~ Frosted Window Technique ~
February 7th, 2010 by Holly McMillen
Hi Friends!
I hope all of you Saints fans are enjoying your win! I won’t pretend to be a Saints fan, but it was awful nice to see them win. What a boost to the community… much needed! Since my Pittsburgh Steelers were not playing, I only watched for the commercials. I have to say I wasn’t really that impressed with the commercials or the half time show this year.
It’s time for a new Technique challenge! This week, we are going to do a technique that I (think) created. I call it the frosted window. I did it for the first time a week or so ago and I so loved the results that I wanted to share it with all of you.
This one is super easy! Here’s what you do…..
First, stamp your image on (white is suggested) cardstock and color it. I suggest you use bright/bold colors, but I haven’t tried it with muted colors, yet.
Next, stamp the same image on vellum (don’t use colored vellum for this). Make sure you use a quick drying ink or you will have to wait until your image is dry to proceed.
When your vellum image is dry, flip it over and color the back with lighter colors than you used to color your cardstock image.
You’re going to want the image panel and the vellum panel to be the same size (leaving a border around all sides for the next step).
Now take your vellum image and place dimensionals in the corners. Pop that on top of your cardstock image, making sure you line them up precisely!!
This is where the frosted look comes in! The gentle coloring on the vellum mixes with colors on the cardstock image and gives off a sort of glow.
You will now want to cover your vellum with another piece of cardstock, or at the very least, cover your areas where the dimensionals are.
I left the sentiment off my card as I am not sure what I want it to be just yet.
Here are my deets:
Stamps: SU’s Stipple Rose
Colors: PTI White, Vellum, Tangerine Tango, Always Artichoke, DP
Ink: Versafine Black Onyx, copics
Accessories: Ribbon, 1/2 pearls, scalloped circle nesties, circle nesties, embossing folder, dimensionals
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Thanks for stopping by! I hope you’ll pop over to the Technique Challenge forum on Splitcoaststampers and play along! Have a blessed day!
Hugs,
Holly
Very lovely! Thanks for sharing!
This is lovely, Holly! Those colours just pop and I love how you framed it. Fun technique.
Sorry about your Colts…my son was cheering for the Saints and was quite excited when they won. Get this, the reason he chose the Colts was the abbreviation for their team name is “NO” lol 😀 Gotta love 9 year olds! Thanks for the kudos on the fave’s list on SCS too. What a wonderful surprise it was 😀
Beautiful card and neat technique! Don’t think I have vellum but will check and see.
I wasn’t impressed with the commercials and sure didn’t care for the half time show-loud- and I can never tell what words they are singing! I love the ETrade commercials though. I am a Colts fan but was for either team this time as I thought the Saints and New Orleans needed a break; and the best team won!
This sounds like an interesting technique… I hope to find some time for it today…. thanks for making the effort of sharing!
Hiya Holly…
I agree about the superbowl.. I thought the commercials were total duds.. however; I did enjoy listening to the Who and watching the light show (guess I’m telling my age a bit – LOL)..
I love your technique.. hope to get to try it later today..
What a wonderful technique. On my way to play. Hope my card looks 1/2 as great as yours. Thanks for sharing, Holly!
Beautiful, Holly!
What a great idea, thanks for sharing I will have to try this as it looks very effective 🙂
this turned out wonderfully Holly, can’t wait to try it!
This is just gorgeous Holly! love the circle framing and depth of color on the image with the frosted glass!
This is stunning!! I will have to give this a try (sometime….drat that work thing! LOL!)
This is a beautiful technique and I love your sample.
Unfortunately, we in Canada can’t see the commercials of the Super Bowl even on a US feed. But the game was great and I’m glad the Saints won!!
This is GORGEOUS!!! What a nifty technique~ I love learning something new!
Wow! This is absolutely gorgeous, Holly girl! I love the colors you chose as well.
Hi Holly,
Thank you for the invite to your blog! I love the picture at the top. It looks like it was hand chosen for this technique.
I love what you came up with! I do have one question. On your sheet of Vellum, you added a blue background. Can you please share with this 3-month-old NEWBIE, what type of coloring you used, and how you did it? If it is too long to answer, maybe it can be a technique for next week? I really want to learn that…and there are other Newbies around, too. It really gives a very polished look!
Thank you so much for sharing your creation. A great example!
He IS Able,
Traci S.
(at SCS)
Oh my gosh, Holly! This is awesome AND gorgeous!
This is really beautiful Holly. What a great technique. I need to try this one..TFS and for the tut…
Gorgeous! Wonderful technique!
What a FAB technique — your results ARE STUNNING!!! You have most definitely given new life to that old but beautiful Stipple Rose!
My gosh, that is nice and even a card maker deprived person like me could do it. TFS
Fran