Lasting autumn impressions
Colourful summer flowers on radiant straw paper? Or lush green leaves on tracing paper? If you can't make up your mind, why not combine the two? It's so easy: just hang the laminates in the window on transparent hooks. They can be removed without trace whenever you want. Tip: flowers and leaves arranged geometrically look especially fine. Dried flowers and leaves in different colours and shapes can be bought at your local handicraft shop.

Flower parade
Orangey-yellow on lush green straw paper: an eye-catching decoration for the autumn! And here's how it's done: measure up the window and determine the size of the straw paper inlay. Glue dried flowers to the paper you've cut out, if necessary measure up the exact arrangement with a ruler and sketch it out with a pencil first. Centre the paper in an A4 laminating sleeve and have a copy shop laminate it for you. Finally, hammer in an eyelet from your handicraft shop in the middle at the top and attach the laminate to the window with a transparent hook.

In matching tones
There are no limits to the imagination when laminating flowers and blossoms. Japanese straw paper is available in different colours from your handicraft shop and then you'll be stuck for choice: whether in matching tones as shown here or arranged to contrast as in the top photo, either way you're guaranteed vivid views!

Flowers strewn in formation
If your home doesn't happen to have lattice windows, you can now at least simulate their charm. For that everything needs to be neat and tidy: glue pressed flowers in groups of three by three at regular intervals on white paper and laminate them. Then hang four laminates of the same type in your window. It's important to measure the window first to determine the size of paper needed, then measure and sketch the flower arrangement onto it.

Hooks and eyes
Tailor-made: centre the white paper exactly in an A4 laminating sleeve and have your copy shop laminate it. Here, there are two sheets on top of each other; the smaller one has been cut out with pinking scissors. Finally, use a hammer to insert eyelets (from your handicraft shop) in the top left- and right-hand corners and then attach them to the window using transparent hooks.

Mini-blooms squared
Small, pressed summer flowers are especially effective on white paper. As with stamp-collecting, working with small blooms needs a steady hand and lots of patience. And: no sneezing until they're laminated!

Privacy in white and green
Pressed leaves on tracing paper: a fine combination for windows or glass doors at home. Here, too, first measure the glass or the individual panes and cut the paper out accordingly. Arrange the leaves alongside each other and fix them with paper glue, centre the tracing paper in A4 laminating sleeves and have your copy shop laminate them. Finally, use a hammer to insert an eyelet (from your local handicraft shop) at the top in the middle and then hang the laminate on a transparent hook in the window.

Harmony in detail
The dried leaves, here a fern, don't have to be the same size. It's more important that they are arranged centrally or symmetrically. Particularly fine examples work well on their own or in groups of two or three. The laminates' rounded corners contribute to the overall harmony.

Turning over a new leaf
Every one a miniature work of art! Here, they're all still green, but an Indian summer will lend many leaves a new, intensive colouring. From yellow through orange to dark red, the strong colours of autumn really inspire the imagination!