Greeting cards
(4 PICTURES)… Sea shell designs with background pictures of sunsets, sunrises and beaches, make beautiful cards for use at Christmas time, birthdays or holiday souvenirs.
Month: February 2015
Shell Art booklet
(2 PICTURES)… I have created many different pictures with shells and decided to place them into a booklet with a brief index of shells from the region and called it […]
Golden treasure
(2 PICTURES)… Shells can be converted to jewellery, ornaments and lovely shiny displays. I added gold and clear varnish to these shells, to restore or enhance the luster and amazing, […]
Mermaid
(4 PICTURES)… Little flat bivalve shells look like scales, perfect for creating fish and mermaids. Moon shells are ideal for eyes and they are also known as “shark eye” or […]
Golden flowers
I added a touch of gold to these treasures, producing gem quality.The golden stalk in this picture is actually a fascinating shell, called a worm shell.
The beach
(3 PICTURES)… Mussel shells have the perfect shape for palm fronds, curving to the left or to the right. I constructed the beach cottage with the half tubes of straight […]
Wine glass
I find many broken shells on the beach and they are still colourful and beautiful. I decided to make a mosaic pattern of shells and it ended up looking like […]
Little Asian girl
I created a little Asian girl with pony tails, blowing bubbles in the garden. A single moon shell was perfect for the face, showing her left eye. I am still […]
Floral displays
(2 PICTURES)… I used bits of coral for the flower stems and a spectacular mix of shells for the flower heads, creating colour themes of pink/purple and pink/orange.
Fields of flowers
(2 PICTURES)… Once again, I used varieties of patterns and colour shades within the same group of shells, to create beautiful flower petals. One picture shows perfect mirror images of […]
Flowers
(2 PICTURES)… There are many interesting patterns in the bivalve shell category, ideal for use as flower petals. Broken shells are perfect for the stems.
Emu
The emu is one of my first shell art creations. I used limpet shells for the bulk of the body.