as you can see from this demo pic (which is admittedly no beauty - i managed to pick the low res version of this image by mistake and was in a hurry to get the demo done), the brush is animated, with difference in colouring, angle and size between the snowflakes. the brush works best set to a big size.

Thank you for the brush AnMal. It's going to be a lovely winter here on Gimp Chat!

Very nice. Thanks.

Thank you so much AnMal for your nice brush, as Erisian says it'll be a lovely winter in the forum, I'm sure.

AnMal: Thank you very much for the snowflake. Your creations are always so beautiful.

thanks everyone, glad you enjoyed it!