Create Icy Looking Text using Gimp

Type Text.
Right click on Text Layer - Alpha to Selection.
Filter - Render - Clouds - Plasma.
Color - Desaturate - Desaturate again.
Right click on Text layer - new layer.
Move text layer up. Image-Merge down.
Layer - transform-rotate 90 degrees clockwise.
Filter - distort - wind (Direction-right) -OK
Layer - transform-rotate 90 degrees back to original position.
Color - color balance (make color adjustment) - OK.