Ice Crystal mermaids

These two ATCs are from a set I created for the TJ swap. They have the Ice Crystal Technique on them, which may be hard to see, but if you compare how these look to how the inchies look, you will see that the surface is different. By using a wash of an Epsom Salt solution and letting it dry, the surface of the card looks iced over. The white spots you see on the mermaid images are salt deposits. The Epsom salt did not behave on the packing tape the way it did over the acrylic/gesso background. Fortunately, the white spots brush off fairly well.

So, this is my recommendation for the Ice Crystal Technique - use it on a toothy surface, so it will resist flaking, and apply it as a final finish, not on raw cardstock.