Window Appearance

[Sylvia Morris]

I've seen cards where the image appears to be behind a window and it's not using the label technique. How are they doing this?

Thanks,
Sylvia Morris
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[Kymbers_Stampin]

Are you talking about Shaker Cards? or maybe Tape cards? There are directions for shaker cards in the Resources area of this site. The tape cards you just punch a hole in the CS and then put packing tape over the hole on the back side and then sprinkle with glitter. It's a simple but nice technique.

[busystamperof5]

I just made one of those. I cut two pieces of cardstock the same size. One I stamped using Lovely as a Tree and the other piece of c.s. I cut was white and I used the square punch and punched six squares. Three on top and three on the bottom. I used some double stick tape and put right on top of the stamped image. I then used 2-way glue in each left hand corner and added some glitter to give it an icy look. Does that sound what you were asking about?

[laffenstamper]

I have a stamp for this from TAC, but I never learned how to use it. It is a 4X6 background-type stamp with just the frames outlined. My demo flaked out on me and never came back to show me how to use it...I have been wondering!

[Bagpuss]

I THINK there are instructions for this technique in Take Ten Volume II, but I've loaned my copy to a friend so can't check. If I remember correctly, it involved a window-shaped stamp - rather like a reversed version of the four squares in Great Shapes - which you stamped out, presumably in black. Then you masked between the "windows" and then stamped your image on top. If you had the time, inclination and patience, I bet you could do it with the square outline in Simple Shapes stamped four times.

Hope this helps and that this is, in fact, the technique you are referring to!