My Creative Workbook

Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman

Designs

Excogitate
20 November 2013
Excogitate

Ornamental cucumbers and air plants, with just a touch of green.
Foraging
13 November 2013
Foraging

This week's design is part of a challenge issued by Sherry Donnelly of Gertie Mae’s Floral Studio and Flirty Fleurs, Alicia Schwede, owner of Bella Fiori and Chuck Graham, Floral designer at BLOOM by Anuschka to create a design with anything I can pick up close to my design room. And no flowers allowed...
This is the Fragrance of November
6 November 2013
This is the Fragrance of November

Weave a wreath to thread a dome for an Autumn leaf design
As the leaves melt away
30 October 2013
As the leaves melt away

Spike a few hundred fall leaves to create a cauldron for Halloween flowers
Their work well done
23 October 2013
Their work well done

String Autumn leaves to fall down in a design
All To Myself
14 October 2013
All To Myself

Cut and stain old books to create a paperback nook pumpkin armature
Have a heart!
12 October 2013
Have a heart!

This is my article that I wrote for the Sympathy Design Issue of Canadian Florist Magazine
Whisk
9 October 2013
Whisk

Bend and glue a open basket to display fall leaves and flowers
Prickly
2 October 2013
Prickly

Build a twig porcupine armature for fall flowers
All that glitters is gold
25 September 2013
All that glitters is gold

Phalaenopsis Orchid made from Autumn leaves
One foot at a time
18 September 2013
One foot at a time

Delicate ballet slippers from the first Autumn leaves
Making it last
11 September 2013
Making it last

Split and spiral a few gladiolus flowers in a way that the stems remain intact, to spiral in a water filled filled vase for a long lasting composite flower