Care, Clean & Tips for Your Artwork

Tips for paper and pearl flowers, prints, paintings and dried flowers.

Tips for Paper & Pearl Flowers

The stem is made of bendable wire. You can bend and adjust the stem to fit your vase or your liking. If the vase is short, you can bend the bottom part of the flower’s stem, so the flower height is less.

Example:
Bending the stem to fit vase

Choose the right vase for your flower, or your bouquet. In general, it will be easier to arrange the flower(s) in a vase with a narrow/thin neck, since it will keep the flower just where you put it. However, depending on the flowers, vases with a thick neck/large hole can make a bouquet flare out beautifully.

If you have trouble arranging the flowers. You can fill the vase with either, salt, rice, sands, small pebbles or something similar. It will make the flowers stay where you put them!

Avoid direct sunlight, very sunlit or reflective environments — as with paintings and prints, sunlight can make the colors of the crepe paper fade.
Crepe paper is more durable than many think — if a flower has been bend, squeezed or flattened a bit due to storage or other, you can often fix this. Go gently, but having said that, crepe paper can take more than many think.
Rearranging petals — if a petal has come to a position you wish to change, you can do so by gently nudging the petal back in to place, by cupping the petal with your thumbs, or pressing the petal up or down at the root of it, depending if you wish the petal to point higher or lower.
Rearranging stamens — if the stamens around the flower center have come to a position you would like to change, you can gently place a finger on the bottom of the stamens on the inside of the flower and push back/down.

Avoid direct sunlight, very sunlit or reflective environments — as with paintings and prints, sometimes bright sunlight can make even the colors of pearls fade.
Rearranging petals, leaves, stamens and stems — if any part of the the pearl flower has come to a position you would like different, you can always gently rearrange it. Beaded flowers are very durable due to the wire they are made of. You can adjust the flower parts as your feel like, however, always be gentle, as your are dealing with a handmade piece of artwork.

Example:
Rearranging petals by cupping

Example:
Rearranging stamens

Blow — gently blow the petals once in a while, or use an empty spray bottle (without water!) to blow away dust.
Soft brush — gently brush the flower’s leaves with a clean toothbrush, paint brush or another small, soft brush.

Sunlight: Avoid to place paintings and prints in direct sunlight or very sunlit environments — as the sunlight can make colors fade. The same goes for dried flowers.
Organic materials: The dried flowers that I use are organic material — therefor it is to be expected that they can change with time — that said, it is my experience, that they do not change much, if you take care not to place them in very bright or sunlit environments.
UV-protection: Consider placing your prints and paintings in UV protected glass frames, it will keep them safer from potential fading.
Acid free materials: Dried flowers are fastened with acid free glue. Prints and pictures are fastened to passepartouts with acid free tape.
Dried flowers on glass: In artworks where flowers have been fastened to glass, e.g. a little glass frame with shelf, I have used a clear nail polish with the intend, that if ever wished for, the flowers can be removed and nail polish remover used to take away any remains of the nail polish.