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Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman

This Moment

19 June 2013
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Be happy

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Quote by Omar Khayyam 18 May 1048 – 4 December 1131

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Tutorials

19 June 2013

Sisal Disk

Create a inflexible circle armature to hang flowers from

30 May 2012

Drying Hydrangeas: Fast, Flat or Natural

Use all three methods to dry hydrangeas to get three very different textures to use in design work.

7 May 2025

Baby’s Tears spill-over for a water-drop vase

Spend a bit of time styling the Pilea Glauca in your container... well worth it! It will root and you can simply replace the flowers (in their own secret water source) as needed.

25 January 2023

Snowy Magnolia forest floor armature

An armature to display a lovely surprise orchid that developed on the long spike just after the other flowers started to fade.

8 September 2021

Glue soaked stems cheeky angled grid for those first autumn leaves (with a dye soak up tip)

A barely there delicate grid to keep your flowers in place.

3 February 2021

Weave a Ceropegia Woodii Vine grid to catch your flowers

Suspend flowers over a water filled container by weaving a natural grid.

25 March 2020

Finally! I found a perfect way to perfectly preserve a perfect passion fruit flower.

Yay everyone! I found the absolute best way to preserve passion fruit flowers. Here it is: how to dry flowers using Silica Gel.

16 August 2017

Criss-cross Monstera lace-up

Glue short sections of rosary vine into the natural gaps in the Monstera deliciosa leaf

16 August 2017

Water tube bridge

Glue two thin sticks across a gap to support a water tube

22 March 2017

Using sisal and wood glue to make a rigid and versatile foundation for floral art armatures

Wrap thin, glue soaked sisal fibers around a balloon or ball to create a barely there armature

22 March 2017

Pin Protea foliage into a curl

The sturdy Protea leaves holds it shape even when dried when pinned into place

22 March 2017

Skewered Foliage Garland

Create a garland that dries well with rolled up leaves

22 March 2017

Add plant material and a wire support to sisal armatures

Customize sisal armatures by adding a wire skeleton and interesting bits of plant material

23 November 2016

Cane, Ti leaves and Sisal Disk Armature

create a cookie shaped armature for the chocolate cosmos flowers

23 November 2016

Twig support to rest test tubes on a surface

Sink the tube in the design to rest on a few twigs

Related Designs

7 May 2025

To design to our point

Show off the most delicate alpine poppy by placing it in a veil of baby's tears (Pilea glauca)

25 January 2023

Even More

This orchid developed at the very end of a long stem... right as the rest of the flowers started to die back so I made a special armature to display the cut stem.

8 September 2021

A good September Soaking

Exploring two soaking techniques for a subtle early autumn design

3 February 2021

here’s the catch

Weave an all natural net to place over a vase to keep your flowers above water.

25 March 2020

How to lay a little bit low

A flat-lay to celebrate finally finding the perfect way to dry passion fruit flowers... and my book's first birthday but mostly the drying of passion fruit flowers thing.

16 August 2017

Making Ends Meet

Criss-cross corset style connect the gaps in a Monstera deliciosa leaf

22 March 2017

Biomimicry

A design demonstration and workshop at the Floral Trends Design group in South Africa exploring how we emulate nature’s best biological ideas to solve our modern day design problems.