Monday 27 August 2012

OLW - on the subject .....

..... Just before I went on holiday, at the end of July (where is the time going?), Susan (Simplicity) announced the addition of two new designers to the OLW challenge DT - Karen Dunbrook and Ardyth Percy-Robbs and for various reasons I've not been able to join in with the challenges for ages!!  However, I am fixing that today.

The host of this week's OLW - OLW102 is Ardyth at MASKerade.  Ardyth's challenge is "While we're on the subject" - she wants us to make a one layer card with a school flavour but based on our favourite subject.  Such fun!!!  My favourite subject at school was science - in pretty much all its flavours - chemistry, biology and physics (a bit).  Here are my cards - yes, I made four!!!  They are all tiny cards - the rectangular ones are 7½ x 10½ cm (2 7/8" x 4 1/8") and the square ones are 7½ x 7½ (3" x 3") - approximately.





Stamps:  There She Goes - Chemistry, Chem 101, Cutie Pi
Inks:  Memento - Tuxedo Black
Accessories:  Promarkers - lots; Card from stash

These were really easy to make - I simply stamped the images directly on to the cards and then coloured with Promarkers.  The first one I made is the last card shown - a play on the diagram of an atom - hence the sentiment.  Then I saw the little cutie pi stamp and, as my husband is a total maths nerd, I had to use it too - and his favourite colour is green!  Now, my very favourite science subject is chemistry and I just love the scientist image, and a fun sentiment to match.  I finished off with the rack of test tubes and these colourful solutions!  Chemicals really do come in a huge range of bright colours:


I took this photo at an Open University Transition Chemistry Summer school in July 2006.  It was such a fun week and I learnt a lot too!  These containers hold samples of all the chemicals we made that week.

That's all for today.  After an absolutely beautiful weekend weather wise, I've woken to rain and grey skies.  Still warm!  My job today is to do the ironing - I've managed to put it off since we got back, but it has to be done today!  See you soon.

12 comments:

Basement Stamper said...

Great cards, love this set and the variety of colors/stamps you used on them.

Lynne said...

Brilliant cards Debora, such fun images.
Lynne xxx

Buffy said...

Amazing cards Debs.
I want those stamps, where'd ya get em??

Ooow, I can see my purple stuff....shame it never made it back to milton keynes ;)

Really love those cards
Buf xx

Jinny Newlin said...

What a fabulous line-up of cuties, Deborah! LOVE all the color, and that touch of Glossy Accents on your chemist's goggles shows your attention to detail!

Jeanne J. said...

Deborah - I think this are all fabulous. Love your little girl scientist - your shading is beautiful - especially the highlights in the hair.... and the shiny goggles.. perfect! These stamps are all so clever and each card was better than the last. You totally nailed this and made me want to buy them ALL!

Deanna said...

These images are just fabulous. Great Cas Cards

Joyce said...

Super fun set of cards. How wonderful that you found a stamp set just for science lovers.

Jill Norwood said...

I LOVE these science based mini cards!!!! Science was one of my favorite subjects and is shaping up to be the same for my son. Love what you created - especially the cutie-pi one! Fantastic inspiration!!!!

Ardyth said...

I was hoping someone would come up with chemistry and science - these are all so much fun! Thanks for playing along with my first OLW challenge!

Jean Martin said...

Deb I LOVE your coloring! These are fantastic! :)

Anonymous said...

These are all great cards, Deborah. As a mathematician myself, the cutie pi card is especially fab.

kingstonmama said...

These are so fun, Deborah. I love the fun images. Your coloring is fabulous. Ann

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