How To Make Beach Glass Window Art

Create some funky body of water glass art with sea glass and pebbles nerveless from the beach. A unique slice of art thats simple to make and set up to hang!

Bounding main Glass Art Inspired by a Trip to the Eastward Declension

We visited the eastern coast of Canada this summer and it was literally a dream come true! I love the declension AND I'm a huge nerdy Anne Of Green Gables fan so it'due south ever been a childhood dream of mine to explore the gorgeous island of PEI, Canada. This vacation besides inspired some ocean drinking glass fine art – the footstep by stride tutorial is beneath!

On the last 24-hour interval and final beach of our vacation – we were exploring the shoreline in the town of Souris- a embankment known for bounding main drinking glass.

It was low tide and we were literally walking on the sea floor- so cool by the mode! Nosotros spotted some bounding main creatures like crabs, clam shells and multiple jellyfish waiting for the sea to come back.

Later walking along the unabridged embankment, I spotted a local family that were digging for soft vanquish clams, for a yummy traditional east coast mollusk meal.

We stopped and chatted with them. They even gave us a quick demo on how to find and dig out clams, which is now on my bucket list!

We told them we were looking for some sea drinking glass and they gave us a tip to await along a pebbled path on the shore, which is where sea glass usually washes upward.

It was the perfect tip! Within a couple minutes my husband yells "establish one!". It was a gorgeous amethyst colored piece. Reminded me of the amethyst brooch in Anne of Green Gables (told y'all I'm a AOGG geek!) 🙂

Nosotros ended up finding a couple more pieces earlier it started raining, then we called it a day.

This girl got her body of water jewels at the end of a east coast dream vacation….couldn't have asked for more!

After nosotros returned home, I wanted to create something that reminded united states of our vacation while incorporating my small body of water glass collection.

What is Body of water drinking glass and where can yous find it?

I didn't know what bounding main glass was until I saw some pretty neat art on Pinterest. I was intrigued and wanted to know more than.

Hither's what I learned.

Sea drinking glass is the issue of cleaved pieces of jars, glass and ceramics being tumbled for years in the ocean. Cool eh? So basically the ocean naturally recycles these sharp glass pieces, and gorgeous ocean jewels are left behind. Astonishing mother nature!

Information technology takes on average 30 years for the precipitous pieces of glass to get their naturally frosted and soft edges.

Ocean drinking glass is traditionally used in DIY jewellery, just a recent trend has been to contain it into art pieces. You lot can find a bunch of cute pieces on Pinterest and even Etsy!

Where to find sea glass?

Sea glass and embankment drinking glass can exist found on many littoral shores, and fifty-fifty on the shores of the Great Lakes.

Here's some crawly tips on how to spot sea glass. They were given by some sea glass experts. And I totally hold with looking on a pebbled beach, versus sandy, that'southward what worked for the states!

Can yous Buy Sea Glass?

Y'all can purchase sea glass online online on amazon and Etsy. But there are a couple of things to sentry out for.

If you are looking for the authentic body of water glass (I.e. made by lakes or oceans), make certain you read the clarification very carefully. There are many people selling "at home tumbled" sea drinking glass pieces, which are ofttimes cheaper in cost.

I personally haven't bought whatever online, just from the reviews the "at home tumbled" variety can be a hitting or miss.

If you're looking for authentic ocean glass, Etsy is a groovy identify where you'll find many people who accept collected them from beaches and are willing to sell them.

But they are more than expensive.

If you do choose to purchase online, brand sure yous ask the seller before you buy- if the sea glass come from the beach/sea or has been made by a tumbler car (at domicile).

How do y'all Glue Embankment Glass?

There are a couple of glue'south you lot tin can use to stick bounding main glass to card stock, sheet, wood, etc. Some experienced sea drinking glass artists use E6000 glue (merely make sure you wear gloves when using this stuff), since its an industrially strong mucilage.

I wanted to use something a little safer (since I often craft with my kids). I institute that Aleene's Tacky Glue worked perfectly with my Bounding main Glass art.

I've had my ocean glass art hanging up on my wall for about a year without a trouble!

Now, that your up to speed on all-things sea glass- allow's move on to the tutorial!

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Tutorial

Materials:

ane. Sea glass
two. Pebbles
3. Tacky Glue
four. White card stock
5. Shadow Box Frame. I bought the square Ribba Frame from IKEA. If y'all store online I found this one which is similar and got expert reviews.

Step by Footstep

ane. Cut your carte stock to the size of the frame. You lot tin use the frames backing piece as a template.

2. Gum the card stock to the backing with the tacky Glue.

3. Place your sea drinking glass and pebbles on the carte stock in the design you want. Do NOT use glue in this pace. This step is to program out where everything goes, before gluing.

iv. Once you're happy with your design start gluing your drinking glass/pebbles 1 by one, until you're done. The tacky mucilage takes a couple minutes to dry, so you lot tin can readjust your pieces within that time.

five. Once completely dried, attach the frame back and your unique body of water glass art is consummate! I ended up cartoon some seagulls with a black Sharpie, and I added in a couple of tiny sea shells from our vacation.

And there you go, a fun way to create an art piece with some sea glass!

In add-on to the sea glass lighthouse I ended upward making a DIY sea drinking glass flower, which I gifted to my nephew later he nerveless a bunch of seaglass and seashells from a day at the lake.

Here information technology is…