> To be honest, I'm surprised there hasn't been more buzz about these. They
> look great! On the carving, do you have to excavate the background before
> stamping or do you just beat it into submission?

The frosted areas are excavated first.  The frosting is intended to
occlude nonuniformity in the resulting surface.  I've been led to
believe that that practice is an 'English' (and hence American) thing
not traditionally practiced in Norway.

That said, darn nice work there, and fun as well.