Pressed Flower Blog

Pressed Flower Pumpkins | Easy DIY Fall Decor Using Real Flowers

If you’re looking for a cozy fall craft that feels elegant, creative, and wonderfully handmade, these pressed flower pumpkins are such a beautiful project to try. They make lovely Thanksgiving centerpieces, seasonal mantel décor, or thoughtful gifts — and they’re a perfect way to bring a little burst of floral color into autumn decorating.

How to Make Pressed Flower Gift Tags

The Complete Beginner's Guide to Microfleur®

New to flower pressing? Learn everything you need to know about the Microfleur® Microwave Flower Press, including how it works, how it compares to other methods, the best flowers to press, timing, storage, troubleshooting, and creative project ideas.

Finding Joy in Flower Pressing: Simple Tips for Beginners

Discover the simple joy of flower pressing. Learn easy methods, the best flowers to press, and creative ways to preserve your favorite blooms.

3D Pressed Flower Butterfly Card | Easy DIY Nature Craft

This 3D pressed flower butterfly card combines delicate botanicals with layered paper crafting to create a card that practically comes to life when opened. The butterfly wings gently lift from the page, giving the design beautiful dimension while still folding flat enough to fit inside an envelope.

How to Use a Microfleur Flower Press: Your Questions Answered

Learn how to use and care for your Microfleur microwave flower press, choose pressing times, preserve flower color, prevent scorching, and store pressed flowers.

Pressed Flower Paper Dolls | Easy DIY Nature Craft

If you grew up loving paper dolls, this project is such a sweet nostalgic craft with a botanical twist. These pressed flower paper dolls combine creativity, imagination, and nature into one magical little activity. Using pressed flower petals, leaves, and laminating sheets, you can create tiny outfits, fairy wings, accessories, and entire wardrobes for your dolls.

Pressed Flower Coasters | Easy DIY Glass Tile Craft

Pressed flower coasters are one of those projects that feel both elegant and wonderfully simple. They’re beautiful enough to display on a coffee table, thoughtful enough to give as handmade gifts, and easy enough for a relaxing afternoon craft session.

DIY Pressed Flower Nails | Real Flower Nail Art Tutorial

This simple technique uses real pressed flowers to create delicate botanical nails that feel soft, creative, and completely unique. Forget-me-nots are especially perfect because they fit beautifully on fingernails, but you can experiment with any tiny pressed blooms you love.

Pressed Flower Brownies | Easy Chocolate Dessert with Edible Flowers

If you’ve ever wanted to turn dessert into edible art, you’re going to love these pressed flower brownies! Rich chocolate brownies topped with delicate edible flowers create a beautiful treat that’s surprisingly simple to make. It’s the perfect combination of cozy baking and nature-inspired creativity.

Pressed Flower Sun Catchers DIY | Brighten Your Space with Real Blooms

Pressed flower sun catchers are such a cheerful way to bring a little garden magic into your windows. When the sunlight shines through, the flowers glow beautifully, creating a soft, colorful display that feels like nature’s own stained glass.

Pressed Flower Monogram DIY: Beautiful Floral Letter Art

Pressed flower monograms are such a lovely way to turn your favorite blooms into meaningful handmade art. They make beautiful gifts, sweet Mother’s Day keepsakes, custom home décor, cards, framed artwork, and even pieces you could sell as personalized floral designs.

Picking Daisies

Want to press daisies in your Microfleur? Here's my secret for getting the best results!

Ethical Picking

Flower pressing isn't all fun and games, there are some rules you should know! Learn the key to respecting the art of picking and pressing flowers.

Pick Blooms Early

Pressing flowers is a delicate art, and the age of a flower plays a very important role in how well it will press. Learn when a flower is at its prime!

Avoid Bugs

Warning: this can ruin your flower pressing! Learn about the creatures that want to sabotage your projects.

Pick the Best Flowers

The Microfleur exists to preserve and enhance the natural beauty of flowers and other plant specimens, but the beauty isn't the only thing that gets enhanced!

Learn how to select the perfect flowers for pressing and achieve stunning results.

Fresh is Best

Want a perfectly preserved pressed flower? Learn how to get the best results with your Microfleur!

DIY Pressed Flower Stickers

Stickers are something that is fun for all ages. They can express ones individual style and likes. Let's also not forget about that feeling of satisfaction and enjoyment that comes from simple peeling and sticking the sticker where it can be seen by you and your friends. Just admit it... stickers are fun!

Choosing and Preparing Flowers for Pressing

How to choose and prepare flowers before pressing.

When it comes to pressing flowers, the possibilities are endless. Nature affords us so much variety and beauty. Seeing all those flowers makes you want to bring home every one. However, there are some guidelines for choosing and preparing flowers for pressing so that you can have the best results and the most beautiful pressed flowers for you art, crafts, and projects.

DIY Simple Pressed Flower Card

Handmade cards are a great way to show someone you care. The fact that you took the time and effort to create something just for them adds that extra touch to any gift. They are great for Mother's Day, Father's Day, a birthday, Christmas, any special occasion, or just because. With pressed flower cards, the flowers themselves add beauty to the card so designs can be as simple as you would like.

DIY Pressed Flower Easter Eggs

Decorating Easter eggs is a tradition in many households. It comes with the decorating of the season, much like Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, (or pick your favorite day). All have their own unique home decor involved. After a long winter here in northern Wisconsin (we are still waiting for the snow to melt), Easter brings along with it, thoughts and sometimes the weather of spring. There are many ways to decorate eggs, but nothing says spring like flowers, so today we're going to decorate Easter eggs with pressed flowers.

Flower Pressing Methods

A summary of various pressing methods.

Pressing flowers is an age-old form for drying and flattening flowers and foliage to preserve them. Once pressed, or dried, the flowers can be stored for later use or used right away in art, crafts, or whatever your imagination can produce. It is also a way of preserving edible flowers, herbs, and other plants without using chemicals.

There are different ways to press flowers. Some flowers may lend themselves better to one way than other, but it more depends on personal preference. The following are various methods for pressing flowers.

Basic Equipment for Pressed Flower Projects

Recommended supplies for doing pressed flower projects.

Doing something is always easier with the proper tools, so here is a list of some basic equipment that may make various pressed flower crafts easier to do. Although not all these items may be needed, it would be ideal to have following items on hand as they will at least be useful for completion of various projects. This is not a complete list, but our recommendations are based on the usefulness.

How to Press and Preserve Fall Leaves

September is here and in the north, the leaves have already started to change. This brings a beautiful array of colour that blankets the the trees. The Microfleur Max is the perfect tool for preserving all this color which can then be used in crafts, art, DIY projects, etc.

Microfleur Debut on Hallmark Channel

Join Home & Family host Shirley Bovshow as she does a wonderful tutorial on DIY pressed flower ornaments. It was great to see the amazing color retention of flowers pressed with the Microfleur on national TV!