Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman
Up around the bend
- 7 February 2018
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Lyrics by (John Cameron Fogerty) Creedence Clearwater Revival from the song: Up Around the Bend
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Tutorials
Craft a wreath with a hollow cavity inside to use as an armature for your flowers
Easy way to fill test tubes and easiest way to remove water from a vase
How to keep Lilies in bud for longer. Removing the pollen. Stringing a Lily Garland.
Sometimes you want to keep flowers in tight bud for as long as possible to suit your design
For my design I wanted the wreath to look wind blown so I added a few loosely woven twigs into the weave. I also wanted to emphasize the autumn colours so I added a twirling...
This wreath is not woven but glued to create a see-through forest filigree
Butterfly hair clips are the perfect little claws to help you hold tiny items in place while you wait for glue to dry
I use two methods (or a combination of both) to attach a wreath to a door.
A perfect way to use a Lathyrus vine after all it flowered
Glue snippets of Baby's breath and grass into a lace fine wreath shape to showcase the tiny chocolate cosmos buds
Glued Baby's Breath Wreath, folded in half to create a moon shaped armature
This is a great way to use all those bits of twigs and sticks in your design room to make a floral armature
Glue a few wigs to follow the shape of a glass bowl to create a disk armature
Equisetum is hollow and jointed resembling miniature bamboo but it can be shaped into spirals by wiring the shoots
Related Designs
… and why we call this the special craftsmanship edition
Have you heard? I have wonderful news this week. Oh! and I also have this pretty grapevine armature shaped like the petals of an open rose to show you. But... Have you heard...
An all out effective way of keeping a flower stem in the exact spot you want it to be in a clear water vase design.
Connect small wreaths to create a pretty summer armature to arrange your flowers on.
Frame a passion flower in a vine wreath for a short lived but so pretty arrangement.
This design requires a bit of prep-time so it is perfect to make while waiting for the first autumn leaf to appear…
Every designer knows how to stretch their supplies. We use and re-use our dried plant material until our fellow designers feel like hiding it from us. I formed such an...
Three Lilies plaited to create a sensational, singular flower "growing" out of a Equisetum dome filled with Rainbow Oasis pebbles.
I wanted my Hazel twig wreath to look like forest filigree: mysteriously overgrown, tangled with age and dappled with moss and lichen. The wreath is also dressed with fresh and...
My article and Willow Crown design featured in DIY Weddings Magazine
This was the fourth (and last) design I did in my "All things Autumn (by which I mean all things chocolate)" floral art demonstration
As a floral artist I am inspired by the endurance of nature and my work is still re-creating the Sleeping Beauty Castle of my imagination.