Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman
Make a half-moon shaped armature to fill with flowers
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.
Glue fall leaves to sticks to make small pumpkins
Fresh passion fruit vines are coiled to create a tray.
Weave a sphere from grass
Glue a radiating armature from stir-sticks.
Skeletonized leaves can be shaped while wet to create shapes
Remove the pulp from leaves so that only the vain framework remain
Make a small grass "propeller" by pinning blades of grass into the design
Neatly roll you ribbon to store flat in a drawer
Use this technique to gift ribbon wrap a single stem or cover the stems of a bouquet with ribbon
Braid or knot a traditional Celtic heart with foliage