Pressed Nasturtium Cards

Here are some Nasturtium blossoms I gathered this summer.

I arranged them in my flower press. (With plenty of paper towels. See why that matters in my post HERE and HERE) I pressed some of the flowers whole and some of the flowers in pieces.

I recently had fun using my pressed Nasturtiums to make some cards. I tried to be creative. I use the orange petals as flames for the tops of birthday candles. I made some of the petals into hot air balloons. Some became a bundle of birthday balloons. I displayed a few whole blossoms with their Latin name, like a botanists identification card. And, I made a little Dutch girl with Nasturtium petals as her skirt and bonnet.

This was a fun little project. I hope to do more flower pressing next year. :)