Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman
By the cone full
- 10 May 2023
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Here is a cone full of thank you’s
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To all of you
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Who take out time in your day
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To say hi back to me every Wednesday
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Thank you’s… by the cone full!
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Tutorials
Prevent a leaf from ripping or bruising when positioning it in your design.
The teeth of a Kenzan (or pin cushion) is rather sharp. Here is a pain free way of pushing down the plant material into the teeth to keep it securely in place.
A cool and minimal floral design for summer.
Snip, roll and glue a few blades of grass to create a design feature
It's sometimes difficult to place a tiny crystal or bead exactly where you want it.
A single lily flower design dressed up with a grass veil.
Temporarily adhere a traditional Ikebana Kenzan or pincushion to a shallow container.
Just look at that puddle! This design is all about the fresh eucalyptus... but in a cooling down for summer kind of way.
Flair open a leathery leaf to craft a frame a single bleeding heart flower on its long stem.
Weave a few cones and add orchids to make the floral ice cream cones
Create a tiny visual tunnel to focus attention.
A glue-less way of manipulating leaves
Fold and glue a Monstera deliciosa (delicious monster) leaf
Curl and pin a few leaves into a tube to create an armature for those "left over" freesiabuds.
Related Designs
It's the little sun-washed coloured hints that makes you look again to see if you really saw what you thought you saw... yes! There really are signs of autumn everywhere!
Support a small bundle of spring florals to stand upright in water with two Monstera leaves.
Create a little bit of space to keep a few thin stemmed floral treasures upright in your design
Loop a grass veil over a lily stem to create a minimalist summer design.
Cut stems of Gladiolus to place in a radiating summer design.
A tiny budvase design that rearranges basic ingredients, such as a single leaf and an orchid to create a new design concept.
An enclosed design that invites the onlooker to lean in closer to explore the pretty orchid.