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Back from Vacation, new members and a card!


I am back from my vacation in Germany! I had a great time there - as always. I go there once a year to visit friends and family, do some sightseeing and enjoy the outdoors.This year I visited the newly opened Egyptian Museum in Munich, which just had opened in June. The sculpture in front of the building is by Henk Visch, a Dutch artist. I choose this picture as my welcome picture for all my new members, which joined my blog during my absence! Welcome

Leon Morton



I always get quite excited, when somebody new joins. Wow - I have 85 members right now. I would have never dreamed of that back in October, when I started this blog. You all make this really worthwhile! Thank you for joining and thank you for staying with me!


I also met one of my new blogging friends- Monika - originally from Indonesia, but now she lives in Munich. I brought some stamps over for her - they are much cheaper in the US, than in Germany. How lucky we are....Here you see the two of us having fun:



Monika made those wonderful cards for me and she also brought me a German stamp set - I am itching to ink it up!!!!


Thank you so much, Monika! I had a great time - we have to do this again next year if possible!

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I will show some photos from Germany in a later blog post - I don't want to stretch your patience too much. I finally managed to make a card this afternoon. Since I have to work this weekend I only had time for a simple one layer card. 

I first stamped the sentiment and clear embossed it. I masked off the two "OO's" of the sentiment and sponged the polka dots over it, using a TCW template. The bird is from TAWS - Bird Brain, I colored it with Copics.






 The sentiment is from a Technique Tuesday stamp set - Big Thanks. I put Washi tape at the bottom. The wings of the bird are brown - I thought I mention that since we should use at least 3 of the colors in the palette....

I will be linking this card with:


This is the inspiration photo from House of Cards:

http://design-seeds.com/palettes/FreshCherry.png

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Comments

Cathy said…
Cute card Cornelia, sounds like you had a wonderful trip :) Cathy x
Monika Reeck said…
Was a nice time Cornelia....many thanks for the Stamps you order and brought to Munich...I really happy to know you a few weeks before you fly to Germany....wish next time you have time to visit my home...we can do card making together....(smile)...btw cute polkadots card..love this
sue t. said…
Love this cute and CAS card Cornelia! Thanks for joining us at HOC!
Ruth M said…
Fabulous and fun CAS card Cornelia, great use of the challenge colours and I love your composition!
Thanks so much for playing along with our HOC CAS challenge, I hope you join us again very soon! Ruth x
Rosmarie said…
Was, dein Urlaub ist schon wieder zu Ende?? Wahnsinn, wie die Zeit vergeht! ....und da sollte man nicht alt werden!!
Freut mich , dass du bei HOC und unserer CAS Challenge mitmachst. Deine Karte ist wie immer toll und einzigartig, ...es passt wieder alles ganz perfekt! :)
Vielleicht machst du auch bei der nächsten Kategorie mit?

GLG Rosi
Sherrie M. said…
Welcome back Cornelia! Such a cute pretty card....
Vannessa said…
What a fun CAS card. Love all the dots! Thank you so much for joining in the House of Cards challenge this week. Hope to see you next week for the next card making style.

Hugs, Vannessa
HOC DT
Oh my gosh - how CUTE!! It made me grin - thanks :o)
Tammy said…
Adorable CAS card Cornelia, I love that fun little bird! Thanks for joining us at HOC this week!
Tammy x
Nancy Seed said…
Love how you made the colours from the challenge work. Great way to display the sentiment. Thanks for sharing with us this week at HOC C&S
Kim Heggins said…
fabulous card!!! I just love that sweet little bird.
Mynn xx said…
This is totally awesome!!! PERFECTLY CAS and I adore that darling image! Thanks for joining us at HOC and hope to see you again for our next challenge! Mynn xx
Pamela said…
The polka dots and the birdie is just so cute! I love the slanted polka dots and how it's going from small to large! Thanks for joining us at CAS-ual Fridays Challenge!
Kanan Pandya said…
Love your card, Cornelia, very very sweet. Its so good that you meet Monica during your vacation, Great picture of your both and beautiful card by her. :-)
Jocelyn Olson said…
Wow, that is an awesome one-layer card! The masking on the O's is perfect. The bird is too funny! Thanks for joining us at CAS-ual Fridays!
Kelly Griglione said…
Well welcome back! And how fun that you got to meet a bloggy friend for real! Your card is adorable. Love the graduating polka dots in the background! So glad you joined the CAS-ual Fridays Challenge!
Love you card! So bright and joyful! Love the idea too.
Andrea said…
Too gorgeous and love the colours!
TFS with us this week :)
Andrea

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