My Creative Workbook

Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman

So Into Fall

So Into Fall floral art design by Christine de Beer

“And

Bletilla striata known as hyacinth orchid or Chinese ground orchid in an autumn floral design

all at once,

Dried sweet pea vine in an autumn floral design that is sustainable and waste free

Summer

Bletilla striata known as hyacinth orchid or Chinese ground orchid used in a floral arrangement

collapsed into

Easy and quick floral styling using flowers from your garden

Fall.”

Quote by Oscar Wilde

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Tutorials

3 October 2023 Keep your fresh plant material hydrated... and your dried plant material from falling into the water with a dried vine armature

Use dried floral details to keep fresh floral details suspended in water and fresh floral details to keep dried floral details from falling into the water… easy!

26 August 2015 Sun baked Sweetpea vine wreath

A perfect way to use a Lathyrus vine after all it flowered

8 July 2015 Using a pin to place tiny dew drop crystals

It's sometimes difficult to place a tiny crystal or bead exactly where you want it.

26 October 2016 Folded Bleached Baby’s Breath Wreath Armature

Glued Baby's Breath Wreath, folded in half to create a moon shaped armature

4 October 2017 Display wreath that hover around a big shiny pumpkin

For this design I wanted my wreath to be light and airy so that it just whips around the solid pumpkin like a breeze.

12 September 2018 Off-center hole-wreath armature

Craft a slightly off center wreath from dried vines and grasses for Phalaenopsis orchids.

11 March 2020 Impossibly delicate Dancing Lady orchid wreath

Weave a wreath around a cardboard circle to create an almost lace effect... perfect to capture those first signs of Spring!

4 May 2022 Tendril Tangle Grid

Let tendrils do what they naturally do to help keep your flowers in place.

16 October 2019 Not quite a wreath, not quite a basket armature

Easy to weave design that can hold your prettiest autumn design treasures.

5 October 2022 A fluffy faded leaf "tail" to display delicate autumn treasures

Threading leaves to craft a long garland armature for an autumn display

27 September 2017 Tendril vine Wreath Pumpkin

Reshape a vine wreath into smaller wreaths to combine as a pumpkin

24 February 2016 Willow Spring

Set willow tips into a spiral to create a spring design

Favourite Flowers

Lathyrus

Sweet pea

Related Designs

18 October 2023 Drops do that!

Collecting drops of autumn that makes me smile back.

26 August 2015 Bent

Weave a wreath from sweetpea stems and tendrils

26 October 2016 Harvest Moon

Fold a fine twig wreath in half to create a moon shaped armature

4 October 2017 Whipped up in the autumn breeze

Give a loosely woven wreath legs to stand on to hover lightly around a pumpkin

12 September 2018 Hole-ding it’s breath

Craft an almost Autumn armature from dried sweet pea vines

1 July 2015 At a Stretch

Glue a paper tube floral art structure

11 March 2020 On-Spring-dium

A almost impossibly delicate oncidium (dancing lady) orchid wreath.

4 May 2022 Wonderful and Enough

That incredible moment when you realize that one good idea for your design really is enough...

16 October 2019 Center Peace

A visual breather from all the bright and festive designs to come when designing for Autumn.

5 October 2022 Tail End Of The Season

A display armature for a delicate autumn display.

27 September 2017 As tendrils tend to do

Curl a wreath with tendrils to create a twig-pumpkin

24 February 2016 How to make an early Spring

Roll and set willow twigs into a spring