Our love affair with dried flowers continues this summer this time with two simple tutorials.
How to hang dry flowers on wall.
Hanging bouquets upside down is the most traditional technique for drying flowers.
Straw flowers are unique because they look exactly the same when they are fresh as they do when dried.
Now you can add the loveliness of a dry flower arrangement to an upcoming fĂȘte on a larger scale.
If you hang them upside down flowers will become stiff with straight hardened stems after a few weeks.
The first idea is to mix dried flowers and vintage photos and polaroids to create a delicate arrangement on the wall.
5 ways to use and decorate with dried flowers.
Diy straw flower wall hanging.
If you don t want to nail another hook into your wall take down a painting or mirror and hang this in its place.
Hanging bough with dried flowers this simple natural arrangement works especially well in a small space or above a dinner table.
But fresh ones wilt almost immediately so i jumped at the chance to use dried flowers to create a longer lasting look.
It is helpful to lay them out on the table side by side with a little space between them.
Hang drying flowers by is the traditional way of preserving them to use as food medicine or decoration.
Whether you re already a pro at drying flowers or you just so happen to have a box of old boyfriends rose petals that you ve been keeping for not so sentimental values dried flowers can come in handy during your search for new home decor.
Hang the stick in a location that is out of the way so the delicate flowers won t get damaged.
I love the look of flowers tacked to a white wall.
Here are two ways that i am using dried flowers in my home decor.
From the moment you hang the flowers to dry they brighten a wall.
If you are doing small bouquets like in my dry flowers image above and you plan to do four bouquets then you can figure a 17 1 2 board.
I liked the simplicity of using masking tape to hang the photos and twine to hang the flowers from nails in the wall.
While this method of drying flowers takes a lot longer than using an oven or microwave it works just as effectively.
How to dry flowers.
Begin by determining how many bouquets of flowers you will need to dry on your dried flower wall hanging.
They should also be hung in a dark environment or a place that gets minimal light.