Perserving Delicate Flowers | Hydrangeas and Wilted Lillies
Hey flower people, welcome back, and in today's video, we're gonna work on another flower type. We've already worked on the bold type and the pedal type. And now we're going to work on the delicates some of the flowers I want to work on today.
[00:00:18] Take you back a little bit. We have some hydrangeas. I'm actually excited about working on this particular one. I've never done purple before and also have Lily and the greenery is really important, too. They're very simple and very easy to do because they have very little moisture in them. So they dry really quick and they dry nice and it just makes a better presentation in your floral album. We have a little surprise here today. And you know how life gets in the way. You might be away and have had an occasion where you had flowers and you might come home to this like I did this weekend when I left for the weekend, and I should have dried them. So I thought, I know I can help you save those. Don't think you have to throw them away. They're not dead. So with that, let's get started. You know the drill. It's the same thing. We'll do a little review on the kit. We have our preserving spray. We have our string that helps bind up the flowers within our preserving boards.
[00:01:12] And our quick-dry paper. And I have the clips there for anybody has a hard time holding onto them when you're trying to wrap him up. We do horizontal and vertically. I don't have to use them all the time. I've done it so many times. Our quick dry paper. And then here we go with our preserving boards. We always talked about earlier that you have your logo and your logo and they match up perfectly the same thing because I flip them back and forth constantly. So let's get started with a hydrangea first. And when you're doing that, you can do, let's see.
[00:01:44] Will this go so we could just do a cluster.
[00:01:48] The best way to do it is to try to. You just lay it down and try it and get into some kind of position. What's so nice about this preserving process is that there's still enough moisture in them so that after you get them in the position you want or you take them out and you might want to flip a bloom over or a pedal over just to make it so it presents better. It's really up to you. There's no right or wrong. It's just what's right for you. So smash it down. You'll have to completely smash it down. But you want to have it in the position. You feel like it's gonna present best for your floral album and then go to your other preserving board. I popped out another new string and the first thing you do when you get a new string is tie knot in it on the end. The reason for that, if you remember the other video I want to reference, but if you're new to this video, I just want to kind of do some review as we go as you wrap it horizontally with the knot there because it keeps it from untying and also helps you do it, get the horizontal look. And also we got the vertical and then no matter where you're at, you can tie it off at the bottom. There you go. That's it. We're gonna pop in the microwave. And again, the preserving time for your delicates are 20 seconds the first time. And you're gonna kind of see how they dry and how it presents. And so we went the 20 seconds. But my microwave goes immediately to 30 seconds, and it's kind of hard to stop it right on the twenty second mark. But what I can tell you, there's a big difference in 30 seconds and 20 seconds in the microwave, depending on your flower type and what's gonna happen, like anything, you have the microwave. It's gonna burn and you don't want to burn. There's still preserved and you can keep them, but they're not going to look their best. Then that's what our goal is. So I do the same thing every time I unwrap my string. I always put it aside. I like to keep organized. And what do you see? I flip it over every single time. I take it from the top and I flip it over just like this because I'm impatient and I can't stand and wait to see what it looks like. But I'm a flip it like that. And here we go. So that's the backside. So this is the moist side. Flip that over. Because we're trying to remove the moisture from any flower that we're working on. So look at that. That's our first look at this particular hydrangea. I can take this see this little petal right here? We can actually move that over a little bit. So that's why I was talking about it may not seem like a big deal, but if you're picky like I am, that just makes more sense to me. So we're going to pop it back in the microwave. You can see I'm done on this side. Happens with your quick-dry paper. Is the colors my bleed? That's when you have to trade your papers because they'll bleed onto something that's white. Here we go. Tie it off. I did make it to the bottom. There we go again.
