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Supplies needed: - Any round glass jar or container with a wide opening - macrame cording - rope or thick yarn - large seashells - natural raffia - hot glue gun     Instructions below.   Crafts for Summer and All Seasons Maritime Seashell Votive Are you planning a summer outdoor party in a maritime theme and need quick, easy and inexpensive table decorations? One idea would be to create this votive candle glass out of a recycled glass and a couple of collected seashells. The look is kept natural with the soft beige tones and this craft project takes around 15 minutes to make.  Click Here to Find All Summer Basic Craft Projects >   Seashell Votive   Instructions: 1. Start by heating up your hot glue gun. 2. Draw a line with the hot glue along the rim of the glass and immediately press the cording onto the line. 3. Continue adding lines of hot glue and pressing cording onto the line. You do not have to constantly add glue but a regular intervals. 4. Continue wrapping the cording around until you reach the bottom of the glass. 5. Cut the end off and add a dot of glue and press the end on it to secure it. 6. Add some hot glue to the front of the glass on the cording. Press 3 seashells together in a clover leaf form onto the still hot glue and press until the glue is cooled. You may choose to add more seashells around the glass or leave it with just one cluster. 7. Wrap 2 pieces of natural raffia around the glass and tie them off in a bow. Cut the ends off that are too long. All patterns, pictures and text found on Craftideas.info are property of the owners of this website and may be only printed out and used for private or non-commercial purposes. It is not permitted to use them on the internet or in any other publication. Create easy craft projects for spring and Easter >>> Here you will find quick and easy decorations using different techniques to help you embellish your home in the spring.  Create more fun craft projects for spring and Easter >>> With so many spring holidays, there are plenty of reasons to craft. Create fresh, colorful and new decorative items for your home this season. Fun crafts for summer and all occasions >>> You can try painting easy acrylic pictures to decorate your home, creating treasures out of seashells collected from summer vacation or learn to make beaded bracelets. These projects along with many more will keep you crafting all year long. Recipe Booklet More summer and all occasion crafts >>> Learn how to make a summer wreath for your door and find more seashell crafts. Learn to alter and recycle items in your home into new treasures. Have fun with these and many other projects found in this section. More basic autumn and Halloween crafts >>> Find here crafts for the season using all sorts of materials. Would you like to create a wreath using potpourri or maybe you are interested in embossing metal figures for plant pokes. These are just a couple of examples of what this section has to offer. Find more basic Christmas crafts >>> Learn to make snowcrystals out of yarn, or create a Christmas tree lights garland. These are just a few of the craft ideas you will find in this section. Find more easy to make Christmas craft projects >>> Here you will find creative crafts for the holidays. Maybe you would like to make a clay pot Santa Claus, a gingerbread man out of cork or cute kids using chenille? These and many other quick crafts can be found here.