whoop! Let me start out by saying we LOVE our friends @ Paper Issues! They are super great, talented, funny ladies. And they seem to like us, too :) Because they've invited us to participate in sponsoring a prize and challenge for their November Online Crop!
The following is our inspiration and challenge info.. but you have to join their facebook group to enter. For each challenge you enter you are also entered into a $100 gift certificate to the PI store! PLUS most challenges have their own prizes, too! We are giving away a sweet little Christmas / Winter themed prize.
Challenge : Create your own patterned paper and use it in the project of your choice. No double dipping with other challenges. Extra entry if you use UmWowStudio on your project!
I'm Nicoletta I'm 34 and I'm Italian. I live in a village in the hills near the Adriatic Sea with my husband and my two sons Alice and Samuel. Since childhood I have always drawn and painted, i studied art in high school with a jewelry specialization and i majored in Medieval Art History at the University. Since i known Mixed Media Art i began to discover and learn more mixed media techniques because i was falling in love with this art form. Now Mixed Media Art is my favorite way to express my creativity!
I made these ATC cards with a very positive message: Let life surprise you!
Every day life can surprise us and today is a day that life surprise me because I'm guest of a very cool artist DeeDee Catron.
In these ATC cards I represent this message with a constellation of stars and nothing is most surprising of universe above us.
Hi UmWow Studio fans! I'm here to share a little tutorial on how to create with lots of fun textures and use UmWow Studio Mask/Stencils! This visual journal page was done with the UmWowStudio Star Confetti Mask , Circle Confetti Mask, and Cicada Mask.
Then, I used a palette knife to apply the Glass Bead Glitter Gel through
the stencil and allowed it to dry. You will know it's dry because it
turns from white to clear in color. Some dripped, watered-down Gelato® was added for more shimmer.
I used a Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft PITT Artist pen in a small tip to draw through the Cicada Mask! I love this winged beauty! I added a bit more scribble to it for interest.
Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft introduced a new product at CHA and it is gorgeous on the UmWow Studio chip! Texture Lux can be brushed on or built up with texture tools. I just brushed it on in silver and gold on some UmWow Studio Star Confetti and Layered Star Chip.
Some Crate Paper rub ons were added and the Layered Star Chip was added last. I love working in layers in my journals. Simple shapes can become very complex and show depth with lots of layers.
The theme of the page was Dreams and I wanted it to look sparkly and whimsical! Lots of layers create texture and a fun page!
I hope you enjoyed this little tutorial on how I created this page! Thanks for visiting today!
I love New Year's Eve! Even though I don't go out anymore to celebrate (truth be told, my family falls asleep before the ball drops!), I still love to celebrate with my kids and husband with a special dinner, silly hats, and noise makers. We usually have a later dinner, dessert, confetti at 10:00 and then bedtime for the kids. I stay up late scrapbooking or art making and sipping champagne. This page is from our festivities last New Year's Eve.
Hope you all have been enjoying the holidays!
This is my last post for UmWowStudio and I just wanted to give a big THANKS to DeeDee for having me as a part of her team! I have thoroughly enjoyed it!
Today I'm sharing with you a funny page called Out Takes....we resorted to selfies this year in order to get our Christmas cards out on time and here's some of the faces we pulled :)
I used the UWS Star Confetti Mask with Super Heavy Gel in Gloss on the background. When the gel dried I painted over the stars with watercolors.
I also used the 'This Happened' sign from the UWS Arrow Title Mash and covered it with gesso and a messy coat of blue metallic acrylic paint.
To emphasize one of the photos, I framed it with a large polaroid from the UWS Polaroid Mash collection. This I left raw because I love the look of it just the way it is!
So with that I bid adieu, happy holidays to everyone and may you all have a wonderful New Year! See you around the blogosphere!
When my youngest was still a little one in a crib, I had a baby monitor that I kept in the kitchen so I could hear when he was up from his nap. My other, then 6 year old, son loved Marvel figurines and I'd find them all over the house in odd locations. The funniest was this one seemingly muscular little dude trying to lift the monitor (or so it looks like)... It made me giggle one afternoon and I had to grab my camera!
The Comic Book Speech Bubbles Chip is perfect for little boy pages! I adore them for their Pop Art appeal and super hero flavor! I had to spice them up with some metallic embossing powders from WOW Embossing powders.
Then, I added some colored paper shapes behind them and popped up a few of them! This is a little bit different than my usual style but these shapes inspired me to create a more Pop Art style page... I was thinking along the lines of Roy Lichtenstein like this artwork:
Lichtenstein was a Pop Artist in the 1960's and his work mimicked the Comic books or ads of the time. His signature BenDay dots and bold primary colors had the art world in an uproar! I love the bold, retro look to the work!
I also used the Star confetti mask to add a few stars with gold texture paste. I just used a small palette knife to get some of the stars . I stitched on the lines to give a little more color.
If you have little boys or a love of Comic Book icons, these chipboard accents are for you! Thanks for letting me share this page with you today!
Hello everyone! My name is Olga Kolov. I am mixed media style crafter from Germany. My passion are paints and paste! You can see me on Facebook | Blog | Pinterest
I'm so exiting to be a guest designer by UmWowStudio today! Wonderful products will be maked here!
Here I will share a tag for Christmas with you. It is a simple but cute tag. White and Gold - my favorite colors for this wonderful day!
I have made an instruction video for you. Just try it! With wonderful star confetti mask and star confetti chipboard from UmWowStudio line you cann't make a mistake ;) Thank you DeeDee for this opportunity!
Miae here to share with you my latest layout using many UmWowStudio goodies! I wanted to create a page with a warm, sweet feeling to suit these recent photos of my little one.
I started with the Light Bulb Maskwhich I find so unique and cool! I outlined the bulb with a pen and for the rays I mixed a paste of heavy gloss gel and loose glitter. From there I felt "throwing" stars across the page would be right so I took the Star Confetti Maskand same gold glittery paste across the page. Now, what I just adore is how the From The Heart Flair(actually any of the UmWowStudio flair) fits so perfectly in the bulb!
To go with the warmth of the page, I decided to leave the Grid Borderchipboard raw. It worked perfectly as a lattice for a rose vine!
The Heart Stings chipboard is altered with Rub 'n Buff in Gold Leaf and Distress Paint. It's a lovely, unique chipboard (and versatile too!).
Hope you enjoyed perusing this page and get some inspiration out of it!
Hi! I'm Amber and I'm so excited to be UmWowStudio's Guest Designer today. I live in Utah with my husband and 3yr old little girl. I've been scrapbooking since I was 15 (thank you Creative Memories!!), but have only been doing pocket scrapbooking for 1 year and I. Am. OBSESSED!! I was SO excited when DeeDee came out with some pocket product in addition to all over her other fun stuff.
I've put together a full spread (with a quick and easy (aka fun!!) insert tutorial!!) showing how some of UmWowStudio's product can be incorporated into your pocket scrapbooking, as well as your mixed media projects - it's SO versatile!!
Hello :) Anai here with another UmWowStudio inspiration for you.
This time I decided to make a small card using our amazing products.
I wanted to use this amazing feather chipboard and it was just a natural choice to use it with a Nature Walk collection. I especially love the "Word Stickers" which have a lot of very motivational words and sayings.
"Spread your wings" seemed to be perfect match :)
And isn't the "Into the wild" flair just beautiful?
I covered the feather with embossing powder ("Aged Rose" by Stampendous) and added a little bit of shading with black and white Gelatos. I love this distressed effect!
For the base I used a paper with some blue and green tones and it gave me and idea to use it as a "sky". I really like the star shape, so I used a star confetti mask with a soft pencil and then added star confetti chipboards with a silver glitter on some of them.
I'm really excited about this project and I really like the final look. I think it can be a great card for someone close to my heart.
As you can see even on the small surface (the card is 5,5x5,5'') you can use a lot of UmWowStudio products and create something very natural, cute... and may I say a little bit magical? :)
Hi everyone, Manda here today and I am sharing a layout I made based on this month's sketch challenge.
I have recently started hanging seed bells in our yard to attract native birds and last week I was lucky enough to catch two beautiful King Parrots in the act of nibbling at one. I really love how the photo came out so I decided it would be great as a large feature photo like the one used in the sketch.
Because of the bright colours of the birds I wanted to use a neutral paper as a base and add some some pops of colour so the photo was the main focus. I started with a pop of red Color Shine and then I used the Star Confetti Mask to add some subtle patterns around two corners of the photo and added the Star Confetti to give it some dimension.
To balance out the speech bubble I added a piece of the Layered Arrows and of course the layout wouldn't be complete without some flair and I added a piece from my favourite - Mustard 29 Flair.
So now you have seen how I have used the sketch head over to THIS POST to play along and share your take.
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