I colored the image with watercolor crayons, then used my white gel pen on the snowflakes. The image is stamped and painted with an aqua brush on white shimmery paper. I was really pleased with how well the watercolors worked on this paper! The picture doesn't show it, but I formed vertical stripes to add texture on the window frame by dry embossing. I just used a stylus and the grove on my papercutter; I ran the stylus over the backside of the paper in the paper cutter grove. This will raise a line on the front side of the paper giving a dry embossed effect. This embossing really made the window frame look like molding. To make the window appear frosty, I put hair gel in a small plastic sealed bag and taped it in place in front of the image and behind the window frame. I used a small square punch to cut out the corner blocks. I rolled just the edges of a small solid circle stamp on my going gray ink pad then added a white eyelet to the center of that. I was trying to create the look of the old Victorian corner blocks and molding. My scanner did not do justice to this card. This is a Nan original.
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Registered: May 15, 2005 Location: Arlington, Washington Posts: 30400
Wed, Nov 09, 2005 @ 6:29 PM
Super idea.. love them outside the window!!
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Registered: January 13, 2004 Location: South Texas Posts: 3842
Thu, Nov 10, 2005 @ 7:39 AM
This is great - I'm trying to figure out exactly how you did the window corners. I know it's an eyelet, maybe another white square over top with circle punched out?
Registered: October 6, 2004 Location: Nothern VA Posts: 635
Thu, Nov 10, 2005 @ 1:18 PM
I put hair gel in a small plastic sealed bag and taped it in place in front of the image and behind the window frame. The stylus embossing (described under photo) really made the window frame look like molding. I used a small square punch to cut out the corner blocks. I rolled just the edges of a small solid circle stamp on my going grey ink pad then added a white eyelet to the center of that. Was trying to create the look of the old victorian corner blocks and molding.