...tomorrow's release

Since I'm sneaking the girls out with the SOAP posts, our new sets will be available to view on the blog tomorrow morning from 8:00am my time, I should have the Cicely and Gracie sets available in the store by around 9:00am my time, which is:

3:00am in USA Missouri
2:00am Canada Alberta
10:00am Netherlands
4:00pm Malaysia
6:00pm Australia New South Wales
10:00am South Africa

Hope this helps!

...aaaaaand some more Cicely and Gracie!! lol!

Good morning! If you have been visiting the ole blog over the last few days you will have seen that I am 'leaking' two new sets tomorrow!!!

It's supposed to be a SOAP month, and it is... lol, the DT will begin showing more inspirational samples for the stamps we just released in July, so do pop over to see us for the next few days while we show you what else you can do with your new goodies!

Today I just wanted to show you a couple of little tag type things I made with the circular tag image from Cicely at Halloween. Each of the two new sets contains a circular tag image, I find these very handy for focal points for cards when I'm in a rush, but also bag toppers, cup-cake picks and of course gift tags also.

Here I stamped the same image 3 times and coloured them with the same copics, but I varied the colors within the tags and mounted them on different coloured mats and star circles (New Spellbinder goodness from the CHA summer release)

I'm always on the lookout for neat packaging and ages ago I spotted these coffee bags. They are made of Kraft paper and lined so that they are suitable for food use. I always thought they were particular to the US, but just the other week I happened to pick up a load of these little baggies here in UK. I was wanting them especially for Halloween and Christmas, and so I snapped them up. I am making some available on the store as well. They are a very handy size for little goodies and treats and I'm playing around with a few more ideas on how to decorate them. Stamping of course!

For my larger baggie, I made a decorative cream panel, I used the new Classic petal edgeabilities (also a CHA Spellbinder summer release!) The neat thing about these is that you can combine them in so many ways, changing the look of the edge to suit your taste.

These little baggies have tin ties, so once you fold them down and tuck the tin flaps behind to hold the folds in place, you can tuck little items up inside the folds. I tucked the little cream panel up inside the fold, no need for glue and so I could re-use the baggie.

The little poem that is tucked up in the flap of the smaller bag is this one:

You can snag it from here for free, print it out and use it when you give chocolate covered raisins or peanuts at Halloween! it's a bit of fun!

Hope you can pop over tomorrow to see the new sets fully revealed and also to waltz along with some fresh inspiration from the DT!!!

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner!!!

I was running a little comp from here! I'm sneaky, I didn't advertise it a lot, so pat yourself on the back if you spotted it! lol!!

the randomly chosen winner is:

Debbie Flowers who said... 15 These two little ladies are adorable. You are so talented! I can't wait to add them to my collections. So looking forward to more of these vintage beauties.

Debbie - pop me an email - put Halloween Winner in the Subject line and let me have your addy! I'll send the girls right over!!

Hope it tickles!!!

...a little more Cicely and Gracie...

Aside from the main images in the Cicely and Gracie sets there are lots of little supporting doodads that you can use - here I have used a separate pumpkin lantern stamp, the little bubble bursts and an invitation sentiment to whip up a few party invitations.

I used the large gingham from Gingham & Co. to make a smart patterned background.

I made tiny postage stamp frames from the newly released Spellbinders Postage square dies!!! See? lovely shape!

By the way, if you've just happen-chanced upon us, we will be releasing two little Halloween Vintage stamp sets on Monday! pop back tomorrow for some more samples and further details!

You can see below how I stamped the pumpkins and then coloured them with copics. I then stamped some bubble bursts around them before attaching little mini frames that I die cut with Spellbinders postage stamp square dies (to be widely available soon) and some classic square dies. Aren't they dinky? Quite quick to make, not much colouring and a wee bit of sponging!

Hope it tickles!!

...More Gracie and Cicely...

Good morning, if you are just tuning in I am showing samples made with stamps from two little Halloween stamp sets I am 'leaking' early  - August 1st, this Monday! These were destined for September, but I have no patience, I was so excited to show you - It's a little different for us to have people stamps!!

Today's first card shows off one of the sentiment stamps from Cicely at Halloween,

It's a vintage verse and it reads:

"By pumpkins fat and witches lean
By coal black cats with eyes of green
By all the magic ever seen
I wish you luck this Halloween"

I chose to make it the feature on this card and I set it off with one of the little decorative motif stamps, the moon, also from Cicely at Halloween.

I used the bat and the moon to make the background pattern, stamped on the ginger card. I set the verse on a cream panel, which I then mounted on a black mat. I set all that onto a green panel I made with one of the new Edgeability dies from Spellbinders, the excellent Classic Petal. I simply trimmed out a long rectangle and used the edgeability die on each end. I cut two more 'ends and offset them under my main green panel to get that nice offset point look. Here's a few pics so you can see what I mean. Finished off with a couple of flourishes from the Scallops and Dots set and added the moon, which punches out nicely with a 3/4 inch circle punch, or die.

My second card this morning is a simpler take on the main Cicely stamp - I stamped her in versamark, clear embossed and then did minimal colouring using a water pen and some SU inks, finally added a little extra shading with just a plain graphite pencil, I wanted it to be sort of faded looking. I added the Jolly Japes sentiment from Gracie at Halloween.

Jolly Japes will be a curious phrase for some. Jolly, most folks will understand, but 'Japes' is an old fashioned English word for tricks, or practical jokes, which I think fits perfectly with Halloween. Anyone who has ever read Enid Blyton, may well have come across this word. I thought it was a charming addition to my Halloween sentiment arsenal. Here I cut a slit with a scalpel above and below the sentiment, and pushed two slivers of card through from the back. I took a moment to edge them with my pinking shears first. I like the clean cut graphic edge.

Next up is a little How-To, a sort of picture tutorial for folks wanting to make the toothed aperture from this card.

First I selected two dies, a classic circle and a pinked circle - both Spellbinder dies from sets of that name. I picked a plain circle which fit inside the pinked circle. I die cut a plain circle - you can see it here in the first pic, I have set it inside the pinking circle die so that you can see that it is smaller than the pinked circle die - it's the green circle.

I use the green circle as a template and draw around a portion of it onto a pre-cut rectangle which is exactly the right size for the front of my card. I do this 5 times making sure the arcs for a star shape. You can just see the pencil lines on the orange card.

Next, I trim out the star shape with a scalpel. Then I cut two pinked circles with my pinked die.

Then I sponge the front of the piece of card.

Next, I cut up the pinked circles roughly into sections, just larger than the arcs in the star shape.

 

Then I start adhering them to the back of the  sponged card rectangle so that only the teeth show up in the aperture. Glue was best for this so that I could smooch it around for the best position. One thing tho - if you are stamping a sentiment directly to the front of your card, it's best to do it now, before you adhere the 'teeth'...

See? simple! If it's difficult, I don't do it!! lol

Hope it tickles, and call back later, I have more!!

...Gracie at Halloween

Good morning! I am showing samples from two new small Halloween sets! Today's card is from a set called Gracie at Halloween. People stamps are something a little bit new for WMS and we hope you are liking our little vintage chicks!

Normally we wouldn't bet releasing new stamps again until September, but I couldn't resist sneaking these two sets out early! This is the main image from the second set and it features a younger girl than Cicely, on her broom with her beloved kitty. I'm showing samples until Sunday, then on Monday the DT ladies will begin our SOAP event and these two Halloween sets will be available at the store!

I coloured with copics again, and nope, I didn't have a black pen and so we couldn't have a black cat! I think a big ginger cat is ok tho, these little chickies are only playing at being witches...

I made the background pattern with the gothic text stamp from Text - It and also the newly released Flourishes set, which I clear embossed. Plenty of sponging. The sentiment is from the Gracie set, but I inked up the words individually and satmped them one at a time, I wanted them to fit on the lovely Labels 22 panel ( a new Spellbinders CHA release, as is the main panel). A little ribbon and we're all set!

Later on today I will have another post for you - lots of folks wondered about the aperture with teeth from yesterday and I have a few pics of that to show, as well as some more samples, these two sets may be small, but they are jam packed!

Stay tuned....ooh and a comp...we must have a comp!! Ok, leave a comment here telling me what you think of our new friends Cicely and Gracie. A random winner will be chosen on Sunday night!! The winner will win a copy of each set!

Hope it tickles!

...Cicely at Halloween

ED - yep I completely appreciate that there are lots of folks who don't celebrate Halloween, and yep there will be vintage chicks for other occasions, such as holidays and birthdays and St Pat's, you know there'll be a St Pat's chick!!!! but yep, there will be every-day girls too that may be good for birthdays etc. Cheers for asking Cassandra!

Good morning! I'd like to introduce you to someone. Her name is Cicely and she's a little vintage chick. I have been asked, and asked, and asked again for images to colour, and Cicely is the first in a little series of vintage girlies for folks who like to colour...or not, as we will see tomorrow. I'll be previewing a pair of little Halloween sets for the next few days up until the 1st August when the DT begin the August SOAP event.

I'm leaking these two sets early, they will be available on the 1st of August, but if you like them, you'd best get in quick, I'll be suspending shipping on the store for two weeks from 4th August while I take some family time before school starts again.

This year I wanted something a little different for Halloween, and so I decided to draw a couple of little vintage inspired sets featuring girls. I'm 'leaking those sets a little earlier than their planned September release, well, because I couldn't wait to show you!! lol. Cicely and her little friend Gracie, who we will see tomorrow, are chic 20's style girls.

 We'll have some more Halloween fun for you in the main September release, but I was just so excited about these, people for colouring are something we don't have a lot of, and I sure hope you like them as much as I do.

 

My main card today shows Cicely, stamped in Memento rich cocoa ink, together with a little bat stamp and some magic bubble bursts, you can stamp these as you wish, they are little accessory stamps. My copic skills are basic, but I would so love to see what some of you ladies would do with this image. I'm not so wonderful at blending, but even I managed to get a nice glow on the pumpkin by using that colourless blender to lift out some of the yellow that I had used to colour the pumpkin eyes and mouth, neat trick.

I love the vintage look of the font used for the supporting sentiments - Boo! is one. Do you like the little star circle die cut - it's one of Spellbinders new release dies!! isn't it perfect for Halloween?? OOh and the  chevron edge...drool, Spellbinders new edgeabilities!! I am in heaven, such a terrific range of dies!! More about these in tomorrow's post!!

The Cicely at Halloween set is a small set which packs a lot of punch, it has 10 separate stamps comprising, one main girl image seen here on this card, 5 supporting motifs including the cute bat, or hamster bat as my girls have named him, an easy circular tag image, and 3 sentiments.

My second card is a bit of fun, very simple, but making the most of just two stamps - a sentiment from Cicely at Halloween, and a larger bat from Gracie at Halloween, more about that set tomorrow. My girlies think the star shaped aperture looks like a mouth full of spikey teeth, just about to munch the bat...I suppose that's appropriate! lol.

Orange card stock, well sponged with Tea dye distress ink. The aperture is backed with pinked circles cut with the Spellbinders pinking circles dies. Bat stamped in Memento and coloured, truly horribly, with copics, you'll notice there's no close up of this so's you don't have to be offended by where I went wayyy over the lines...

Sure hope they tickle!!

The Big Cheese of the Week

Here we are, back again with another week of uploads to the Waltzingmouse Stamps Gallery! I hope you don't mind if I share a few stand-outs before I reveal this week's Big Cheese.

We're starting this week off with Charmaine Stack who put together this black and white beauty:

Elegant, sophisticated, and classic! I think this label from Very Vintage Labels No. 18 is so striking in black, and Charmaine has used it to create a beautiful focal point for her monochromatic card. Love the pearls, too!

Next up we have Helen LeBrett with her Western birthday card:

Back in the Saddle and Way Out West are such a winning combination, and Helen has combined elements from each to create a kickin' cowboy birthday card. Adore the inking she did to create her sunset, and the deckled edges just finish it off!

And last, but definitely not least, is our Big Cheese for this week. Renee Lynch brought a chill to this hot summer with this lovely Christmas card!

A gorgeous combination of papers and embellishments (not to mention one of my favorite sentiments from Compliments of the Season) all wrapped together in a fantastic design! The black elements on the card help your eye to travel around, so you can take in all that vintage goodness. Love it!

Congratulations, Renee! Send me an email and we will provide you with a discount code for your next Waltzingmouse Stamps purchase.

Renee's card will be added to the Big Cheese highlight album in the WMS Gallery. Would you like the opportunity to be chosen? Post your new upload links here, a new thread starts every Monday!

Your work has been outstanding, everyone! I'm looking forward to what you upload to the Gallery this week!

Have a great day!

P.S. Renee, I loved The Hunger Games, too!

...August at WMS...

Good morning. I just wanted to let you all know what's happening for August. We are currently on a bi-monthly release plan, and August is scheduled as a SOAP month, when we review the sets we just released last month.

And that's just what the ladies will be doing!

Beginning on the 1st of August the DT will be reviewing the new sets:

Cameo to Go
Cameo Creations
Ovals, Classic Frames
Big Day Essentials
Big Day Additions
Eat Cake
You're Lovely
and Flourishes – Scallops and Dots

The ladies will spend 3 days providing new ideas on how to get the best from your new goodies, and on the 4th day we'll be taking another peep at Afternoon Tea, one of our most popular sets from 2010. I look forward to fabulous inspiration! Hope you can join us.

Me? nope, I'm not playing this month....'cos....I'm going to be leaking two new small sets!! woohoo!

I'll be starting my samples very soon...here's a peeky in the meantime...

...ahem...

look who's in round 3....just sayin..

The Big Cheese of the Week

It has been another great week of uploads to the Waltzingmouse Stamps Gallery! Here are a few cards I wanted to share before revealing this week's Big Cheese.

I love the clean, simple look of this card from Annel.

I am a big fan of the monochromatic colors and the repetition of the bird cages and flowers. A fantastic design using Asian Gardens!

This coordinated gift set that Helen Berry created is super sweet.

Yep, I think I want a mug with that little birdie from Sewing Box Hugs on it too! What a thoughtful and stunning gift anyone would be lucky to receive!

And our Big Cheese for this week, with this soft and springy birthday card, Laurie Jones!

Love the fresh color combination of soft pink and spring green. Love the accents using the border stamp from Asian Gardens. And super LOVE the cherry blossom image nestled into each of the scallops - what a perfect fit!

Congratulations, Laurie! Send me an email and we will provide you with a discount code for your next Waltzingmouse Stamps purchase.

Thank you for another great week, gals! Keep those fantastic uploads to the Gallery coming!

Laurie's card will be added to the Big Cheese highlight album in the WMS Gallery. Would you like the opportunity to be chosen? Post your new upload links here, a new thread starts every Monday!

Have a great day!

....pssst...Clare's in round two!

Click Here!!! lol!!

...Something Different winners!!!!

We have two winners - one is a completely random winner with a wrong guess, the other is a randomly chosen hit-the-nail-on-the-head winner.....BUT I'm not telling you which is which!! LOL!!! giggle, you'll just have to wait till the end of the month - we're having our SOAP event, but along with that I will be leaking two new sets...one of which contained this image....

Our winners are:

Lynne Phelps who said...
It looks like a super cute eye of a child or a girl with those lashes! Some kind of super cute face must be behind it - a little school child perhaps, time for teacher cards? Or a little halloween witch, perhaps some darling trick or treat children?

and

Robin Cooper who said...
Oh, and here I thought I was good, but I see that everyone guessed it's an eye. It's a princess eye. There, if I try and be specific maybe that'll help.

One of you ladies got it completely right, one of you didn't but you both win a set of your choice - so pop me an email with your choice (claire.brennan1@ntlworld.com), or you may of course wait on the release of these two sets....


Thanks to everyone who played along, I really enjoyed reading the guesses and I am happy to report that a lot of you will be very happy in September.... lol!!

...we're waltzing!

ED - Charmaine, I popped the die inside the baggie, and then ran it through the GC!

Good morning! Today I'm taking part in our monthly waltz!! it's a leisurely stroll around participating blogs and you can see who is playing along here:

Link List in forum.

Our theme this month is Birthday! and I am itching to see what everyone has made! Here's my project, hope it tickles!

I made a little tag pocket card and gussied up a repurposed confectionary tub to match, inside I can add sweets or a cupcake or some other small godies!

I used a glassine kraft pocket (Tim Holtz) to make my tag pocket, I cut off the flap and punched most of a circle into the top front and I thought it would be fun to trim out a little window with my Spellbinders scalloped rectangle die.

I stamped it with a little flourish from the new Flourishes Scallops and dots set. The card background pattern is stamped with the long border from Eat Cake.

The mini tag size cake and the sentiment also come from Eat Cake, as does the larger cake on the tub, I love having two sizes of cake, it means my main projects can always have a little matchy taggy! yum!

The tag also has some flourishes on it, and plenty of sponging! I shaped the corners om y tag with a corner punch.

Do you like my felt flower??? I was so inspired by the new Spellbinders release of their new fabby flower making dies that I dug out one of their scalloped circles, it was this one. I trimmed out a large circle and then cut a strip of the curved edge and wound it round into a flower shape, it's ok and I was happy with it for this project, but I can't wait to get my mits on the flower dies!! It'll take away the guesswork!! The felt leaves were die cut with a die from Spellbinders Foliage set.

Oh my wee tub! do you like the wee button knob? I got myself a wee hot glue gun earlier this week! How have I lived without it???? it's fab! I glued a stack of buttons together to make a little handle for the top of my tub. It's probably more decorative than functional, as the tub lid id very tight, but I thought it was cute!. I made an 'inner' for the clear plastic tub from some cardstock that I stamped with a big cake, and some flourishes. I really went to town on my big cake, I thew all the decs on it, the icing, the flowers and the cake band, ooh and the cake stand! but I did manage to keep them all the same colour! lol.

Right, gotta run and spy out what everyone else made!!

...Do it!....

It's been a busy week and i snaffled a few moments for myself to make a card! It's a sort of masculine encouragement card, for a chap I know who is dithering over a decision. I guess you can tell that I'm not  'on the fence about it' lol, I do think the biggest regrets are often the chances we don't take!

Anyhow, I used a terrific little Spellbinders leaf die template from the Foliage set.

I trimmed out 3 different sizes of patterned paper (Tim Holtz Paper stash - Kraft  resist) and I die cut the same foliage piece into each of them, ensuring that the die cut fell in a place on each piece that would enable me to line them up nicely.

I then sponged theraputically with several shades of brown distress inks and added a little red stitching to two of the layers.

I cut a piece of red card, stamped with a gingham from Gingham and Co and sponged some more. I layered this behind the largest piece of patterned paper. I little line of mushroom coloured ric rac up the side of the front panel was just about right I thought.

The sentiment is from Words of Wisdom, and I stamped it in cream ink (PTI) onto a little taggy shape thingy I cut with a punch....just can't remember the right name for this...

anyhow, hope it tickles!

Don't forget to check out the Challenge blog tomorrow, there's a new sketch up in the morning and then on Sunday it's our Blog waltz!!! Come and play!

...a little more Spellbinder goodness

are you all seeing these Spellbinders videos? they are so fabby!! I can't believe how versatile these new dies are!!

I will be back later on with something I actually made! woohoo, can't believe I got some craft time in this week, it's been hectic!

...Spellbinders!!! oh drool!

Here is the latest installment of edgeabilities videos, I am glued to these until I get some of these fabby dies!!! I am loving how versatile these look!! See Spellbinders website here for more details.

The Big Cheese of the Week

Happy Wednesday!

You ladies are doing a great job uploading new and inspiring creations to the Waltzingmouse Stamps Gallery! Each week it is getting harder to choose a Big Cheese!

A few highlights I'd like to share before the winner...

Good Luck card from Deirdre.

Deirdre created a fantastic good luck card with a masculine feel using Free Spirit - Boy and the companion set Free Spirit - Sentiments. The circle image looks great clear embossed on the Kraft cardstock!

Deborah Frings outdid herself with this set of birthday invitations using Eat Cake.

Each cake is yummier than the next - what super color coordination, too!

And something from Jeanne Jachna to get you in the Halloween spirit!

The sparkle and jewels are a perfect accent to this card, but what I love the most is the stamped border she created using the 'tag shoulder' images from Very Vintage Labels No. 1. Such an inspiring idea - that's one for the notebook, ladies!

And if that wasn't enough - our Big Cheese for this week!
Look at these jaw-dropping lovelies from Vladka!

What a perfect card for a baptism using Earth Angel! These adorable angels look as if they are hovering in flight. You must check out Vladka's Gallery to see her other photos. What an outstanding creation, and so inspiring! Wouldn't this concept be perfect for Christmas, too?

Congratulations, Vladka! Send me an email and we will provide you with a discount code for your next Waltzingmouse Stamps purchase.

Thank you for indulging me! You are all making such wonderful projects with WMS stamps and your creativity is really making the Gallery such an inspiring place to visit!

Vladka's card will be added to the Big Cheese highlight album in the WMS Gallery. Would you like the opportunity to be chosen? Post your new upload links here, a new thread starts every Monday!

Have a great day!

...something different...

ED again - this comp is now closed!! Thanks for playing!

ED - I'm extending this to Sunday Night, I'm having too much fun reading what you are all guessing!!!lol!

You know how we went bimonthly recently? well, we're sticking to that for a while yet....with one exception....August.

I have a little something up my sleeve that just can't wait until September. It's a welcome addition to our range of stamps, something I have been asked for and it's nearly ready!!

I did promise a few folks I would have a little peeky today so here it is...but I've been a bit bold, I have completely resized the item that you can see here, I want to have a little fun with it - I want you to guess what sort of stamp it is, so, bearing in mind that this little bit of image is nowhere near the actual size it appears on the stamp, what is it?

Give me your best guesses, I'm going to give two wee prizes, a 'random-guesser' prize and a 'hit-the-nail on-the-head' prize. - and you have untilWednesday night to guess, one guess per player please! Thank you!

...back in stock

a quick note to let folks know that we have the following back in stock, I will be updating the store today after I fill all those empty shelves!!

Peace and Plenty
Compliments of the Season
Say it Loud
Vintage labels 18
Dainty Doilies 2 small
Vintage labels 10
Vintage Ornaments
Frame it

....psst...

Our Clare is in Gallery idol......you know what to do.... :)

...have you seen this?

Did you know we run a Christmas card challenge? Yup, Lynn has been running it since January, and now that we're on the home straight to Christmas (lol, well I am...) it's high time to get yourself in shape for the big day!

Here is the link for the general information, we run it from the Forum.

And here is the link to Lynn's cards for this month's challenge - using a star element on your cards!

And here is a link to the forum where the thread for July challenge links will go live later today.

And here is the link for the gallery, where we have a special album for Christmas challenge cards!

So, even if you aren't ready to participate, there is a load of inspiration to be found at that last link!! Yup, you will need to take a moment and create a log in, but it only take a few moments and you can poke around at all the other albums too! come on over!

..Back in stock - You're lovely!

Just a quick note to let folks know that You're Lovely is back in stock! I nabbed Anya's fabby card for my post this morning so's you have something purty to look at!!!

...Christmas Greetings

Nope, I'm not apologising! Christmas creeps up and surprises me every year! No matter when I start I am never ready, so there's no time like the present!!

This is a little set I made just before the release took hold!! - By the way, there is light at the end of the tunnel and by tomorrow morning I should be completely caught up with orders! I just thought I'd put this up, it's the blog equivalent of ambient elevator music...it'll entertain you while I'm too busy to really 'be' here...lol!

The interesting bit is the tree ornament - I recently got the lovely Spellbinder snowflake dies....ahhhh...

I made a little snowflake with a panel in it for a cameo of my favourite little boy, I am super lucky in that this little pic is actually drawn from my little dude, on a tidy hair day, but I think it makes a lovely nostalgic, Victorian style ornament even if it didn't have any sentimental meanings attached.

I used that fabby crackle glaze from ranger to get the cracked texture over the image. In all, I trimmed out the large snowflake 3 times, two of them face front and the last one faces back, I didn't want the back of my ornament to be unfinished and so it's just the same on both sides.

I wanted a card to match, as I think this would make a nice wee 'aside' gift for granny! I took my cue from the ornament, but added a sponged blue frame around the sentiment. The gorgeous frame shape is a labels Seventeen. I added a ribbon tag (Ribbon tags trio 3) to the centre so that it would cut out as a nice frame, I then sponged it with tumbled glass distress ink with a touch of Lapis Lazuli Versacolour ink. The sentiment is from Compliments of the Season. The background of the card is a pattern stamped with ovals from the Cameo Creations set.

Stamping the background pattern.

Cutting the snowflakes - see how I added a classic circles die to the centre of the snowflake, so that the snowflake would come out as a frame - I placed a little stamped image of the junior boy in the frame.

I sponged the snowflakes one darker than the other and layered then, giving the top one a little turn so that the flakes don't quite line up and you can see the darker flake behind.

This is the reverse of the ornament - you can see the sheer ribbon threaded through, and the glue dots where I am just about to adhere the reverse snowflake.

Hope it tickles!!