How I print pressed flowers

I know printing pressed flowers is pretty easy, after all you need is some pressed flowers, ink and paper and your ready to go, but it can be very time consuming as the flowers are very delicate and they only tend to last for 3 or 4 prints (if your lucky). I've tried a couple of different ways of printing the flowers, first of all I tried gently pressing the flower onto the roller to apply the ink and secondly I tried gently applying the ink using a paint brush, (however the hairs on the brushes ended up pulling at the flowers).

The method that I found works best is to just apply the flower straight onto the ink try and gently pat the flower so that it gets a some what even coverage of ink and the gently pull it of the tray and place it onto the paper.

Place the flower onto the ink tray

Gently press the flower into the ink

Peel the flower off the tray trying not the rip the flower

Place the flower onto the card/paper

Cover the flower with a scrap piece of paper and then either rub over it with your hand or use a roller to roll of the flower to create the print

Remove the paper and the flower and you are left with a print of the flower

It normally take a few attempts at getting the print to look how you want it, for example in this print you can see that there id slightly too much ink on some of the petals, so for the next print I just printed straight from the flower with what ever ink was left instead of apply anymore.