My Creative Workbook

Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman

Eat up!

Eat up floral art design

With a chomp… chomp… chomp if they speak English

Carnivorous planted design

A mampf… mampf… mampf if they speak German

Pitcher plant flower arrangement

A miam… miam...miam… if French

Carnivorous plant flower in the design

A paku… paku… paku… if Japanese

Pitcher plant and lily grass design

A gnam… gnam… gnam… if Italian

Pitcher plant and lily grass floral design

And (of course) a loud and messy Om nom nom! If they spoke like the Cookie Monster

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Tutorials

13 June 2018 Lily grass and cane bubble for a Pitcher plant

Craft a dried cane globe for the armature of the design and then add lily grass to dry in place.

14 January 2013 Midelino Cane Coil Globe Cup

Weave a loose, round floral art armature

1 October 2012 Weaving a ball shaped Dew-drop Catcher from grass

Weave a sphere from grass

14 August 2012 Midelino cane coil basket

Weave a hand basket from Midelino cane coils

13 April 2012 Staining Midelino cane Coils

White Midelino cane is easy to stain in any colour

Related Designs

27 February 2019 It’s a trap!

Weave a trap to keep your floral details suspended in a square container.

24 July 2019 Up to much?

Dress up a single lily stem with a few blades of grass.

14 August 2019 For a longer lasting Summer

A creative way to keep foliage hydrated for a cool, water filled summer design.

6 July 2022 Let’s play ball

Weave a spherical support to place long stemmed flowers into a bud vase.

27 July 2022 Wrong on the right, for a right

A glued snipped to create a cooling cone for dangling orchids

24 August 2022 Hot air balloon

A grass bubble to frame two of the most beautiful calla lilies.

11 April 2011 Veiled Sunshine:50th Anniversary of the South African Orchid Society at the Cape Town Convention Centre.

Bright and sunny cymbidium orchids and roses, lilies, lisianthus and pincushions

3 June 2015 A watcha call it

Weave a sphere armature

2 March 2016 Beginning

Glue a Midelino Cane Coil Globe Cup to display beautiful Gloriosa lilies

16 November 2016 All things Autumn (by which I mean all things chocolate): Snipped into Sections

This was the second design I did in my "All things Autumn (by which I mean all things chocolate)" floral art demonstration

6 November 2013 This is the Fragrance of November

Weave a wreath to thread a dome for an Autumn leaf design

10 April 2013 Unthinkably good things

Oncidium orchids hiding in a woven grass cup. This Design Tutorial is featured on The Conna Flower and Garden Club (Ireland) website. It is part of their Floral Art Lessons...

8 March 2017 Piece of the forest

Standing roses upright in a shallow container

8 April 2011 Large Open Weave Twig Basket

Easter Basket used in the Durbanville Flower Club Easter Parade Demonstration