My Creative Workbook

Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman

Knotted and tangled wire heart

Gather some wire

Gather some wire...

Crumple the wire

Crumple and scrunch up the wire,

Roll the wire into a ball

... first into a ball...

Flatten the wire ball

....and then flatten that and...

Pull the wire into a heart shape.

... and pull it into a heart shape

Wiggle open a few holes and thread a stick through the wire.

Wiggle open a few holes and thread a pretty stick through the wire.

Place the stick and wire heart in a container.

Place the stick and wire heart in a container or vase

Place the Agapanthus flowers in tiny drinking straw test tubes and arrange on the heart.

Place the Agapanthus florets in tiny drinking straw test tubes (see below for Tutorial) and arrange on the heart.

Add a few spiral wire tendrils to curl over and around the flowers (see below for Tutorial)

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Tutorials

4 January 2011 Drinking straw "test tubes"

When you need to keep a tiny stem hydrated this is just what you need.

26 July 2011 Wire Tendrils

Curl the wire at irregular intervals to create a natural wire tendril similar to that of a passion fruit plant

Related Designs

21 August 2013 Hold on to the knot

Bend and knot wire into a heart shaped armature

18 September 2024 Finding balance

Balancing dried ribbons of foliage to craft a wind twisted floral display.