not have several weeks to wait for flowers to dry, this clever method may be just what you need. The flowers are placed beneath a paper towel and microwaved for approximately 35 to 60 seconds, depending on the thickness of the bloom.
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Decoupage Dried Flower Plaques
These beautiful plaques combine pressed flowers, wooden shapes and old book pages for a charming botanical display. The tutorial shows how to stain or paint the plaques, add the paper with Mod Podge, arrange the delicate flowers and finish the edges with metallic paint or Rub ’n Buff.
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DIY Pressed Flower Candles
Plain taper candles become something truly special when they are decorated with delicate pressed flowers. Melted wax from a tea light acts as both the adhesive and seal, and the tutorial carefully explains how to work quickly while positioning each flower on the candle. Adult assistance is important when children are helping with this project.
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Pressed Flower Lanterns
Save those little glass food and yogurt jars because they can become the sweetest cottage style lanterns. Dollar Tree has pretty little votives and more. A thin coating of Mod Podge holds pressed flowers around the glass, while twine and a battery operated tea light complete this simple and budget friendly project.
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Decorative DIY Glass Jar With Pressed Flowers
This tutorial turns a useful glass storage jar into a beautiful botanical display. After cleaning the glass with rubbing alcohol, pressed flowers are arranged and sealed with dishwasher safe Mod Podge, creating a decorative jar that can also be softly illuminated with a battery operated candle.
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Easy DIY Lavender Sachet
These little lavender sachets would be lovely tucked into a linen closet, dresser drawer, china hutch or gift basket. The muslin bags are decorated with a lavender stamp and filled with a mixture of dried lavender and rice, with both sewn and no sew options for closing them securely.
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Pressed Flower DIY Wood Slice Ornaments
Natural wood slices create the perfect background for tiny pressed flower arrangements. Once the flowers are positioned and attached with Mod Podge, another clear layer seals the design before leather cord, ribbon or twine is added for hanging.
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Pressed Floral Glass Ornaments
These clear floral ornaments look like tiny preserved gardens, especially when the lights on the Christmas tree shine through them. Small pressed flowers are applied to the glass with matte Mod Podge, sealed with another thin coating and finished with pretty ribbon for hanging.
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DIY Dried Flower Framed Art
Framing pressed flowers allows you to create botanical art that works with almost any decorating style. The tutorial shares several display ideas, including transparent floating frames, smaller decorative frames and arrangements using flowers, foliage or simple fern leaves.
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DIY Pressed Flower Bookmarks
Book lovers and flower lovers will adore this project. Flat pressed flowers are arranged on clear acrylic bookmarks, attached with Mod Podge and finished with an optional tassel for a pretty handmade gift that is also wonderfully practical.
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Pressed Flower Craft Air Dry Clay
This is a lovely nature craft for both adults and children. After gathering flat flowers and leaves, the botanicals are pressed into rolled air dry clay before holes are added so the finished plaques can be hung in a sunroom, bedroom or quiet garden inspired corner.
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How To Make Handmade Floral Paper
Old paper can be blended into fresh paper pulp and transformed into beautifully textured handmade sheets. Dried flowers are sprinkled into the pulp before it is lifted with a paper screen and dried, creating special paper for notes, gift tags, cards and creative wrapping.
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Easy DIY Dried Flower Hair Slide Tutorial
A basic hair comb becomes a romantic floral accessory with a small collection of dried flowers and a hot glue gun. Baby’s breath creates the base, while wheat, bunny tails, craspedia and flax add different colors, shapes and textures to the finished design.
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Dried Flower Garland
This simple garland is such a lovely way to use roses and flowers you have been saving throughout the year. The dried blooms are trimmed and hot glued along a length of rope, creating an airy decoration for a mantel, curtain rod, doorway or picture frame.
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3 Embroidery Hoop Flower Project So Easy!
An inexpensive embroidery hoop and a piece of wide burlap ribbon are used to create a simple pocket for dried flowers. Fill it with lavender, statice, flower pods, grasses or freshly cut flowers that dry well, then add a jute hanger for an easy piece of garden inspired wall decor.
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DIY Dried Flower Hanging Frame
This beautiful project was inspired by expensive dried flower frames but recreates the look with bamboo stakes, crafting chicken wire and twine. The stems are woven through the wire to create either a full suspended bouquet or a simpler row of flowers that resembles a garden growing across the frame.
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How To Use A Flower Press A Beginners Guide
Anyone who wants to create with pressed flowers should save this detailed beginner’s guide. It explains how to select and prepare flowers, arrange the layers, prevent mold, choose the right paper and recognize which flowers will give you the prettiest results.
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Dried Flower Ornament
These sweet ornaments begin with circles of air dry clay made with a rolling pin and cookie cutter. Pressed flowers are arranged on the surface, sealed with Mod Podge and finished with twine, making them lovely for a Christmas tree, gift package or seasonal branch display.
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DIY Pressed Flower Wood Resin Tray
This final project is more involved, but what a spectacular result. A wood slab, pressed flowers, epoxy resin and tray handles are combined to create a one of a kind serving tray that preserves an entire garden beneath its clear surface.
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I hope you enjoyed these beautiful dried and pressed flower crafts as much as I did. Each one offers a different way to gather, preserve and celebrate the flowers around us before another season quietly slips away.
You do not need an enormous cutting garden or expensive flowers to enjoy these projects. A small bouquet from the grocery store, a few flowers from a friend’s yard or a handful of leaves gathered during a walk can become something meaningful and beautiful.
Maybe you will begin with a simple bookmark or lavender sachet. Maybe you are already imagining a full hydrangea wreath or a flower filled resin tray. Whatever you choose, I hope you enjoy slowing down, working with nature and creating something lovely with your own two hands.
Do you have flowers drying or pressing right now? I would love to hear what you are planning to make!
Happy Creating!
Hugs to all… Andrea!
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