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Christine de Beer Floral Lifestyle Design
Vancouver
BC
8 May 2013
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Glue a sisal bubble for a few delicate flowers to rest in
1 May 2013
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Weave a strip to slip around a candle
24 April 2013
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Suspend small bud vases with Macramé-like knotted wool. This design is featured on The Fusion Flowers Magazine Fusion Links page.
17 April 2013
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Create a soft light by making a leaf cocoon for a flameless candle
10 April 2013
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Oncidium orchids hiding in a woven grass cup
3 April 2013
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After a long winter it is always fun to use the first spring bulb flowers!
27 March 2013
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Weave a nest for an Easter design
20 March 2013
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Retail florists and wholesalers are already designing, ordering and preparing their product range for prom. This is my article that I wrote for the Prom Design Issue of Canadian Florist Magazine
13 March 2013
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Weave blades of grass to create a cover for a glass vase
6 March 2013
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My article and bridal bouquet designs featured in the DIY Wedding Magazine
27 February 2013
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create a mesh to drape over the design to create a soft veil.
20 February 2013
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Retail florists and wholesalers are already designing, ordering and preparing their product range for Mother's Day. This is my article that I wrote for the Mother's Day Design Issue of Canadian Florist Magazine
14 February 2013
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Sometimes creative blunders becomes creative inspiration
6 February 2013
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Fold a grass fish for an easy going underwater design detail
30 January 2013
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This was my last two designs for my It's High Time for Tea Floral Craft and Art Demonstration at The Capilano Flower Arranging Club meeting
22 January 2013
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This was my second two designs for my It's High Time for Tea Floral Craft and Art Demonstration at The Capilano Flower Arranging Club meeting
It's High Time for Tea: from craft to art, taking a delicious floral journey with weaving techniques
14 January 2013
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This was the first two designs for my Floral Art and craft demonstration at The Capilano Flower Arranging club
10 January 2013
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Retail florists and wholesalers are already designing, ordering and preparing their product range for Valentine's Day. This is my article that I wrote for the December 2012 Valentine's Day Design Issue of Canadian Florist Magazine
31 December 2012
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Knot a grid to place over a glass bubble vase to keep plant material in place
24 December 2012
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Wire a Tiny Twig Treasure Trunk for small Christmas gifts
18 December 2012
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Capilano Flower Arranging Club Designing for Christmas Workshop: Yule log
12 December 2012
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An exceptional moment frozen in time… 12:12:12 12/12/12
4 December 2012
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My article looking at contrasts and 6 winter lantern designs featured in the DIY Wedding Magazine
27 November 2012
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Weave a wire and twig Christmas chandelier
20 November 2012
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Glue snippets of dried green stems and Green Trick Carnation to make tiny floral wings for Christmas
11 November 2012
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A rosette of fall leaves to celebrate the beauty of autumn
6 November 2012
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An easy going design of ripped grass and calla lilies. But look a bit closer. See if you can find Mr. Stalk relaxing somewhere between the blades of grass.
30 October 2012
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Weave a Midelino cane coil harvest basket to display ghost pumpkins and frightful woolly "botrytis" in. Have a fun Halloween everyone!
23 October 2012
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Design Inspiration Video: Take a few twigs, snippets of air plants and succulents and combine both traditional wire and tape techniques with more contemporary methods to embed a Boutstix Magnet Stix right into the foundation of the design for a strong and secure way to attach corsages and boutonnieres.
16 October 2012
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Celebrate the bright colours of autumn with lilies and Chinese lanterns
8 October 2012
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Effortless is hard work! Effortless is difficult to achieve! Effortless takes years! The reward is exactly that; your work will be without effort. My article in the Canadian Florist Magazine
1 October 2012
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Weave a sphere from grass to catch a precious and exquisite and perfect glistening early autumn dew drop
22 September 2012
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An Autumn Equinox design that captures the moment before the spectacular colour burst of autumn floats around again
18 September 2012
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Romantic rose centerpiece with just a bit of an edge featured in the DIY Wedding Magazine
10 September 2012
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Gypsophilla design with Celtic love knots featured in the DIY Wedding Magazine
7 September 2012
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My fourth design in my demonstration at the BC Floral Art Society meeting
5 September 2012
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My third design in my demonstration at the BC Floral Art Society meeting
27 August 2012
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My second design in my demonstration at the BC Floral Art Society meeting
21 August 2012
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My first design in my demonstration at the BC Floral Art Society meeting
12 August 2012
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August is the month for retail florists and wholesalers to start designing, ordering and preparing their product range for the Christmas and Festive Season. This is my article that I wrote for the August 2012 Christmas design Issue of Canadian Florist Magazine
8 August 2012
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A veil of green wool, Spanish moss and dried hydrangeas hang over white lilies
31 July 2012
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Delicate cherry twig, rosary vine and oncidium orchid enchanted forest masquerade masque.
24 July 2012
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A twig structure with roses
17 July 2012
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The only thing I needed to make these avocado green arums perfect was a small admirer...
10 July 2012
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Glue a heart shaped design made from bark and wood.
3 July 2012
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Stack and wire twigs to create a twig mushroom with attitude for summer
26 June 2012
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To commemorate Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee and the 20th Anniversary of Friends of Government House Gardens Society a Horticultural event was hosted in the gardens and Great Hall of Government House in Victoria, Canada entitled British Columbia Blooms.
19 June 2012
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The emotions your designs inspire give real meaning to your work. My article in the Canadian Florist Magazine
11 June 2012
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A sticky shooting star made with gypsophila stems and fluffy dandelion seeds
5 June 2012
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Two fairy tale design details that will capture the imagination of even the youngest members of your wedding party. A tiny bug box to carry your rings in for the ring bearer and a small butterfly net filled with confetti petals for a small flower girl to scatter down the aisle. This DIY projects were fashioned for the DIY Weddings Magazine
30 May 2012
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As a floral artist I am inspired by the endurance of nature and my work is still re-creating the Sleeping Beauty Castle of my imagination.
22 May 2012
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Place short twigs, leaning to one side to create a flower frog
16 May 2012
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A ripped flax, Ranunculus and Mikado Reed drop shaped nest
8 May 2012
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Weave a grass pebble for the orchid to nestle in.
1 May 2012
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Designing adventurous Contemporary Floral centerpieces Article in the
Canadian Florist Magazine
24 April 2012
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Braiding and plaiting and knotting hair is a huge trend in hairdressing at the moment. Intricate little plaits are draped over long flowing hair to add complexity and quirk. It’s a lovely design trend to add to floral art.
19 April 2012
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Sunday April 22 is Earth day and a tiny floral fridge magnet is a wonderful reminder of just how beautiful our planet is.
13 April 2012
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The sprouts are sprouting and the bees are being and the birds are birding. Tempting as it is new growth is hard to condition. Hard, but not impossible
7 April 2012
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A clean Easter design. The tiny blossoms are Kalanchoe 'Calandiva Pink'. Tucked low in the paper eggs are a few Cymbidium orchids and the twigs are contorted hazel. The feathers are made from Kyogi or shaved wood.
3 April 2012
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Designing Contemporary Floral Accessories and Body Flowers Article in the Canadian Florist Magazine
29 March 2012
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This is the fourth and last design I did for my Floral Fable demonstration.
27 March 2012
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This is a detailed look at my third Floral Fable design. When you design, every detail you add matters and the smallest element can change the design completely.
23 March 2012
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This is a detailed look at my second Floral Fable demonstration design
21 March 2012
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This is a detailed look at my first Floral Fable demonstration design
15 March 2012
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I did a Floral Art demonstration at The Capilano Flower Arranging club. Over the next few weeks I will show the designs in detail and add the design tutorials. This week I’ll look at the concept, the basic mechanics and the Floral Art structures, constructions and armatures used in the demonstration.
10 March 2012
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This was my design for The Capilano Flower Arranging Club workshop. We were exploring designs using all things edible: fruit, vegetables and a bit of herbs.
6 March 2012
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Instead of weaving a platter try stacking the twigs from large to tiny small
28 February 2012
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Time Saving Tips and Article in the Canadian Florist Magazine
22 February 2012
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My design entered for evaluation at the Floral Trends Design Group meeting in South Africa
15 February 2012
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A small hand held design as an alternative to a corsage.
1 February 2012
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I wrote this article for Wedding Business Success (an online meeting place for the wedding industry) exploring a positive way of looking at creativity and... stealing!
25 January 2012
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The design drips down in three tiers each celebrating life, love and connection.
18 January 2012
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This contorted hazel twig reminded me of an ancient and wise bonsai tree. It definitely has a story of its own to tell. I wanted to capture that in my design. All it needed was to be aged with a beard of lichen and moss. And I couldn’t resist adding a lighter touch of fragrant paper white snowflakes to swing gently on its bare winter branches in the chilly breeze.
5 January 2012
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Floral Craftsmanship Article in the Canadian Florist Magazine
3 January 2012
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Is it better to go Cold Twinkle Turkey and embrace the minimalist living room or rather ease into it?
28 December 2011
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Delicate glass bubbles filled with the midnight blue African violet flowers, purple ornamental capsicum and spilling down the design are a few stems of rosary vine
20 December 2011
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A small, all natural gift box woven from palm
15 December 2011
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Wire spirals twisted around candles to make small Christmas trees for the Christmas Eve dinner table
7 December 2011
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I wanted my Hazel twig wreath to look like forest filigree: mysteriously overgrown, tangled with age and dappled with moss and lichen. The wreath is also dressed with fresh and dried flower bud clusters and operculum of Eucalyptus.
29 November 2011
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I used wire, fishing line (mono-filament) and Phalaenopsis orchid roots to make a messy lace Christmas stocking and dressed the stocking with frost green Cymbidium orchids
23 November 2011
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Christmas Flower Trends 2011 starts with a Floral Craft Assignment from the Floral Trends Design Group to make an Earthly Angel garden decoration.
16 November 2011
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The elongated heart shape Echeveria waist corsage is meant to be worn low around the hip as a trailing ribbon clasp.
9 November 2011
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I designed my posy to be light and feathery but also earthly, like a fresh snowball gathered from a forest floor.
1 November 2011
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A floral design snapshot of what it looks like when walking down the streets of Vancouver this week.
26 October 2011
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A fun Halloween ghost pumpkin design
19 October 2011
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I wanted my parasol design to be thoroughly me, and thoroughly contemporary yet respectful of the guiding rules and methods shared by the different schools of Ikebana.
13 October 2011
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I have always been fascinated, as a designer, by the idea that there is a point when extremes or direct contrasts flip into its opposite.
7 October 2011
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Thanksgiving pumpkin with Chinese lanterns and spiral blossoms
29 September 2011
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A twig and stick design with sweet dumpling pumpkins and rosary vine (Ceropegia woodii). I also made a cherry twig and skeleton leaf Stick Insect
21 September 2011
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The fan is made from 18 coffee stir sticks and dressed with a veil of grass, fall leaves and Viburnum berries
14 September 2011
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My take on harnessing elegance, simply looped from lily grass. Cool, as in attention-grabbing idea. Collected, as in held together. And contemporary as in the latest thing
6 September 2011
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Autumn leaf composite flower
30 August 2011
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Freely translated it means Each Moment, Only Once. It is a saying associated with Japanese tea ceremonies.
24 August 2011
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A Touchstone is something or even someone that you can rely on to evaluate the strength or worth of an idea or concept.
16 August 2011
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Japanese aesthetic, wabi-sabi, acknowledges three simple truths:nothing lasts, nothing is done, and nothing is perfect.
10 August 2011
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Pleats are accordion like folds of equal width in alternating opposite directions in any kind of fabric. I absolutely love the tight buds of Allium and they represent the "pleasure" part of my design
3 August 2011
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The heart shape of my corsage is woven from shaved wood and then decorated with green strawberries. I used corsage magnets to place the corsage on the lapel of a jacket
26 July 2011
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Succulents are really trendy right now. Not just as potted plants but also in designs. All the way from floral accessory to fashion accessory- right on trend!
21 July 2011
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When you need inspiration for a design problem study a Traditional Craft- you will be amazed!
12 July 2011
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Kyogi Paper and Phalaenopsis Orchids Blown Away in the wind
5 July 2011
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Throughout their dangling history tiny to robust tassels were universally used as a finishing feature in fabric decoration and symbols of standing in religious order and nobility and military ranks.
21 June 2011
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I wove my Zipper from just over 300 short, dried rose twigs with tiny thorns on them. The delicate "fabric" at the back of the design is woven rose bush roots. Aranthera and Aranda orchids in tiny test tubes covered with rose stem bark are placed in the Zipper design.
7 June 2011
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The name Cymbidium or boat Orchid is derived from the Greek word Kumbos meaning "hole or cavity", referring to the hollowness in the base of the lip of the flowers.
2 June 2011
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The Asian Cymbidium is considered a gift of respect and friendship. The florets are also considered symbols of "virtue" and "morality" in many other cultures.
28 May 2011
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This is a wired bridal bouquet.
20 May 2011
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These dramatic sprays of orchids have thick, waxy flowers with five pointed sepals and petals (of approximately the same dimension) on each bloom and will last 2-4 weeks as cut flowers and 2-3 months as flowering plants.
11 May 2011
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Tulips continue to grow once the stem is severed from the bulb. More often than not you can use this growth to create an ever changing design. But sometimes you want that tulip to stay in the position it is placed.
29 April 2011
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Design 3:Wedding Tiara. This is a real Cinderella design, one moment scrubbing pots and the next getting ready for the ball.
25 April 2011
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Design 2: Up-cycle drinking straws to make tiny test tubes to hold the orchids on my willow twig blind.
24 April 2011
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Up-cycle the inner plastic ring from a roll of floral tape to make a wrist corsage
21 April 2011
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Spring "Ice cream" posy with a Banana Leaf "cone"
9 April 2011
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So much goes into one stage design that I thought it would be worthwhile to break up the design elements and explore each in more detail.
7 April 2011
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When I demonstrate I focus on sharing the art of contemporary floral design, as I see it.
5 April 2011
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I prefer not to drape fabric over or hide my designs behind a screen before a demonstration. Instead I create a "diversion" that will capture the audience's interest.
3 April 2011
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I needed the wreath to be as light as possible to make sure it would "dance in the rain" on the flexible metal stand.
1 April 2011
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I wanted my design to feature mostly growing plants- creating a natural display on the supernatural wreath.
30 March 2011
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When I started researching mud as a possible enhancement to contemporary floral art I was thoroughly inspired by the possibilities.
28 March 2011
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Weaving hot glue spider webs
23 March 2011
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Because it was my birthday I wanted to give the audience each a slice of birthday cake to celebrate with me. For obvious reasons I settled on dark chocolate Mud Pies.
14 March 2011
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A mould is a hollow container or profile used to give shape to molten or hot liquid material as it cools and hardens.
1 March 2011
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Reflex Tulip and Passion Fruit Tendrils in a wax disk
25 February 2011
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It's not really what we call things that matter but what they are made of- in this design, it's made of all three types of Oasis and wool.
19 February 2011
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Twig waterfall creates the boundary between the "under" and the "over" of the design. Tutorial: How to cover test tubes with Rainbow Oasis
17 February 2011
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Hanging garden Design using Rainbow Oasis Powder
11 February 2011
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Carving hearts out of Rainbow Oasis to create an under water design
8 February 2011
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Create the two or more coloured details with Rainbow Oasis.
3 February 2011
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Wax and Rainbow Oasis keep the flower heads in place.
29 January 2011
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Water stream breaking through ground in an autumn forest.
20 January 2011
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Every designer knows how to stretch their supplies. We use and re-use our dried plant material until our fellow designers feel like hiding it from us. I formed such an attachment to my vine wreaths. This post features four designs using the same wreaths.
14 January 2011
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Flax leaves are ripped with a kenzan and wrapped with copper wire and small blue beads to create a rope to weave into a delicate spider web.
5 January 2011
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To create this huge Protea I took apart nine Protea flower heads and glued the tepals and bracts back on to a polystyrene ball to create a large Protea composite flower that is similar in shape to an African clay vase used in wedding ceremonies.
1 January 2011
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My design "Desalination" featured in the 2011 South African Flower Union Calender
About me
This is my ongoing creative workbook to research and capture design projects and techniques. You will mostly find ideas for floral art but I will also include some other projects such as gift packaging, cards and even cake decorating with a few lifestyle projects arranged in between.
Everything you see in this workbook was designed, made and photographed by me, unless specific credit is given to another designer.
Getting Creative with Boutstix Magnet Stix: Succulent and Air Plant Boutonniere ...
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