{"id":21333,"date":"2014-11-25T08:13:05","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T13:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=21333"},"modified":"2018-11-27T21:09:47","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T02:09:47","slug":"how-to-use-seashells-for-gift-tags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/25\/how-to-use-seashells-for-gift-tags\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Use Seashells For Gift Tags"},"content":{"rendered":"

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With Thanksgiving and the holidays\u00a0upon us, I’m getting excited about get-togethers with friends and family to celebrate the season of giving. But since I’m not a good cook, this means I also start to panic thinking about “what to bring” as a hostess gift – especially on Thanksgiving weekend. Hmmmm…. Bingo! What better “thought” from the Rambos (or any other beach comber) would be to give a gift of shells as a thank you? Doesn’t everybody love shells? My fave part of the whole gift is the packaging so\u00a0I’ll show you how I easily I made a beautiful coastal package without drilling any holes in any of the shells.\u00a0I’m tickled with my fall-ish colors I used to wrap up this small package\u00a0tying seashells as a gift tag and adding beach bling to add\u00a0that flavor of a coastal feel.<\/p>\n

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I got this idea from Alyson E. on iLoveShelling Facebook page<\/strong><\/a> last year after she saw my post about hundreds of DOSINIAS at Lighthouse beach. She showed a picture of the gift tags, earnings and ornaments she and her daughter make out of them- brilliant. I’ve been collecting them ever since for shell necklaces<\/strong> <\/a>and gift tags of my own but if you’ve been on the Sanibel beaches in the last month, you’ve seen lots of DOSINIAS again.<\/p>\n

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Yes, they are just white CLAM shells but I can’t help but pick them up…. just in time for the holidays.<\/p>\n

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I choose the shells that have the pre-drilled holes in them to bring home. (You don’t know why the holes are in these shells? Check out my post What Makes The Different Holes In Seashells<\/a>\u00a0–<\/strong> its fascinating!)<\/p>\n

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After the shells have been rinsed and dried, write your note with a magic marker inside the shell.<\/p>\n

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You can use twine, raffia or any other thin string to thread through the hole in the tip of the shell.<\/p>\n

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I added a beautiful yellow “harvest”\u00a0SEA WHIP to brown craft paper to start the fall color theme but couldn’t help myself… I had to add something aqua. I just had to so I added aqua raffia as a base to hold everything together then twisted a WORMIE in through the knot of the DOSINIA shell. For this package, I found a similar size DOSINIA to put a cover on the gift tag. I don’t know, I just thought it looked so cute- like a little secret you have to peek inside to see what’s there.<\/p>\n

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To finish the look, I added an OLIVE shell with the tip missing like I use in making the OLIVE string bracelets<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and then tied on a SAND DOLLAR- easy peazy since there are lots of holes to choose from- heehee. \u00a0Lastly I added a wider ribbon to hide all the knots in the raffia. It’s done! I didn’t have to cook a darn thing and my friend will have something to keep after the holiday is over.<\/p>\n

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Wondering what my “thought” is inside the beautiful package? My friend loves pink so I put one of my photographs with pink hues on an easel along with more beach bling. I think it will make a pretty little vignette somewhere in her house or office. I hope she likes it!<\/p>\n

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I’m very thankful I can\u00a0share this love of shelling with you and I also\u00a0hope this will give you an idea or two of how you can use some of those shells you’ve collected over the years.<\/p>\n

Or… if you want more ideas of how to find different shells, join me on one of my iLoveShelling Shelling Adventures<\/strong><\/a>! CLICK HERE<\/strong> <\/a>for more info.<\/p>\n

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With Thanksgiving and the holidays\u00a0upon us, I’m getting excited about get-togethers with friends and family to celebrate the season of giving. But since I’m not a good cook, this means I also start to panic thinking about “what to bring” as a hostess gift – especially on Thanksgiving weekend. Hmmmm…. Bingo! What better “thought” from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2039,1860,1041,2035,215],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-decorate-with-shells","category-disk-dosinia-dosinia","category-dosinia","category-shell-art","category-shell-crafts","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Using-seashells-for-gift-tags-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Nubb-5y5","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21333"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28788,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21333\/revisions\/28788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}