My Creative Workbook

Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman

Autumn's Brightest Wanted:

5 November 2025
and more

The Department of Sparkle & Glow seeks vibrant Autumn hues for immediate placement.

Only Autumn’s brightest colours need apply.

Must absolutely shimmer, glow, and sparkle like you mean it.

Successful candidates chosen from all of Autumn’s palette will weave...

... into wintery twinkle bright, merry maple red sparkle and all the cozy amber, russet and gold that carries...

Autumn’s warmest-hued generosity,

... as it hands its glow over to Christmas, for Christmas to renew it into all the sparkle needed for Spring.

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Tutorials

5 November 2025

Barely there twig layer support to allow all the autumn colours to shine and glow

Snip Autumn bits from your garden to arrange in and around a glass container for a modern loose, layered display.

21 September 2022

Counterbalance elegantly leaning Calla lilies with dressed up Dried Autumn Details

Using those much treasured dried autumn details to bridge the gap between the bright green of summer and the brightness that is yet to come.

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.

30 October 2024

Booo-tunias levitating in a scary twig armature

Craft a stable dried autumn armature to keep petunia stems suspended in water at the top of a container.

18 October 2023

U shape stems to anchor Fuchsia drops and Maple leaf Falls in a bud vase

Bend pliable stems to kick against the side to anchor design details exactly in place in a small vase.

25 September 2024

Slip-slit tapped in stems to keep vines upright in a muted autumn display

A tiny adjustment in a stem wedged into a vase mechanic to give you even more control over the placement of design details.

26 October 2016

Folded Bleached Baby’s Breath Wreath Armature

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

9 September 2015

Layered sisal and twig armature

small sisal fibers create a mat like armature

21 May 2025

Make a Stuck with an Unstick Stick Maple Seed Spring floral frog… but for a grasshopper pair.

Use the sticky side of sticky tape to create the lightest possible floral frog to display your floral details in.

29 November 2017

Autumn Screen

Craft a hanging twig and autumn leaf design

2 May 2018

Radiating rainbow vine armature

Design an armature that is light enough to be carried by two flower stems to create a radiating frame.

14 October 2020

On the edge grid for a decorative twig and reed armature

Place the floral details strategically on the edge of sturdier parts of the armature to keep the reed grid from collapsing under the weight of the floral details.

27 October 2021

Hovering golden wheat Ghost Ship armature

Using dry and fresh floral material in one design without the dry becoming soggy and the fresh drying out.

24 March 2021

A Spring Sprout Wreath Flower Frog

Craft an everything is still growing spring design to celebrate... what we love!

9 December 2015

Scalable twig and Phalaenopsis orchid winterscape panel

This design can easily scale up or down by using larger or smaller pieces of wood to create a larger wall panel or make a few of these panels to stack as tiles to create a more easily manageable composite

31 May 2023

No Mow May Scattered Grass and Erigeron Meadow design

Tape a grid to create a barely there scattered grass display for a cooling summer display.

15 April 2020

A Sticky-tape way to keep blossom petals from dropping

Capture Spring for just a little bit longer by sticking blossoms down, in place.

2 November 2022

A Reflex Rose Rose Hip… Rose

Making a rose even more roselike by enhancing its rosy-ness.

2 April 2014

Turning the sellotape over the vase trick up-side-down for a sticky side out frog

Tape a grid over a vase to keep the floral details in place

6 March 2019

Snow puddle armature

Connect twigs with puddles of artificial snow to craft a winter armature for your flowers.

17 July 2019

Twig Dome Armature

Crafted from a hand full of twigs to give you a large design... even though you add only two stems of sweet peas.

4 August 2021

Scattered dried grass with raindrop crystals

Craft a light and airy grass halo to suspend tiny drop crystals around gorgeous roses.

Related Designs

21 September 2022

Balanced Attitude

Getting the balance just so... so that you lean into the first sights of Autumn.

29 November 2017

Marcescent

Glue a delicate autumn room devider

9 September 2015

Fall Treasures

A sisal mat armature for fall twigs flowers and leaves

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.

26 October 2016

Harvest Moon

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

21 May 2025

Sticktoitness that gets you Unstuck

Create a sticky grid for the lightest and dreamiest Spring floral display.

2 May 2018

Over the rainbow

Craft a radiating design that suspends from the orchid stems

18 October 2023

Drops do that!

Collecting drops of autumn that makes me smile back.

14 October 2020

Stick it out… the creative spirit version

Soft minimal Fall armature making it easy to replace the flowers as the season progress.

27 October 2021

Ship Shape

The dry wheat stems are suspended from the outside of the container so that they remain dry and the flower stems can gently rest inside to remain hydrated.