Craft tips and tutorial - What to do with your roses

Many of you might get some roses this valentine, and don't know what to do with it after a few days. It might already lost their freshness, but don't throw it away.

There are a few things you can do with your roses.
1. Dry the petals
Some of the petals might started to fall/loose. Collect them, dry them. The dry petal can be kept for years. Some people might suggest to put silica gel and and microwave. But i can't find silica gel, and just try to dry them without silica gel, and it works. Line the petals in kitchen paper, and microwave in Low/ defrost for 3 minutes. After 1 1/2 minutes you might want to check and flip the petals.

THe petals might change colour, mine turn to purplish, but still is beautiful. I've used some of the petals for scrapbooking, and keep the rest for future craft projects.


2. Dry the roses in whole
Most of my roses are still good and the petals are still strongly intact with the stems. So i decide to dry them in whole. To dry them, i just hang them upside down in an empty room in my house. The room has to be dry and dark. Hopefully it will dry in 2 weeks. I'll update after 2 weeks then.