When you do not know what to give your beloved girlfriend or friend, call your imagination and your skillful hands for help.
And also get out your treasured box in which you keep the treasures of the needlewoman. What is there just not? And even there are seashells that were brought back from vacation in the summer. Enough for them to be bored with nothing. It's time to give them new life. We will make a panel of shells as a gift.
It is necessary
- - a piece of calico or chintz
- -painting on fabric
- -brushes
- -salt
- -shells
- -decorative elements
- -glue gun
- -frame
- -stretcher
- -buttons
- - thick cardboard
Instructions
Step 1
Our gift should be beautiful. First, let's prepare the background for the future panel. Attach a fabric to a stretcher and dampen it. Take blue, cyan, green and turquoise paints. Using random strokes, apply it to the fabric. Spreading over the fabric, the paints will form a bizarre pattern that resembles sea waves. To enhance it, sprinkle some salt in different parts of the background. After the fabric is dry, you need to iron it. Then, using PVA glue, the fabric can be glued directly onto the cardboard or, by folding the edges, on the back of the cardboard. The background is ready. A panel as a gift is a good idea, it will remind you of the sea both in winter and in summer.
Step 2
Now let's move on to the main part of the work. To create a panel, we will take shells of different sizes. First, we choose a place for the future composition and place the largest shells. Then we take the medium and smallest shells and place them around the large ones. After that we add different decorative elements: beads, pebbles, rhinestones. Add. movement with decorative wire. Or maybe there is something else in your box - feel free to get it to work. Everything is useful to create a panel from shells. If you are satisfied with the panel you created, feel free to stick the shells and decor, insert into the frame and the gift is ready.
Step 3
The wooden frame can be painted with acrylic paints to match the color of your work. To do this, cover it with white primer, and then apply paint. It is most convenient to work with a sponge. So the paint will lay in an even layer without streaks and smudges. By mixing paints on a palette, you can achieve amazing results.
