Best Dried Flowers: Tips & Advice

Let’s talk dried flowers!

Yes, dried flowers are popular to use in resin-based jewelry, candle making and scrapbooking as well as soap and bath bombs.

While you can dry your own flowers, it’s quicker to buy ready-made sets of dried flowers. Here are some tips and advice:

• Consider sealing flowers before casting them in resin. Sometimes the chemicals in resin can change the colors of dried flowers—by sealing them first, you prevent this.

• Secret to sealing dried flowers: hairspray! Yes, this works well—or you can use any lacquer spray. However, flowers can be very fragile, so be careful with handling.

• Simple dried flower craft projects include framed pressed flower initials. Or tie dried flowers with a string and branch—voila! Instant farmhouse decor.

After trying out several brands, here are the dried flower sets we’d recommend:

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