Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman
Tutorials
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.
Remove the pulp from leaves so that only the vain framework remain
Skeletonized leaves can be shaped while wet to create shapes
Make a small grass "propeller" by pinning blades of grass into the design
Use this technique to gift ribbon wrap a single stem or cover the stems of a bouquet with ribbon
Add a simple hook to the top of the Kyogi paper strips to easily hook it in place
When in doubt, always give your armature three legs. Two legs are simply not enough and four legs will wobble if it is even slightly off balance.