Archive for the 'dried plant craft projects' Category

Ethnic Doll Craft Project

 
We need the round wood (for head), color jute sack (here with red color), jute rope, small batik cloth or other ethnic motive cloth, eye bead, varnish, dried flower, color thread (here use the purple color), a small triangle stem for the nose and of course, glue.
In this craft project, we use the contrast color [...]

Natural Craft: Eichornia crassipes as the Craft Project Material

Natural craft can be made from plant. Came from South African, Eichornia crassipes is introduced to the tropical area as decorated plant. Lately this kind of plant becomes pollutant for the river because its fast and spread growth. But finally people use this plant for potential craft material that can be used to make many [...]

How to Make Flower from Banana Stem

How to make flower from banana stem? The stem of banana tree can be nice craft material. This post is to give the short summary about the banana stem processing that start from the raw material become ready to use material for craft project.
How to make flower process:
After preparing the banana stem, the first step [...]

Natural Craft: Lamp Cap

In this natural craft project we need some ingredients like resin and catalyst to make the lamp cap. This article will show about both ingredients. The natural ornament in this craft project can be processed with some methods. Those method can be found here, here and here about dried flower processing.
 
Resin
Resin is base ingredient of [...]

[Flower Preservation] Get the Dried Flower using Preservative Solution

Preservative solution will produce dried flower that has color and softness like fresh flower. You also can give the other color as you want. This preservative solution usually is safe for environment. Try this flower preservation method.
Drying technique
The plant that will be dried must be processed at the latest 4 hours after picked. In this [...]

Dried Flowers Using Drying Media (Desiccant)

Drying process with desiccant can produce better dried flower and dry leaf for craft material than simple drying process. These ingredients can be used as drying media:

Sand
Before used, wash the sand and dry up. The sand can be reused after dried up.
Silica gel
Only need 48-72 hours to produce dry flowers. After absorb the water, silica [...]

[Pressed Flowers] Easy Pressing

In this process, the pressed flowers will be flat so it is suitable for decorative craft material in the card or painting. The plant will has more fade color like brown, gray, beige and light yellow. In pressing method, we need some pressing tool like:

Two pieces of plywood 30×30 cm. Make a hole at all [...]

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