Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman
A Gleaming Cotton Christmas
- 21 December 2016
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Christmas trees all aglow
Stockings are hung with care
Stars brightly gleaming,
children are dreaming
That Santa soon will be there
Snowflakes falling down, on every little town
A blanket of stars above...
Paul Anka - It's Christmas Everywhere (1960)
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Tutorials
A fluffy cuff lines the top edge of the bark Christmas Stocking
When you need to keep a tiny stem hydrated this is just what you need. If you can't find a suitable drinking straw... I also have an upgrade: tiny food grade pipe water tubes.
It's sometimes difficult to place a tiny crystal or bead exactly where you want it.
When you glue a structure with hot glue there are always a few stray strands of glue stuck all over the design. Blow it away with a hairdryer.
Cover a cardboard shape in cotton and bark to create a floral armature
Keep in mind that in order to make a realistic looking fantasy design element, such as the wreath, you must focus on how this item would grow in nature.
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Related Designs
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An easy to do ahead of time winter wonderland themed design for the calm days just after Christmas but before New Years Eve.
Using dried floral material is so trendy right now. But the longer lasting the design elements the more effort you have to put in to stop it from looking lifeless.
Glow and sparkle bark armature to celebrate the first signs of Autumn
From now to a bit after New Year's Eve I will show you my take on the trends for Christmas 2023. This week I start with natural styling with a handcrafted twig candy cane.
Tall and velvety Christmas tree... with a starlight garland
Craft a haze of green around a log for a sweet pea swirl effect.
A light... and slight start to designing for Christmas... an oversized Finial
Bark ice skates on a snow covered pond... perfect for capturing Christmas memories!
A sweet through-the-window candle glowing kind of design to celebrate Christmas.
A bark support to display the most delicate Spring floral treasures.
I used wire, fishing line (mono-filament) and Phalaenopsis orchid roots to make a messy lace Christmas stocking and dressed the stocking with frost green Cymbidium orchids
A bark Christmas stocking glued to a frame
This was my second two designs for my It's High Time for Tea Floral Craft and Art Demonstration at The Capilano Flower Arranging Club meeting.
I needed the wreath to be as light as possible to make sure it would "dance in the rain" on the flexible metal stand.