-from your garden flowers, herbs or leaves-

From the Garden to a Bookmark

1. Grow some great flowers, herbs or choose leaves from your garden.

2. Press the flower petals, leaves or herbs in-between newspaper in a heavy book, or a flower press for a week. Plant clippings should be completely dried out before going on to the next step.

3. Use Cardstock paper to create a bookmark. Add the pressed flowers around the bookmark paper. I used a tiny bit of glue-stick to tack the petals in place.

4. Laminate them (I went to Kinko’s and used their machine).

5. Cut bookmark out from lamination leaving a little plastic space (a few centimeters)  between the paper and the cut edge of the lamination.

6. Use Photos, stickers, quotes or even decorative paper to create the bookmark.

The sunflower petals in this photo were seeds that I gave to a friend in July because we share the same birthday.  She planted the seeds on her patio in containers and they grew beautifully. She then created a bouquet from the flowers and gave me that bouquet on Thanksgiving Day. A month later I dried the petals from that bouquet and used them to make bookmarks and gave one to her for Christmas.

This sunflower went from seed gift to flower gift to bookmark gift, now that’s recycling!

* Valentine’s Day is coming up and I bet some red bookmarks with dried flowers would look great!

Sunflower Bouquet

This was truly THE GARDEN GIFT THAT KEPT ON GIVING!

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Saving and Drying the Flower Pedals

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