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Float Frame Care Guide: How to Protect Your Pressed Flower Float Frame
We have compiled a list of important items to consider when caring for your float frame.
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Winning Best Floral Preservation Artist in the Pacific Northwest Weddings Excellence Issue
This recognition feels especially meaningful because it comes from the Pacific Northwest wedding community. Winning this award also feels like recognition of the years spent refining techniques that are now...
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Color Correction in Pressed Flower Preservation: An Industry Standard, Not a Trend
Color correction, when executed at the highest level, is the disciplined restoration of vibrancy, tonal depth, and dimensional nuance after the natural pigment shift that occurs during pressing.
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Luxury Floral Preservation Upgrades: How to Customize Your Bouquet Into Heirloom Artwork
At Vancuterie, every piece is custom designed from the ground up. But many clients don’t realize that beyond the standard preservation process, there are thoughtful upgrades available that elevate your...
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Botanical Prints Reimagined: Dressing a Vintage Paper Doll in Real Pressed Flowers
Botanical prints traditionally capture plants in static form. But this piece blurs the line between: Archival printmaking, collage, floral preservation, sculptural reconstruction. Keep following along to see the finished product.
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When Music Becomes Flowers: Preserving a Wedding Bouquet Made From Sheet Music
Some bouquets are beautiful. Some bouquets are personal. And some require both artistic sensitivity and structural engineering. This wedding bouquet featured handcrafted paper roses made from sheet music, created for...
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Why Mauve Roses Are One of the Hardest Flowers to Preserve
Pressed mauve roses are having a moment and honestly, they deserve it. Soft, romantic, a little moody, and endlessly elegant.
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Why We Don't Participate in Bidding Wars (and Why That's Better for Your Pressed Flowers)
Asking one artist to “beat” another’s price unintentionally frames creative work as something to be negotiated downward — rather than chosen intentionally.
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Florists, Are You Sending Flowers for Preservation? We Have Assembled The Best Ways To Prepare Wedding Flowers For Preservation
Some of our most beautiful preservation pieces begin with the florists who create the bouquet long before it reaches our studio. We see the intention, craftsmanship, and heart you put...
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What To Expect During Design: Your Floral Preservation Design Guide
Designing your preserved bouquet is one of the most meaningful parts of what we do. This is where your story, your flowers, and our artistry come together, one petal at...
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Vancuterie x Tom Ford: Flower preservation for Tom Ford’s Black Orchid Campaign
For a woman-owned small business to collaborate with Tom Ford Beauty, it’s both surreal and deeply affirming. It means that our craftsmanship, care, and artistry can compete with large-scale production.
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Why Color Correction Matters in Flower Preservation
Color correction is part of my creative process and what defines our studio’s approach to floral preservation craftsmanship. Our pioneering technique has set a new benchmark in floral preservation.