Scrapbooking With Dried Flowers: Make Your Memories Really Stand Out!

Whether it's a wedding, holiday, or graduation, fresh flowers are a part of almost every special occasion. Unfortunately, the beautiful flowers that made your day so special aren't often saved. Incorporating dried flowers into your next scrapbooking project is a great way to make this perishable gift into a treasured memento.

For holiday-themed scrapbook pages, dried flowers can add dimension and texture. Try drying the leaves of a poinsettia plant and affixing them to your Christmas scrapbook page. A dozen roses can adorn your Valentine's Day-themed scrapbook when you dry individual rose petals and use them as a backdrop. Attaching some dried wheat from your Thanksgiving cornucopia makes a rustic border for a scrapbook page. Most flowers will easily attach to your pages with hot glue along the stem of the flower. Remember, though, that flowers are organic material and could damage your photographs if the pictures aren't properly protected. If the flowers are far from the images, the risk of damage is low.

You can ensure your photographs won't be damaged by sealing the flowers in a protective covering. Transparency film or lamination both work well. You can also try sealing the flowers in wax paper using a hot iron or covering them with a crystal craft lacquer. Special scrapbooking accessories called page pebbles can be placed over very small flowers to both enlarge and protect them.

If you're scrapbooking a recent family vacation, wildflowers you collected on your travels make great decorations. Press and save local flora from the region you visited to add something unique and colorful to your book.

Perhaps the best part of scrapbooking with flowers is the price. If you receive the flowers as a gift of collect them yourself, they're one part of your scrapbook page that's completely free!

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