Thank you so much for this. it is so nice to have someone share the many hours of learning and mistakes for the benefit of others!

@flowerpressstudio

7 ай бұрын

Happy to help. Always learning more and will share as we can

This is a wonderful video! Saw a mention of this when I started reading through the materials in your course (super excited about that too but had to pause to come see this). I’ve been trying to figure this part out since I started pressing! THANK YOU!!!

@flowerpressstudio

7 ай бұрын

You are so very welcome. Glad it was helpful

Thank you for this excellent video. You and Rachel are helping the 'presser' community so much.

@flowerpressstudio

8 ай бұрын

Yeahhhh that what this Channel will be for. Lots of educational and tips and fun ideas

Awesome! You are an excellent teacher. Very detailed💕

@flowerpressstudio

5 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

Thank you so much for your hard work. You and your wife are great! )

@flowerpressstudio

8 ай бұрын

Rachel is the best. She literally spent hours editing this video. I have no attention span or knowledge of how to do what she does. Appreciate the nice words. Thank you. 2024 and 2025 we plan to do some pretty cool KZread videos to show everyone all the things you can do with pressed flowers

Thank you so much for the framing tutorial. Also, about the glass cleaner you have used. I jumped right over to Amazon and ordered some. Thanks again ❤

@flowerpressstudio

8 ай бұрын

Hahaha awesome. I forgot to link it in the description. Thanks for the reminder. Also you can use it on plastic too. Easy to use. I like it

A new video… thank you! The whole framing thing is an art. I don’t do glass on glass, but am trying to see how to”add depth” between the artwork and the glass. The spacers you showed solve the issue of keeping plant material from touching the glass. Specially made frames are likely out of my budget. Can you do this with off the rack frames? Just leave the back off after attaching your final spacers like you showed? How do you know how thick/ deep the frame should be?

@flowerpressstudio

8 ай бұрын

Yeah just leave the back off. Spacers come is different sizes. So you’d have to measure the spacer/s (internal and external) you use, plus the thickness of two pieces of glass. Then you would get about what depth the rabbet needs to be. Does that make sense?

so great! thank you- any chance you will post a video on a piece with spacers? also with just a paper or linen backing? Thanks!

@flowerpressstudio

3 ай бұрын

Eventually probably but it won’t be for a bit. We are moving and I stopped framing pieces. Shipping the pieces that are glued on paper that have internal spacers is a no no in my book. The unpredictable handling can cause damage to the piece so I ship them unframed. Eventually I’ll show videos but yeah. For spacers with glass you can use internal and external or just external to hold it in. I use wood spacers though that match the wood not plastic. And for paper pieces I use internal spacers and a different system to enclose everything.

This is so helpful! Thank you! Where do you find your wood spacers? I’ve been using balsa wood spacers but they don’t seem as sturdy as yours. Thanks again for sharing this video! I’m a big fan of your work.

@flowerpressstudio

8 ай бұрын

So we get the wood spacers from the same company we get our frames. Picture Woods out of Boulder Colorado. If you do a lot of framing, I’d look into them. They are the best. The spacers are the same wood and sane stain as the frames themselves so they are seamless and strong and beautiful

@flowerpressstudio

8 ай бұрын

They have multiple size spacers too but they only work with businesses right now and not direct to consumers

OMG… i find this video for long time. Thank you so much. Its very helpful. Can i ask that the glass is 3mm? Or i can use any T if i want?

@flowerpressstudio

7 ай бұрын

Yes, the glass is 3mm! I wouldn't go thinner.

Thanks for all of your educational videos! Do you ever use acrylic instead of glass?

@flowerpressstudio

4 ай бұрын

We didn’t use acrylic due to its ability to scratch so easily and it’s a crazy static material. You got to clean all the little glue marks off after you finish a piece and glass is way easier to do that too

Hello! Can you please comment on the rubber gloves you use? Do you know where you can purchase the internal and external spacers? Or could I just make them from dowel rods? Which brand of nail guns do you recommend? Thank you so much!

@flowerpressstudio

2 ай бұрын

We got our spacers from a company called picture woods in Boulder Colorado. You can use any nail gun that is a 23 gauge and I would use a battery one not compressor. Any brand would work

How do you hold the flowers in place when they are standing up like that? Do you put glue dots or anything that holds them in the arrangement you put them in?

@flowerpressstudio

5 ай бұрын

Totally put glue on all the flowers. 🙂 a decent amount

Hello, great video! And a beautiful result! I had a question about pre-drilling. You said you pre-drilled everything, does that mean you pre-drilled both the spacers and the inside of the frame? Or just the spacers?

@flowerpressstudio

4 ай бұрын

I pre-drill for the sawtooth hangars. I dont predrill for the spacers or anywhere else, just the hardware for hanging because the spacers are being held in by the nail gun and there is no need to predill for the nails. It would be impossible too and so stressful trying to do that. :) Does that make sense?

@jennyonizuka

4 ай бұрын

Yes, I was thinking pre drilling for the pin nails would be near impossible! Thank you, makes perfect sense!

Soy Cubana me encanta su trabajo,me gustaría aprender que puedo hacer,desde aquí no puedo pagar ningún curso.

@flowerpressstudio

4 ай бұрын

I would recommend making a press. Source some local flowers from whoever. And just learn by trial and error. Make sure you change your paper each day for about 5 days in a row. You’ll have to experiment a bit to get results you are happy with

Hello! Thank you for video! I had a question - what glue do you use to glue the flowers?

@flowerpressstudio

5 күн бұрын

No problem at all. I would check out our glue video as it goes over all the glues we use but we use lineco and we list all glues on our website too and a link of where to buy it

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@flowerpressstudio

8 ай бұрын

🙂

Hi Keith and Rachel! Super awesome video! Framing is always the most daunting part of pressing flowers. 2 questions for you! The first is you had mentioned the external spacer is 1/2” but I don’t think I caught/heard the other dimension. What is the width? And my second question! You mentioned that when you do have thicker flowers and you do need an internal spacer, you mentioned that your rabbit profile needs to be bigger than 3/4”. What rabbit profile do you use? Thank you so much!

@flowerpressstudio

8 ай бұрын

So the spacers can come in multiple lengths. 1/4, 1/2, 3/4 etc depending on your frame profile. But typically it’s 3/16” the other dimension. The rabbet is usually 1/4” so the 3/16 is just shy of it.

@flowerpressstudio

8 ай бұрын

If we are using an internal spacer (1/4”x3/16”) and then the external (1/2x3/16) plus the two pieces of glass equally 6mm. So whatever that all equals. The rabbet depth should be nothing less.

@flowerpressstudio

8 ай бұрын

So 1/4+1/2+1/4. So I’d probably have 1-1.25” rabbet depth

Thanks for sharing your expertise. Do flowers remain the same for years to come. I mean in terms of their color and composition ?

@flowerpressstudio

4 ай бұрын

Color definitely not. Since it’s organic material, colors fade. Composition will stay unless something falls off which is possible over time.

@abhasharma2477

4 ай бұрын

Ok, I guess even when they fade there will be something to look into them. Thanks for answering my querry.

questions please - where do u get the frame spacers?

@flowerpressstudio

7 ай бұрын

We get them from our frame supplier called picture woods in Boulder Colorado. They are a wholesale account though

This was so useful! Thank you. Is there a reason you use glass and not acrylic?

@flowerpressstudio

7 ай бұрын

We found that acrylic is super static-y and attracts all the dust. It scratches really easily and is hard to clean. We just found glass to be easier to work with for this art form.

@helenjackson1287

7 ай бұрын

Ahh I see! Thanks so much for your reply!

What glue can I use if I am only using one glass sheet? I was glueing the flower straight to the glass

@flowerpressstudio

Күн бұрын

I’d probably use lineco but you could check out our gluing KZread video. That make help you

I love your work! But why don't you tape the glass plates? Because now the little silverfish can still eat the flowers...

@flowerpressstudio

8 ай бұрын

You can surely do this. Never actually thought to tape them. I suppose we haven’t because we have seen so many pressed flowers that are decades old and have no signs of being eaten. But if anyone wants to tape the glass together, I see no harm at all. Good point you brought up. I’m guessing you tape? What kind of tape do you use?