At the beach

I've created a spread in my experimental altered book for Moo Mania and More's latest theme which is the beach.  I had planned to join Julia for WOYWW this week, but I learned I'm having company in the morning and must be up by 6:00 am.  That's when I normally go to bed on Wednesday, so I have to bow out this week since life got in the way of internet visits.  Instead of showing my workspace, I found time to create a beach spread.

For my beach scene, I first painted most of my page with blue paint, then placed white tissue paper over the top.  While still wet, I added more paint over the top, which I hoped created the waves and foam I was looking for.

You might be able to tell I tried to stamp the shells on the sandpaper, but that didn't work out too well.  So of course, I had to stamp them on cream colored card stock and fussy cut each one.

After I assembled the beach scene, I cut off the excess sandpaper that extended on both sides.  In hindsight, I wish I'd overlapped one side because it's obvious that I pieced the sandpaper together in the center of the spread.

It's hard enough to read my writing when I'm not fighting scrunched tissue paper, but this made it nearly impossible.  It reads "waves, sand, shells at the beach."  I didn't want the words to overtake the "scene," so I kept them small.

Materials I used include tissue paper, acrylic paint, sandpaper, card stock, wood mounted rubber stamps, and a Zig ink pen, all in my altered book substrate.

Thanks as always for visiting and don't forget to check out the other lovely beach entries at Moo Mania and More.