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Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman

Freestyle Freesia design video for Flower Factor

#FreestyleFreesia design video for Flower Factor

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Tutorials

22 August 2018 Vein Veil For Freesias

Cut a slight veil to frame your flowers with

Related Designs

23 January 2019 Do they have cold feet?

Keep flower stems upright with a folded cellophane plastic support that looks like cracked ice.

20 May 2020 Whatever floats your boat

This is one of my best known and still my go-to core techniques for floating flowers.

12 August 2020 A lesson in letting be

Deceptively simple. A design that relies on you working with not against what is already there.

11 November 2020 What goes around

Display a single stem flower in an Autumn leaf twirl

14 April 2021 a Yay! You

A tiny Spring detail to add to a cute little floral design.

26 May 2021 From all sides

An all on one side design to admire roses from all sides.

2 June 2021 Like an open book

Position foliage to create a smaller, shallow pond for your floral details to shelter in.

11 January 2023 Maybe Still Maybe

... a something to look forward to design that makes you lean in closer to see what might still be.

24 April 2024 You Just Like You

Support a small bundle of spring florals to stand upright in water with two Monstera leaves.

8 May 2024 I mean… did you!?!

Playing with shapes to frame the light in a dramatic floral design.

19 June 2024 Do you know what the point is?

A bark armature standing on pointe for some gorgeous blue King Tut sweet peas

3 July 2024 Oh! my word

A perfectly flat leaf to support tiny floral details in the summer heat.

22 August 2018 FreestyleFreesia

Dutch floral designer Pim van den Akker, from Flower Factor invited me to participate in a FloraHolland initiative promoting the versatility of Freesias entitled ...