My Creative Workbook

Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman

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Contemporary floral design

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Unusual mechanics for interesting flower arrangements

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Craft with nature for mindful designs

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Foam free flower arrangement

you have a stack big enough

Different floral designs using natural elements

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Tutorials

5 June 2019 Stack a Stack of Stems to create a sturdy grid Armature... with some height

Stack green lily stems to create an upright mechanic to keep shorter stems in place.

15 April 2015 Stretching leaves and foliage into a ringlet curl

Most leaves and foliage can be slightly manipulated to curve or curl.

8 July 2015 Using a pin to place tiny dew drop crystals

It's sometimes difficult to place a tiny crystal or bead exactly where you want it.

13 January 2016 Stacked Grass Pyramid Armature

Stack snippets of grass on a wire frame to make a floating pyramid armature

10 May 2017 Skewered Eucalyptus leaf line-up armature

Thread leaves through wire

10 August 2016 Bamboo frog for a shallow container design

Cut short bamboo lengths to keep your flower material upright in a shallow and narrow container

27 July 2016 Leaning Sunflowers to stay just so

The trick to any freestanding design is to get your first three stems standing stable and secure in the water. Once you have that you can build the design around it.

22 May 2012 Bite and snap a sturdy twig

Break the sturdy twig on the scribe line.

4 April 2018 Tap in a Twig Support

Wedge snipped twigs into a glass vase to act as a support for your flowers

6 September 2017 Contained rose twig stack

Glue the twigs in a container to easily follow the round shape

Favourite Flowers

Lilium

Lily

Related Designs

25 August 2021 Doing a loop tangle twist

oh yes, a light an airy design showing off those very first autumn leaves.

31 August 2022 Bud… bud… bud… they were feeling so… very blue

When life hands you dyed flowers you make... well creatively speaking it turned out to be not such a bad thing after all!

12 July 2023 Standing in frond

Standing your delicate flower stems in a fern frond.

25 September 2024 Toning down the summer up into the earliest autumn

Using summery floral details in a way that it gives you all the autumn feelings... when autumn details are not yet out.

13 January 2016 Once Upon A Time

Stack and glue a Grass Pyramid Armature

10 May 2017 About a line

Skewer and line up leaves to create an armature

10 August 2016 Saved up

Cut lengths of bamboo to place in a shallow container as a flower frog

27 July 2016 Too Hot!

Leaning floral stems to stand on their own in a shallow container

23 July 2014 Chain of Thought

Knot small stems into decorative chain garlands

4 April 2018 Grow on it

Wedge twigs into a vase to create a grid.

6 September 2017 One of those difficult questions

Glue a bunch of twigs inside a container to create a round stack

6 June 2018 Hi-Lo

Perfect stems, perfect flowers. Needs nothing more.