StudioU Before & After

Address

Streets of Chester
200 US Highway 206 South
just south of Rt. 24
Chester, NJ 07930
(908) 879-0298

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Hours

Mon-Fri: 10 AM - 8 PM
Sat: 10 AM - 7 PM
Sun: 11 AM - 6 PM

No appointment necessary!

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Our Latest Project Collections

At Studio U you'll find an extraordinary array of imaginative projects and techniques for adults and children to choose from. Experience something new each time you visit, new projects are added regularly! Not an artistic bone is required and no appointment is necessary. The following are examples of just a few of the projects we have to offer.

Decoupage, Paint & Glitter

Decoupage, Paint & Glitter

Shown: Holiday Reindeer
  • Create a few holiday reindeer to get the holiday decorating started!
  • Kids love to decoupage and paint and always like to try out our new paper mache shapes.
Paper Arts

Paper Arts

Shown: Clear Holiday Pails
  • Clear Pails are all the rage this season!
  • People love to decorate them and use for gift giving--personalize with a monogram or just make it pretty with our new cheery christmas papers.
Paper Arts

Paper Arts

Shown: Hanukkah Pail
  • Our clear pails look great decorated with our new clear stickers and they couldn't be easier.
  • This Hanukkah pail was created using 2 packs of clear stickers, so it's easy and fun to create a special custom container for the holiday.
  • These pails are perfect for giving baked goods, bath and body products, you name it!
Paper Arts

Paper Arts

Shown: Decorated Place Card Holder and Wine Box
  • Thanskgiving is all about family, friends, food and drink.
  • These place cards can make your table look really special and you can make matching napkin rings and a wonderful welcome sign for the front hall to complete the set.
  • If you're the visitor this year, this decorated wine box is a snap to make and turns that bottle of wine into a really special hostess gift that will be around long after the wine is gone!
Glass Painting

Glass Painting

Shown: Thanksgiving Plates
  • Fun and easy, these plates look great and are perfect for your thanksgiving festivities.
  • Tracing beautiful patterns through the glass is relaxing and anyone can do it--use our pattern or bring your own!
  • Great for your decor, or a wonderful hostess gift.
Paint and Glitter

Paint and Glitter

Shown: Glitter Sleigh
  • How fun is this glittered sleigh?
  • Use it in the front hall for holiday cards, or as a pretty container for your own gift giving--cookies, soaps, or build your own gift basket.
  • It's the little things that make the season special.
Paper Arts

Paper Arts

Shown: Custom Gift Bag, Card, and Tag
  • We've got some great ideas for you to customize bags, tags, and cards at Studio U.
  • Use our new holiday papers, adhesive rhinestones, cool shape cutting machine and more to create a festive array of  custom paper products that can be as simple or complicated as you wish.
  • It's all easy and fun at Studio U!
Beading

Beading

Shown: Beaded Mirror and Frame
  • It's surprisingly easy to cover mirrors, frames, name plaques and boxes with our Czech glass bugle beads.
  • Create a little bling for the season or make a great gift that matches a friend's decor.
  • Come in and choose from our array of colors to make a custom look all your own!
Glass Painting

Glass Painting

Shown: Christmas Plates
  • Custom holiday decor is quick and easy at Studio U!
  • These cute holiday plates are cute and fun and make a great hostess gift or festive addition to your own holiday table.
Metal Embossing

Metal Embossing

Shown: Blank Books
  • We're so excited about these new journals in the Metal Embossing display at the store!
  • Customize a journal using our monogram templates--add a name and you've got the perfect gift. Make one, make six--it's fast, fun, and they'll be blown away that you made it.
  • These journals are perfect for any age to make or give--come in and get started!
Decoupage

Decoupage

Shown: Coach Clipboard
  • Our rugged new sports papers transform an ordinary clipboard into a special present for the coach--come in and check out our selection today.
  • Our cool alphabet diecuts make it easy to customize any clipboard with a nickname, the season record, team slogan, etc., so you have a custom gift they'll never forget!
Decoupage

Decoupage

Shown: Teacher Clipboard
  • Remember your child's favorite teacher this season with a wonderful clipboard that you made yourself at Studio U.
  • We've got papers for every grade--preschool to 12th--so you know we've got you covered.
  • Our alphabet diecuts let you spell any name or phrase without touching a pair of scissors, so your gift will truly be customized and still be easy to make!
Sculpey Clay

Sculpey Clay

Shown: Cheery Sculpey Ornaments
  • Our popular sculpey clay ornaments are back!
  • Kids love to use our cookie cutters to make fun sculpey ornaments for the tree.
  • These are also great teacher and coach gifts that the kids can make themselves.
Glue and Glitter

Glue and Glitter

Shown: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Snowflake!
  • Come in and make Rudolph the Red-Nosed Snowflake for your Christmas tree!
  • He's cute and fun and kids love his googly eyes!
Glue and Glitter

Glue and Glitter

Shown: Paper Mache Ornaments
  • We've got over 10 great paper mache ornament options to decorate with glue and glitter this year!
  • Our metallic paints dry quickly and our top of the line glitter makes all our glitter projects look special.
  • Come in and make all your ornaments for the tree this year!
Glitter Decoupage

Glitter Decoupage

Shown: Glitter Decoupage Ornament
  • Everyone loves glitter decoupage--it's our most popular technique at Studio U!
  • Holiday ornaments are the perfect venue for glitter decoupage, and we've got lots of shapes and papers to choose from.
  • A great, affordable gift that you can personalize by choosingfavorite colors and make your own paper combinations!
Scrapbooking

Scrapbooking

Shown: Tags
  • Transform our holiday tag shapes with christmas papers, glitter, rhinestones and more!
  • These tags will look great on your gifts or hanging on the tree at home!
Shimmer Ornaments

Shimmer Ornaments

Shown: Shimmer Ornament
  • Give a gorgeous handmade gift or three this holiday season! These quick, easy-to-make ornaments look perfect under the tree or on it.
Shapes & Clay

Shapes & Clay

Shown: Metal Leaf & Clay Ornaments w/ Rhinestones & Glitter
  • Use our gilded samples as a guide to help you choose your clay colors, metal leaf and just the right cookie cutter shape.

  • Our tools make it easy to roll the perfect shape and add some crackled shine--everyone will think you've  been doing this for years!

  • A touch of glitter and a rhinestone or two will make your ornament sizzle!
Whimsy Ornaments

Whimsy Ornaments

Shown: Feather Boa Ornaments
  • Have a Furry Holiday! These wacky boa ornaments are fun and easy and are perfect on the tree or scattered all around the house.

  • Bring your kids in to make ornaments and cute boa elf critters for a whimsical holiday touch.
Room Decor

Room Decor

Shown: Door Hangers
  • Speaking of names, why not initials?
  • Our fun door hangers are a great way to personalize your room or make a custom gift.
  • Or welcome a new baby with sweet moon and star for the new mom to hang on the door when baby is sleeping.

Scrapbooking

Scrapbooking

Shown: 8 x 10 Friends Frame
  • Our new scrapbooking area is perfect for making all kinds of projects--including frames and mirrors!
  • Come use our great new family and friends papers to make a wonderful frame.
  • Scrapbooking isn't just about pages and canvases anymore!
Scrapbooking

Scrapbooking

Shown: 8 x 10 Baseball Frame
  • You can make a frame with our great new sports rubons--we've got baseball, football, basketball, softball and more!
  • Just paint your frame, rub on the great images, and add a little color for a tough, gritty feel at the end.
  • Your athletic child will be motivated to find their inner artist to make this great frame for their room.
Scrapbooking

Scrapbooking

Shown: Sports Mirror
  • A little more ambitious, but what a great project!
  • Choose from our great range of new sports papers to make a super mirror for your favorite athlete or sports fan!
  • Bring in their photos and make a truly personal gift.
Scrapbooking

Scrapbooking

Shown: 8 x 10 Football Canvas
  • Cool paper, cool stickers, one great photo and you've got a memory!
  • Our canvases make your project ready to hang on the wall as soon as your done.
  • Start planning your holiday presents!
Scrapbooking

Scrapbooking

Shown: 8 x 10 Preschool Canvas
  • They grow up so quickly and our photo stashes are piling up!
  • Studio U has great new school papers and embellishments for every grade--we make capturing these memories a breeze!
Scrapbooking

Scrapbooking

Shown: 9 x 12 Little Sister Canvas
  • Big brothers are the best--don't let great photos like these sit inside your computer or in a box on the shelf!
  • Studio U makes it easy to turn great photos into even better memories to hang on the wall or give as a gift.
  • Would Grandma love this or what?
Scrapbooking

Scrapbooking

Shown: 12 x 12 Marching Band Page
  • We've got a great set of papers for sports and after school activities that make scrapbooking quick and easy.
  • We've got a new 12 x 12 canvas size as well, so you can make a page for your album or attach it to canvas for your wall.
  • Come in and check out all the new paper options--from band to dance to soccer and football--Studio U has you and your family covered!
Scrapbooking

Scrapbooking

Shown: 24" Horse Crazy Canvas
  • Make a super sized 24" square scrapbook canvas for the super sized horse lover in your life!
  • We've got lovely new colors of solid papers as well as papers specially designed for the equestrian crowd.
  • Our brand new alphabet dies make lettering fun and professional looking, so come on in and give it a try!
Scrapbooking

Scrapbooking

Shown: 24" x 36" Soccer Canvas
  • Our 24" x 36" scrapbook canvas is a great way to preserve a memory!
  • Make a great canvas for your team's coach, a special teacher, a retiring co-worker, a beloved grandparent, or a special family event.
  • Bring in your photos and we'll help you create a unique scrapbook work of art for your wall or to give as a special gift.
Scrapbooking

Scrapbooking

Shown: 24" x 24" Wedding Canvas
  • Our extra large scrapbook canvases are brand new and can't be found anywhere else!
  • Preserve your favorite memories on our stretched canvases and we'll help you make it special.
  • Just bring in your photos and we've got everything else to make it work!
Scrapbooking

Scrapbooking

Shown: Too Cute! 8" x 10" Scrapbook Canvas
  • We've got great scrapbook canvases that are just as great as our big canvases but very manageable and quick to make.
  • Come in with just one photo and make a cute canvas that's ready to be hung on the wall!
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10" Square Scrapbook Canvas

Shown: Shortstop Canvas
  • Here's another great example of how to make a special scrapbook canvas with just one photo!
  • Our papers and embellishments make it easy and fun to create something that looks really polished.
Scrapbooking

Scrapbooking

Shown: 8" x 10" Canvas
  • We've got lots of canvas ideas to inspire you!
  • Choose from our different layouts to make your perfect custom project.
Scrapbooking

Scrapbooking

Shown: 10 Square Scrapbook Canvas
  • This birthday girl canvas is a great way to use several photos on one project.
  • Add a glitter star, layer hearts, stamp the birthday girl a new crown--we make it easy to make your scrapbooking special at Studio U!
Scrapbooking

Scrapbooking

Shown: Photo montage keep-sake fan
  • Your photos can create memorable one-of-a-kind works of art for yourself or for the people you love.
  • Create and collage a fan, coasters, canvases, shadow boxes and much more. Or simply transfer a favorite photo to just about anything in the store.
  • When you bring in your original photo, we'll help you enlarge it, change it, enhance it, ink it and preserve it to create a unique work of art.
Scrapbooking

Scrapbooking

Shown: 11" Hanging Heart Scrapbook Page
  • Scrapbooking doesn't have to mean pages or canvases--come in and make a hanging scrapbook heart!
  • Choose your favorite paper(s) and we'll glue them to chipboard--then you can use our fun die-cut machine to create a pretty heart and a scallopped circle to frame your photo.
  • It's all easy and fun at Studio U!
Scrapbooking

Scrapbooking

Shown: Clipboard Frames
  • Clipboard frames are a great project to make for yourself, your locker, or as a fun gift.
  • Bring in your favorite photo or we'll take one for you on the spot!
  • Choose from our great papers, paints, and embellishments to make yours unique!
Scrapbooking

Scrapbooking

Shown: Prom, Grad, and Fun Clipboard Frames
  • More clipboard frame ideas to get your creative juices flowing!. Use your favorite prom or graduation picture, or just to make a photo gift more special.
  • As always, bring in your photos and we'll take one for you, so you never have to be prepared!
Collage Canvas

Collage Canvas

Shown: 8 x 10 Prom 2008 Photo Collage
  • Bring in a prom or graduation photo and make a fun keepsake!
  • We help you transfer your photo to canvas and then you get to go to town with glitter, sayings, crazy hats, rubber stamps and embellishments--it's fun, easy, and you make it unique!
  • Make a canvas for everyone in the photo--they'll be so glad you did!
Character Canvas

Character Canvas

Shown: 3 character canvases
  • Collage a personalized whimsical character onto an oversized canvas!
  • We snap your photo and turn it into pop art.
  • You combine your transformed photo with our selection of arms, legs, dresses, wings, crowns, and mermaid tails to make your fun new canvas.
  • Collage your new image and color and embellish with stamp pads, rhinestones, ribbons and more. We guarantee good fun.
Collage Canvas

Collage Canvas

Shown: 8" x 10" Daddy's Little Diva Photo Collage Canvas
  • Say "I love you" with a one of a kind photo canvas you make yourself!
  • Bring in a favorite photo of your little cutie, or we'll take one on the spot.
  • We help you transfer your photo and you add great color, fun sayings, and cute embellishments.
  • It's fun, different, and anyone can do it!
Create a Canvas Memory

Create a Canvas Memory

Shown: 3 Wedding Canvases
  • What a fresh, fun way to make a wedding memory!
  • Come into Studio U with your favorite photos from your wedding and we'll help you make great one-of-a-kind  art canvases for the bride, proud parents, wedding party, or beloved guests.
  • Nowhere else but Studio U!
Metal Embossing

Metal Embossing

Shown: Great Gifts to Make Dad!
  • Metal Embossing is a brand new technique at Studio U and boys love it!
  • Make Dad a great father's day gift he won't believe you made yourself.
  • We've got desk boxes, photo boxes, frames and more--come in and find out how easy and fun metal embossing can be!

Metal Embossing

Metal Embossing

Shown: Small Desk Boxes
  • These small desk boxes are fast & easy to make, and are a great gift.
  • We've got dozens of great looking molds to make designs from, so you don't have to know how to draw anything, but get the look you want.
  • And with our different colored metals, it's the perfect project for any taste or style!
Metal Embossing

Metal Embossing

Shown: 3 Frame Styles
  • What's so great about metal embossing is that it's perfect for all ages.
  • Some looks are great for boys, some for girls and some just go great with your decor at home!
  • Our cool tools and fun molds give you so many optins you can't go wrong!
Metal Embossing

Metal Embossing

Shown: Personal Accessories
  • Our new Metal Embossing technique looks great on personal accessories!
  • Make Dad a monogram business card case, or personalize a compact or lipstick case for a friend's birthday!
  • We've got brand new prices on these, so come in and find out how easy and affordable it is to make several at once!
Metal Embossing

Metal Embossing

Shown: Monogram Door Sign
  • This sign is so fun, and would look perfect on your bedroom door or hanging above your desk.
  • We've got a whole bunch of great monogram styles for you to choose from, and you just copy your initial from our template onto the metal!
  • It's easy to customize, so each one looks unique.
Metal Embossing

Metal Embossing

Shown: Pink Monogram Door Sign
  • Check out our fab pink version of the monogram door sign shown above.
  • Once you choose your letter, you can customize your sign any way you want to express your own style.
  • What a great idea for your room, or as an awesome birthday present for a friend!
Decoupage

Decoupage

Shown: Rice Paper Decoupage Vases
  • Decoupage is one of the most popular techniques at Studio U.
  • We've got brand new rice papers that make fresh and fun decoupage vases and frames.
  • Decoupage is easy and fun and anyone can do it!
Alcohol Ink

Alcohol Ink

Shown: Pop Dots Frame and Vase
  • Everyone loves using our cool inks to make fun and funky frames, vases, magnets, paperweights and more.
  • Watch white porcelain transform in front of your eyes as you drop vivid colors to create one of a kind patterns and color combinations.
Stamping and Embossing for Kids

Stamping and Embossing for Kids

Shown: Cool Spider Pyramid Box
  • Here's a cool project!
  • Studio U has great new glitter spiders, bugs and butterflies, and they'll look perfect on any box you custom make to store your special stuff.
  • Come stamp a box with spider webs and insects and then pick out your favorite bugs to climb all over it!
Decoupage

Decoupage

Shown: Mirror, Frame & Box
  • Studio U customers love decoupage, so we keep designing new options for you to choose from.
  • Our latest grey collection is very flexible, depending on what you do!
  • It can look masculine for Dad, dressy for prom or wedding, and sophisticated enough either way to blend in with your home decor.
Decoupage

Decoupage

Shown: Decoupage Projects
  • Decoupage a pretty gift or something for yourself--we've got frames, vases, mirrors and boxes.
  • What is decoupage? Gluing! It's easy and fun and our most popular technique.
  • Choose the spring papers we used in our samples, or poke through our extensive paper selection and customize something special that she'll love.
Mosaic

Mosaic

Shown: Garden Pots
  • Make something special for your garden with our colored glaze terra cotta garden pots.
  • If you're a beginner, this project is a great introduction because you only have to mosaic the top to make a great looking, one-of-a-kind pot.
  • If you're more experienced, make an armful and fill your garden with your creativity!
Mosaic

Mosaic

Shown: Jewelry Box & Two Mirror Mosaics with Gold Leaf Tiles
  • Select a frame, box, mirror or even a lazy susan.
  • Paint your piece, and then create a stylish design with tiles and gems.
  • Get some of our grout to pull it all together.  You piece will look polished and it's as easy as paint, grout, and go!

Mosaic

Mosaic

Shown: Out of Africa Mosaic Collection
  • You can choose from thousands of tiles to create a unique mosaic from over a dozen project choices--frames, mirrors, boxes, coasters, and more.
  • Or bring in your own images and we'll help you transfer them to create one-of-a-kind mosaic pieces that can match your decor at home!
Mobile!

Mobile!

Shown: "I Love Dad" Mobile
  • Create a special mobile with our fast-cooking clay and fun cookie cutters!
  • Create your own "I Heart Dad" and show Dad how much you love him!
  • You decide what color your hanger should be--and our fun embellishments help you make it something to keep forever.
Image Transfer

Image Transfer

Shown: Four Section Porcelain Platters in Full Color or Black & White
  • No time to make something? Come in with photos and order a great personalized platter, plate, mug and more.
  • What a great holiday, anniversary, retirement, group thank you or anytime gift--it's practical as well as heartwarming.
Image Transfer

Image Transfer

Shown: Black & White & Full Color Porcelain Plates
  • Bring in your photos to create fun or sophisticated porcelain plates, platters, and mugs.
  • We show you the same photos in black and white and color so you can see the possibilities with your own photos.
  • Trim your subjects out of their background for a fresh, modern feel.
Kid's Personalized Projects

Kid's Personalized Projects

Shown: Personalized Heat Transfer and Decal Transfer Pillow, Platter, Mug, and Canvas.
  • Kids' art is amazing.  Come in to the studio and help your little artiste create a drawing or painting.

  • We'll help put your kid's artwork on one of our high-quality pieces.  We've got porcelain platters, colorful mugs, soft cotton pillows, even canvases.

  • You can keep their childhood masterpieces preserved forever.

Boa Critters!

Boa Critters!

Shown: Marvin the Martian
  • Everybody needs a boa critter! How have you lived without one all your life?
  • We've got boas in every color of the rainbow--come in and make a whole family of critters to keep each other company.
  • Marvin also comes as a kit, so feel free to make one here and make one at home too!
Paper Arts

Paper Arts

Shown: Name Garlands
  • Why stop with Halloween?
  • Make your own name garland and hang it in your room--our cool new sports papers and great embellishments make them perfect for both boys and girls.
  • Once you make one, you won't want to stop--what great presents for all your friends.

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