Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman
Alrighty then
- 29 January 2025
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The things
in your
design
that did
NOT
go
quite as planned…
Let them.
those are...
the interesting stuff!
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Tutorials
Give an old mechanic a contemporary twist for creating light and airy flower displays.
Create a dry layer by placing a smaller vase inside the larger vase
Craft an everything is still growing spring design to celebrate... what we love!
Craft a suspended armature to create a clear winter design.
Careful manipulation of twigs in a shallow container. With a special note on how to use new growth.
Craft a light and airy grass halo to suspend tiny drop crystals around gorgeous roses.
Create a barely there armature with sturdy end of season vines.
This design takes a few weeks to make... but lasts a few weeks longer growing and evolving all on its own.
Putting the focus on the flowers with an ever changing design.
Utilizing those not so obvious characteristics of your design details to make a minimal clear glass summer floral design.
Create a foam free stacked design by slipping flowers between stacked bowls.
Slip a leaf into the gap between two glass containers to keep it upright... and add a plastic lining to support the flowers nestled into it.
This is a great way to explore using vines dried, soon to dry and fresh and hydrated to craft the thinnest possible transparent design.
Great craft for when you are tidying up the garden before the first frost but would still like to enjoy the vines for a bit longer.
The tiniest twig peg keep the vines from spilling out of the minimal double vase display.
Trap air between two vases to create a third circle... and frame for a small feather hint to a hopeful Spring
Trap a bubble between two shallow containers to float clematis flowers for Spring.
Favourite Flowers
Granadilla, passionflower, passion vines
Related Designs
Stand tulips upright in a shallow container with a suspended twig armature.
Grass crisscross that makes you want to lean in closer to count the late summer raindrops around these gorgeous roses.
Instead of just placing a handful of twigs and two stems of sweet peas in a vase... why not...?
Growing a design... all new... and fresh and blooming well into New Year.
Using that little something that is unusual about your flower to make the design stand out.
Deceptively simple. A design that relies on you working with not against what is already there.
Stack two vases to create a small gap at the side to keep a leaf upright
Tangle jasmine vines outside a vase for a transparent screen to display floral details on and around a sea horse vase to display floral details in.
Time to cut down vines... and enjoy them a bit longer in a Halloween display.
Perfect for summer designing with some space for the vines to continue to grow in your design.
That good old double vase trick... but this time I deliberately added a bubble between the two layers to create a third circle in the design.
Ideal design for those flowers that needs a deep soak to remain hydrated.