Picture Frames with Shells

It has been a while since our last craft. In fact we were at the beach enjoying the sun, the Mediterranean, and the delicious seafood :) I came back with lots of shells too. I wanted to use them in decorating a big picture frame but then I had a better idea! Why not make more than one smaller frames!

I started with a milk paper carton. It is silver and smooth from the inside. Do not forget to wash  the milk cartoon and dry it well before using it.

Then I cut three squares from the milk cartoon (front) and another three squares (back) from normal cartoon to back it with. The square is larger than a 4X6 picture.

In two of the three squares, I glued the front and back together and used a silver tape to hide the edges and make a nice frame.

In the third square I opened a window to insert the picture, before gluing the back square. This is my sister OliveOil when she was 5 years old :)

Then I decorated the frame with some stars and shells at the corners. I attached them with the glue gun because the milk cartoon silver surface is so soft.

In another project I used some colorful paper for the front and back instead of the silver paper. In this case, I cut rectangular shapes.

Then I started making up designs with shells to decorate my frames.

At last, I joined the frames together with some chains and put a longer chain at the top for hanging the final piece.

A friend's birthday was the following week, so I used her picture in one frame and decorated the other two colorful frames with shells and wrote her "Happy Birthday!" with a silver pen.

Enjoy!