Shellcraft CD Hanger Number 2

Another in my series, well it will become a series as time goes on, of seashell arts and crafts hangers which use unwanted compact discs as the canvas.

This seashell craft is designed in patterns of circles on both sides of the compact disk and has a fish line hanger of about a foot or so in length.

Each side features 4 circles designed with seashells, faux pearls, and rhinestones. Each circle consists of 5 items placed more or less an equal distance apart. The two outermost circles consist of seashells – one circle of flats and one circle of rounds.

Inside the circles of seashells is the circle of faux pearls, and then a circle of rhinestones. In the center, and covering up the compact disc center hole, is a larger seashell that has both color and texture. All these items sit on bed of beach sand.


One side of this artwork features a mottled brown seashell as the center point. Surrounding the shell are purple rhinestones.









The other side of this compact disc hanger features a black seashell with some white strips as the focal point of the design. Surrounding this central shell are blue rhinestones.






Courtesy of Shellcrafter (Angelo R.) and Shellcraft Guides

Shellcrafts Seashells CD Hanger with Pearls and Rhinestones

I was sitting at my craft table recently trying do decide which seashells craft to start. I found myself staring at this CD I had received in the mail. Not something I ordered just something someone else decided I should have.

I was trying to decide what I should do with it. I could just throw it out and add it to the local landfill. I could just keep it for a while longer, stashed on one of my shells.

So I thought about this for a while and “POP” an idea surfaced. Why not use it as canvas for my arts and crafts? There and then I started my next project – a hanger designed with seashells, pearls, and rhinestones.

This hanger has seashells in a upside-down "Y" pattern plus seashells that curl up and through the adjacent shells, rhinestones, and pearls. Two seashells set to either side of a larger faux pearl form the "V" of the "Y."

A couple of more seashells form the single leg of the upside-down “Y” pattern. Seashells are placed to either side of the Y and are in turn braced by yellow rhinestones. Two smaller pearls are at the top of the design just under the top seashell.

The other side of the hanger has a very similar design, as close as I could get it to the first side. Check out the photos and you will see that although they are similar in layout there are differences in the seashells.


The finished craft hanging from a ceiling hook. It is slowly spinning in the small breeze created by the air conditioner.

Courtesy of Shellcrafter (Angelo R.) and Shellcraft Guides