My Creative Workbook

Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman

You see... here is the Thing:

461 Designs and 617 Tutorials in 7.5 years!

That means:

You see... here's the thing floral art design.

I post a Design with its Tutorials to the My Creative Workbook website on a Wednesday morning….

Lily grass snippet flower frog

… and I have done so every single Wednesday morning…

Lily grass and gerbera flower arrangement

… not one week missed…

Lily grass and gerbera floral design

No excuses and no exceptions…

Low container sustainable design

… for 7 years straight!

Environmentally friendly floral design

That is quite a Thing!

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Tutorials

30 May 2018 Snippet grid

Glue grass stem snippets to create a natural grid over a shallow container

31 December 2012 Knot a Cordyline Catcher

Create a rigid grid to place over a glass vase to keep flower material in place

6 September 2017 Contained rose twig stack

Glue the twigs in a container to easily follow the round shape

8 June 2016 Popsicle Stick Square Armature

Glue Popsicle sticks to create a double layered, upright armature

9 December 2015 Scalable twig and Phalaenopsis orchid winterscape panel

This design can easily scale up or down by using larger or smaller pieces of wood to create a larger wall panel or make a few of these panels to stack as tiles to create a more...

15 June 2016 Weave green strips of willow bark into a nest

Strip bark from willow to eave and set into a shape

3 February 2016 Connect the dot grass Armature

Connect the ends of grass snippets to create a spherical grass armature

Favourite Flowers

Gerbera

Transvaal Daisy, Gerbera Daisy, Germini

Related Designs

27 March 2019 Like trying to find a water tube in a eggshell stack

A fun Spring and Easter design with stacked eggshells.

27 April 2022 Shine Shade

Glue snippets of grass into a double layer sphere to create a sheltered floral globe.

16 October 2024 And there you glow

A glowing autumn display of vases to scatter around every here and there.

31 December 2012 A Pocket full of Starlight

Knot a grid to place over a glass bubble vase to keep plant material in place

25 February 2011 A Rock by any other Name...

It's not really what we call things that matter but what they are made of- in this design, it's made of all three types of Oasis and wool.

6 September 2017 One of those difficult questions

Glue a bunch of twigs inside a container to create a round stack

8 June 2016 When the wind whisper

Glue a fantasy forest from Popsicle sticks, grape vine tendrils and willow tips

9 December 2015 On a Grand Scale

My article and a floral panel design featured in DIY Weddings Magazine

15 June 2016 One tug

Weave willow bark strips into a nest and weave a bird from flax

3 February 2016 Connect the dot

Connect snippets of grass to create a shelter for your flowers