Video Demonstration of the Microwave Flower Press

Pressed flowers, leaves and other botanicals make great embellishments for altered books and other forms of altered art. However, if you're using the old fashioned approach to pressing botanicals, you will have to wait for six to eight weeks until your plants are ready to use.

Enter the Microwave Flower Press, or the Microfleur as it was known originally.

With this tool, your flowers and leaves will dry in the microwave in a matter of seconds.

There is a video demonstration of the Microwave Flower Press at this link.

The video and the blog post also discusses the pros and cons of using this tool as opposed to the telephone-book method.