Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman
Still wrapping my head around this one
- 10 July 2024
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Can it really be 700 weeks, flower buddies!?!
I have been adding a new Design… with its Tutorial to here on the My Creative Workbook website for 700 weeks straight.
Not a single week missed.
Not even once.
No exceptions,
no excuses.
And always first thing on my Wednesday morning.
For Seven Hundred Weeks…
... it all adds up to 813 designs… 960 tutorials… in 700 weeks.
Thank you for making Wednesdays my favourite day of the week.
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Tutorials
Arrange beautiful King Tut sweet pea vines to swirl around a piece of fire wood... with a bit of help from a felting technique
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.
It's sometimes difficult to place a tiny crystal or bead exactly where you want it.
How to tangle wool into felt and make pebbles, felt strips and test tube covers
Most stems, twigs and even sturdier branches can be bend into shapes. It takes practice and more than a bit of patience. The main idea is to slowly manipulate the branch without...
Wood glue not only glues the wool to the bottle but it also makes the wool makes the wool inflexible.
Stack and glue driftwood to rest on bottles to create a frog to keep thin blades of grass neatly in place
Cover a cardboard shape in cotton and bark to create a floral armature
A fuzzy wool and twig snowflake that starts out as a handful of candy canes.
Cover a wreath frame with bark strips and fluffed out cotton
A fluffy cuff lines the top edge of the bark Christmas Stocking
Favourite Flowers
Sweet pea
Related Designs
Twig waterfall creates the boundary between the "under" and the "over" of the design. Tutorial: How to cover test tubes with Rainbow Oasis
A veil of green wool, Spanish moss and dried hydrangeas hang over white lilies
My first design in my demonstration at the BC Floral Art Society meeting
This was the first design I did in my "I found it this way" floral art demonstration
A bark armature standing on pointe for some gorgeous blue King Tut sweet peas
My bag was woven from re-purposed wire and recycled fishing line and tiny stems of growing sweet pea plants and orchids
A wool and twig snowflake design (made from candy canes!) that will last the entire Festive Season.
Cover a wreath frame with bark and cotton for a textured Christmas wreath design
Glue bark to a wire frame to create a Christmas stocking armature
It deserves a bowl all of it's own... right? I am (of course!) talking about these spectacular little sweet peas called King Tut. Not much else is needed. But add a cute little...