I Must Down to The Seas Again...

I grew up near the sea and sometimes I have an overwhelming urge to see it, to smell the air, to hear the seagulls or the wind in the masts of the sloops and ketches and to feel the pebbles under my feet (or my bottom!). I couldn't resist the stamp set from Chocolate Baroque with part of the "Sea Fever" poem, it speaks of the same urge.

"I Must Down to the Seas Again..."

 

The background is made by swooshing card into various distress inks on a non-stick craft sheet to get the effect of sunlight on water. I stamped the verse from the poem using jet black archival ink and heat-embossed in clear to help it stand out. The embossing gives the text a shiny effect which also looks wet so goes with the theme. The frame is cut from a Graphics Fairy graphic and the aperture filled with acetate, then the frame is stuck over the poem and embellishments with foam tape to raise it up. This allows for some fairly bulky embellishments to be placed beneath the acetate, and you can also turn it into a shaker card by throwing in a few seed beads before sealing the tape.

 

"Close-up"

 

I do like those funky-looking fish on the vintage image!
 

Sea-Fever

I  must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,

And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by,
And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking,
And a grey mist on the sea's face and a grey dawn breaking.

I must down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide

Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;
And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,
And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.

I must down to the seas again to the vagrant gypsy life.

To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife;
And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover,
And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over.

John Masefield 1878 - 1967 from "Salt Water Poems and Ballads"

Ingredients:

Chocolate Baroque stamp set: Seashore collection

free image from the Graphics Fairy

Seashore embellishments from Craftime

seedbeads

distress inks

archival ink: jet black

Stampendous embossing powder, clear detail

cardstock: white 300gsm

clear acetate

adhesives: foam tape, pinflair

Entered for the following challenge:

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