My Creative Workbook

Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman

Tutorials

2 October 2013 Helping Strelitzia flowers to fan open

If you want completely unblemished petals, purchase the Bird of Paradise flowers when the petals are still hidden in the spathe, and carefully coax it open. The flowers will not...

2 October 2013 Covering test tubes with potting soil

Disguise the test tubes with a sandy veneer

2 October 2013 Spiny Twig Porcupine Armature

Glue a few twigs to display Autumn flowers and foliage on

2 October 2013 Twig garland

Add a dangling garland of twigs to the design

25 September 2013 Adding beads into a design

I wanted my beads to softly float above my snowball posy. If I glued the beads to some of the flowers it would just disappear in the mass of twigs and flowers.

25 September 2013 Make a Phalaenopsis Orchid from autumn leaves

Fall leaf craft

18 September 2013 Autumn leaf ballet slippers from scratch

Pick up a few fall leaves to glue on paper to make fairy slippers

11 September 2013 Longer lasting Gladiolus Composite Flower

Split (but don't cut) a few gladiolus flowers to spiral in a vase

4 September 2013 Weave a heart shaped basket

An easy to assemble open weave basket

28 August 2013 Barely there Mad Hatter's Top Hat

Glue sisal fibers to create a floral top hat

28 August 2013 Unravel Sisal string to get Sisal Fibers

I purchase a huge roll of sisal string to use... sometimes as string, but mostly I unravel it for the fibers

19 August 2013 Knotted and tangled wire heart

A wire armature for delicate flowers