My Creative Workbook

Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman

Messy summer floral nest

Twirl a large spiral cage from flat wire (see the Tutorial below) and rip a few flax or grass blades (see the Tutorial below)

Start to cover the wire with ripped grass.

Start to cover the wire with ripped grass.

Weave the grass in and out of the wire frame

Weave the grass in and out of the wire frame

Keep adding blades of grass

Keep adding blades of grass...

Wire in a few glass test tubes for the fresh flower material

When the wire spiral is almost covered, wire in a few glass test tubes for the fresh flower material.

Add a few dried hydrangea blossoms and continue to weave the grass over the frame

Add a few dried hydrangea blossoms and continue to weave grass over the frame

Create more depth by looping the grass around the frame

Create more depth by looping grass around the frame

Add the passion fruit vine

Fill the test tubes with water (see Tutorial below) and add the passion fruit vine

Add the rosary vine, more ripped grass and hydrangea flowers

Add the rosary vine, more ripped grass and hydrangea flowers

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Tutorials

13 October 2011 Spiral Wire Cages

The cage spirals to form a basket that wrap around the plump ripe berries (or you can slip in a flower) to hang as connections between the twigs.

14 January 2011 Ripping Flax

Flax can be ripped into fibres creating long and versatile strips

16 August 2011 Fast way to fill a lot of test tubes in awkward places

I do not believe in arranging flowers without a water source of some kind. I want my flowers to remain as beautiful for as long as possible and I often get quite creative to...

30 May 2012 Drying Hydrangeas: Fast, Flat or Natural

Use all three methods to dry hydrangeas to get three very different textures to use in design work.

Related Designs

3 July 2013 Of trust… and belief… and stars…

Weave and wrap and twirl and knot a summer floral nest

12 October 2016 I found it this way: Bird nest design

This was the fourth design I did in my "I found it this way" floral art demonstration

23 August 2017 Almost is still not quite

Weave just a hint of the Autumn to come

31 January 2018 Rock, don't Roll

Balance the heavy Protea flower head to lean against a rock.

18 April 2018 Swing Vine

Weave a delicate vine swing to nestle a small vase with spring flowers in

16 May 2012 On the first warm day in May

A ripped flax, Ranunculus and Mikado Reed drop shaped nest

27 March 2013 In one basket

Weave a nest for an Easter design