My Creative Workbook

Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman

Tutorials

30 October 2012 Midelino Harvest Moon Basket

This is a great flat and open basket to take outside when “harvesting” your fall leaves, pods and flowers. Who knows, you might even find a ghost pumpkin or three…

30 October 2012 Wire spider legs for tiny glass test tubes

Give small test tubes long legs to stand on

30 October 2012 Fighting Botrytis

If drops of water gets sprayed onto cut flower heads (like here on these Pasque Flower seed heads) it can get trapped deep between the petals and create the ideal environment for...

16 October 2012 Taco-shaped twig armature

Make a half-moon shaped armature to fill with flowers

8 October 2012 Leafy Autumn Pumpkins

Glue fall leaves to sticks to make small pumpkins

8 October 2012 Fresh vine display tray

Fresh passion fruit vines are coiled to create a tray.

8 October 2012 Mikado Reed Line-up

Creating a good quality armature makes it effortless for you to replace flowers, as they fade, with fresh blooms for an ever changing and long lasting floral design.

1 October 2012 Weaving a ball shaped Dew-drop Catcher from grass

Weave a sphere from grass

22 September 2012 Skeleton Leaves

Remove the pulp from leaves so that only the vain framework remain

22 September 2012 Stiffen and set skeletonized leaves into a whirl

Skeletonized leaves can be shaped while wet to create shapes

22 September 2012 Stir-stick Sunburst

Glue a radiating armature from stir-sticks.

18 September 2012 T- Pin blades of grass

Make a small grass "propeller" by pinning blades of grass into the design