Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman
It’s butter… nuts!
- 1 September 2021
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urhmmm... funny story
oh wow... you don’t say
Of all the things and places
Well, I never…
Is that a fact?
Now I’ve seen it all
You would not believe
… She said looking all surprised as if she has not been secretly wishing for autumn leaves… well, let’s be honest… since the last one fell previous Fall
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Tutorials
Suspend a heavy butternut over water in an early Autumn design.
Most stems, twigs and even sturdier branches can be bend into shapes. It takes practice and more than a bit of patience. The main idea is to slowly manipulate the branch without...
String up pumpkins and glass seahorse vases to craft an autumn mobile design.
Glued Baby's Breath Wreath, folded in half to create a moon shaped armature
A hovering Halloween design that seems to float.
I wanted my pumpkin to lift its head slightly so that it is easy to see the beautiful sepals inside. Making tiny legs also prevent the pumpkin from rolling.
For this design I wanted my wreath to be light and airy so that it just whips around the solid pumpkin like a breeze.
Favourite Flowers
Inca lily, Peruvian lily or lily of the Incas
Related Designs
Oh my... a corn leaf mummy head for autumn... looking ahead to Halloween styling.
Create a floral circlet to rest the little pumpkin on... but above the water line.
Hanging pumpkins and tiny vases to create a Autumn mobile floral design.
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
Barely there skeleton blossoms with Eucalyptus eyes for my Halloween design... Oh! and a Willow Paddle, which probably should have been the main Tutorial... but... well...
My Halloween design... with some scary stuff hidden if you can read between the leaves!
Give a loosely woven wreath legs to stand on to hover lightly around a pumpkin