Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman
Those B00OOOoootunias though!
- 30 October 2024
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On a dark,
stormy
Halloween night…
The kind that confirms those
deeply…
peculiar suspicions.
Oh yes… you were indeed right.
Lean in closer… look... there’s something rather
curiously odd
about all those pretty petunias!
Have a frighteningly fun Halloween, flower buddies.
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Tutorials
Craft a stable dried autumn armature to keep petunia stems suspended in water at the top of a container.
It's sometimes difficult to place a tiny crystal or bead exactly where you want it.
Craft a wire tripod to fit into the bristles of a handcrafted broom so that it can stand freely in your display.
Eerie! Because you use what is there already in the twigs this skeleton looks rather... realistic!
Snip open a Physalis pod to create a cavity for delicate floral details.
Glue a few twigs to display Autumn flowers and foliage on
Glued Baby's Breath Wreath, folded in half to create a moon shaped armature
The word ‘Besom’ derives from the old English ‘besma’ meaning ‘bundle of twigs’.
Reshape a vine wreath into smaller wreaths to combine as a pumpkin
Use a wet brush to lift any tiny bits of plant material floating on and in the water to keep your container clear.
Made from dried cherry twigs and a skeleton leaf.
Weave a spider from lily grass... and reposition it every so often for a creative Halloween twist.
Wrap and tie a fishbowl vase with corn foliage to craft a lantern for autumn... almost... Halloween.
My Chameleon is mono-botanical. Made from coiled grass
Craft a wire tripod to fit into the bristles of a handcrafted broom so that it can stand freely in your display.
Related Designs
Time to cut down vines... and enjoy them a bit longer in a Halloween display.
An all plant zero waste, levitating, twig (with just a splatter of autumn leaves, a breath of spiderweb and float of roots) Halloween decoration with an eerie bat skeleton made...
This week we are looking at the contents pages of my book... but more specifically at the sweet little pod design on the content page of my book.
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...
Oh my... a corn leaf mummy head for autumn... looking ahead to Halloween styling.
An easy going design of ripped grass and calla lilies. But look a bit closer. See if you can find Mr. Stalk relaxing somewhere between the blades of grass.
Give a loosely woven wreath legs to stand on to hover lightly around a pumpkin