Monday, May 10, 2010

TMTA - Travel

A while back I read about adding gum arabic with water to Pearl Ex to make it stay fast to the paper. Of course, gum arabic doesn't come in tiny containers, so I wound up with probably my lifetime supply. So after reading about how Janet used mineral spirits with her pencils, I decided to experiment with my g. a. today, using it with the pencils. It actually blended them pretty well.

Then I discovered that the g. a. gave things a nice sheen and seemed to brighten the colors. So for my ATC here, I did a paper collage from a travel folder and then coated the finished product with g. a.
Think Monday Think ATCs' theme is travel.

9 comments:

  1. she dreams of italy, how beautiful!

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  2. You can see that there is holiday on your ATC!
    Very colourfull.

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  3. fantastic one, love italy, love your ATC

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  4. What a beautiful outcome, Faye!

    Loved hearing about your childhood road trip over on my blog:)

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  5. Beautiful and colourful collage, Faye - and the colours really do shine! Great work!

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  6. Really hot colours! Beautiful ATC!

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  7. Gum arabic mmmmmmm... You've got me thinking now!! Love your collages - so vibrant.

    Janet xx

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  8. Gorgeous!! Love the yummy colours and your composition!! BRAVO Faye!!

    Linda

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