Framing pressed flowers?

[Kwik Picture Framing]

Hey all,

I was hoping that you'd be able to give me a bit of advice here!!

I've been asked to frame my friend's wedding flowers (which will be dried and pressed by the time I get hold of them) in the same frame as one of their wedding invitations. So, I'm going for flowers on top, invitation on the bottom - but she wants the portion that holds the flowers to be see through, so she can see right through to the back. I don't even know why - but there we go! She wants the effect of the flowers floating in the frame. How would I secure them without damaging them, and to make sure that they weren't going to slip further down the line?

Thank you!!

[prospero]

People do get funny notions and have no idea of the implications.

The two sided look creates a lot of problems and to be honest, what is there on the back side that you can't see from the front?

You could consider tacking the flowers to a sheet of glass (which would be the 'back' of the frame and then fit a window mount with invitation on top of spacers.

Depending on how well they have been pressed and what type of flowers they are, the flowers are likely to deteriorate to a greater or lesser extent over time. You should warn your customer about this. The only way to preserve such things in anything like a permanent way is resin encapsulation. There are firms who will do this and you end up with a nice plastic slab which would be easy to frame. I suspect the customer would be reluctant to pay for this....

[IFGL]

http://www.curogallery.co.uk/page5.htm maybe ask these guy's.