How To Imprint Leaves on Paper

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How To Imprint Leaves on Paper

~Natural Art~

I assumed everyone knew about this, but recently I met some people who were surprised to see my daughter and I creating art using this method. So I really wanted to show it off to everyone, it's quite simple..

I love using this technique as a way to teach my daughter about both art and nature, its a great learning tool. Try to use lots of different colors for each leaf and choose a variety of foliage.

This can be done with leaves, flowers, petals, stems, feathers, twigs... Endless possibilities!

Just get outside, grab a basket, and start collecting.
Have fun!

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Gather your supplies: Paper, foliage, and unwrapped crayons

Place the chosen foliage under a sheet of paper. Right side of the leaf facing up.
Make sure to smooth it out so that it imprints properly.


Use an unwrapped crayon, rub the side of the crayon back and forth forcefully over the paper. Now you can see the imprint of the leaf.

Look at all the different leaves you can use, each is unique and beautiful.



~I'd love to see what you've created using this method.~

Featured Etsian Artist~knighttimedesigns

I saw this shop and fell in love with the leaf necklaces. Each piece is OOAK, created directly from nature, like a finger print.

Any nature lovers dream piece.

These beauties bring old cliches to mind. Like this one, lovers initials carved on the trunk of an Old Oak. Wouldn't it be sweet to carry a piece of that meaningful tree with you, where ever you went. To have a 'finger print' of the tree that you fell in love under..

Or maybe your first nature walk/hike with your love... A precious memory that can be kept close to your heart.

I'm such a hopeless romantic.

What kind of leaf would you love to see imprinted?

Okay, okay..Onto the interview with knighttimedesigns..
knighttimedesigns

About myself, well I'm 29, I was born in the states originally but have moved around a lot, spending the past 10 years living in Ireland, settling in Killarney, Co.Kerry... for now!

I've been creating on way or another all my life always switching media when the next idea comes up. I have degrees in both painting and ceramics and have been making jewellery for 12 years.

In all three of these media I always have the common thread of nature, leaves in particular. In my ceramic work I use leaf imprinting techniques so when I started using PMC ( Fine silver clay) it was a natural transition to try to incorporate these techniques into jewellery.

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In terms of a favourite jewellery piece I love making the oak leaves especially. I have little oak trees I have been growing in pots in my garden from acorns, so I feel like I have a small bit of a personal

connection with those pieces...