Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman
Make the design
- 29 June 2016
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The details
are not
the details.
They
make
the design
Quote by Charles Eames
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Tutorials
Glue reeds on a wire frame to create a dimensional armature to suspend orchids in
When you need to keep a tiny stem hydrated this is just what you need. If you can't find a suitable drinking straw... I also have an upgrade: tiny food grade pipe water tubes.
Easy way to fill test tubes and easiest way to remove water from a vase
I do not believe in arranging flowers without a water source of some kind. I want my flowers to remain as beautiful for as long as possible and I often get quite creative to...
This is a great way to use all those bits of twigs and sticks in your design room to make a floral armature
Creating a good quality armature makes it effortless for you to replace flowers, as they fade, with fresh blooms for an ever changing and long lasting floral design.
Favourite Flowers
Phalaenopsis, Moth orchid
Rosary vine, Chain of Hearts, Collar of hearts and String of hearts
Spanish moss, Florida moss, long moss, or graybeard
Related Designs
The third design I did for my book launch demonstration looking at aspects that influences my effortless style of designing.
Bright and sunny cymbidium orchids and roses, lilies, lisianthus and pincushions
"What Twisted Tales We Weave" design 2010 Floral Trends Design Group, South Africa.
My bag was woven from re-purposed wire and recycled fishing line and tiny stems of growing sweet pea plants and orchids
My design entered for evaluation at the Floral Trends Design Group meeting in South Africa
As a floral artist I am inspired by the endurance of nature and my work is still re-creating the Sleeping Beauty Castle of my imagination.
Effortless is hard work! Effortless is difficult to achieve! Effortless takes years! The reward is exactly that; your work will be without effort. My article in the Canadian...
Retail florists and wholesalers are already designing, ordering and preparing their product range for Valentine's Day. This is my article that I wrote for the December 2012...
