Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman
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- 10 April 2024
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… and then when you close this page…
and you go… ahhh… that was nice.
Hopefully with a smile.
but most of all
… if you feel even the tiniest bit more inspired than you did before you opened it…
a bit more positive
That’s it.
That is what this is for.
Design note: this is my “see through” design for this month’s BC Floral Art Society flower club meeting.
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Tutorials
This is a great way to explore using vines dried, soon to dry and fresh and hydrated to craft the thinnest possible transparent design.
It's sometimes difficult to place a tiny crystal or bead exactly where you want it.
Craft a light and airy grass halo to suspend tiny drop crystals around gorgeous roses.
Glue twig snippets to closely follow the shape of a glass vase
Craft an everything is still growing spring design to celebrate... what we love!
Crafted from a hand full of twigs to give you a large design... even though you add only two stems of sweet peas.
When you glue a structure with hot glue there are always a few stray strands of glue stuck all over the design. Blow it away with a hairdryer.
Craft a suspended armature to create a clear winter design.
A great do-in-advance and reusable design solution for a winter, early spring floral display.
Connect twigs with puddles of artificial snow to craft a winter armature for your flowers.
Perfect design for a warmer than usual winter design that hints at thawing.
Frost a few twigs to craft a delicate armature for fragrant freesias
This design can easily scale up or down by using larger or smaller pieces of wood to create a larger wall panel or make a few of these panels to stack as tiles to create a more...
Favourite Flowers
Dancing lady
Related Designs
Ideal design for those flowers that needs a deep soak to remain hydrated.
Balancing dried ribbons of foliage to craft a wind twisted floral display.
Grass crisscross that makes you want to lean in closer to count the late summer raindrops around these gorgeous roses.
Instead of just placing a handful of twigs and two stems of sweet peas in a vase... why not...?
Stand tulips upright in a shallow container with a suspended twig armature.
A delicate winter twig armature to show off the delicate beauty of these early spring coloured tulips.
A creative design that has some height to it without blocking the view. This can easily be scaled up or down to match the environment you want to display it in.
Place a small fishbowl vase at an angle to look like it is pouring out flowers and twigs.
A twig and stick design with sweet dumpling pumpkins and rosary vine (Ceropegia woodii). I also made a cherry twig and skeleton leaf Stick Insect
My article and a floral panel design featured in DIY Weddings Magazine