Often after a trip to the sea, not only pleasant memories remain, but also a few sachets or boxes filled with seafood-shells and pebbles. What to do with all this wealth? Leave dust in the corner of the apartment, or make beautiful and unusual handmade crafts from shells?
What kind of crafts can you make from shells ?
Theoretically, with the help of seashells and multi-colored sea pebbles, you can decorate any crafts. For the creativity will come in handy and fragments of shells, and pieces of mother-of-pearl, and beads, similar to sea pearls. One of the simplest options for decorating the interior shells - the creation of a panel. To do this, you will need a base or frame, shells and glue. Transparent silicone glues are best suited. Carefully read the instructions for use and follow it. Adhesive of this type may be afraid of heating or exposure to moisture. Elements on the basis can be arranged in any order or lay out some kind of pattern. Some masters create unique plot pictures from such simple natural materials. If the shells you do not have too much, with their help in a similar technique, you can decorate the frame and put in it a photo of the vacation. The frame designed for this mirror will not look any worse.
Tightly cover with small seashells, you can also have vases, pots, caskets or other small interior items. If you have an electric drill and a small diameter drill, with one precise movement of the tool, you can turn the shell into a bead. What to do from such beads, your fantasy will tell. This and all kinds of necklaces, and other women's jewelry, trinkets from bundles of shells, pendants. Even with the help of such beads, you can decorate ready-made clothes and accessories.
What other crafts made of shells you can make with your own hands? If there are enough large and beautiful shells, you can try to collect from them animals, fairy-tale characters or ships. Large shells that have a small volume, or starfish will be an excellent decoration of the refrigerator - this will only need to glue the magnets.
If you plan to do handmade crafts from shells with your own hands, be sure to draw children to the creativity. Even preschoolers can independently collect from natural materials various figures, attaching them to plasticine. If after you finish making handmade crafts with your own hands, you will have extra material left - simply pour the shells and pebbles into a beautiful transparent vessel, and you will get an interesting and original souvenir.
How to make crafts from shells and stones?
To cover with varnish or not crafts from seashells is a matter of taste. Transparent varnish not only serves as additional protection, but also creates a wet effect. Suitable artistic varnish for painting and decoupage or usual for furniture. Some people prefer the natural matte surface of shells and stones. In this case, from the finish coat, you can refuse or search in the art salons special lacquer with a matte effect after drying.