Hey look… it totally worked!

Foliage that sits under water (gasp, right!?!) to create a frilly design gap in bud vases

A ruffled blossom rosette from delicate chocolate mint coleus becomes a flower frog for long stem chocolate cosmos buds.

Using a pin to place tiny dew drop crystals

It's sometimes difficult to place a tiny crystal or bead exactly where you want it.

A summery way for tiny flowers to glow inside a hydrangea composite fan

Fan out a rose shaped hydrangea leaf composite to create a waste free floral frog.

Eucalyptus leaf and twig blossoms in a radiating puddle of stems

Just look at that puddle! This design is all about the fresh eucalyptus... but in a cooling down for summer kind of way.

Eucalyptus rose

Release the soothing effect of the aroma and vapors from the Eucalyptus leaves my slightly crushing it while making roses

Use wired faux elements to secure your design

When you use wired branches they double as... well... wires to secure your other design details. This is such a quick and easy design solution!

Autumn leaf Roses

I used to make baskets full of these when I was a little girl. We had a big Acasia thorn tree and I used to spear my “roses” onto the tree pretending I was the fairy responsible for bringing blossoms.

Ivy and tendril blooms

Wrap ivy leaves around a passionflower vine tendril to craft a flower

Design a buildable corsage that can be taken apart and added back together again to give you more styling options without damaging your design.

Easy assemble… and disassemble design details using a Wristix™ corsage magnet from BoutStix™

Autumn leaf Composite Flower

Glue a round Autumn leaf Composite Flower.

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.

Flatten a Spring for a disk grid

Aluminum wire grid to support the stems and flowers above the water.

Threaded rosette foliage frog… with a kick

Threaded Heuchera (Coral Bells) rosette with curved stems to kick against the sides of your container to keep it suspended above water.

Magnolia Rose Bowl with the brightest Holly berries and Kalanchoe flowers

Long lasting berries, magnolia leaves and succulent (kalanchoe) flowers that can remain without any water or maintenance for... well... all the way to Christmas!

Paper flowers

You can use any type of paper to make flowers. I use tissue paper, Crêpe paper, cardboard, newsprint and coffee filters (new and used) to make sweet peas, carnations, paper roses, blossoms, lilies, poppies and orchids.

Longer lasting Gladiolus Composite Flower

Split (but don't cut) a few gladiolus flowers to spiral in a vase

A round, around a round foliage… spiral in a vase

Stack foliage to create a rose spiral in a container.

Sink a carnation composite flower flat top platform into a vase

The trick of this Tutorial is to create a flat top platform to display Spring blossom twigs- the way it would look on moss in a forest.

Roll a folded leaf coil

Fold and then stitch a long fall leaf garland to roll into a coil

Two vase, two level Phormium snippets

Design in two levels by using two vases, the smaller slipped into a bigger one.

Fluffy Washi Caterpillar Armature

Cone shaped leafy puddle for a short stemmed flower

Take all the usual ingredients for a budvase design- a flower, a leafy green something and roll it into something unusual to display.

Double water source to keep Carnations hydrated in foliage cones

Quick and easy design... perfect for something tiny to celebrate spring.... everywhere!

Gladiolus Composite

This looks spectacular but it is the easiest composite flower to make

Autumn Leaf Rosette

Great way to use all the autumn leaves you collect on walks during the season. Slowly build up the leaf rosette and let the leaves dry before adding a few more.

The way I see it

A hydrangea foliage composite fan for displaying tiny summer flowers

All your Christmases…

A little bit of effort... that will last for weeks design to roll us in to the Festive Season.

Foraging

This week's design is part of a challenge issued by Sherry Donnelly of Gertie Mae’s Floral Studio and Flirty Fleurs, Alicia Schwede, owner of Bella Fiori and Chuck Graham, Floral designer at BLOOM by Anuschka to create a design with anything I can pick up close to my design room. And no flowers allowed...

Make Believe

Ever seen an eucalyptus flower? This is... and is not one.

Some Handmade Meaning

I am a huge (HUGE!) fan of the original BoutStix magnets and I love the newest wrist corsage magnets as well. And not just for making corsages. I use them for everything. It is a staple in my design bag and it is ideal for putting up Seasonal decorations. They open up so many creative design possibilities and now with the addition of a strap and Velcro… the possibilities are endless!

When Autumn Fall

Autumn leaf composite flower

Around about Springtime

Spiral cyclamen foliage around to create a composite flower to showcase the petal-like anthurium flowers.

Gently down the stream

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

Well, well, well, if it isn’t the design solution I have been procrasti-crafting on

Beautiful Bletilla striata (Chinese Ground Orchid) deserves it's own elaborate frilly skirt display.

Making it last

Split and spiral a few gladiolus flowers in a way that the stems remain intact, to spiral in a water filled filled vase for a long lasting composite flower

Around Here

Wind lily leaves to spiral around in a water filled container.

It all stacks up

Quick and easy: Stack autumn leaves onto a wire for a... tiny table top Christmas tree.

And now we wait

A bit of flower magic to get a few early blossoms to enjoy inside.

Picked up some proper Pruning

An early Spring design with a twist on using an old favourite: composite flowers.

Grace

Use snips and snippets and leftovers to create a design of it's own

Forest Floor

Glue a autumn leaf rosette armature

Fluffy

Fluff out Washi paper to create a delicate armature

A scoop of pretty

A tiny budvase design that rearranges basic ingredients, such as a single leaf and an orchid to create a new design concept.

Cone of Gratitude

Sweet spring design to hold some buds

Blue Harlequin

A small hand held design as an alternative to a corsage.

Leaves by Hundreds came

A rosette of fall leaves to celebrate the beauty of autumn