Symbols of a dream

Engagement card for my friend Karen - she's a chemistry prof in her mid-thirties, going to marry a math professor at another college she met last year (jeez. there's something freaky in the air. my cousin Jien recently announced his engagement, also to be married later this year.). I think professors hooking up is an encouraging thing because it means THERE IS YET HOPE FOR THE GEEKY WOMEN!!!

Am kicking myself for making the heart-net red, though. Stupid and ugly. It really should have been from the same blue paper as the background and the vapour wisp so that it would look like a "colourless" thing, far more subtle. Also, the red screws up my colour scheme...ah well, with construction paper one has a limited palette.

Nets are awfully tedious to do in papercuts...I wonder why I find the rete motif so attractive, though.

The webpage behind the card is Michael Ooi's "a cup of coffee", the text of which I copied inside the card.

Ah, yes, in case you're wondering how I took this picture: I GOT A DIGICAM!!! Office Depot had the Olympus FE-110 on sale for $84.01, which is awfully cheap for five megapixels. Clearance of last year's stock konon.