Skill Level
Beginner
Time to Make
1 hour
Top Tip
Gluing scrunched up tissue paper inside shells increases the surface area, making them easier to glue onto the backgrounds.
How to Make
- Open out a keepsake box and carefully cut it down the middle of the spine to make 2 sections; one half with a shallow box and the other with a deeper box.
- Paint the 2 sections with poster paint using blue or green, or for different shades try mixing colours together. Leave to dry.
- Depending on your design, it may be easier to separate the boxes from the backgrounds before painting or if you add hessian to the background.
- Glue back together when each piece is finished.
- Lightly brush white paint over the top of the boxes and backgrounds using a dry brush, then rub over the top with sandpaper to create a weathered look.
- For a printed texture, try pressing painted hessian onto the background.
- Glue strips of hessian, shells and small dried twigs into the box sections.
- To make a beach scene, paste blue tissue paper inside the box for the sky and sea.
- Cut some wooden craft sticks to fit inside the box then glue in place with small pebbles, shells and twigs on top.
- Tie twine around the box section with a loop to hang the box.
- Fray the edges of the twine and hessian. Lightly brush the twigs with white paint.
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