Card, valentine card

Multi-layered, handfinished valentine's card comprising a top sheet of silver and white lace paper attached, by paper springs, to a white undersheet by Windsor with a narrow lace paper border surrounding a rectangular shaped panel. Applied to the centre of the panel is a coloured chromo-lithographed image of a young girl surrounded by flowers and butterflies. This print is framed by a length of coiled silver wire, a wreath of gilded paper leaves and an outer border of cotton gauze, silver and white paper leaves tied with a cream satin bow handpainted with a garland and the message 'Thine for ever'. In each of the four corners of the card is applied a cream satin bow.