Resume - DeeDee Catron

UmWowStudio is the newest innovative Embellishment Manufacturer in the Paper Crafting Industry. Now mass producing laser cut chipboard embellishments and flair (or buttons) for any paper crafting project.

I created UmWowStudio as a way to market myself and record all I do, from the paper crafting and memory saving I do to the fine art works and industrial designing. Not to mention some of the experimenting I seem to find myself engaged in frequently. I thought of it as a studio for me to express myself brought by a rich background full of designing, laughing, witnessing, innovating, crafting, experiencing, breathing, playing, living every moment, substituting, and most of all loving. It has now grown to be its own entity but I can't bare to part ways with the name. So along with the wonderful design team we have and the projects I create using UmWowStudio products, you may occasionally run into some posts sans UWS chip, but still beautiful to look at :)

I have a Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design. I have a passion for paper crafting and incorporating everything I know from other parts of my life into it.

PRODUCT DESIGN

UmWowStudio - Owner and Creative Director (2010 - present)

Viva Las VegaStamps! - Marketing and Artistic Director (3/2012 - present)

CONTRIBUTOR:

Paper Haus Magazine (1/2013 - present)

DESIGN/CREATIVE TEAMS
Amazing Mold Putty (4/13-present)
Helmar (5.2013 - present)

Paper Issues (5/2013 - present)

May Arts Ribbon (7/2012 - present)

PREVIOUS DESIGN/CREATIVE TEAMS

Amazing Mold Putty (10/2011 - 10/2012)
Basically Bare (3/2012 - 7/2012)
CropChocolate.com (2010 - 6/2012) (1/2013 - 6/2013)

Hobby Baby/Globecraft (5/2012 - 2/2013)
ReadySetCreate (10/2011 - 2/2012)

Viva Las Vegastamps! (3/2011 - 3/2012)

GUEST DESIGNER

Polkadot Door Designs - July, August, October 2011

PUBLICATIONS

The Stampers' Samplers - Oct/Nov 2011 - p.75

RubberStampMadness - Fall 2011 - ad for VLVS! - inside cover

RubberStampMadness - Holiday 2011 - ad for VLVS! - inside cover

Somerset Memories - April 2013 - p. 47

CHALLENGES/COMPETITIONS
Graphic 45 Rejuvenation Challenge - 1st place

Spotted Canary Summer Challenge - 1st place

ACCOMPLISHMENTS/FEATURES
CHA - Projects on display at the Winter 2012 show in Anaheim, CA for Amazing Mold Putty

CHA - Projects on display at the Summer 2012 show in Chicago, IL for WOW embossing powder and
    Globecraft Memories
CHA - Projects on display at the Winter 2013 show in Anaheim, CA for Tattered Angels, Globecraft and
    Piccolo and May Arts Ribbons
CHA - Booth attendance at the Winter 2013 show for Amazing Mold Putty and Globecraft and Piccolo

Featured on Artistically Speaking 9.9.12

Graphic 45 feature on their blog - 2/2012
Graphic 45 top 30 finalists for 2012 Design Team Call

Paper Issues Feature - 9.15.12 - 9.16.12 - 11.16.12 - 1.6.13 - 1.18.13
Paper Mood feature - 4.13.11

Play Date Cafe Cream - 5.5.11

Practical Scrappers feature - 3.12.11 - 3.29.11 - 5.2.11 - 5.18.11 - 6.8.11 - 8.28.11 - 9.22.11

Simon Says Stamp and Show - Top 3 11.22.10 - 2.22.12

Sketchy Thursdays Fave - 5.5.11 - 6.23.11
The Color Room Feature - 9.15.12

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