Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman
Slow Glow
- 5 January 2022
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“Fill
the
world
with
sunshine…”
... just like Snow White said.
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Tutorials
Add warmth to a space with a softly glowing winter white arrangement
Cotton balls can be unrolled and fluffed to create long garlands of "snow"
It's sometimes difficult to place a tiny crystal or bead exactly where you want it.
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...
Sometimes you want to keep flowers in tight bud for as long as possible to suit your design
Suspend flowers with an almost invisible taped grid
Connect twigs with puddles of artificial snow to craft a winter armature for your flowers.
Slip a leaf into the gap between two glass containers to keep it upright... and add a plastic lining to support the flowers nestled into it.
Favourite Flowers
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Loosely weave grass to create a decorative grid keeping flowers in place over a square container.
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That good old double vase trick... but this time I deliberately added a bubble between the two layers to create a third circle in the design.
Using that little something that is unusual about your flower to make the design stand out.
Stack two vases to create a small gap at the side to keep a leaf upright
Stack a few glass containers and fill each with water to a different level.