Herbarium

Not only children's applications can be made from dried leaves and flowers. A modern trend in handmade crafts – “scrapbooking” – reveals how to make a beautiful greeting card with your own hands, or decorate a photo album using dry plants. With proper skill, you can learn how to dry voluminous flowers to create collages and bouquets.

Dried flowers allow you to preserve memories of the summer or a memorable event for the celebration of which they were given. Dried flowers in decorative compositions look most advantageous, as they retain their shape, appearance and sometimes even aroma. We will talk in more detail about how to properly dry flowers at home in this article.

Autumn always gives us a lot of natural material for implementing a wide variety of creative ideas. Leaves of various types and colors can become the basis for creating a herbarium, a panel with dried flowers or various paintings. To preserve the gifts of nature in their original form, you need to be able to properly dry leaves. If you follow all the subtleties of this process, they will not lose their bright colors and shape.

Pieces of cotton wool also perfectly absorb moisture, so you can use it to dry flowers. All the petals of the plant are carefully covered with small pieces of this material so that they are all separated. Next, hang the structure upside down in a dark place and wait for it to dry completely. The cotton wool is removed from a dry bud with tweezers, being careful not to damage the fragile petals. Drying this way takes a week.