Pressed Flower Book - DIY Botanical Art Kit for Scrapbooking, Card Making & Home Decor | Preserved Real Flowers for Nature Lovers & Crafters

Quick shipment of this vintage book on pressing flowers. Book in excellent shape.Well-organized book for experienced and new pressed flower artists. Great color pictures of equipment helpful in purchasing supplies. Innovative design and backgrounds ideas abound.It arrived very quickly and in great condition as a used book. It has beautiful pressed art pictures and directions for pressing flowers. It is a great book for people who love to press flowers or have a book of beautiful pressed art. I am very pleased with my purchase.Old, but sure to work techniques for pressing/drying plant material. For microwave, there’s always the internet. Great price.Great book with how-to's and projects.This book is outstanding in it's content. It covers so many aspects of how to dry flowers as well as what one can do with them once dried. The photography is fantastic and supplies needed are also carefully labeled and photo'd.Shows you how to use everything from dried wildflowers to ferns to mosses, seeds, bark, leaves, to vegetable garden plants. Covers creating beautiful greeting cards, making poster or pictures or a decorative flower diary or flower arrangement, along with decorating wooden furniture with pressed flowers.This wonderful book also teaches about colors and how to use them for the best effect and also the use of texture. This is not one of those bargain basement type of everyday books quickly thrown together...my impression is that Penny Black loves what she does and wants to share it with others and took time and effort to make this book special.An exploration of the abundance of nature. Information on tools, material and supplies needed to make a good presentation of pressed floral design with step-by-step instructions on creating different designs to make floral collages and tips for use of collage materials. Included are photographs of the flowers she picks and the final pressed flower effect, as well as desirable wild and garden flowers to press, including moss, lichen and bark. Overall, a wonderfully illustrated, very instructive and inspirational book. 120 pages hardcover