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Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman

Wonderful and Enough

4 May 2022
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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.

14 May 2025

Use dried roots from a re-potted Monstera to create a root lace-wreath

Every repotting season I struggle with what to do with my overgrown Monstera plant. It absolutely loves hanging out in my design room... so... let's design, Monstera!

18 September 2024

Controlled chaos straw and dried foliage armature

Craft a straw covered wire grid to slip over display containers for a foam free floral display that is light and airy... just like it grown in the field.

3 October 2023

Keep your fresh plant material hydrated... and your dried plant material from falling into the water with a dried vine armature

Use dried floral details to keep fresh floral details suspended in water and fresh floral details to keep dried floral details from falling into the water… easy!

Related Designs

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...