Inspired by the beaches near her home, Shore Cliff reflects Christine's definitive collage style combining sketches of natural seaside elements with romantic textures from antique ephemera.

The Shore Cliff collection is sure to become a favorite! Perfect for creating charming cards, scrapbooking idyllic vacation memories by the sea, or decorating journals and altered books, these rubber stamp images offer a natural accent and fresh versatility.

Seek
by Lori Brofsky

Using sequin waste as a stencil, stipple white paint onto a blue card to create the dot background. Stamp Nautilus Shell from Shore Cliff Cube (C8448) with white acrylic paint on a kraft panel. Lightly sand a coin holder and stipple with light blue, rose and ochre inks. Attach coin holder to the stamped panel. Add a tab sticker to the top right corner, as shown. Stamp mesh border from Shore Cliff Trim (C8447) with teal ink on a seek sticker. Attach sticker to tab on coin holder. Attach the coin holder to the lower right corner of the card. Wrap a piece of gauze around the fold and tie into a knot. Fray the ends. Attach a large fishing lure onto the knotted portion and hang a smaller lure from the large one. Stamp Starfish from Shore Cliff Trim (C8447) with Timber Brown StazOn Ink (5TS-BROWN) on a gold metal tag and heat set with a heat gun. Dip into clear embossing powder and reheat. Repeat this several times. Hang the stamped tag from the small lure using a gold jump ring. Computer-generate the words and you shall find and cut into a small tag shape. Stamp Mesh Border from Shore Cliff Trim (C8447) with rose ink and lightly rub tag with ochre ink. Edge tag with black ink and hang from large lure using a gold jump ring.

Shell Bright
by Cheryl Husmann

Stamp Postal Shell (C8441) with Jet Black StazOn Ink Pad (5TS BLACK) on a white matte coat panel. Highlight and color selected areas of the shell image with waterproof art pens. Rub yellow, Pumpkin (5TS-SZ92), Olive Green (5TS-GREEN) and Ultramarine Blue (5TS-SZ61) StazOn Inks onto the background using sponges. Rub entire image with another application of yellow StazOn ink. Attach the panel to an orange panel. Repeatedly stamp Mesh Border from Shore Cliff Trim (C8447) on hot pink and orange panels with Ultramarine Blue StazOn Ink. Attach the orange panel to the stamped orange panel. Attach a large square of turquoise mesh on the diagonal to the back, fold the corners back and punch two small holes on each side of the panel. Lace four fibers through the holes and tie in front, as shown. Layer the prepared panel with an orange panel to the pink panel. Attach the pink panel to a top-folded turquoise card.

Little Boy Blue
by Lori Brofsky

Using a dry brush, add green and blue inks onto the front panel of an index card tabbed divider. Lightly spritz the divider with water and dry with a paper towel. Make a black and white Xerox copy of a vintage photograph. Lay the image face down onto the divider and color the back of the image with a Chartpak Colorless Blender pen, which contains Xylene. Work in small sections and burnish the image as you go. Be careful not to move the image as you burnish and be sure to do this in a well-ventilated area. Stamp Starfish Border from Shore Cliff Trim (C8447) with blue ink along the bottom of the divider as shown. Stamp Mesh Border from Shore Cliff Trim (C8447) with white acrylic paint on a diagonal in the upper left side. Let dry and stamp the Mesh Border again with Aquamarine acrylic paint from Tropic Scrapbook Colors (5MA 23676). Fill a small glass vial with small shells. Attach the vial to the tab section of the divider using copper wire. Punch two 1/16" holes next to each other and wrap the wire around the vial and through the holes, as shown. Ink the edges of Little Boy Blue sticker with blue ink and adhere to top of card. Apply a little Diamond Glaze (5JK-DIAMOND2) to the sticker. Using rub-on words, apply misses you to the lower right corner of the divider, as shown. Attach the prepared panel to a manila index card divider.