My Creative Workbook

Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman

Do and Don'ts

7 July 2021
and more

The designs

I don’t craft

says

as much

about me as a designer

as

the

designs

I do craft

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Dew-Drop Crystals

Dew-Drop Crystals

I created the Tutorial for how I add these crystals to my floral designs 11 years ago! Since then I have tried, tested and searched for the perfect crystals that would go from studio‑table picture perfect to show‑day‑dependable and I always come back to these. They remain the absolute best. They’re inexpensive yet have a refined, high‑quality crystal brilliance; they don’t tarnish and their adhesive backing stays reliably tacky even after they were exposed to water.

Tutorials

Floral Raft in a Bottle

Floral Raft in a Bottle

Float flowers in a bottle by giving each flower their own little bubble wrap raft-skirt.

Bubble raft to float flowers

Bubble raft to float flowers

Flowers naturally float in water. They just don’t always naturally float on water. For that they sometimes need a bit of help.

A floral float… that floats

A floral float… that floats

If you know my work you have probably seen me do this: I float flowers using a tiny bubble wrap skirt... this time I am floating an entire design on it's own bubble wrap raft.

Stack banana leaf rice pockets to float as rosettes

4 September 2019

Stack banana leaf rice pockets to float as rosettes

Fold and peg banana leaves into pockets so that they float freely on water. This is inspired by a traditional banana leaf craft used to cook rice in.

Well Rooted Sprouting Willow Weave

28 January 2015

Well Rooted Sprouting Willow Weave

Weave a sprouting armature

Tap in a Twig Support

Tap in a Twig Support

Wedge snipped twigs into a glass vase to act as a support for your flowers

Folding a Frog

24 September 2014

Folding a Frog

Fold and weave a frog from grass

A design solution for showcasing the tiniest flowers... in a big way

A design solution for showcasing the tiniest flowers... in a big way

Floating the tiniest Bits of Floral Treasures from your cut flower garden

Tangle a wild wide web of Jasmine vine to suspend your flowers

Tangle a wild wide web of Jasmine vine to suspend your flowers

My summer design strategy: the warmer the weather the deeper the water. A vine frog is just the thing!

Light Layer float Wisteria flowers

Light Layer float Wisteria flowers

Craft the softest layer of wisteria flowers that neatly float on water.

Above and below water jasmine in a grass square

Above and below water jasmine in a grass square

Not only is water designs wonderfully refreshing to make... it is also wonderfully refreshing for your flowers.

Related Designs

Going Cold Twinkle Turkey

Going Cold Twinkle Turkey

Is it better to go Cold Twinkle Turkey and embrace the minimalist living room or rather ease into it?

Whatever floats your boat

Whatever floats your boat

This is one of my best known and still my go-to core techniques for floating flowers.

Gumusservi

Gumusservi

To celebrate the 6th year anniversary of My Creative Workbook I am looking at the most popular Tutorial I have done to date:

Personal Preference

5 December 2018

Personal Preference

The third design I did for my book launch demonstration looking at aspects that influences my effortless style of designing.

Gently down the stream

4 September 2019

Gently down the stream

A mindful summer craft using banana leaves to create a floating arrangement.

Leapfrog

24 September 2014

Leapfrog

Fold and weave a frog from grass

In a State of Flow

28 January 2015

In a State of Flow

weave some willow to use as an armature

Grow on it

Grow on it

Wedge twigs into a vase to create a grid.

Let me float my Wednesday idea by you for a bit

Let me float my Wednesday idea by you for a bit

Floating the most delicate cut flowers

here… from … my little corner… of the world wide web

here… from … my little corner… of the world wide web

Weave a web of jasmine vine to support orchid stems

Purple haze… float

Purple haze… float

Softest Wisteria colour to cool things down on an unexpectedly warm day.

It's a Heatwave!

It's a Heatwave!

Deep water design for extremely warm weather.

Favourite Flowers

Chrysanthemum

Chrysanthemum

Chrysanthemum Design: the Floral Hour glass was made as part of my wax series