My Creative Workbook

Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman

Beautiful Things

29 July 2015
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"Beautiful

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Spoken by Sean O’Connell, played by Sean Penn, from The Secret Life of Walter Mitty~ James Thurber

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Tutorials

29 July 2015

Disk Twig Armature

Glue a few wigs to follow the shape of a glass bowl to create a disk armature

24 July 2012

Blow away hot glue strands

When you glue a structure with hot glue there are always a few stray strands of glue stuck all over the design. Blow it away with a hairdryer.

4 January 2011

Drinking straw "test tubes"

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

22 May 2012

Bite and snap a sturdy twig

Break the sturdy twig on the scribe line.

6 March 2012

Glue a round stacked twig platter

Stack and glue tiny twigs to create a round platter

28 May 2025

Rose shaped tuberous root spiral floral frog

While repotting your foxtail fern why not save a few of the roots... for an armature.

29 June 2022

Take your time to craft a Bulrush Dial Armature

Slowly build up a dial armature from dried bulrush

11 August 2021

Dried twig collar in a double vase display for gravity sensitive flowers

Putting the focus on the flowers with an ever changing design.

4 August 2021

Scattered dried grass with raindrop crystals

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

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.

19 February 2020

Twig snippet pillar armature

A great do-in-advance and reusable design solution for a winter, early spring floral display.

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.

15 May 2019

Glue a grapevine armature shaped like the petals of an open rose

Cut a wreath into sections to glue back together into a beautiful rose petal shape

6 March 2019

Snow puddle armature

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

6 February 2019

Winter White Twig Screen

Glue twigs to screen delicate flowers for a wintry design.

14 March 2018

Willow birdcage

Weave a willow birdcage to use as a wedding ring box

29 November 2017

Autumn Screen

Craft a hanging twig and autumn leaf design

11 May 2016

Twig snippet vase armature

Glue twig snippets to closely follow the shape of a glass vase

Related Designs

28 May 2025

Seriously, though where do they all go?

Using roots as an unusual floral armature.

29 June 2022

But for this… let’s not rush

A take your time and mindfully craft a pretty design to celebrate the summer solstice- it is officially summer here in Canada.

11 August 2021

A bit Special... four dimensional designing

Using that little something that is unusual about your flower to make the design stand out.

4 August 2021

Counting Raindrops

Grass crisscross that makes you want to lean in closer to count the late summer raindrops around these gorgeous roses.

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.

19 February 2020

The Upside of being Inside

A creative design that has some height to it without blocking the view. This can easily be scaled up or down to match the environment you want to display it in.

17 July 2019

… and... a bit more... effort… to make it special

Instead of just placing a handful of twigs and two stems of sweet peas in a vase... why not...?

15 May 2019

Heard it through the grapevine?

Have you heard? I have wonderful news this week. Oh! and I also have this pretty grapevine armature shaped like the petals of an open rose to show you. But... Have you heard my wonderful news???