Aluminium (Aluminum)

[iamtheblues]

In preparation for our 10th. wedding anniversary (aluminium) I thought I'd make early preparations for a card design. I have done very little with Xara over the past 3 months, and I thought that what I wanted to do would take some considerable time. In under 3 hours I managed to get a result I'm fairly happy with. No filters or bitmap textures used (except the 2 shadows).
Saludos,
Bob.

[highfrontier]

That's a really impressive circular brushing effect .. how did you achieve that?

[wizard509]

Really nice Bob.

[iamtheblues]

That's a really impressive circular brushing effect .. how did you achieve that?

There may be an easier way, but I drew a circle, added a contour, cloned the circle and placed it below then made a blend between the two. I cloned the blend and placed it alongside the first blend, cloned both and repeated, cloned all four and repeated and so on.
For the background I filled a rectangle with a multi point linear fill, cloned the rectangle and gave it a flat fill with a fractal plasma transparency.
For the heart, I made a megapoint repeating elliptical fill (quite fiddly as I placed loads of points along the fill arrow) then cloned the heart shape and gave it a flat fill with a multi point conical transparency. The 3D effect for the sides of the heart were two hand drawn shapes given a multipoint linear fill.

@wizard509 - thanks very much, Larry.

Saludos,
Bob.

[MarciaB]

Thanks for sharing !

[cbutton69]

In preparation for our 10th. wedding anniversary (aluminium) I thought I'd make early preparations for a card design. I have done very little with Xara over the past 3 months, and I thought that what I wanted to do would take some considerable time. In under 3 hours I managed to get a result I'm fairly happy with. No filters or bitmap textures used (except the 2 shadows).
Saludos,
Bob.

Bob, I think you did a great job, and BTW, congratulations!

Charlie

[amoore]

What Charlie said.

[handrawn]

me too; congrats to both of you

[zaphodeist]

Congratulations Bob! Nice card too

[ontos]

Congratulations Bob ! You did a great job on the card, well done.