Scrap For Help - August

Hi, I'm back with my DT sample for the Scrap For Help blog.

Here's the prompt.

This is my take on the challenge.

Can you see where I used a tea bag?

Perhaps a close up will help. ;)

No? 

It's there I promise. 

Give up? ;)

Well, what I did was cut open the tea bag and pour the tea leaves onto white cardstock then mixed it 

with Gesso and smeared it over the paper.  

I then brewed a tea bag and squeezed the liquid from the tea bag so it dripped over the textured background and coloured it a lovely tan colour.

At this stage I hadn't decided which photo I was going to use for this layout.

So when I was flicking through my pile of pics this one of my son at Avalon beach in Sydney 

jumped out at me.  The texture I had created reminded me immediately of the sand in the picture.

I then added some metallic blue Gelatos, to mimic the blue of the water.

So do you think you can use a teabag somewhere on a layout? 

Join in our August challenge and have some fun 

all the details are here.