My Creative Workbook

Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman

Tutorials

14 September 2022 Summer harvest Vine Swirl

A great way have your vines root and enjoy them too...

7 September 2022 Willow disk frog

Dried willow shaped to create a disk to keep your floral details in place in a vase with water.

31 August 2022 Suspended, suspended buds in a zig zag grass thread

Suspend flowers in tight bud to slip over a folded and threaded grass grid

24 August 2022 Balloon out grass to craft a framed armature

Carefully bubble out a tied bunch of grass to make a cavity to display gorgeous flowers.

17 August 2022 Balanced branch with dangling macrame vases

Create a display branch for ever changing fresh flowers and foliage... or vines.

10 August 2022 Cross stem spacer

Use the off-cut stems to create a spacer to keep the flowers in place.

10 August 2022 Threaded stem and wire spacer wire garland

Thread stems into a wire to create dangling garlands

3 August 2022 Above and below water jasmine in a grass square

Not only is water designs wonderfully refreshing to make... it is also wonderfully refreshing for your flowers.

27 July 2022 Dendrobium orchid and grass snippet cone around a glass container

Craft a grass armature to suspend the orchids in deep water from around the outside of your container.

20 July 2022 Breezy lily grass ripple

A radiating design that has the freedom of movement to add a bit of a cooling effect on the warmer days of summer.

13 July 2022 Suspend a tiny flower over a large water filled container in a sandwich knot support

You don't have to design with a bud vase when you have a bud vase sized flower.

6 July 2022 Weave a grass sphere to keep the long flower stems neatly in place on a bud vase

Both pretty and pretty effective. Keep the flowers exactly where you want them by weaving a stopper for your bud vase.