Tutorials

Create a sheltered or veiled design by framing the outer edge of your armature (in this case thick cardboard) with long strands of grass

Use husks or dried leaves to make a scarecrow or doll

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…

Give small test tubes long legs to stand on

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...

Make a half-moon shaped armature to fill with flowers

Glue fall leaves to sticks to make small pumpkins

Fresh passion fruit vines are coiled to create a tray.

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.

Weave a sphere from grass

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

Skeletonized leaves can be shaped while wet to create shapes