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<\/a>I use a turkey roaster that I got for $5 at a yard sale down the street. It is not in pristine shape, but it does the job. There’s a temperature dial on the front, but I think there are only two workable settings – On and Off. Works for me! The smaller tiles fit into it, the larger pair has to be propped at a diagonal. Luckily for this project, the smaller ones worked just fine. I put two bricks on top to add to the pressure making the print and covered the tiles with hot water. I left it to cook quite awhile, a couple of hours. Then unplugged the roaster and left it overnight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The next morning, there’s a lot of excitement to be had opening up the sandwich. The results look great with the plant material still on them! Unfortunately, I had to peel it off. The darkness around the edges is very attractive, I think. It comes from the excess plant material thrown into the water that seeps in around the edges of the pressed paper. I think this one is blueberry with grasses. The blueberry stalk is very hard and thick, not the best for the print. You can see it made a channel for the dark color to seep in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This one is sweetfern, comptonia peregrina<\/em>, one of my favorite plants. One side of its leaves prints a light green, the other side is light brown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here’s another one before I peeled off the plant material. The lady’s mantle leaves printed as a grayish blob, but the horsetail is very interesting, I think. Its thin strands contain a lot of minerals that print well. Horsetail strands can be very useful to give a grassy effect along the base of a print. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>