Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman
When it gets chilly
- 21 October 2020
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The best time to take one of those…

cool breeze

crisp crunchy leaves

freshly fallen rain scented

sharp chilly dusk coloured

brisk nowhere particular to go walks

… is on a nippy autumn day.
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Tutorials
Pick away the ray floret so that the disk floret of a sunflower can be used as a flat surface to display your design on.
Gently pull the petals ( Ray floret) from the seeded part of the sunflower
When you need to keep a tiny stem hydrated this is just what you need. If you can't find a suitable drinking straw... I also have an upgrade: tiny food grade pipe water tubes.
Adding tension to a design with a grass frame and collar.
Set the rosary vines into the natural cavity of the flower head.
A hidden water source small enough to fit into a dainty flower.
Dry fall leaves to create a ball shape structure
Create a contrasting base to lift the heavy flower-head to design in
Making a truss out of sunflower stems for a free standing design
Favourite Flowers
Sunflower
Phalaenopsis, Moth orchid
Related Designs
Adding more to an autumn design... but leaving everything out that you don't need.
Using summery floral details in a way that it gives you all the autumn feelings... when autumn details are not yet out.
Filling a trumpet flower cup... with more flowers!
My Halloween design... with some scary stuff hidden if you can read between the leaves!