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Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman

All things Autumn (by which I mean all things chocolate): Worth a second look

30 November 2016
click to send Christine a smile
and more

This is the fourth (and last) design I did for my All things Autumn (by which I mean all things chocolate) floral art demonstration at the BC Floral Art Society .

It takes

400 cocoa beans

to make

a 450g

slab of chocolate

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Tutorials

30 November 2016

Barely there Wreath armature

Glue snippets of Baby's breath and grass into a lace fine wreath shape to showcase the tiny chocolate cosmos buds

12 December 2012

Piled Pine Needle Tabletop Wreath

Use wood glue to make a light as air table top wreath from pine needles

26 October 2016

Folded Bleached Baby’s Breath Wreath Armature

Glued Baby's Breath Wreath, folded in half to create a moon shaped armature

22 May 2012

Bite and snap a sturdy twig

Break the sturdy twig on the scribe line.

4 January 2011

Drinking straw "test tubes"

When you need to keep a tiny stem hydrated this is just what you need.

4 November 2015

Bleached Baby’s Breath Wreath

Glue a radiating wreath from bleached Gyp

3 January 2011

Syringe with tube

Easy way to fill test tubes and easiest way to remove water from a vase

23 March 2012

Drying Physalis sepals

Every Autumn we see the beautiful Physalis pods everywhere but they are easy to dry and preserve to use year round.

7 September 2022

Willow disk frog

Dried willow shaped to create a disk to keep your floral details in place in a vase with water.

3 June 2020

Craft a sturdy “that should be impossible” grid to support even heavier flowers

Using the same flower stems, only dry, to craft a grid for the same flowers stems, only fresh

7 February 2018

Bend Wired Equisetum into a Hollow Wreath

Craft a wreath with a hollow cavity inside to use as an armature for your flowers

27 December 2017

Pine NeedleTube

Glue pine needles to a up-cycled disk to create a winter scene

Related Designs

9 November 2016

All things Autumn (by which I mean all things chocolate): Loosen Up

This was the first design I did in my "All things Autumn (by which I mean all things chocolate)" floral art demonstration

16 November 2016

All things Autumn (by which I mean all things chocolate): Snipped into Sections

This was the second design I did in my "All things Autumn (by which I mean all things chocolate)" floral art demonstration

23 November 2016

All things Autumn (by which I mean all things chocolate): Another perspective

This was the third design I did in my "All things Autumn (by which I mean all things chocolate)" floral art demonstration

12 December 2012

It's a swell time…

An exceptional moment frozen in time… 12:12:12 12/12/12

26 October 2016

Harvest Moon

Fold a fine twig wreath in half to create a moon shaped armature

25 November 2015

So white

A dried Baby's breath and fresh orchid wreath

4 November 2015

Delicate

Bleached Gypsophila wreath with delicate autumn touches

26 August 2015

Bent

Weave a wreath from sweetpea stems and tendrils

7 September 2022

Of the shades to come

This design requires a bit of prep-time so it is perfect to make while waiting for the first autumn leaf to appear…

3 June 2020

As if by magic

An impossibly delicate looking way to securely keep flowers in place over a clear container.

7 February 2018

Up around the bend

Bend Equisetum into curves to wire into an open wreath shape

7 February 2018

Up around the bend

Bend Equisetum into curves to wire into an open wreath shape

27 December 2017

Can it be?

Craft a pine tube to display a soft and snow filled winter scene

30 August 2017

If

Place a water tube at an angle in lumber so that the Zantedeschia float just above the base to show off the delicate grass snippets scattered up the stem