Fun Project Failed! Really Failed!!

 Not too long ago as I was watching lovely flowers blooming I happened on a YouTube video where the smart girl was pressing flowers to use for greeting cards. I thought that would be a great idea.  Her process was to take chip board and place two sheets of card stock between two sheets of chip board.  She then inserted her flowers between the two sheets of card stock then weighted the "sandwich" of paper and flowers with a heavy pile of books.

Quick and easy peasy, right?  So simple, right?

Wrong.  At least it went wrong for me.

After one week of pressing the flowers (in this case they were roses from a beautiful bouquet) under a family Bible that must have weighed at least ten pounds, I decided to see what we had.

This is the chip board--all moldy and nasty.  You can just IMAGINE how the flowers looked!  They went immediately in the trash and the trash was emptied.

This was a mammoth fail.  I have just found another method--using the microwave.  I will update you when that is done...It cannot be any worse than this, unless I burn down the house.  That would really be quite unpleasant....