Quick and easy sea themed cards created for Chocolate Baroque

These quick and easy cards doubled up as TV shows samples for Lesley Wharton on The Craft Channel this week – using stamps from the Seashell Collage set.

Heather Tree Creative Designs by Anne Waller

Good morning. Today I am sharing 3 quick makes using Seashell Collage stamps from Chocolate Baroque.

I must got down to the sea

A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner

These first two were stamped onto the same background paper created by randomly spritzing an A4 sheet with blue, red and gold mica sprays.

Seagulls in Italy

My third project was stamped onto a patterned paper from Crafty Individuals.

Materials:

• Seashell Collage and Words of Inspiration stamp sets
• A4 sheet of thick cartridge or watercolour card, 11 X 14cm cream card blank, 15cm square card blank in cream and white, cream stamping card, Crafty Individuals 6X6 inch backing paper (Travels in Italy)
• Inkpads: Archival (Coffee), Versamark, Versafine (Onyx Black),Distress Ink (Antique Linen)
• Mr Huey’s Ink spritzers (blue/grey, red, gold with mica)
• Alcohol marker (black), fine tipped marker (brown, black)
• Polychromos pencils (brown, grey, white, black, red, orange)

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3D Boat Collage–Using Chocolate Baroque Seashell Collage Stamps

Lesley Wharton from Chocolate Baroque has shows with the sea themed stamps this week – great demos and samples from the Design Team.

I created the boat project about a year ago as part of my Design Team application to Chocolate Baroque.

I adapted elements from this design to make a card for the TV shows.

 

Heather Tree Creative Designs by Anne Waller

I made this fun project as a birthday ‘card’ for a male friend of mine. I love the poem and this set of stamps from Chocolate Baroque.

Materials Used

• Template from Dreamies CD – Something to Treasure.
• A4 Kraft card – 4 sheets to make the boat.
• White stamping card, scrap papers and old dictionary (to make Tide book).
• Piece of string made into a rope, 3 pearls, bit of old chain, old vegetable net bag.
• Small rectangular dies and tag die (Heartfelt Creations – Cut, Mat, Create and Luggage sets), Seaweed die (Create and Craft Couture – Sea Siren set) coloured with alcohol marker (Spectrum Noir JG6). These could be substituted with similar dies or punches.
• Distress inks (Ranger) – Vintage Photo, Old Paper, Tattered Rose, Mustard Seed, Pumice Stone, Broken China and Stormy Sea.
• Archival Dye based ink – dark brown – for stamping the images.
• Fine red…

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