Crafts made of seashells. With our own hands we make Christmas decorations and gifts to relatives and friends
Sea and river seashells are one of the mostcomfortable and beautiful natural materials. They are all kinds of crafts - chic paintings, panels, original jewelry, a variety of decor elements, photo frames and even charming Christmas toys. Shells can be interesting to decorate caskets, flower pots, candles. Making any craft from the shell with your own hands will bring you great pleasure, as well as will please your children, adoring creative, interesting joint pastime. In this article we will share with you the technology of making cute souvenirs and Christmas tree decorations - Christmas angels.
Lovely Christmas angels - crafts from sea shells
To create beautiful Christmas decorations for youthe following materials will be needed: several large and small shells (pearl mussels), gold-colored beads, large artificial pearls (or simply beads), fishing line, ribbon or decorative cord, and hotmelt glues. In the event that the shells have a dark color, you must first apply a white, gently pink or blue acrylic paint on them.
The first stage of work on the implementation of crafts fromThe seashells with their own hands consists in making the head of a Christmas angel. We take a fishing line and thread on it a gold bead (5 pcs.), Then we close the ring - it's a halo. Next, we pass the decorative cord (tape) into the bead and form a loop (for it you can hang the toy on spruce). Around the cord - on top of the beads - we glue the halo. Now we start to make a trunk: glue a big shell with a narrowed side to the bead. It remains only to make wings: we take small shells and glue them on the sides of the body. Tip: if you do not have small seashells, they can be replaced with tulle, organza or other material. Everything, your charming Christmas tree toy - a Christmas angel - is ready! If desired, you can decorate it - for example, attach a bright satin bow on the angel's neck or cover the figure with varnish and sparkles.
Crafts made of seashells. With our own hands, we will make the original photo frame
- The usual strict frame for photographs, without decorations and all sorts of decor elements;
- glue;
- acrylic paints, varnish, gouache;
- various seashells;
- beads, beads.
Technology of making crafts made of shellsis elementary. It is necessary to take a photo frame and paste on it in any order beautiful sea shells. You can also decorate the product with beads and beads. Be creative and decorate the frame as you like. If desired, you can add to the seashells and sea inhabitants from the salted dough - a starfish, a fish, an octopus. At the end of the work you can cover the decor with acrylic paints and varnish, which gives a special shine and significantly prolongs the life of the product. In addition to photo frames, you can also make a gift to your native panels and pictures. As you can see, easily and quickly, using a minimum of materials, you can make interesting crafts from seashells.
Crafts made of shells with their own hands: butterflies for interior decoration
If you want to transform and decorate your home,make of sea and river shells of butterflies. For work, we need shells of Donax (2 pieces of medium size), mussel shells (1 pc.) And zebrins (1 pc.), Gouache of red and black colors, glue, brush and varnish. The butterfly's body is made from a large shell of mussels and sebri shells, gluing them together. On the sides of the insect body, glue identical shells of donax (it is desirable that they are white). On the muzzle draw a black gouache of the eye and glue two antennae (they can be made of wire or bristle). After drying, the product is varnished.
