Gloss varnish makes everything shiny...

[hatam_soferet]

I save up photo editing and do it all in a bunch, which is why these sorts of posts come in clusters. Call me a bad blogger if you like.

You might remember the post about the Nail-Varnish Inspired Peacock Tzedakah Box. I don't much like wearing bright nail varnish (that's nail polish for those who say it that way), but it's shiny and sparkly and hard to resist when you walk past it on your way to the toilet paper and it twinkles invitingly at you. This time it was a bluey-purply one called something like Mysterious Lagoon.

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I managed to capture the sometimes-blue, sometimes-purple nature of the paint in the photographs, which I'm very pleased about. The colours spoke for themselves, so I made the design just plain black. The inside I did purple, and the top of the lid seemed to want some twinkly stars, so twinkly stars it has (see the big version of the first image). Finally, its base is covered with bright cyan flocked paper, which rather happily picks up the cyan undertone in the blue varnish.

This design is inspired by L'Ornement Polychrome, but I'm also flattering-by-imitating naamah_darling's work on boxes at Morningstar Hall. And I got some photography ideas from her as well - credit where credit's due, and all that.