Making Crafts With Leaves and Flowers

RE: Making Crafts With Leaves and Flowers Post by QueenBeeCrafts (53) | (08/10/2005) Contact Use the leaves to make impressions in your polymer clay. If you have a pasta machine that you roll your clay in, place the leaf over the sheet of clay as you pass it through the pasta machine. You can also lay it on the clay and roll over it. RE: Making Crafts With Leaves and Flowers Post By Mary Ellen (Guest Post) (08/10/2005) When my kids were in preschool, I helped out with a project. Using fresh, colorful fall leaves (not dried out), cover them with the waxy side of wax paper. Iron. Cut them out. The wax helps preserve the leaves. We "helped" the kids hotglue the leaves and other nature items (like acorns, etc) on to a cardboard wreath. They turned out beautifully. Craft Idea for Dried Flowers Post by ThriftyFun (4042) | (08/09/2005) Profile | Blog! | Contact I take flowers from my yard (I live in FL and have a lot.) I glue my flowers (after drying them) on frames, mirrors, lamp shades, etc. By Sandi G (s222) RE: Making Crafts With Leaves and Flowers Post by houndgardner (5) | (01/29/2005) Contact Make paper. Save all of your junkmail, even the envelopes. Shred only the paper stuff into a blender. Add water and your dried flowers and leaves (even potpourri). Blend really good. Set up a deep dishpan with a window screen over it. Pour the blended mixture onto the screen (you don't need a mold), make a square or heart shape. Press with a sponge. Get out as much water as you can, then lift gently off the screen and iron. Voila! Paper. Saving Leaves and Flowers Post by ThriftyFun (4042) | (01/28/2005) Profile | Blog! | Contact When dead heading your plants, don't let the pretty leaves and flowers go to waste. Press them in a phone book or in a heavy book. Use them to embellish tags or cards or my favorite is to put them in an IKEA frame and hang them up. Makes a unique picture. By SK