Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman
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- 1 March 2017
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To celebrate the 6th year anniversary of My Creative Workbook I am looking at the most popular Tutorial I have done to date: Bubble raft to float flowers Since I posted this Design Tutorial in January 2012, it has been viewed by 107,000 unique visitors, and in a way it really has a life of its own now.
This is my re-take on the technique:
pronunciation | gU-mU-‘sAr-vE … goo-moo-SAIR-vee (Turkish)
It
means
moonlight
shining
on water
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Tutorials
Flowers naturally float in water. They just don’t always naturally float on water. For that they sometimes need a bit of help.
Cut the Phalaenopsis orchid with a bit of green stem attached. This will make them last longer.
Flowers naturally float and you will need some kind of sinker to keep them suspended under water.
Favourite Flowers
Phalaenopsis, Moth orchid
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