How to Mount Dried Daisies

If you enjoy drying flowers and using them in other craft projects, then you may want to learn how to mount dried daises on card stock for handmade cards, scrapbook layouts, journal covers and even art for your wall. Dried flowers can be very brittle and petals can fall off easily, so pick up your flower only when you are ready to mount it.

Card stock
Hot glue sticks
Hot glue gun
Tweezers

Instructions

- 1
  Place your piece of card stock on your workspace. Orient the piece of card stock vertically or horizontally. If you are making a handmade card, then fold the card stock in half horizontally.
- 2
  Load a hot glue stick into your hot glue gun. Plug the gun into a power outlet, and allow the glue to get hot. This take about three to five minutes. Consult the package instructions for specific instructions.
- 3
  Pick up your first dried daisy with a pair of tweezers. Grab the flower with the tweezers by the center of the flower and not by the fragile petals. Turn the flower head over. Apply a dot of hot glue or an adhesive on the back of the bloom.
- 4
  Turn the flower over to the front ,and immediately press it onto your piece of card stock. Allow the glue to dry. Repeat with other dried daisies.

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