Have you ever got flowers as a gift but wanted to keep using them for a longer time? You can make creative home decorations and gifts with flowers with these 10 lifestyle ideas to reuse old flowers again.
First: learn how to make pressed flowers
Most of the ideas that aim to reuse flowers again are using them as “pressed flowers”. To make your flowers pressed is something easy. Follow this process to make pressed flowers in the right way.
Tools needed:
- Flowers
- Papers
- Books (Around 5 to 6 books)
How to make pressed flowers:
- Make sure your flowers are dry
- Cut the long branches and remove the flower nucules
- Place them on the paper
- But the paper inside a book and close the book
- Place more books on the first book to get pressed flowers
- Leave them for 1-2 weeks
What’s next?
After you get pressed flowers, we can say that you are ready to make any DIY ideas with those flowers. Here are the top 10 ideas we are sure you would love to create.
1. Floral wall art
With pressed flowers, you can make the best wall art templates customized and made by your creative self. The trick is simple, just get a transparent frame, and put your flowers inside it.
You can place this floral wall art anywhere in your house, room, or office. You can also gift it to your friends with a picture of them or both of you. It would be an unforgettable gift.
2. Reuse old flowers to make floral soap
Some of the soap industries include flowers, but did you know that you can make soap at your home? And you can use flowers in the process too. Many business owners have this idea as their business main core, and you can turn it into your business too.
3. Candles
Have you ever thought about making your candles look beautiful and creative instead of the old basic style? Flowers can make a great collaboration with candles, and give you the best home decoration ever. You can also gift your loved ones a set of customized candles and flowers made by your hands, which is really valuable and sweet.
4. Floral home spray
Did you finish your old room spray and want to change to a new one? Sure you can use flowers here too! Make your floral room spray with the easiest steps and tools needed, and enjoy spreading calm vibes everywhere in your house.
5. Floral Phone case
Boring phone case? Never mind, flowers can solve this problem. Make a new phone case using your pressed flowers and a transparent phone case. The steps are easy, and you can make it as a special handmade gift to your loved ones.
6. Floral earrings and necklaces
Develop a new beauty hack with flowers, and create your own earrings and floral necklaces using pressed flowers and a few other tools. You can customize all that you love from earrings shapes and necklace styles just with flowers and resin.
7. Floral medal
Customize your bag or key medal with your favourite flowers. This will keep the flowers you got with you all the time, and used in a useful matter at the end.
8. Flower resin coaster
Create a handmade gift or make a new decoration by making flower resin coasters. You can put them on your wall, hang them, or gift them to your loved ones.
9. Floral jewellery box
This one is really very creative but may get a lot of work done. You can customize your small jewellery box with flowers and resin. All you have to do is buy a resin mould shaped like a box, and you are ready to add flowers to the box.
