how to press flowers in a microwave
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ก.ย. 2024
- Hi Folks! Today I am going to show you how to press flowers in the microwave with nothing more than a piece of paper, paper towel and a ceramic tile. It is so easy and it only takes two minutes. Best of all it is practically a free craft. So go pick some flowers and you will be all set!
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“Make me look thin honey” THIS WOMAN IS ICONIC
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This is 7 years later....2020 now! I was looking how to microwave press flowers, saw some quite expensive items, then fire bricks, and stumbled on this tutorial: I look no further!!! I have two tiles, plain paper, paper towels, so only need some flowers now!! Thanks for sharing, you saved me big bucks with this knowledge!!!
😂 10 years later...
10 1/2 years now! 🤣 🤣 … and I still learned all I need to know! Thanks so much! ♥️♥️🇦🇺
You don't have to look thin. You're beautiful!
aww thanks:)
@@SHIRO3301 what does that mean 😂
@@thefrugalcrafter such upbeat video your great best video I came across! X advise would be so great, if I was to do a wedding bouquet with Roses Fern hydrangea loads of different flowers in a microwave that has a max 900 watt setting what should I do their also can I put flowers on normal printing paper with backing paper and then the paper towel with a microwavable plate on top or tile and do flowers individually..??
one thing I do is pick fresh flowers, place them face down on my PC scanner, and scan them in, and you have excelent pictures of your very own flowers
Woah that's a brilliant idea
Brilliant!
Brilliant! It’s people like this that we need more of.
Such an amazing idea. Thank you!
I placed my fresh flowers between 2sheets of folded in half 8 1/2 x 11" printer paper, and paper towel..then placed the flowers in the microwave first before setting 3 microwave safe dinner plates on top of the flowers for weight..I then set my 1200 watt microwave for 1 min and 20 sec.and it was perfect..if not sufficiently dry when you take out of microwave try a lower power level as she stated for about 30 seconds or less..checking each time
Ooh what a good idea I didn’t have any tiles.
I think it's the weight that is important so anything as long as it's heavy and microwavable but tiles? Perfect!!!
"it only takes 30secs to make it, ok, maybe 2mins, but whos counting" hahaha, love your excitement :)
I almost bought a microwave flower press for $30, then watched your video. I used plain newsprint paper and paper towels with a heavy corningware dish as the weight and they came out perfect in a little over a minute in the microwave. Thanks for saving me $$$!
Ha ha... I went and bought two tiles today to try this out. I was so excited and knew what flowers I would pick to test it out. Well.....when I went to test tile size in microwave, they were too big. I was devastated as it was a half and hour drive to town again. Luckily hubby said he could cut the corners off for me this weekend! So I’m all excited again. You are awesome, and remind me alot of dear, fun people in my life who have either left earth now or moved interstate, and I miss them so much. Go girl 🌼
Your sister must have such a beautiful garden!
she does and she grows flowers and veggies! She is advising me on my garden (my first) this year, wish me luck!
I "liked" this video when I saw what you were doing. I subscribed when you acknowledged that some people might not want to hear you, "gab for 20 seconds," and then unapologetically continued to do just that. I'm a resin artist and I was in a foul mood when I started watching this video, but I was laughing by the end of it because you remind me of my best friend. I'm looking forward to trying this technique as well as watching some more of your videos. Please, never change unless it's to be an even brighter ray of sunshine than you were in this video 6yrs ago. You. Are. Delightful!
Aww, you are so sweet, thanks for commenting:)
You have a lovely attitude! “Make me look thin, honey!” Made me laugh and smile, because it reminds me a lot of my own mom whenever I take pictures or videos of her 💕
Considering Lila was like 9 years old here she did a pretty good job 👍
"Make me look thin" lol LOVED IT! Made me chuckle 😂 honey you're def perfect just the way you are and, this video saved me tons of money purchasing pressed flowers for nail encapsulation. Thank you!! All these beautiful tiny wildflowers that grows wild in my lawn is bout to find a home inside someones nails!
My boyfriend got me some wonderful flowers for our first year anniversary the other day, planning to use this tutorial to preserve them and maybe use them in an anniversary gift for him next year!! Thank you so so much for this tutorial!
Dern it! Had I known it was this easy, I would have cancelled my $130 order from Amazon. Thanks so much for the tutorial! You're great!
“It’s so nice to have a camera person!”
*camera goes blurry
they are probably not done yet, try 30 seconds more. Make sure the flowers are inside the paper and surround the paper with a paper towel then pit the tile on top. After cooking gently lift the edge and peek in, if the flowers stick you need to cook them longer. heat 30 seconds then check until they do not stick. Let me know if you are still having trouble.
hahahaha! love your enthusiasm!! I came here for a helpful video, but not only did I get that, I also got a laugh out of this! thanks for brightening my day :)
Jessica Kuo aww, thanks!
no, my niece did and I spied it on her display rack, it was only 15! I scolded her for pricing it so low and gave her $20 for it:) I love it! The beads alone must have cost $10. So many people have complimented me on it, I am going to send her customers!
So much easier than waiting 6 months.
Need this in a couple of weeks.
I can do plenty now.
Thanks Lindsay.
Thanks for showing me how to dry flowers for my project. I was contemplating buy the Microfleur which is really expensive and you did the same thing for free. Love this!!!
It's 2023 and I just found your channel to dry flowers in a microwave. So easy i must and will give it a try. Thank you for sharing this easy inexpensive method.
Hope you enjoy
This warms my heart :) the comments are so pure and lovely here. Thanks for the help!!
Lindsay you have saved me so much money!! I have flowers everywhere but found that drying and pressing flowers to be so much time and energy! I did it this afternoon and it worked great! You are inspiration!
yay!
Hey I did try with pink ixora flowers (30 seconds to 1 minute only) and it turned out beautiful . Thank you so much😍
so amazing our school got homewrk of pressing a flower🌹🌸🌷🌼🌻🌺🍃🍂🍁🍀🌿🌾and my work is done thanks😊
Wonderful advice and you seem like a very nice person to talk to :) Have a great day, you and your daughter.
I'm really impressed by how vivid the flowers remain. Very pretty. And your wee one did a great job with that camera.
"make me look thin honey" ha im dying
Me too :)
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Your excitement and looks remind me so much of Meryl Streep and her portrayal of Donna 🌿🌼
Thank goodness you didn't buy it...unlike me! I now own a microwave press, wood press and yes, even the crystals. All I ever needed is tiles and paper towels!!! You are a genius!!! Love your videos! You have helped me so much!! Thank you so much!! Hugs, Jas
Thank you for sharing this ❤ I just started to press flowers using the book method and this seems so much easier.
You are so welcome!
You are so adorably enthusiastic about this! 😊
I love it! It seems so straight forward. I’ll definitely give it a try in the future.
Yes you can, try to find one with a flat bottom, most plated have a ridge on the bottom, anything flat that is ceramic or heavy tempered glass would work. A better idea might be a glass pie plate or casserole dish as they usually are flat on the bottom and are heavy because it need to press the flowers and squish out the moisture.
I found some videos that I missed and am really enjoying them! I will definitely be trying this! Thanks so much. Your daughter did a wonderful job!
I'm so glad!
This is such an upbeat fun video thanks a mill for shareing everyone should be super friendly like you!
This is perfect!! I have been looking for a way to press a lot of flowers quickly to use on my homemade wedding invitations. I didn't have a ceramic tile, but I did have a ceramic flat baking dish that worked wonders to use!
lilauthor great substitute, thanks for sharing!
The energy of this video makes me so happy
I just went out to my garden, picked a few of my roses, put them in the micro and Instant Pressed Roses or my journal, wow. Took about 2 mins total for each one. So I made a window tag, and it turned out great. I didn't have a tile, but I did have a piece of pressed wood I use for hammering things when I am working on my journals and adding eyelets and things. It's about 1/2" x 8x11 and it worked great. Thanks, Lindsay! Instant gratification. You daughter did a great job filming, and you look very trim and pretty! You still do, too =)
Brilliant tutorial. I really wanted to dry some flowers, but I'm too impatient. I didn't know if this would work, but this is amazing. Thank you!
Thank you for this easy and funny tutorial you remind me of my mom. I now have so many picked flowers from my boyfriend and dont know how to preserve them nicely this will help me so much thank you :>
Thanks for sharing this. As I am impatient person, love the microwave dry press flowers.🌸
This is literally a life saver for a late mother’s day gift! Thank you soo much for the amazing tutorial
I tried this and it worked really well with a few pansies in my garden. Thank you.
How did I miss this one? This has to have been before my crafting side of the brain kicked in. What a great idea Lindsay! My roses will be in bloom shortly and that will be my probezeit - aka try it time :) Right now, I'm doing bookmarks with my embossing folders. Yippi Skippi! Loving my Lindsay time this mornin':)
Lol this lady is absolutely adorable thanks for showing this I'm pressing flowers for my wedding invitations and this method makes it look so clean and beautiful 😊
You got me at “Make me look thin comment”. You are adorable. But what a nice idea! And the arrangement of the presses flowers are lovely. But what do you do with them next? Perhaps put them in a frame and display them? 🤔
I use them in crafts like cardmaking
I never would have thought to use the microwave to press flowers. Cool! :0)
Hi Lindsay! This is a great idea! I would have never thought of using the microwave to press flowers! Thanks for this video! ~Janet in Canada
"Make sure you make me look thin.." You hush lady! You're absolutely beautiful! Awesome idea, TFS!!
First of all, your daughter did a great job videoing you. Cudos to her. Hope this doesn't go to your head, but you are just wonderful and your kids are very lucking have such a Mom.
This is a really neat trick, thank you for sharing and you are just so beautiful
I really like her. Shes sounds so sweet and happy. And girl don't you worry about your weight you look fantastic! Thanks for the tips im taking horticulture classes and need to set up my samples.
sooooo pretty. I saw pressed flowers and butterfly wings in a frame and thought it would be a lovely decoration. Now I can make my own!
Lindsay you are so animated, many blessings to you and your family. Thank you for sharing your technique and posting it. It actually worked great for me, I added one more step to make it easier to extract them from the paper. Right after I take it out of the microwave oven, while they are still enveloped int he paper I place them in the freezer for a minute or so; I discovered that this cooling step helps them come off easier.
works great. i did paper/paper towel first then tried cardstock/paper towel with daffodils 1:30 full power ea one separate with a long leaf to start. perfect. cant thank you enough!! crocus i think i over did but theyre ok too. holy moly happy!!
Just found this video,so excited to try, i m trying to hang on to summer by collecting flowers on my walks...who knew you can press them in the microwave. .Thank you from the U.K. xx
Thanks!! This was super helpful. I had a dried orchid flower in just 2 minutes! My white daisy ended up a bit brown though...white flowers are always a headache to dry no matter which way you do it I guess. But I'm so happy my orchid and my chrysanthemum flowers came out fantastic! I just got done gluing them into my scrapbook. Now we wait for the mod podge to dry.
What a kind and uplifting spirit you have!
Thank you so much! I didn't have a tile, so I used two Corning plates. My daughter and I are going to put the flowers individually between clear contact paper, cut around, and then mount in a circle with the flowers placed according to color wheel. I can't wait!
fun idea!
I wish my english examination would have been with her voice and pronouncing. She spoke soo fast and I still understood everything! Beautiful :D (I am from germany)
Thank you so much, I really need to try this.
Great video! Thanks for the time-saving idea (and you are fun to watch! your daughter is a doll for helping film this for you!)
Tried this to send it in a letter to my mother actually worked. Thank you
Hi Hazel, I will post a card on my blog in a day or two, the link is in video description:)
Thank you!! I have been drying flowers in silica gel (which I LOVE) but would also like some flat flowers.... but I am far too impatient to wait for the book method! Now I just need to find a tile or similar suitable flat surface...
I am headed outside to pick some flowers. Thank you very much.
Thanks so much!!!
It is an incredible method you've shared!
I love all the different ideas you come up with. Thanks for sharing xxx
Thanks! I planted lots of flowers and now I can easily save them.
Thanks for this video, I wanted to be able to preserve some of the flowers from my mum's funeral bouquet but didn't have a flower press or time to get one. So glad I've now been able to preserve them :-)
Sarah Orgill I am so sorry for your loss but glad you can preserve the keepsake.
yooooo this legit worked!!! thank you!!!! I was able to press a flower in 2 minutes when it should have taken a few days. thanks! so much!! ahhhh!!
that's what I'm thinking
Thank you for this idea! It took me up to three weeks to do it in books!
Awesome I was looking for this kind of technique and surely will gonna try this thanks for sharing and love love to the camera girl, love it.
Would you please do a card with this ...how do you make sure it does not lift off the card? hmmm!! Gel medium or modgepodge would they work
Is it safe to put a piece of paper in the microwave? I'm always so petrified that it will catch on fire. But I so want to try it. They look beautiful!!
Love this, Lindsay! The fast and easy way is great! TFS the inspiration!
Thus is so easy thank you love flowers and crafting with them will be even better x
You are so welcome!
Got this link from a couple of other TH-cam artists in the My life 2017 group. Thank you for this useful easy technique
Wonderfully Easy, Inspirational and Completely Cute Video!! I've enjoyed drying flowers since I was a little girl and this will be a fun and quick way to dry flowers with my own little girls!! Thank you for your inspiration and bubbly personality!!! 😄 Happy Easter Weekend!! 🐣🌸🐣🌺🐣🌼🐣🌷🐣🌹
thanks, the pink ones turned purple tho, weird!
I love the tutorial but any time I try to microwave them, even for 5 seconds on 50% power, they scorch immediately! What am I doing wrong?
Did you find out why?
Pure Love Haha
Definately going to try this I am excited already....thank you
Can't wait to see what project you use these on.
Thank you will try this method out, btw I love your enthusiasm & sense of humor! I am definitely a new fan of your’s!
OMG this has saved me weeks of pressing them in books haha. Thank you xxxx
Excellent idea!!! I use my microwave for fusing glass (obviously) but I NEVER thought of this ...... am off home to try it!!
i wish i had a mom like this
yes I've done this with all my Flowers and it works awesomely
Thanks for the video. I like to know if the fresh leaves that are pressed can be laminated immediately!
This is really helpful. I love pressing flowers but I am very impatient, so waiting weeks for them in between books is not ideal
If i don't have a ceramic tile, can i use a micrawavable plate or bowl?
just use sth flat, heavy n micrawave safe is fine
Allison Cheung
Did it work :0 ?
I used 6 ceramic dinner plates just in case & it worked well
This was a highlight of the day! Thanks for making this video!
You're hysterical! Made this video thoroughly enjoyable.
Thank you for wonderful demonstration! Can’t wait to try pressing flowers in microvave for my art projects!
Thanks for sharing!!! Really useful method! And you looked thin after reminding the cameraman😜
Jenny Leung aww, thank you;)
OK, I think I'm as excited as you are. This is killer, thank you so much.
Omg i love your personality this is the first video I see of yours and I’m subscribing 💜
Hi my flowers turned brown. When i looked 2 wks later. Some were ok but lost a lot of colour. What have i done wrong ?
pat Bosher nothing. Specimens lose color over time but should keep their shape. Have you mounted yours onto herbarium paper and made a label? After you are done admiring your specimen you should donate it to a university or other institution herbarium collection so it can be studied.
You had me at lease than one minute in. So cute!
Thanks for this tutorial. It's great. Be well! Peace💕
So I’ve been using a traditional flower press and waiting several months... While I could have pressed my flowers in less than two minutes? I’m definitely going to try your method and then compare the two? Thank you 😊 By the way you look beautiful and you’re adorable so please don’t worry about trying to look thin.