Just playing around. I actually looked at a lot of old 'training videos' on how to use the old Paintbox system...even though it's not directly applicable click for click with Xara, the methods of building such stuff still works just fine (gradients, shapes and layering).

I also included one with post effects via Mosh.IO to make it even more 'rad'.Click image for larger version. 

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