My Creative Workbook

Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman

Designs

23 March 2012 A Floral Fable: Colour Design

This is a detailed look at my second Floral Fable demonstration design

21 March 2012 A Floral Fable: Mood Design

This is a detailed look at my first Floral Fable demonstration design

15 March 2012 A Floral Fable Design demonstration Floral Art Structures

I did a Floral Art demonstration at The Capilano Flower Arranging club. Over the next few weeks I will show the designs in detail and add the design tutorials. This week I’ll...

10 March 2012 To have your centerpiece... and eat it too

This was my design for The Capilano Flower Arranging Club workshop. We were exploring designs using all things edible: fruit, vegetables and a bit of herbs.

6 March 2012 Round and Round

Instead of weaving a platter try stacking the twigs from large to tiny small

28 February 2012 Design-time saving tip sheet for a demanding Mother’s Day

Time Saving Tips and Article in the Canadian Florist Magazine

22 February 2012 Nuts and Bolts of Floral Art Mechanics

My design entered for evaluation at the Floral Trends Design Group meeting in South Africa

15 February 2012 Blue Harlequin

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

7 February 2012 Grow Love

Love grows!

1 February 2012 Steeling yourself against stealing creativity

I wrote this article for Wedding Business Success (an online meeting place for the wedding industry) exploring a positive way of looking at creativity and... stealing!

25 January 2012 Three Drops of Floral Chocolate

The design drips down in three tiers each celebrating life, love and connection.

18 January 2012 Winter’s Green

This contorted hazel twig reminded me of an ancient and wise bonsai tree. It definitely has a story of its own to tell. I wanted to capture that in my design. All it needed was...