Sea shell DIY Ideas

Sea is love, they drag me to them, I can sit for hours gazing at waves in admiration. They show us how powerful the nature is and how tiny we are. How each day life is as unique as each coming wave in the sea, some big some small, some powerful some week and yet like each wave, each day in our life is beautiful.

When on beach one of my favorite thing is to pick sea shells. I do it at every beach I visit and bring them home as reminiscence of that place. I am sure many of you also do the same.  But then once back home this bag full of sea shell gets dumped in some corner of your cupboard. However, there are few creative and effortless ways to used them in crafts that will make you create your own DIY souvenir.

Sharing 2 of them here which I did recently with the sea shells I picked from Kuta beach in Bali.

Sea Shell Photo frame

Either take a readymade photo frame which u can decorate with sea shells or make your own with cardboard. I am not explaining step by step process here, but it’s quite simple.

One need 2 pieces of cardboard of equal size. One will the base and one the front of the frame, so cut a hold in this one as per the size of the photo you planning to put in this.

Now glue these two pieces together on 3 sides, leaving one side open from where we can insert the picture.

You can either paint the frame and base and then decorate it with sea shells or you use sand in place of paint, like I did. This gives nice effect of beach, you know how sea shells look on sand 😊

To stick sand on the cardboard, used glue diluted with water, so that glue is evenly spread on the surface and then sprinkle the sand. Let it sit for few hours and once the sand is glued well then only proceed with sea shells decoration. One quick tip, use glue gun for sticking the sea shells, works best.

Add them in any pattern, many or few, up to you. Add other elements like peals, glitters etc. as you like. And finally put your best beach memory in this frame and keep reliving the moment again and again 😊

Well I am not missing out on the trickiest part, the stand. Cut a small but wide piece of the cardboard, fold it on ¾ of the length and paste the smaller portion on the back side of the base of the frame as I have done in the picture. And this will work well.

Sea Shell Magnets

This is an easy one. Use one big shell on many small ones stacked together up to you. Paint them, write your message and paste a magnet at its back and voila your DIY Sea shell fridge magnet is ready. And it is a great personalized souvenir which you can also gift to your friends and family.

I just added some colors and used a black marker and drew on them. And later pasted a magnet at back. And they look gorgeous on my fridge. As a keepsake memory of a beach I visited and something I made all by myself. Great feeling, and a conversation starter 😊

other then these I also used some of the seashells in this DIY bottle photo-frame. Tutorial here.

I hope I was able to give you some idea and motivation to takeout those shells you picked in your last beach vacation and bring to some use. You I made you itch to go on a beach vacation. Either way, be creative and use the weekend making something you will find happiness in…. Happy Sunday!!