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Pressed Flower Coaster

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Preserve the vibrant colors of spring and adorn your coffee table with these lovely floral coasters. These can also be used for paperweights, or glue a manget to the back. Beautiful, however you choose to use them!

You will need:

pressed flowers
clear acrylic coaster
small craft paintbrush
"Mod-Podge"
tweezers

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What you do

You can purchase pressed flowers from a craft store, or follow the instructions below to press your own (you will need to plan ahead). Remove flowers from package with tweezers. Store unused flowers in package for later use.

Use paintbrush to apply Mod-Podge on back side of coaster where flowers will be placed. Use tweezers to hold flowers and place on coaster.

Apply Mod-Podge over flowers with paintbrush using long smooth strokes, starting from the center of arrangement, working towards edges. Allow to dry.

Keep away from direct sunlight. This will allow the flowers to retain their color as long as nature allows.

Press Your Own Flowers

Use a heavy book, such as a large cookbook or phone book. Place each flower between two pieces of paper towel, then put inside the heavy book, between the pages. It's best to add a weight on top of the book by placing a large rock or brick on top. Paper towels will absorb any moisture from the flowers, they will also prevent ink from pages of the book from getting on the flowers. You should check the paper towels periodically, if they have become saturated with moisture, change them out with fresh paper towels.

Avoid picking flowers too early in the morning when they are still wet with dew. It's better to wait until later in the day, when they have had a chance to dry. Pressing and drying time can take 2 to 3 weeks.

About the Author
Project idea courtesy of Ben Franklin Crafts & Frames, to see more great craft ideas visit their website by clicking here.

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