My Creative Workbook

Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman

Never saw such a lovely day...

Never saw such a lovely day... floral art design

Happy Easter

Easter lilies and palm leave garlands.

Happy Easter to you

Egg and feather accessories

Happy Easter

Weave thorn garlands from palm leaves.

Happy Easter

Easter design with lilies and palm.

Happy Easter to you

“Happy Easter” is a song from the 1948 musical film Easter Parade starring Judy Garland and Fred Astaire. The music is by Irving Berlin

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Tutorials

30 May 2012 Plaiting a palm thorn garland

This is the basic technique used in traditional Easter crafts to plait a crown of thorns.

30 March 2012 Keep pod shaped flowers in bud for longer

Sometimes you want to keep flowers in tight bud for as long as possible to suit your design

2 January 2011 Lilies

How to keep Lilies in bud for longer. Removing the pollen. Stringing a Lily Garland.

Favourite Flowers

Lilium

Lily

Related Designs

6 April 2016 Take it for a Spin

Make a clear grid to suspend plant material on

2 November 2016 Pick your poison

A Fun Halloween design with "poisonous mushrooms" tucked between the moss and petals

15 November 2017 Alchemy

Gently stand leaves upright in a Kenzan

28 March 2018 Walking on eggshells

Fill eggshells with moss to create an upright container... with a surprising balancing trick.

15 August 2018 Bursting with excitement

Loosely weave grass to create a decorative grid keeping flowers in place over a square container.

20 March 2019 It’s all ===> right

Hang a dangling eggshell in a Spring blossom design.

27 March 2019 Like trying to find a water tube in a eggshell stack

A fun Spring and Easter design with stacked eggshells.

17 April 2019 Hopping with Excitement

A hoppingly-fun Spring design for Easter.

8 April 2020 Don’t put all your Baskets in one Egg

A bit of a wrong way round pretty Easter design. Put the basket weave inside the egg instead of putting the eggs in a basket.

15 April 2020 Helping Spring Stick Around

Blossom petals drop so quickly! Here's a way to make them last just that little bit longer.

30 June 2021 Into a Puddle!

Heat proof floral design for summer.

5 January 2022 Slow Glow

A slow but glowing start to the New Year and the new design season

18 May 2022 Because Why

Adding the smallest details to absolutely make the design.

29 March 2023 To grow a patch of grass of our very own

The first of my new monthly articles about growing the material you need to design with. This month we are taking stock of what we need... and growing wheatgrass.

5 April 2023 Where do you even start looking?

Easter egg... egg for Easter eggs

27 March 2024 Twiners Gonna Twine

Twining jasmine vine twirl for Easter