Sea Glass Mosaic, Sea Glass Tiles.Sea Glass Mosaic Ideas - Projects and examples of what you can do with your own sea glass or beach glass.
Craft tiles done in a mosaic of sea glass, alone or in combination with seashells and beach rocks or other finds can created an beach atmosphere for your beach decor. Perhaps you have thought of a sea glass backsplash for your kitchen or bathroom counter. Or sea glass wall tiles. Here we will discuss a mosaic project using your sea or beach glass.
There are many possibilities for sea glass in mosaics.
Mosaic or tile project. This is a favorite of many sea glass collectors.
Here is a way to use your sea glass that is not too hard to make and can be adapted to different objects - from decorating the top of a table, to using in your garden, to hanging up in your window or on your wall.
Or by following instructions for setting small tiles, you could create your own special sea glass tile designs for a bathroom or kitchen splash guards or counter tops.
Why not use your beach glass to make a Mosaic Coffee Table? Here are several ways to do this:
One way to do a mosaic on a table is what you might call the standard mosaic, using grout and laying the sea glass as you would tile. This works quite well.
You can purchase a nice table ready to accept the grout that has a prepared surface and an edge or lip to match the height of the finished surface.
On the other hand, you might want to adapt an existing table yourself. Here is an excellent example submitted by one of our viewers.
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As shown in the photo, the edge of the table has been built up to match the height of the finished surface.
Another way to make a "mosaic" sea glass table top but that allows you to change and rearrange the patterns and pieces is by doing the following:
1. First find a used coffee table at a garage sale or thrift shop.
Look for one with a clear glass top. The idea is to arrange your glass beneath the glass top (you could add sand, sea shells, driftwood, etc).
2. There are two ways to work with this table to create a mosaic with your beach finds. This will depend to a certain extent on how the table is constructed.
If the glass top has a solid top/shelf under it, you could add spacers between that solid piece and the glass top to raise the glass sufficiently (about 1 to 1-1/2 inches if you are just using sea glass) to clear your beach glass mosaic materials.
If that will not work with your particular coffee table - for example, if the glass top has no solid base below it - you can add brackets to the insides of the legs to support a piece of plywood cut to size with enough room below the glass top to accommodate your sea glass mosaic materials.
3. Arrange your mosaic materials as you would like. The advantage to this type of a sea glass idea is that you can rearrange the design if you wish to at any time!
4. If you are satisfied with the way it looks and don't plan on rearranging or adding more, you might want to seal the areas between the glass and wood so that dust will not get in. Otherwise, dust will eventually get in, and you'll need to dust the arrangement every once in a long while.
I also know of a couple who are avid shark teeth collectors. They filled their coffee table with shark's teeth. The coffee table has a clear glass top as above but underneath is where they actually store their shark's teeth. When they get more teeth, they lift off the top of the table and throw more in. You could do the same thing with sea glass (gently though, not throw it!)
Another sea glass mosaic craft idea along the same lines would be to find a used coffee table with a wood top, lay your sea glass mosaic design down the way you want it, and then overlay it with clear resin. I have not done this myself. If you do opt to try this, just remember that the sea glass will change slightly in its transparency and frostiness because of being covered by the resin. LET US KNOW HOW IT TURNS OUT!
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