Album Inspiration
We’ve got a fun fortnight of Design Team posts over at Visible Image with the theme of using our fave music album cover as inspiration. I’ve picked Slippery When Wet by Bon Jovi, which I had on repeat throughout my teenage years and I still love it now. The original album cover featured a busty woman in a wet T-shirt but apparently the record execs thought that shops would refuse to stock the album due to the cover being sexist and wanted a different design. At the last minute, Jon Bon Jovi got a black bin liner, sprayed it with water and wrote the title in the water with his finger and the iconic cover was made. Image ©PolyGram Records, Inc. For my non-card make, I began with the letters across the top and stamped ‘CELEBRATE’ from Birthday Wishes in Versafine Clair Strawberry ink, heat-set with clear embossing powder and then trimmed each letter leaving a thin white border all around. On a 5¼” square of white card, I blended Worn Lipstick, Stormy S...