Jingle Belles Vintage Christmas challenge

 The current challenge at Jingle Belles is to create a vintage-style project.  I used some Tim Holtz ephemera, along with a very old technique, for this card.

I used the cracked ice technique on the Shiny Brite ephemera piece.  With this technique, you apply several coats of thick clear embossing powder (I used three coats of UTEE).  After the embossing is finished, you put the piece in the freezer for a few minutes.  Once you remove it from the freezer, you roll and bend the piece til the embossing starts cracking.  You can also add some ink over the top if you want to create some dark accents within the cracks.  It's fun to try a technique you haven't used in years!