Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman
Love Bug
- 1 February 2012
- click to send Christine a smile
It is February and the month of love. I couldn't resist adding a tiny little love bug to my design
I used pine as the head and body of my love bug.
Two dried pine needles curl as the feelers.
I used hazel to balance my bug on twiggy legs.
Next the love bug gets seeded Eucalyptus eyes and a heart shaped rosary vine (ceropegia woodii) body
Sign up for my weekly newsletter
Every week I add a new design with related tutorials. Be sure to subscribe to receive an email notification with design inspiration.
Tutorials
Made from dried cherry twigs and a skeleton leaf.
Weave grasshoppers or butterflies (or fireflies) from palm leaves
I wove my bird from shaved wood but you can also use flax, coconut palm (more traditional) or paper or ribbon
Related Designs
I wrote this article for Wedding Business Success (an online meeting place for the wedding industry) exploring a positive way of looking at creativity and... stealing!
Sticks and twigs create a resting spot for palm and rose butterflies
A fragile looking heart made from twigs that can hold a lot of orchids
My Halloween design... with some scary stuff hidden if you can read between the leaves!
Craft a willow heart to display 12 red roses to celebrate Valentine's Day.
An all plant zero waste, levitating, twig (with just a splatter of autumn leaves, a breath of spiderweb and float of roots) Halloween decoration with an eerie bat skeleton made...
An... everything is moving... design. The tulips are growing and the small vine filled vase is bopping around in the water. And if you lean them against each other just right it...
A blossom frame to display the prettiest anthurium of the whole bunch!
Add something dark and suspicious to your petunias for a fun Halloween display
A delicate... but robust armature framing a heart space.