How to Preserve and Press Fall Leaves
I know that there are many ways to press leaves and flowers but as a little kid learned to used heavy books and wax paper. Using weight is the simplest method of saving all your goodies. Collect some heavy books, wax paper and pick out some leaves that are flat, thin and still malleable.
Clean off any dirt that might be on your leaf and then arrange them on your wax paper. Once arranged sandwich the leaves between sheets of wax paper and your book pages.
I like to do this with several books and then use them as decor that can be stacked upon with other heavy objects.
Please your books in a dry location. You’ll want to check on them in about a week to ensure that the leaves are indeed drying and not rotting. I tend to leave my leaves for a while and work on other projects but typically 2 - 3 weeks your leaves should be dried.
You can arrange your leaves in a scarp book or a float frame. Just make sure to keep them out of direct light, which will cause them to deteriorate faster.
It’s been a very long time since I pressed any flowers but with all this nature around us, I got pretty nostalgic. To commemorate our firstish year in our new home I decided to press whatever floral or greenery that was season. For the Fall we collected lots of color turning leaves from Birch, Maple, Oak and even Ferns.
