My Creative Workbook

Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman

This season all the stylish pumpkins will be wearing them!

This season all the stylish pumpkins will be wearing them flower arrangement by Christine de Beer

You know what they say:

Minimizing the waste you create when designing with flowers

Fashion

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is what you buy…

Original autumn floral styling ideas for environmentally aware designers

style

Quick and easy way to use supermarket flowers in a Fall flower arrangement

is how you wear it.

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Tutorials

30 September 2020 Mesh bag net armature to keep your flowers in place

Instead of vegetable net bags becoming trash wrap it around your container for an instant armature. It even looks a bit like a spider web- perfect for a long lasting design as we...

20 March 2011 Butterfly Net

You will need wire, a short stick, twig, dowel or bamboo and net.

4 December 2013 Flower Girl Red Net Basket

Weave a twig wreath for an easy net basket

31 October 2018 Peg and glue a floating Halloween design

A hovering Halloween design that seems to float.

31 October 2018 Spider-mum

Craft a spider from twigs and a chrysanthemum

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.

28 October 2015 Besom Broom

The word ‘Besom’ derives from the old English ‘besma’ meaning ‘bundle of twigs’.

2 July 2014 Clearly invisible taped Grid

This is the easiest way to keep flower in place

10 July 2013 Wrap a line grid to support plant material in a shallow, stemmed container

Fishing line creates an invisible grid over a shallow glass cake stand to support the plant material

1 February 2017 Coil wire and grass to create a spring frog

Twirl and wrap wire and lily grass around a dowel stick to create a spring frog

Favourite Flowers

Chrysanthemum

Chrysanthemum or "mums"

Related Designs

31 October 2018 Scary stuff!

My Halloween design... with some scary stuff hidden if you can read between the leaves!

17 October 2018 But wait… there's more!

Tucked into the box with every advance copy of the book, the effortless floral craftsman is a packet of clips. This design and Tutorial is a bit of inspiration... what will you...

4 October 2017 Whipped up in the autumn breeze

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

28 October 2015 On Pumpkin Coloured Days

Create a besom broom to sweep up those Autumn leaves

10 July 2013 Pink

Weave an invisible grid to float the plant material on

2 April 2014 Apricity

Turning a stand-by floral technique sticky side out

6 April 2016 Take it for a Spin

Make a clear grid to suspend plant material on

7 June 2017 Dream, Job

Create a grid to rest some plant material so that it floats and some with their stems to rest in the water below