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Elevate Your Pitch / BIRDesign

Koffie! Met grafisch ontwerper, vormgever en art-director Jo Vogels. Waarom hij al achtentwintig jaar doet wat ie doet? Da's wel duidelijk.  "Vanaf een wit vel iets creëren dat werkt. Dat doet wat het moet doen. Dat verrast - niet alleen de klant, maar ook mijzelf." Ja, onze nieuwste pitcher vertelt zoals hij ontwerpt: het plezier spat ervan af. 

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L-O-V-E: What We feel in our hearts for you and these cool things…

Christmas is upon us, there is no denying that next week a lot of us will be with friends and family opening precious gifts we have wrapped creatively! And we can’t wait for you to open up an Umba Box! We are running around ourselves trying to wrap last minute Umba Box business and we are so tired of Mariah Carey saying she only wants us for Christmas. We could understand if she wanted an Umba Box! But even amidst the craziness, we still found things to absolutely love this week…

Starting with Home! Most of us are traveling back to our parent’s house and to other  family, where we grew up and have roots. Nothing beats mom’s cooking and lazy days on the couch watching White Christmas. And speaking of a White Christmas, one of us snapped this shot this week of her hometown. 

So if you can’t have a White Christmas, here is our gift to you! Print it out and put it some place you can see it!

Second thing we are loving is the DIY Christmas Newsletter Template from Birdesign. If you are like us and are a little behind on the ordering of Christmas cards, this can be your solution. Just download, fill it in, in Photoshop and print! And the design is so super cute. 

To download, go here. We would love to see your newsletter when you are done. Don’t forget to check out Birdesign’s Facebook page either. They do monthly freebies and givaways!

Third, we discovered a company called Minted this week. While this website may look like an average card and printing company, they are actually a site where independent artists can submit their work and potentially have an outlet to sell their work. Like this:

The Elegamersand art print from designer, Hailey Myziuk.

Or an amazing party set like:

From designer Kelli Hall. 

Or even personalized stationary like this:

From designer Stacey Meacham. 

Your biggest problem will be deciding on what you want. Each designer is so talented and you can read a little bit about them and their life. You can also be apart of the process by voting on your favorite designs. So super cool!

And last but no least, Rifle Paper Botanical Stickers!

We are in LOVE… and I’m talking obsessed with these little beauties. We have used them on everything, like on the pictures for our Limited Edition Box Press:

And on our notebooks like this:

We just keep finding places to stick them. 

We hope you had a fantastic week and are gearing up for some non-stop Holiday action here in the next few days. We here at Umba Box will be celebrating with our families. Next week our blog will take a little vacation, but will resume it’s usual schedule on the 26th! From us to you, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!