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Pressing Flowers Tips for Using Dried, Pressed Flowers Like the Pros From Sandra Fisher, for About.com What You’ll Need to Get Started Fortunately, the tools you’ll need are simple and easy to obtain. You’ll probably find that you have most of the equipment for flower pressing in your home already. For example you will need a few flat wooden boards, newspaper, bricks or some large heavy books, paper glue, a blunt knife for removing the pressed flowers from the pressing papers and a number of other easily obtainable items. What Plants Can be Pressed? You’ll soon discover that flower pressing is not only limited to flowers. You can use : • Leaves • Grasses • Tendrils • Ferns • Stamens • Fennel Seeds • Even Carrot Tops Fine seed heads of ordinary lawn grasses will give a touch of finesse while bits of bark and little patches of lichen will give your designs originality. And don’t spurn the different types of weeds lurking in your
