My Creative Workbook

Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman

Tutorials

20 February 2011 Types of Floral Foam

Dry foam (normally a grey block) used for dried or artificial flower arrangements, wet foam (normally a green block) for fresh flower arrangements and decorative Rainbow Oasis...

20 February 2011 Soaking Floral Foam

Each block of foam holds forty times its own weight in water. One brick holds two litres of water

19 February 2011 Pebbles

Cut and smooth pebbles out of Rainbow Oasis

19 February 2011 Rainbow Oasis rocks!

Trying all kinds of floral foam to get the best results when carving

19 February 2011 Cover plastic test tubes with Oasis Rainbow Foam powder

Covering test tubes with foam make them completely disappear in a design

17 February 2011 Hanging Jars

Add a handle to jars to hang in a design

17 February 2011 How to use Rainbow Oasis in Powder form

Create colourful designs with Powdered Rainbow Oasis

16 February 2011 Hanging Jar tea light lantern

Set candles into the soaked powder

11 February 2011 Rainbow Oasis Hearts

Cut heart shapes out of Rainbow Oasis

11 February 2011 Using Oasis to weigh down an underwater garland

Soaked Oasis is heavy and can be used as weights to hold design details under water

8 February 2011 Cut Rainbow Oasis shapes to make multi-coloured designs

Mix and match Rainbow Oasis colours to create patterns

1 February 2011 Felt

How to tangle wool into felt and make pebbles, felt strips and test tube covers