Aflutter REVEAL!!!

Hello everyone!! 

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Here is the reveal for January's Kit .. AFLUTTER!!

It includes:

7 mixed media unattached banner pieces (You can use as many or as few at one time as you want this way!)

2 adorable miniature file folders (1 in kraft, 1 in doily)

1 handful of confetti

1 6 inch strip of vintage lace with satin ribbon insert

1 12 inch section of May Arts pleated satin in ivory

2 French Lace doilies

3 embellished paper clips

1 Reggedy flower in pink

2 white and pink paper flowers

3 Variegated pink flowers

7 floral beads

3 tags (2 in kraft, 1 burlap)

1 large doily and pink butterfly

1 stamped clothespin (not pictured!)

2 medium butterflies (1 recycled corrugated cardboard, 1 mixed media pink)

and 2 small butterflies

Kit is $18. Shipping domestic is $3, Canada is $5 and everywhere else is $6.
Just shoot me an email @ umwostudio@gmail.com to place your order (It's just easier for me to keep track this way!)
Don't forget.. This kit coordinates with CLASS(ic) Photobooth that's being offered :D

Aflutter Sneak #2

Sneak Peek #2 for Aflutter

January Kit - Aflutter

HAPPY NEW YEAR! (again!)

Let's jump right in with January's kit..

Introducing..

AFLUTTER!

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Think love letters, kraft, dark pink, cream, doilies, script, flourishes, scallops and YUMMINESS. 

oh goodness. I can hardly contain myself.♥

Midnight Spell REVEAL!!

Here is the Midnight Spell Kit!! I tried to keep this kit very fall themed with a few Halloween highlights. 

This kit includes:

One large orange and black carnation

Three medium black and orange star flowers

One 12 inch banner

One miniature "spell" book (it's unmarked for you to finish!)

One layered embellishment in black, kraft and orange

Two Halloween Labels (Poison and All Hallow's Eve) (opt for no stamping if you choose!)

Two Halloween Tags (A cockroach and Radioactive) (opt for no stamping if you choose!)

One set of paper rib bones

One black graveyard silhouette

One 3D pumpkin

Three resin leaves

One paper leaf scatter in orange, kraft and green

One floral spray with scripty kraft and black leaves

One "witch's brew"

The All Resin All The Time add on kit is a bit more Halloween themed, but I love it!! 

One Skeleton Cameo

One gothic frame

Three bats

One "Knob" or decorative circle

One giant flourish. 

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A Spoooooky floral spray!

Today I'm combining two blog hops! DUN DUN DUN!!!

So at the end be sure to pick which hop you're on and continue along the way :) My project today is a handmade floral spray. Making floral sprays is a pretty fun experience, but I'm always at a loss at the end of them on how anybody could ever make money doing it!! They're hard work and really take a toll on your hands.. all the twisting and pulling, the gripping and yada yada huh? 

Anyways! Here's my spoooooky floral spray:

Originally I sculpted the bats in Creative Paperclay®. To guarantee I'd always get the same shape I then molded them with Amazing Mold Putty and filled the molds four or five times with more Creative Paperclay®. They're painted with acrylic paint. 

The leaves are stamped with the script section of the Tree Writing Collage from VLVS! in black archival ink. They're distressed with Walnut Stain distress ink. 

Other supplies used include wire, glue and black floral tape.

Now choose your blog hop!!

If you're here for the Viva Las VegaStamps! Blog Hop use this list!: -

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If you're here for the Paperclay and AMP Blog hop use this list: 

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Day #6..

I can't believe we only have one more day after this!! Today's Tag plays off of yesterday's tag.. kraft and black and the mason jar full of... sooomething ;)

EDGAR ALLAN POE!!

I'm having fun layering stamps and figuring out different ways to put them together. I will admit.. my Raven got a little wonky, but he'll forever be with his poe :) 

Edgar Allan Poe

Faded Raven

Nevermore

New Mason jar from plate 827

P.S. your secret letter from me is.... "T"

now onto the other stops!!

Each and every team member has something amazing to offer!

Day #5!

Today is my favorite piece so far... but each day I swear they just get better :) One more Scene style stamped tag... but today's is sultry, sexy and deadly!!!

Stamped in black archival ink are stamps:

Censored Nudie

Pasteurs Death

Mason Jar

Friday the 13th

Poison

and the new Jar, Fly and Blood from plate827

I also stamped the script writing from the Tree Writing Collage Background in pumice stone as a tone on tone background!

Other products used: Black cardstock, kraft cardstock and walnut stain distress ink

Don't forget to see everyone else's stops on the hop :)

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Day #4

Welcome to the VLVS! All Hallow's Eve Blog Hop DAY NUMBER FOUR!!!

I'm keeping the ball rolling with tags, though I've switched from the bright tags before to kraft and black.

Today's tag is an outdoor scene, complete with a little crooked lettering, lol.

 I used stamps:

All Hallow's Eve

Tree background

Full Moon

Flock of Bats

Cemetery

R.I.P and Jack o' Lantern

Raven

Small Crow Right

They were all stamped in archival black on kraft paper. Throw in some walnut distress stain to age the edges, and a black pen for some faux stitching..done and done! The tag is a #8 tag from TH's tags and bookplates die. 

And here is a pile of some of my VLVS! images.... these happen to be the ones I don't use... imagine all those I do o.o

Now onto the others!!!

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VLVS! Blog Hop Day 1!!

I'm pretty excited to get to this! We've had this little baby planned for a while.. welcome to Viva Las VegaStamps!' All Hallow's Eve party!!

We've got seven days of inspiration from each designer on the team and you're bound to find SOMETHING that inspires you to get in the mood for Halloween!! 

We're also giving your prompts each day to earn a spot in a drawing... because each day we're giving away a fabulous prize! 

For the inspiration the DT and I have the criteria of doing some Halloween based project with at least one stamp from one of the two following boards:

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And here is my first project!! I've been working scene stamping, and gotta say.. I'm loving it! My tags aren't over the top with embellishments, but I think with scene stamping instead they feel more... rustic sort of. And just as cool as embellished tags!

 The stamps I used are:

Haunted House

Full Moon

Flock of Bats

and Boy and Dog Looking Up

The background was made with Shabby Shutters and Peeled Paint distress ink on a white #8 tag. I also used Walnut Stain and Archival Black ink by ranger. I stamped the boy and dog on kraft paper in Archival ink as well. The burlap string is courtesy of May Arts.

Now absolutely be sure to keep hopping and follow today's prompt for a chance at the prize!!

Thank you!

The Color Room #127 - Feed Your Soul

I've just entered my first color room challenge.. I'm VERY excited!!

I felt like I was working "out of my comfort zone" the whole time but holy wowza at the end it sure is beautiful!!!

I love the background especially.. I used a huge dry brush to get the effect... run it across your distress stain ink pad (In this case it's the festive berries seasonal one) and spritz the brush ever so lightly with water, just to give yourself some fluidity. Then stroke the paper! After it was dried I also puddled up a bit of the ink and splattered it up the top at an angle from the paint brush strokes and across the bottom left corner. 

One of the prompts in the color room is black and white chevron.. which I don't have in any form.. so I created some using an arrow stamp from Viva Las VegaStamps!. 

Supplies used include:

Paper: Echo Park paper from Winterland and For the Record

Stamps: Viva Las VegaStamps! Butterfly Spotted, Feed Your Soul, Chicken Wire and Arrow

Ink: Memento Black Tuxedo, Festive Berries Distress Ink

Other: Floral Beads, Spellbinders floral die, circle punch, American Crafts brad, Globecraft Memories chipboard piece, Miracle Tape by VLVS!, black pen

Linking up to PaperIssues on 1/16/13

A Dated Journey - REVEAL

Ok - ok - ok! Here it is.. the reveal for a Dated Journey.. I want you to know though.. I will not cave early next month!! You'll have to WAIT through the goodness peeks! !! !!!!!

:) Thank you for so much interest and support good friends. it really means a lot to me to know that there are so many of you backing me and encouraging me to do these types of things.

I'm very excited to share my love of making embellishments with other people and really thought this was the perfect way to do it!! ..

yada yada yada huh? ok! the big picture:

In the May2012 kit A Dated Journey you will receive:

-2 paper feathers; one large, one smal

-a scatter of kraft and old book page shapes for your layering needs

-10 vintage buttons (I scored these at an auction)

-2 bird on a branch silhouettes (designed by me!) one 6inch kraft, one 3.5inch cream (Both cardstock)

-3 red petal and music note leaf paper flowers

-3 brown thick brown cotton crochet flowers

-2 petite cream thread crochet flowers

-3 hat pins; one six inch beauty and 2 complimenting just shy of 2 inches

-an 8-10 inch fence

-and 2 complete old book pages!

$18 + $3 shipping anywhere in the US - $5 to Canada

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Honeymoon - CC Challenges

This challenge is to make a mini album around a vacation you will or have taken --- We just don't vacations (until this summer!) So I did ours on our "Staycation"

I made the base for the album out of MME's Life Stories journaling cards. Used Imaginisce punch as well. and the Precision pen. all from CC

Not CC : Cosmo cricket black chipboard, baker's twine, lace, kraft paper, dymo label maker, vintage buttons.

Sneak Peek..

I did in fact complete a brand new project for the box that went into Graphic 45 as a 30 finalist...

and as I'd love to share the WHOLE thing.. I'm only going to give you a sneaky peeky..

Impossible Things in the PDDD Blog Hop!

Hello everybody!! Welcome to my stop on the October Polka Dot Door Designs Blog Hop!!

I cannot believe the talent that these 2 girls have.. nor the talent that they find to share their hop each month. I am always so grateful and honored when they ask me! And this go round I'll be giving away a PRIZE!! to a random winner who hops along :)

Here is a quick reminder of the blog hop order:

Lindsay (you came from here)

DeeDee (you are here)

Amanda (go here next!)

Debby

Aki

Nicole

Smitha

Sabrina

Joanne

Marivic

Tammy

Diana

Mazlina

Polkadot Door Designs

and here is the beautiful inspiration image:

And here is my piece:

I've got a GORGEOUS red wall in my living room, so I knew I had to have a splash of red for this.. I cannot wait to hang it up!! Supplies used include corrugated cardboard, recycled cardboard boxes, a dymo label maker, MME red paper, red tulle, white snow cap paint dabber, vintage bingo marker, twine, diamond glaze, a frame and a white pen!!

Don't forget to make your own piece and link up on the Polka Dot Door Design's page.. LOTS of prizes included so leave nice notes for everyone :)

You're on your way to Amanda next!!!