Make a Pressed Flower Fall Bridal Shower Invitation

Make a Pressed Flower Fall Bridal Shower Invitation
with these helpful tips and simple tutorials.
The returning trend to dried florals
is exciting in its possibilities.

 

I love the movement back to dried flowers. When we were first married, dried flowers were super popular in all types of décor. We hung them on the wall in basket arrangements, in bunches on strings as seen below, and used pressed dried flowers to accent stationery.

And fall is the perfect time to use dried florals. They can be economical, if you gather your own from the woods and ditches near you. And there’s almost unlimited variety. Although for a card, you’ll probably prefer smaller flowers and leaves. Find info on perfect fall flower varieties here, although not all of them are “pressable,” unfortunately.

 

 

 

It’s exciting to see the trend coming back, especially in stationery.

So today we want to share a couple of ways to create a fall bridal shower invitation accented with dried flowers.

This takes a little planning ahead, as it takes some time to dry flowers. But if you’ve got some bunches hanging around already, you can get right to this project.

Find more Fall Bridal Shower ideas, stationery, and games.

 

How to Make a Pressed Flower Bridal Shower Invitation:

 

 

What you need:

• Dried pressed flowers* via Amazon, or make your own (tutorial below).
• Invitation card, pre-printed with bridal shower details, or blank to hand letter
• Tweezers, glue*, optional: calligraphy pen to hand letter the invitation

 

How to do it:

1. Making enough dried flowers for more than one invitation could get tedious. Stacks of encyclopedias filled with pages of tiny flowers and leaves? Can be done if you have plenty of flowers, time and patience available. And Encyclopedias. Google doesn’t provide the same weight as those old books.  Easier, order a nice variety all ready to use from Amazon*. (If you use our starred link above, we receive a tiny compensation. At least, if you buy about $500 worth of dried flowers! Yeah, it’s not much, but we like to think it makes us seem professional.)
2. Use a pointy tweezers to position your arrangement on the invitation card. The tweezers that came with our serger sewing machine is perfect.
3. This is the glue* we prefer, as it applies neatly exactly where you want it, and dries clear, for a neat finished appearance.

 

 

 

Preserve your own pressed flowers:

It’s a simple matter to preserve flora and fauna. Just take a walk in nature and pick a basket full of whatever you find. (Some things to stay away from while foraging: poison ivy or oak, and private land or nature preserve signs. These all can get uncomfortable. My country DIL uses rubber barn boots for the poison plants. And stays on her own riverside land. Although it borders preserve land, so she just leans over the edge. Maybe, maybe not.)

Then pick and choose, snip off stems, create pleasing leaf designs, and put your finds into a flower press*.

If you own a stack of heavy old books, do it the romantic way and place your leaves between the leaves of an old tome.

If you need instant gratification, there’s a microwave drying press*.  You can also use a dry clothes iron.

When your flowers are dry, spritz them with hairspray to keep them from falling apart as easily.

After the hairspray is dry, you’re ready to design.

 

Enjoy.

And be sure to share your beauties with us.

And pin this to your boards for future reference…