Custom Search      Home Spring & Easter Crafts Summer Crafts  Autumn Crafts Christmas & Winter Crafts  Paper Crafts  Wood Crafts  General Crafts  Kids Crafts  Fabric & Sewing Crafts  Greeting & Birthday Cards  Craft Patterns  Craft Tutorials 1   Craft Tutorials 2  Jewelry Crafts  Craft Recipes  Felt Crafts  Paper Craft Tips  Tags  ATC  Kids Rainy Day Crafts  Recycling Crafts Newsletter  Picture Gallery   Contact  Sitemap  Links   Summer Crafts - Wood Crafts - Seahorse, Seaweed and Seashell Wall Decoration The ocean is full of fascinating plants and animals that can be used as inspiration to create wooden items for your home. Not only are there fish to be found under the sea. One can also find great motifs such as seahorses, seaweed and seashells. This decoration can be hung either on the wall, hung freely in a room like a mobile or hung in a window. If creating it as a mobile or for a window, paint both sides so that it looks good from any perspective.   Copyright: All patterns, pictures and text found on Craftideas.info are property 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. For this project you will need: - Pattern below - 4 or 6 mm plywood - sandpaper - acrylic paints in medium green, dark   green, white, beige and dark brown - various round and flat paint brushes - pencil - clear acrylic sealer - drill with 1.5 mm bit - very thin wire   Instructions: 1. Print your pattern out and transfer the outer markings onto to the plywood. Cut the figures out accordingly and sand them if necessary. 2. Base coat the seahorse and seashell in beige on both sides and basecoat the seaweed in medium green on both sides. Let everything dry before continuing. 3. Transfer the inner markings now lightly on the seashell and seahorse with the pencil and drybrush these markings with dark brown and also along the outer edges. 4. Thin the dark green paint with water and brush on the seaweed. Let it dry. 5. Drybrush the outer edges of the seaweed with white. Try to lightly drybrush inner areas with white as well to give it more depth. 6. Drill holes in the tops of the seahorse and seashell and in the 2 bottom leaves of the seaweed. Attach the pieces together using the wire. 7. Find the center point of the seaweed and drill a hole at that point. Insert a wire to be used for hanging. Free Craft Patterns or Templates:  Seahorse   Seaweed   Seashell More Summer Craft Themes Summer Crafts for Kids Summer Fabric Crafts Summer Wood Crafts Summer General Crafts All Occasion Greeting Cards and Birthday Cards Summer Paper Crafts Maritime Crafts 4th of July Crafts Next Craft >>> Bird on a Perch Wood Crafts Sailor Boy Wooden Country Birdhouses Wooden Flower Chain Bird on a Perch Decoration Easy Wooden Flowers Patriotic Welcome Sign Scrollsaw Fish     Custom Search

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