Some time ago my Florida son gave me a bunch of sea shells. I haven't totally decided what to do with them but I've been tossing around some ideas. I want to make a SEA based necklace so follow along as I make it and probably make mistakes.
I started out with a plain white sea shell. I drilled a hole through the back for an attachment spot. Not sure I'm going to need it but wanted it there just in case.
After drilling the hole I lightly sanded the shell with fine sand paper so I would have a good surface for drawing. I didn't want this to be any old regular white sea shell. I cleaned it with glass cleaner then got out the colored pencils and started drawing.
Now the shell is covered with a blue background, red coral, green sea weed, a couple of star fish, sea horses and sea urchins.
Once that was all done I sprayed it with fixative and will let it dry until I can get back to the basement and back to work constructing the necklace. I have other shells to add and may add some metal charms as well as seed beads. I've got a few ideas. We'll see how it works.
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