{Travel vacation} SFYTT

Hi everyone,

Making my card I got really inspired to make another...so the next day, when I had a moment I made this card here, using the March SFYTT sketch. I'm a huge fan of Jen's sketches. They are always a little more complex than the average sketch, giving ample opportunity for me to challenge myself and try something new. This time I wanted to push my pattern limits. Patterns for some reason always scare me a bit but at the same time I'm always super impressed when I see someone who's really good at using them.

I figure - it's just a matter of practice. :)

Oh and here's the sketch I've been raving about so much:

Isn't it fun?!

If you participate and use Reverse Confetti stamps you even have the chance to win something. I unfortunately don't own any Reverse Confetti stamps yet so no chance for me but I still had fun playing along. The stamps I used are a hodge podge mix from The Cat's Pajamas and (I believe a retired set now from) My Favorite Things. 

Have a great rest of the weekend!

{Make Lemonade...}TCP Tuesday #309

we've had a lot of rain here in the San Fran area this past week which is great of course since we really needed it but also made me crave a fun, bright spring card.This card here is a hodge podge mix of some The Cat's Pajamas stamps as well as Taylored Expressions stamps.

I just loved the sentiment so much and thought it would go great with the idea of Sprinkle behind her little juice stand. I hope you enjoy and keep on making lemonade :)

Sonja

{Is it too late?} Mojo Monday 426

hi everyone,

I'm still on vacation which meant I was able to get another card in this morning. Yay!

This time I played along with this weeks Mojo Monday sketch. Always a good jumping off point.

Here's the sketch:

have a good day everyone!

{have a jolly holly christmas}

this was my second card I made.I just love how a little bow on top of a circle nestie makes it feel like a christmas ornament. :)

{and one more}

here is one more I did last night. This one reminds me of gingerbread cookies. :)

Happy Holidays!!

{tis the season...} to stamp

it's been a long time but I had the sudden urge to create some christmas cards and I had so much fun I didn't stop at one, I made three. I hope you enjoy and are having a wonderful holiday season. In case you're wondering - the stamps I used are all from the Cat's Pajamas. These are some of my alltime favorites of Alma's designs.

{Winter Wonderland} December Diva Inspiration Bloghop

Hi everyone,

and welcome to our December Diva Inspiration Blog Hop. My Internet is currently down so please bare with me as im posting this from my cell phone. :) 

I'll be back as soon as i have access but in the meantime here's my  card and my inspiration. 

hi!!! Ok my internet is back up and running! Unbelievable how helpless you feel without it isn't it? lol Anyway, can you believe it's December already? 

It's time to break out the cookies, get the tree out and write those cards. I also like to take this time to think about the past year, the highs and lows and for me there were quite a few of those. 

I got lasik eye surgery a few weeks ago and no longer need glasses. It's an amazing feeling!! Especially when you don't even remember the last time you were able to see without glasses. I finished my very first project at the company I now work out and I'm extremely proud of it. It's called "Tomorrowland" and is a movie by Brad Bird that comes out next summer. I fought hard to get a raise at work so please keep your fingers crossed for me there. I moved into an amazing apartment - no more roommates for me so yay. I'm way too old for roommates anyway but with rents in San Francisco being as high as they are it's unavoidable unless you move 30miles outside of the city which I did. :) Gives me time to make those phonecalls in the morning. :) 

And lastly...my mom was diagnosed with cancer about two weeks ago. She has multiple myeloma, stage  3  and if you follow my blog you know that I just lost my dad to cancer two years ago so the diagnosis came as a shock and in some ways we're still dealing with it.

My mom started her chemo treatments this week and as anybody who has gone through it or has seen a loved one go through it you know there are good and bad days. There are days when she's full of hope and then there are days when she wants to give up. What makes it harder for us is that I live on the westcoast and she is in Florida but thanks be to God that I have such an amazing family. My uncle told my aunt to go to my mom as soon as she can and stay with her for as long as she wants. Did I mention the rest of my family all live in Germany? Yes so my aunt will fly in to be with my mom next week and will be there with her for the entire time. 

I can't even begin to describe to you how grateful and relieved I am. 

God is good!

So...let me tell you what this month's blog hop is all about:

It's the 5th of the month and that means it's time for the Divas to serve up some fresh inspiration with their Verve stamps! Leave some comment love along the hop spots for a chance to win a prize, then grab some stamps and play along with our December inspiration challenge for another chance to win!

This month's challenge is entitled O Christmas Tree:

Ribbons and sparkle and merry galore! Create a card inspired by the decorations of the season!

Need a little inspiration? Check out the blogs linked below to see what the other Divas did with the challenge! It's sure to be a treat, and speaking of treats, we've got a prize for one lucky commenter along the hop! Check out the Verve Blog today for all the prize info and deadlines!

This here was my inspiration for the card I made above - a little side note: that believe fence I actually made myself. 

	1. Julee	6. Karen
	2. Amy	7. Sankari
	3. Anya	8. Sarah
	4. Betty	9. Sony
	5. Jen	10. Susan

Happy Holidays and a Merry Christmas to you!!!

{One Lifetime} November Divainspiration Blog Hop

hi Everyone,

and Welcome to Verve's November Diva Inspirations Hop. I'm showcasing another card I made for my friend's wedding last month. I wasn't entirely happy with the first one I made so I decided to make one more and then see which one I liked better. I ended up giving her this one. I liked how it resembled a book cover in a way which reminded me of how my friend is opening a new chapter in her life and I just really liked the symbolism of that. 

Well that's all I have for you today...I'm in the middle of moving and boxes are everywhere around here. You don't even want to know how many boxes I had to dig through to find the hard drive that had the picture for today's post on it....last night. I built up a good sweat let me tell you lol but thankfully I found it and here it is. :) Yay!

 Be sure to check out what the rest of the Diva team has come up with for inspiration with their Verve stamps! Leave some comment love along the hop spots for a chance to win a prize, then grab some stamps and play along with our November inspiration challenge for another chance to win!

This month's challenge is entitled Naturally Navy:

Classic, bold, timeless...navy is naturally elegant! Go nautical or pair with neutrals for a creation sure to impress.

Need a little inspiration? Check out the blogs linked below to see what the other Divas did with the challenge! It's sure to be a treat, and speaking of treats, we've got a prize for one lucky commenter along the hop! Check out the Verve Blog today for all the prize info and deadlines!

	1. Amy	7. Sarah
	2. Anya	8. Sony
	3. Betty	9. Susan
	4. Jen	10. Maureen
	5. Karen	11. Stacey
	6. Sankari	12. Marisa

{Wedding Wishes} Diva Inspiration Blog Hop

hi Everyone,

Welcome to Verve's October Diva Inspirations Hop. 

I am SO sorry but I'm afraid I lost track of time this month so I didn't get around to creating a theme inspired card this month...instead I'm showing you one of the cards I created for my friend's wedding a few weeks ago. Stay tuned for the one I actually ended up giving her...but in the meantime:

It's time for the Divas to serve up some fresh inspiration with their Verve stamps! Leave some comment love along the hop spots for a chance to win a prize, then grab some stamps and play along with our October inspiration challenge for another chance to win!

This month's challenge is entitled Fall Fancy:

The air is crisp and the colors are warm – celebrate fall with a spook-tacular creation or a thoughtful thank you using Fall as your inspiration! 

Need a little inspiration? Check out the blogs linked below to see what the other Divas did with the challenge! It's sure to be a treat, and speaking of treats, we've got a prize for one lucky commenter along the hop! Check out the Verve Blog today for all the prize info and deadlines!

	1. Julee	7. Sarah
	2. Amy	8. Sony
	3. Anya	9. Maureen
	4. Betty	10. Laurie
	5. Karen	11. Marisa
	6. Sankari	12. Jen

Lucasfilm Sidewalk Art Show

Every year we have a sidewalk art show right outside our building. We have about a day to create a Star Wars, Indiana Jones and now Disney inspired chalk painting. It's always a lot of fun and this year my friends and I decided to participate. 

We had a blast despite the fact that we were helplessly ill prepared for it. Our tape measure to lay out a grid was too short and it didn't lock so it took all three of us to draw the grid. We didn't have enough brown chalk so we had to get creative with the colors. And I'm a little ashamed to admit it but I was actually sore the next day...just from getting up all the time. lol It was a lot of fun!!

Here are some pictures of some of my favorites this year:

and this cutie here was ours:

Interview

Check out my interview on the Gnomon Blog :

http://www.gnomonschool.com/blog/career/gnomon-alumni-interview-visual-effects-secret-projects-environment-art-industrial-light-magics-sonja-christoph

{A cupcake Birthday} September Diva Inspiration Hop

Hi everyone!!

welcome to our September Inspiration Blog Hop. This months theme: 

Sweet September

Sugar-high! Get sugary sweet with pastels, cupcakes or candy. Create a calorie free confection to delight the senses!

I went a bit more clean and simple with my card this month: using the Verve Carpe Cupcake stamp set and the sentiment from the Borderline set. I embossed the brown strips with a polka dot embossing folder - it's a little hard to see in the picture but it goes along great with the polka dot ribbon. :)

Need a little inspiration? Check out the blogs linked below to see what the other Divas did with the challenge! It's sure to be a treat, and speaking of treats, we've got a prize for one lucky commenter along the hop! Check out the Verve Blog today for all the prize info and deadlines!

	1. Julee	7. Sarah
	2. Amy	8. Sony
	3. Anya	9. Susan
	4. Betty	10. Maureen
	5. Karen	11. Stacey
	6. Sankari	12. Marisa

We've got some sweet savings in the store with all of our brand new releases marked 10% off and some of our sweetest stamps & dies from releases past marked 20% off!

{Birthday Wishes} August Diva Inspiration Blog Hop

Hi Everyone and Welcome to Verve's August Diva Inspiration Hop!!

 It's the 5th of the month and that means it's time for the Divas to serve up some fresh inspiration with their Verve stamps! Leave some comment love along the hop spots for a chance to win a prize, then grab some stamps and play along with our August inspiration challenge for another chance to win!

Our August challenge is Sequined Stunner:

Sequins are the perfect embellishment - sparkly, affordable and with lots of texture. Add some sequins to your project this month to make it a sequined stunner! Feel free to use the graphic as inspiration or not.

For those of us who don't have sequins just laying around the house..let me tell you about my scavenger hunt through Michael's to find some! I started off in the wool section thinking sequins are used on clothing right? Yeah not so much...I figured ok, next one up...might as well check out the scrapbooking/ribbon section. Nothing. I found plenty of glass glitter and picked up lots of other things I really don't need but no sequins. I'm about to give in and redirect my search to a sales person but then after a few minutes of no luck in that I give that up as well because I come upon the jewelry section. Hopeful I go through it two times...no sequins!! I'm about to give up but then resign myself to at least just walk the rest of the aisles..which mind you they are only a few at this point...aaand you're not going to believe where I found them: in the kids section!!! I was so overjoyed I bought a pack of sequins in every color!! lol

I hope you enjoy my hard earned sequin card!! lol
Happy Hopping!!!

Need a little inspiration? Check out the blogs linked below to see what the other Divas did with the challenge! It's sure to be a treat, and speaking of treats, we've got a prize for one lucky commenter along the hop! Check out the Verve Blog today for all the prize info and deadlines!

	1. Julee	7. Sarah
	2. Amy	8. Sony
	3. Anya	9. Susan
	4. Betty	11. Maureen
	5. Karen	11. Stacey
	6. Sankari	12. Chaitali

{Java} July Diva Inspiration Blog Hop

Welcome to Verve's July Diva Inspirations Hop.
It's the 5th of the month and that means it's time for the Divas to serve up some fresh inspiration with their Verve stamps! Leave some comment love along the hop spots for a chance to win a prize, then grab some stamps and play along with our July inspiration challenge for another chance to win!

Our July challenge is Red, White and You:

Red and white are always classic, pair this gorgeous color combo with a color of YOUR choice! Make a statement or keep it muted, it's all up to you! Feel free to use the graphic as inspiration or not, we just want to see you flash a little red, white and "up to you" color on your creation!

Need a little inspiration? Check out the blogs linked below to see what the other Divas did with the challenge! It's sure to be a treat, and speaking of treats, we've got a prize for one lucky commenter along the hop! Check out the Verve Blog today for all the prize info and deadlines!

	1. Julee	8. Sony
	2. Amy	9. Susan
	3. Anya	11. Maureen
	4. Betty	11. Stacey
	5. Karen	12. Chaitali
	6. Sankari	13. Amber
	7. Sarah	14. Marisa

{a Kite Congrats} June Diva Inspiration Hop

Hiii everyone,

I'm sorry I'm a bit late with my post but I got mixed up in my dates!!! Hate when that happens!!

So I took a little liberty with the theme of this month again but that's just how my brain works. It hops. :) So this was our theme: Winged Whimsy. Let your creation soar by featuring wings! Think butterflies, birds, feathers or related sentiments. Celebrate the beauty of flight! 

Well I got stuck on celebrating the beauty of flight and immediately I caught myself humming "let's go fly a kite" from Mary Poppins. And that's how I arrived at making a congrats card for one of my friends who just welcomed baby #3 to her family. :) Aand now I can't get that song out of my head!! Ahh!!!

Our June challenge is Winged Whimsy:

Let your creation soar by featuring wings! Think butterflies, birds, feathers or related sentiments. Celebrate the beauty of flight! Whether you draw inspiration from the graphic or fly a solo mission, let's see some winged beauties!

Need a little inspiration? Check out the blogs linked below to see what the other Divas did with the challenge! It's sure to be a treat, and speaking of treats, we've got a prize for one lucky commenter along the hop! Check out the Verve Blog today for all the prize info and deadlines!

	1. Julee	8. Sony
	2. Amy	9. Susan
	3. Anya	10. Stacey
	4. Betty	11. Maureen
	5. Karen	12. Marisa
	6. Sankari	13. Charmaine
	7. Sarah	14. Andrea