My Creative Workbook

Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman

Wave Wrap

17 January 2024
and more

When snowflakes fall

they stack up

crystal

by ice crystal,

it creates air pockets

that absorbs sound.

Snow wraps up all those noise waves…

and gifts us

with a perfect wave of

peace and quiet.

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Tutorials

17 January 2024

A birch bark spiral wrap to cradle floral details in a wine glass

Spiral birch bark strips into two mirror images to create a wintery wrap for a bud vase.

13 October 2011

Spiral Wire Cages

The cage spirals to form a basket that wrap around the plump ripe berries (or you can slip in a flower) to hang as connections between the twigs.

26 June 2013

Birch Bark Wings to hang over the rim of a glass

Simple and natural floral accessory for a sherry glass

13 December 2017

Long lasting bark and Kalanchoe sleigh

Kalanchoe flowers last weeks without a water source and is the perfect way to dress up a bark and silver bell sleigh

5 February 2014

Bark Gift Bag

Cut and glue bark into a gift bag

22 December 2021

Patina Copper Spiral Bauble and Pinecone Cascade

A beautiful pinecone dressed up for Christmas.

11 January 2017

Potted bark pod for a flowering plant

Cover a Styrofoam shape with bark to create a bowl for a potted design

10 July 2012

Bark covered heart

Cover cardboard with bark to create a heart shaped log

19 August 2015

Bark pod for growing a Pearl Oyster mushroom mini farm

Glue bark to a Papier Maché and wire frame to create a pod shaped armature

28 December 2016

A bark strip and fluffed cotton disk wreath

Cover a wreath frame with bark strips and fluffed out cotton

25 November 2020

Contactless gift exchange wreath perfect to double as Santa’s Gift Bag for your front door

Craft a small pouch into a half-and-half wreath so that you can leave... and receive tiny gifts and cards in true Christmas 2020 style .

10 March 2012

Kyogi paper wood veneer

I wanted to create extremely light weight wooden blocks for my design. The easiest way is to cover Styrofoam with a Kyogi paper veneer.

11 October 2023

Wood chip and sparkle mushroom cornucopia

A horn of plenty... seasonal sparkle.

19 February 2025

A bark design surface that suspends the first Spring flowers to rest just below the surface.

Glue two large bark chips to craft a large design platform to suspend the most delicate of floral details in a "I wish it was Spring already" arrangement.

4 December 2024

A slow reveal Birch Bark Scroll Nice List

Soak and roll a sheet of birch bark into a scroll for a woodland inspired Santa's Nice list

20 November 2024

Long lasting floral finial decoration for Christmas

Make ahead (oversized) bark and kalanchoe Christmas decoration... and best of all it last for weeks!

28 August 2024

A summer treat inspired tweak to a leaf-roll technique to display the last cut flowers (or left-overs) picked from your warm weather garden

Give a summer look to a leaf roll by lifting the middle slightly out like an ice cream.

19 June 2024

Stand bark on pointe to display the sweetest sweet peas

Create a natural armature for a summer display

13 March 2024

Spaced birch bark strip basket

Sturdy and easy to make... a small harvest basket ready for all the Spring flowers still to come.

Related Designs

13 October 2011

Direct Contrasts

I have always been fascinated, as a designer, by the idea that there is a point when extremes or direct contrasts flip into its opposite.

26 June 2013

All it needed

Clean, simple and restrained elegance: a single jasmine stem in a wine glass. All it needed was just a few extra blades of grass to tie it all together. And wings, of course!

23 July 2014

Chain of Thought

Knot small stems into decorative chain garlands

22 October 2014

Stand Around

Fold and roll leaves to create an Autumn swirl

22 January 2013

It's High Time for Tea: from craft to art, taking a delicious floral journey with veneer techniques

This was my second two designs for my It's High Time for Tea Floral Craft and Art Demonstration at The Capilano Flower Arranging Club meeting.

13 December 2017

Just hear those sleigh bells jingling

Craft a bark sleigh that will last for weeks.

5 February 2014

Treasured Time

This is my article that I wrote for the Mother's Day Design Issue of Canadian Florist Magazine

11 January 2017

As special as an almost never find

Sometimes you find such a beautiful plant that you just can't bring yourself to cut it. This design explores using the entire plant, pot and all, in a design

22 December 2021

It’s the most… it’s the most… wonderful Patina Copper Spiral Bauble Christmas of all!

This is the fifth of my Christmas 2021 series of designs. This year in the form of a mini workshop… my Christmas present to you. This week I will show you how to add a mostly blue patina to pinecone shaped spiral baubles.

10 July 2012

Sticktoitness

Glue a heart shaped design made from bark and wood.

19 August 2015

Growth Medium

Design a bark and moss pod for a mushroom mini farm

28 December 2016

A Jingle Cotton Christmas

Cover a wreath frame with bark and cotton for a textured Christmas wreath design

25 November 2020

Have yourself a Merry Cellulose Fibre Christmas: Santa’s gift bag wreath

...ok not really that fancy- it’s made from paper pulp. A cardboard box gift bag wreath… really. In the spirit of 2020- I am inspired by the endless stream of cardboard boxes being delivered.