Elaine's Pressed Floral Designs

My name is Elaine Brown and I started pressing flowers over 20 years ago.  It actually started when I saw a small white card with some pressed violas on the front covered with Contact Paper.  I thought it was a wonderful way of making flowers and plant material live on for ever.  Over the years, I have made many pressed flower pictures which I have either given to friends or sold.

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A favourite picture of mine is the one on the right  in a fan shaped frame.  It was a challenge coming up with a design that would compliment the frame.  I find often the frames give me the greatest inspiration for a picture. The Swan picture on the right was one of the  first I ever made and is almost entirely made from Dusty Miller.  An autumn leaf was used to make the beak. The picture beneath the swan I call my Posy Arrangement.  It consists of pansies, pink and purple larkspur, rose leaves, verbena and lobelia.  I used a real ribbon to give it an authentic look.

Here are a few great pressed flower links that I know you will love.

Kate Chu's Pressed Flowers Pressed Flowers from Riverhaven Preserved Gardens My Garden Treasures Tiersa's Resource Page World Wide Pressed Flower Guild

To the right  is a picture that I  made some time ago of a bird's head.  This was certainly a challenge and I tried to use the leaves as if I were painting,  by turning them from back to front to get different kinds of shading.  The leaves I used for most of the head were sumach leaves.