VIDEO: Crafting with lavender

Prepare the lavender flowers and twigs - first steps

It is best to cut off the flowering branches of lavender in July. This is actually good for the plant, because it promotes a second pile.

1. Place the harvested branches that you are going to use Handcraft want to use between two sheets of kitchen paper.
2. Place or place a heavy object on the paper and let the branches rest for 3-4 days.
3. Avoid pressing the branches in books. Because the book pages absorb the moisture and often remain wavy after pressing.
4. Find a nicely shaped box that you would like to enhance by tinkering with lavender.


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5. The box should also be prepared. You should thoroughly pretreat a purchased, untreated wooden box from the craft store. You can paint and varnish them with Plaka colors or work with wood varnish right away.
6. You can also cover the wooden boxes with colored paper like cardboard boxes.

Color tips as the basic color for the box: Use white, very light blue or light purple. These

Colours highlight the green and purple of lavender. Avoid using samples if possible.

Handicrafts with herbs and flowers - the next steps

It is best to paint or tape the box on the day you put the lavender sprigs between the kitchen paper to dry. This way, the paint will dry out in good time and you will even have time to re-sand and touch up the paint.

1. Pick the sprigs of lavender you want to tinker with out of your pressed twigs. You then have various options to bring out the lavender on the box.
2. Glue the twigs to the box with the napkin glue.
3. Let the glue dry and then coat everything with napkin varnish. The box is now ready.
4. As a second variant, however, you can also work with tracing paper. However, this is only suitable for work in which you arrange several branches of lavender over a large area on the box.
5. Glue the twigs in the desired positions with napkin glue and let the glue dry.
6. Now spray the box with spray glue and stick a piece of tracing paper over it.
7. Finally, the tracing paper should be evenly pressed down by weighting.
8. Be careful not to let the weights crush the box. Pressing on is only intended to ensure that the lavender remains clearly visible through the paper. This variant comes into its own with lampshades.

Good succeed!