Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman
Skeleton leaves create a light and ethereal gift box
Twist ivy vines around a cardboard shape to create a lace fine Christmas tree mobile.
The delicate Kalanchoe flowers last surprisingly well without a water source and is ideal for glue techniques
This design can easily scale up or down by using larger or smaller pieces of wood to create a larger wall panel or make a few of these panels to stack as tiles to create a more easily manageable composite
Use delicate sprigs of cypress or juniper, fir, pine, eucalyptus, ivy or a combination of them all to create a winter themed kissing bough
A dried wreath in winter white
A gift bag that dries beautifully
Long stemmed autumn leave tubes as a floral armature
Gypsophila dries really well and can be bleached to a stunning winter white
Glue a radiating wreath from bleached Gyp
The word ‘Besom’ derives from the old English ‘besma’ meaning ‘bundle of twigs’.
A glue-less way of manipulating leaves
