Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman
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And so with a healthy portion of leftover gratefulness tucked away for later…
Thanksgiving arrived... and left (well here in Canada, it did)
and the year is sashaying
ever....
... onwards...
to Halloween.
It all came about frightfully fast, right?
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Tutorials
Wrap and tie a fishbowl vase with corn foliage to craft a lantern for autumn... almost... Halloween.
Cover a balloon with skeleton leaves to create a cocoon
Suspend a heavy butternut over water in an early Autumn design.
Use a wreath to keep flower and a heavy little ghost pumpkin in place in a small vase.
It’s amazing how we sometimes try to complicate a design. I tried adding calla lilies… took them out and loved the willow. Added gerberas. Took them out and loved the willow....
Made from dried cherry twigs and a skeleton leaf.
Eerie! Because you use what is there already in the twigs this skeleton looks rather... realistic!
Attach three Physalis pods to drop down in a long lasting Fall design.
Favourite Flowers
Inca lily, Peruvian lily or lily of the Incas
Related Designs
Take a handful of grass... but then add just enough design to make it interesting.
Barely there skeleton blossoms with Eucalyptus eyes for my Halloween design... Oh! and a Willow Paddle, which probably should have been the main Tutorial... but... well...
Create a floral circlet to rest the little pumpkin on... but above the water line.
A twig and stick design with sweet dumpling pumpkins and rosary vine (Ceropegia woodii). I also made a cherry twig and skeleton leaf Stick Insect
An all plant zero waste, levitating, twig (with just a splatter of autumn leaves, a breath of spiderweb and float of roots) Halloween decoration with an eerie bat skeleton made...
An easy going design of ripped grass and calla lilies. But look a bit closer. See if you can find Mr. Stalk relaxing somewhere between the blades of grass.
Give a loosely woven wreath legs to stand on to hover lightly around a pumpkin
A floral design snapshot of what it looks like when walking down the streets of Vancouver this week.