My Creative Workbook

Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman

Eat up!

Eat up floral art design

With a chomp… chomp… chomp if they speak English

Carnivorous planted design

A mampf… mampf… mampf if they speak German

Pitcher plant flower arrangement

A miam… miam...miam… if French

Carnivorous plant flower in the design

A paku… paku… paku… if Japanese

Pitcher plant and lily grass design

A gnam… gnam… gnam… if Italian

Pitcher plant and lily grass floral design

And (of course) a loud and messy Om nom nom! If they spoke like the Cookie Monster

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Tutorials

13 June 2018 Lily grass and cane bubble for a Pitcher plant

Craft a dried cane globe for the armature of the design and then add lily grass to dry in place.

14 January 2013 Midelino Cane Coil Globe Cup

Weave a loose, round floral art armature

1 October 2012 Weaving a ball shaped Dew-drop Catcher from grass

Weave a sphere from grass

14 August 2012 Midelino cane coil basket

Weave a hand basket from Midelino cane coils

13 April 2012 Staining Midelino cane Coils

White Midelino cane is easy to stain in any colour

Related Designs

27 February 2019 It’s a trap!

Weave a trap to keep your floral details suspended in a square container.

24 July 2019 Up to much?

Dress up a single lily stem with a few blades of grass.

14 August 2019 For a longer lasting Summer

A creative way to keep foliage hydrated for a cool, water filled summer design.

6 July 2022 Let’s play ball

Weave a spherical support to place long stemmed flowers into a bud vase.

27 July 2022 Wrong on the right, for a right

A glued snipped to create a cooling cone for dangling orchids

24 August 2022 Hot air balloon

A grass bubble to frame two of the most beautiful calla lilies.

25 October 2023 Go on Autumn… glow!

Mixing permanent and fresh design ingredients to celebrate just how clever the glow of Autumn is.

11 April 2011 Veiled Sunshine:50th Anniversary of the South African Orchid Society at the Cape Town Convention Centre.

Bright and sunny cymbidium orchids and roses, lilies, lisianthus and pincushions

3 June 2015 A watcha call it

Weave a sphere armature

2 March 2016 Beginning

Glue a Midelino Cane Coil Globe Cup to display beautiful Gloriosa lilies

16 November 2016 All things Autumn (by which I mean all things chocolate): Snipped into Sections

This was the second design I did in my "All things Autumn (by which I mean all things chocolate)" floral art demonstration

6 November 2013 This is the Fragrance of November

Weave a wreath to thread a dome for an Autumn leaf design

10 April 2013 Unthinkably good things

Oncidium orchids hiding in a woven grass cup. This Design Tutorial is featured on The Conna Flower and Garden Club (Ireland) website. It is part of their Floral Art Lessons...

8 March 2017 Piece of the forest

Standing roses upright in a shallow container

8 April 2011 Large Open Weave Twig Basket

Easter Basket used in the Durbanville Flower Club Easter Parade Demonstration