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Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman

Skeleton leaf bowl

For detailed intruction on how I skeletonize leaves see the Tutorial below

Cover a bowl with cling wrap

Pour out wood glue into a bowl

Thin the glue with some warm water

For more details on how to unravel sisal string and how to stain the sisal see the Tutorials below

Soak the stained sisal in the glue mixture.

Spread the sisal thinly over the wrapped bowl.

Dip a skeleton leaf into the glue mixture.

Smooth the leaf to follow the contours of the bowl

Smooth on a second skeleton leaf slightly overlapping with the first

Smooth on the next leaf, again overlapping the first two

Keep adding glue soaked leaves. Make sure you smooth it down to adhere to the other leaves

Follow the curve of the bowl

When the bowl is completely covered smooth down the leaves and set aside to dry completely

Gently pull the cling wrap away from the bowl to remove the leaves

Remove the bowl

Peel away the cling wrap from the skeleton leaves

Lace fine skeleton leaf bowl ready to design with

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