Rose Pressing?

My boyfriend gave me a rose on a really special night and I want to press some of the petals. I was just gonna stick it in a book and leave it there for a few weeks but the problems I am having is my rose petals are very much curved and I don't want fold in them (if I can prevent that). I looked on a few web sites and they said zap the petals in the microwave and that really didn't work... because of their curve only the part that touched the bottom dried out. What am I suposed to do?

Rose Pressing?
Using the microwave will work if you wrap a moist towel around the rose and then zap it. Next you'll need something flat with weight and use wax paper with the waxy part toward the pedals.





One other thing may be better is to just hang the entire rose upside down in your closset and allow it to air dry.
Reply:Put tween a couple of peices of wax paper and park the car on it for a while. That'll do it.
Reply:Put your rose petals between two sheets of paper towel, iron them through that starting at the flat side ,being the end closest to the stems.Don't go all the way to the curved part.Then you can put them in the microwave ,between the paper towel on very low power.You don't want to cook them ,only evaporate the moisture. try only a very few seconds and let them sit in between. Another way is much better its not pressing, you put the whole rose bud in silica sand,using a small paint brush to put the sand between the petals.Cover it completely and leave to dry.Your rose will be kept beautiful, but fragile.Keep it in a small glass or plastic box.In love?Great.