Building Confidence - Simplifying a Floral Structure

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Building Confidence - Simplifying a Floral Structure shows how you can expedite construction of handmade structures using simple premade forms as a base - as both a structural and decorative element.

Fully illustrated step by step instructions give the complete method and demonstrate its versatility with two designs - a tall standing design and a low design.

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Festive Thinking - Christmas Crescent

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Curving lines can bring a sense of grace and elegance to a design - an especially welcome quality in festive compositions. Creating designs using organic sickle shapes naturally introduces curving elements. Their crafted forms and fluid lines add impact and interest without overwhelming the flowers. Using metallic wire to bind the sickles offers a subtle glistening element that makes the final arrangement fit easily into almost any Christmas context.

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Festive Thinking - Layered Luxury

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Long, thin rope-like sickle forms allow the creation of many variations of layered structures into which flowers can be displayed. Creating the sickles from materials like mulch and straw gives them a rustic personality - which can create strong and effective contrasts when used in combination with choice, round flowers and glistening forms like baubles. The earthy, textured backdrop can make the floral content feel more luxurious - perfect for the festive season.

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Interwoven Possibilities - Designing with Bamboo Mats

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Interwoven Possibilities guides you through the two distinct design examples made using widely available woven bamboo steaming mats, from conception to completion, while also being a study in the design principles and floristic methods encountered on the way.

The versatility of the design styles covered will have you soon adapting them to your own tastes, requirements and available materials.

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Reaching Above & Beyond, With the Wire Weaving Technique

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Explore the Wire Weaving Technique to create structures that can - quite literally - elevate your designs.

While other mechanics are often hidden, woven wire structures are usually a visible component of the finished composition. Used to physically elevate designs, experiment with balance, give flexibility to flower placements and impart a floating feeling, the is especially useful in downwardly directed designs.

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Designing to Win: Floral Competition Essentials

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Gleaned from over 25 years competing, this is Mark's essential guide to maximising your success in floral design competitions. Suitable for anyone who wants to improve their competing game or give themselves a refresher, or for those who want to know more about the competition process.

Covers a broad range of aspects of competing, including research competitions, analysing the schedule, understanding the marking criteria, designing, planning and preparing for competitions and reviewing your competition successes and learnings.

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Designing to Win: Applied Interpretation: Uncommon Threads

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Applied Interpretation: Uncommon Threads is a guide to theme interpretation, in this edition fully working through a theme titled Uncommon Threads. a fully worked example of Mark’s method of approaching competition schedule interpretation. Using an example a theme titled Uncommon Threads, it shows you how to analyse a theme and find design solutions that answer the schedule and marking criteria.

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Designing to Win: Applied Interpretation: Glass & Grass

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This edition of Applied Interpretation is a fully worked example of Mark’s method of approaching competition schedule interpretation, working through the example competition theme of Glass & Grass. it shows you how to analyse a theme and find design solutions that answer the schedule and marking criteria.

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Designing to Win: Competition Learnings: Uncommon Threads

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Competition Learnings: Uncommon Threads presents the journey of eighteen designers as they interpret a competition theme Uncommon Threads, twice, with the benefit of feedback and coaching from Master Florist and World Champion Mark Pampling.

Available, with companion videos and eBooks as part of the Designing to Win package.

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Designing to Win: Competition Learnings: Glass & Grass

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The Glass & Grass edition of Competition Learnings displays the work of a group of designers interpret a competition theme Glass & Grass, twice, with the benefit of feedback and coaching from Master Florist and World Champion Mark Pampling.

Soon to be re-released as part of the Competition Learnings Package.

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A Lesson in Leaning

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A Lesson in Leaning explores the concept of organising materials around an angled axis, and covers two design variations in the featured style.

Contains commentary on the technical and theoretical information required to make your own version, illustrated with images and sketches that further explain how the designs were constructed.

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Five Ways to Add Impact to Your Floral Designs

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Five Ways to Add Impact to Your Floral Designs is a beautifully illustrated 18-page guide, by master florist Mark Pampling, offering five distinct ways to add impact to your floral designs, through Balance, Proportion, Elevation, Tension and Line.

Why settle for subtle beauty when you can create designs that create an immediate impact and have a lasting impression?

Amplify the impact of your designs with these five tips.

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Festive Thinking - Shooting Star

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A step by step guide to creating a versatile, freestanding bound composition, inspired by the festive symbol of the star.

Covers techniques required and advises on placing the flowers and materials within a base structure. Technical aspects of the construction are also documented via a comprehensive array of clear images.

The various techniques covered include binding and wrapping, and creating a transparent star from wire and raffia.

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Festive Thinking - Star Up High

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A step by step guide to creating a tall, self-supporting floral design on a simple wire structure.

Includes detailed information on techniques and on placement of flowers and materials within the composition. Technical aspects are documented via an array of clear images.

The various techniques covered include binding and wrapping and creating a star from with cardboard and raffia. The fresh floral materials are arranged directly into water - no floral foam required

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  • Floral Artist

    Always learning so much from you Mark and looking forward to more .

  • Greer

    These designs blow my mind! I'd love to know more about the mechanics to be able to replicate them. I absolutely love the 'light footprint' design thinking. Thank you for stretching my creativity.

  • Maureen

    Well above my standard of work . Great to receive read & learn from. Thank you so much for the time & work putting it all together have taken paper copies so I can refer to it many times.

  • June, Brisbane

    All the ebooks are very informative & convenient allowing me to read in my free time. They are helpful also in preparation for our upcoming convention in July which I hope to enter. Looking forward to seeing you at your workshops. Thank you for your time & effort putting together this education programme online.

  • Deidre, NSW

    It was a great way to keep up with the latest designs without having to travel.

  • June, Queensland

    The information was presented in a concise manner and the accompanied photos was very helpful as visual examples. A very professional presentation. As someone who wants to learn, but is only doing Floral Art as a hobby, I found the information useful and the cost affordable.