Carolly, that was the effect I was aiming at, but wanted to get a more ice like feel to it, just can't quite work it out. I have several of these snowflake blanks to try. Another may look better. Do you know I never actually thought of beadwork as a subject for "delicate" I could have scanned in one of my handmade bead items. Mind you at the moment I am caught between 2 PC's. An using the new one and transferring stuff from the old which is a slow process. Haven't even got the scanner connected up yet.....gotta go find some new drivers, as I have updated my OS to winXP at long last.

The greatest part of wisdom is learning to develop  the ineffable genius of extracting the "neither here nor there" out of any situation...."