just cut it in strips cut as much as you and then you figure out where you want to put it on your melon you know i'm going to do this kind of a little angle and then you just tape it right on i start from i go from corner to corner to stretch out the paper on the easiest just personally what i like to do  you get it on there it is take your knife and how you want to do this is you don't want to go straight in you want to carve away from the ladder so you're going to keep so you keep the brian on here  you know you're just going to trace it you know where you're going to carve away you don't want to talk to the letter you want to carve away from the water you want to go too deeply there is then you'll get you know you'll be real deep and you'll see that cra i thought it was a little expense of to get it after i used it and i use it and use it i actually bought a couple extras just in case yeah it is a little curved is a little curved i guess it helps with maybe circles and i don't know i just really really enjoy this knife does everything i needed to do actually scared to use other tools because i'm afraid i won't like  on rare lee i've sharpen it i've probably had this knife for about two years i'm sure that one time but you do like to keep them sharp this particular knife stay sharp i mean obviously depending on what carving you're carving a bunch of leaves son this for this to carve ladders and stuff really just a small knife that comes to a point and you just kind of can go from there you get cheaper knives on e bay my wants colony school when scholars school on the brush over this but then he really teach me too much i was working at a local country club in the sushi chef there was doing for banquets and stuff and he's extremely talented itself and he showed me turn me on the show me about fifteen minutes of the rose and i just kind of went from there i started doing want to day for six months i see myself getting good and then saw all these people started asking for me they're like hey that be great for a birthday and i was like i can try it and then it just kind of bloomed and where people asked me for displays all the time i started marketing myself at local fast of alls and promoting that way handing out business cards and just talk about the people and just home what i offer can offer it like ice sculpture but it's for you know so then yeah because people say whoa you car fruit what do you mean i mean you've got to have a visual to really see know what i did here what i did here just one microsoft word and i printed off you know you can say whatever you want happy birthday happy anniversary but i printed off the card and i did bold i do like  hundred one hundred ten and off cut around the words and then just taped it to the melon and then when you want to carve when you want to start carving you're just going to trace the letters you're going to carve away from the letters you are going to carve into the letters are going to away so you don't take away the green you want to leave that brine so it gives it that a fact where everything else is white and then the letters are still there no i have not actually yeah on the d v d video yeah i need a gil she's very talented herself very creative idea i always thought about i was like oh you know fruitcake would be cool but i never  knew how to do on so yeah that is definitely cool that you get done just pop your tape off and then you want to trim you want to trim around the letters you know so they pop out really you want to go you want to keep you want to stay almost flat with the mal and you don't really want to go up and down and then you don't try not to go into the words too much and then you just pull it away and go all the way around the words you know this this was the hardest part for me doing the words i actually broke a couple knife still in this just because i was going in and i was banned in the knife so much but if you stay you stay low to the melon you should be good and then sometimes i'd be chopping off the ease or the you know those little circles for the eyes and doing stuff like that which you definitely do not want to do if you start you get the outside you want to go on the inside just a single edge blade actually i know a body that sharper and sharper in the back of it and actually says it cuts different but i never tried it anything  depending on what i'm doing and how big that is but a lot of the times are to the normal person the person can't really see it so i'll just roll with it  got the words done and then you can really just frame it you can really just follow the advice of the of what you trimmed out keep to keep a little no i'm carving away just like i did on the ladders but not i mean not as much i guess just you always want to carve away from the green so then you can just peel right away where you want the flower meeting that other cut away the brine start with a circle start with a circle then you want to trim the inside of the circle you going in the angle so you're meeting that c carve the shape of your paddle trace and you do this all the way around lot of repetition takes a lot of practice too like i said i did a good one a day for six months and the biggest thing was focusing on this rose you want to go all the way to the center just about you want to leave putting on the rose you know rose buds are varies from sizes they leave it and then you just round off the inside and than to do some paddles you go in an angle you kind go back and forth with your knife given a like a wave you look and you do the same you want to overlap a little bit give it a wave you look at your rose then you can you can add in like a little leaf little leaf spike by just carving away doing a triangle