My Creative Workbook

Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman

Wonderful and Enough

Wonderful and Enough floral arrangement by florist Christine de Beer

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Craft a dried vine bridge to keep fresh flowers in place in a vase

simple

Buttercup in a sustainable flower arrangement

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Zero waste flower arrangement for spring floral designs

are wonderful…

Easy and quick floral ideas that looks professionally styled

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Tangled vine frog to keep your flowers in place naturally

enough

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Tutorials

4 May 2022 Tendril Tangle Grid

Let tendrils do what they naturally do to help keep your flowers in place.

8 July 2015 Using a pin to place tiny dew drop crystals

It's sometimes difficult to place a tiny crystal or bead exactly where you want it.

22 May 2012 Bite and snap a sturdy twig

Break the sturdy twig on the scribe line.

26 August 2015 Sun baked Sweetpea vine wreath

A perfect way to use a Lathyrus vine after all it flowered

16 October 2019 Not quite a wreath, not quite a basket armature

Easy to weave design that can hold your prettiest autumn design treasures.

12 September 2018 Off-center hole-wreath armature

Craft a slightly off center wreath from dried vines and grasses for Phalaenopsis orchids.

25 October 2017 Willow Paddle

Weave willow between the fork in a twig to create a paddle like armature

11 March 2020 Impossibly delicate Dancing Lady orchid wreath

Weave a wreath around a cardboard circle to create an almost lace effect... perfect to capture those first signs of Spring!

24 February 2016 Willow Spring

Set willow tips into a spiral to create a spring design

25 June 2014 Musical staff line armature

Drill holes into sticks to create a suspended armature

31 July 2013 Ladder-frog

Lash the orchid stems together to create a ladder for the flower to rest on.

Favourite Flowers

Passiflora

Granadilla, passionflower, passion vines

Ranunculus

Buttercup, Persian buttercup, water crowfoots, spearworts, Coyote’s eyes

Related Designs

4 October 2023 So Into Fall

Keep you fresh plant material hydrated in water... and your dried plant material suspended to keep it from falling into the water.

26 August 2015 Bent

Weave a wreath from sweetpea stems and tendrils

16 October 2019 Center Peace

A visual breather from all the bright and festive designs to come when designing for Autumn.

12 September 2018 Hole-ding it’s breath

Craft an almost Autumn armature from dried sweet pea vines

25 October 2017 When the pretty eyeballs you back!

Barely there skeleton blossoms with Eucalyptus eyes for my Halloween design... Oh! and a Willow Paddle, which probably should have been the main Tutorial... but... well...

11 March 2020 On-Spring-dium

A almost impossibly delicate oncidium (dancing lady) orchid wreath.

24 February 2016 How to make an early Spring

Roll and set willow twigs into a spring

25 June 2014 Fine Tune

Thread cane through sticks to make a music inspired armature

31 July 2013 Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer

A tiny orchid stem ladder keeps the orchid suspended just above the water line

7 August 2013 Over the Blue

Glue a twig rainbow to sit over a vase

21 August 2012 Just Right! Floral Art demonstration: Too Cold!

My first design in my demonstration at the BC Floral Art Society meeting

24 September 2014 Leapfrog

Fold and weave a frog from grass

20 August 2014 Summer

A quick and easy design for summer