Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman
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- 14 June 2023
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It deserves a bowl all of it's own... right? I am (of course!) talking about these spectacular little sweet peas called King Tut that I am growing on my balcony garden. Not much else is needed. But add a cute little crab and you have a bowl filled with summer.
“I
was
a drab
little crab
once…”
Song lyrics from the animation Moana Shiny by the crab Tamatoa (sung by Jemaine Clement )
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Tutorials
Create a foam free stacked design by slipping flowers between stacked bowls.
It's sometimes difficult to place a tiny crystal or bead exactly where you want it.
Weave grasshoppers or butterflies (or fireflies) from palm leaves
As in… Pussy willow catkins caterpillar… that is super fuzzy.
Weave a spider from lily grass... and reposition it every so often for a creative Halloween twist.
My Chameleon is mono-botanical. Made from coiled grass
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!
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.
Create a dry layer by placing a smaller vase inside the larger vase
Putting the focus on the flowers with an ever changing design.
Favourite Flowers
Sweet pea
Related Designs
Craft a haze of green around a log for a sweet pea swirl effect.
Perfect for summer designing with some space for the vines to continue to grow in your design.
Add something dark and suspicious to your petunias for a fun Halloween display
Display tiny design details in a budvase by crafting a stopper-frog.
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
Stack two vases to create a small gap at the side to keep a leaf upright
Stack a few glass containers and fill each with water to a different level.
Using that little something that is unusual about your flower to make the design stand out.
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.