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Sunday, May 29, 2016

Color Burst Time

How quick and easy is it to up cycle a clock?.  Diana Hetherington shows us how quick on her blog today.  She used Color Burst and the new Cut'n'Color Butterfly Mandala.



Saturday, May 28, 2016

Color Burst Florals

Artist and Creative Team member Dakri Sinclair brightens up our day with her vibrant floral art using Color Burst. You can see more of Dakri's work on her blog here.





Supplies

Golden Fluid Liquids




Friday, May 27, 2016

'Special' Color Burst Canvas

We spotted this amazing canvas by Creative Team member Dunja Ducker, using color burst and mixed media  The use of color to accentuate the wings and the use of fibers, glitter glass and embellishments bring this canvas together. Stunning !


Supplies

Glitter Glass
Fibres
Embellishments





Thursday, May 26, 2016

Ken Oliver Crafts May Challenge Day 8

Welcome to day 8 of the May Challenge, we will be sharing projects by our Creative Team for their monthly challenge.  

The theme this month is 'May Flowers' and the to make it a 'light' challenge they could use any Ken Oliver Craft products alongside products from ANY other manufacturer

Now it's your turn to get in on the fun!
 Facebook or Instagram with the tag #kenolivermaychallenge or email your submissions to sharon@kenolivercrafts.com.  You could win some Color Burst for your stash.  

The deadline for submissions is June 3rd. Winners will be announced her on the blog and Facebook on June 6th.

Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Ken Oliver Crafts May Challenge Day 7

Welcome to day 7 of the May Challenge, we will be sharing projects by our Creative Team for their monthly challenge.  

The theme this month is 'May Flowers' and the to make it a 'light' challenge they could use any Ken Oliver Craft products alongside products from ANY other manufacturer

Now it's your turn to get in on the fun!
 Facebook or Instagram with the tag #kenolivermaychallenge or email your submissions to sharon@kenolivercrafts.com.  You could win some Color Burst for your stash.  

The deadline for submissions is June 3rd. Winners will be announced her on the blog and Facebook on June 6th.

Today we have a project from


DIY Flower Press 


Supplies

Vintage Button
Oval Paper Punch
Circle Punch
Corrugated Cardboard
Little B Corrugated Paper Tape
Glue Stick
White Gesso
Rubber Bands


Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Ken Oliver Crafts May Challenge Day 6

Welcome to day 6 of the May Challenge, we will be sharing projects by our Creative Team for their monthly challenge.  

The theme this month is 'May Flowers' and the to make it a 'light' challenge they could use any Ken Oliver Craft products alongside products from ANY other manufacturer

Now it's your turn to get in on the fun!
 Facebook or Instagram with the tag #kenolivermaychallenge or email your submissions to sharon@kenolivercrafts.com.  You could win some Color Burst for your stash.  

The deadline for submissions is June 3rd. Winners will be announced her on the blog and Facebook on June 6th.

Today we have a project from


Supplies: 


Color Burst: Lemon Yellow, Aquamarine Blue, Lime, Terre Verte, Alizarin Crimson, Tangerine, Merlot


Monday, May 23, 2016

Ken Oliver Creative Team May Challenge Day 5

Welcome to day 5 of the May Challenge, we will be sharing projects by our Creative Team for their monthly challenge.  

The theme this month is 'May Flowers' and the to make it a 'light' challenge they could use any Ken Oliver Craft products alongside products from ANY other manufacturer

Now it's your turn to get in on the fun!
 Facebook or Instagram with the tag #kenolivermaychallenge or email your submissions to sharon@kenolivercrafts.com.  You could win some Color Burst for your stash.  

The deadline for submissions is June 3rd. Winners will be announced her on the blog and Facebook on June 6th.

Today we have not one but three projects from




Supplies:

Mod Podge
Gesso
Acrylic Accents
Vintage newspapers and magazines (on Vase of Flowers Canvas)

Sunday, May 22, 2016

Ken Oliver Craft May Challenge Day 4

Welcome to day 4 of the May Challenge, we will be sharing projects by our Creative Team for their monthly challenge.  

The theme this month is 'May Flowers' and the to make it a 'light' challenge they could use any Ken Oliver Craft products alongside products from ANY other manufacturer

Now it's your turn to get in on the fun!
 Facebook or Instagram with the tag #kenolivermaychallenge or email your submissions to sharon@kenolivercrafts.com.  You could win some Color Burst for your stash.  

The deadline for submissions is June 3rd. Winners will be announced her on the blog and Facebook on June 6th.

Saturday, May 21, 2016

Ken Oliver Crafts May Challenge Day 3

Welcome to day 3 of the May Challenge, we will be sharing projects by our Creative Team for their monthly challenge.  

The theme this month is 'May Flowers' and the to make it a 'light' challenge they could use any Ken Oliver Craft products alongside products from ANY other manufacturer

Now it's your turn to get in on the fun!
 Facebook or Instagram with the tag #kenolivermaychallenge or email your submissions to sharon@kenolivercrafts.com.  You could win some Color Burst for your stash.  

The deadline for submissions is June 3rd. Winners will be announced her on the blog and Facebook on June 6th.

Friday, May 20, 2016

Ken Oliver Craft May Challenge Day 2


Welcome to day 2 of the May Challenge, we will be sharing projects by our Creative Team for their monthly challenge.  

The theme this month is 'May Flowers' and the to make it a 'light' challenge they could use any Ken Oliver Craft products alongside products from ANY other manufacturer

Now it's your turn to get in on the fun!
 Facebook or Instagram with the tag #kenolivermaychallenge or email your submissions to sharon@kenolivercrafts.com.  You could win some Color Burst for your stash.  

The deadline for submissions is June 3rd. Winners will be announced her on the blog and Facebook on June 6th.

Thursday, May 19, 2016

Ken Oliver Crafts May Challenge Day 1

It's challenge time !!!

Starting today we will be sharing projects by our Creative Team for their monthly challenge.  

The theme this month is 'May Flowers' and the to make it a 'light' challenge they could use any Ken Oliver Craft products alongside products from ANY other manufacturer

Now it's your turn to get in on the fun!
 Facebook or Instagram with the tag #kenolivermaychallenge or email your submissions to sharon@kenolivercrafts.com.  You could win some Color Burst for your stash.  

The deadline for submissions is June 3rd. Winners will be announced her on the blog and Facebook on June 6th.

To start us off today we have a project from

Diana created awesome bunting using the Ken Oliver Butterfly Mandala dies and stamps with Color Burst

Supplies:

Emerald Creek clear embossing powder
DecoArt modeling paste
DecoArt gesso - black
TCW stencil (for the lettering)



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Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Orchid Flowers & Color Burst Card

Creative Team member Dunja Ducker has made a truly beautiful card for her Mother In Law for her Birthday, Dunja has made all the orchids by hand!!, we love the depth of layering and the delicate use of Color Burst to bring life to the Orchids. you can read more about the process on her blog here.




Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Cut'n'Color Poppy Flowers Card

Giovana Smith has a great card and tutorial to share with us, recently the Creative Team got to create with the new range Ken Oliver range of Cut'n'Color dies and stamps.


 Here's Giovana to tell you more:

Hello friends!! Giovana here today showing you one of the new Cut' n Color Stamp and dies from Ken Oliver Crafts! The set I used today is Poppy Flower Stamp and Poppy Flower Die.
Working with them was super easy!! Here are the picture details:

Stamp the Poppy flower image on a piece of Water Media Paper, then die-cut the image.


Start coloring the image, starting with the flower in Color Burst Fuchsia, while this gets air dry, color the leaves with Lime Green and Terra Verte, then add Lemon Yellow to the flowers.


 Cover the edges of a Kraft Water Media card, using a stencil add Lemon Yellow Color Burst and spray water.


 After background is dried, stamp sentiment in Crimson Click It Ink pad.


 Add flower to card, add pearls and little drops of Yellow Gold Liquid Metals. Set aside to dry.


And this is the look of the finished card.





Saturday, May 14, 2016

Water Color Painting with Color Burst

Nikki Warner Davis from the creative team loves to paint has been very busy this week and has shared some of her super paintings with us, you can see step by step how she created these on her blog here. Nikki used Color Burst and the Ken Oliver Water Media Paper.



Friday, May 13, 2016

Color Burst Card Backgrounds

Jeanne Streiff used Color Burst to create this bright background on her card for her Mini Misti project.  Have you used Color Burst to create backgrounds, share them with us by tagging #kenolivercrafts on social media or email them to sharon@kenoliver.com 

Jeanne has a giveaway on her blog here, you could win a Mini Misti too!



Thursday, May 12, 2016

Painting with Color Burst

Nikki Warner Davis has a great tutorial on her blog here showing how she up cycled a canvas to create a mixed media painting of the Historic Boehne House.  Nikki used Gesso, Color Burst and News Paper !



Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Meditation Room Canvas

Creative Team member Diana Hetherington shares with us today the final installment in her series of canvas panels for her meditation room. By using Gesso, Color Burst and a heat tool she has created these soothing backgrounds.  You can see more on this project and how all three look hung together here on her blog.



Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Butterfly Daisy Mandala Wall Decor

Creative Team Member Yvonne Blair has used the Butterfly Daisy Mandala Cut'n'Color Stamp and Die to create this gorgeous wall decor piece.  We love how she cut out the Butterfly elements to create embellishments.




Supplies Used:


Stick-it adhesive

Stamp-Impression Obsession
Water Spritzer
Foam Dimensional Tape
Glitter
Seam Binding
Paint Brush
Heat tool

Monday, May 9, 2016

Cut'n'Color Daisy Card

Laurel Beard from the Creative Team has been creating with the new Ken Oliver Cut'n'Color products. By using a combination of Color Burst and Heat Embossing she has made this bright and inspiring card.




Supplies:



Laurel says:

I had a great time playing with the new Cut N’ Color products! I have to say I was absolutely impressed with this line. I tried it out for the first time LIVE via Periscope and was blown away at how intricate the dies are! Look at how they got out all the detail of this image! It was an unexpected surprise! I heat embossed the stamped image first and then water colored it with colors from the Liquid Metals line and look at all that shine!!!!! I popped up the die cut image on a card base that I scored with my scoreboard and adhered a sentiment and done! The image takes center stage here!!!!!



Sunday, May 1, 2016

Mixed Media Monthly Challenge: Coloring with Color Burst and Stencils


Hey everybody, this month, I was asked to be the guest artist for The Mixed Media Monthly Challenge.  I was super honored to be asked because I know thousands of viewers read their blog every day to mixed media inspiration! And, some of the best artists around post amazing art there all the time!

This month's challenge is "Butterflies and Blooms." It's spring and I couldn't wait to get started.  But, I wanted to do something a little different for this challenge.

I created an 8"x10" photo frame using one of my Mixed Media Photo Mats. The mats are really great, they're heavy weight mat board that holds up to water media without warping. The front of the mat board is covered with smooth watercolor paper, so it's great for watercolor, or coloring with your favorite coloring medium, whether it's markers, colored pencils or inks. 


And since "coloring" is so popular, I wanted to show you how you can create your own coloring pages or projects using stencils that you may already own.

I simply used a stencil from The Crafter's Workshop to create a back ground design by tracing the shapes of the stencil with a sharpie onto my mixed media board.


I layered traced shapes on top of one another making sure to keep in mind which traced flowers were foreground, mid and background.  It gives the illusion of depth of field in the composition.  Here's a tip when using stencils for a background pattern like this, rotate or angle the stencil in different directions as you trace the image.  It appears that the flowers are all different, just by changing their angle or position.

When I'd completed tracing my background, all I had to do was "color" each image with Color Burst, a brush and water.  As you're coloring with Color Burst, there's no need to stay in the lines perfectly.  Afterwards, you can go back with a sharpie to redraw the lines a bit.  It looks pretty cool...and watercolory!


I gotta tell you, I love coloring with Color Burst, because it's a powder, you can get really intense colors and blending with a brush and water lets you get very interesting shading and highlights. I painted the flowers with Fuchsia, Tangerine and Lemon Yellow.  When I'd colored all the flowers, I used a light wash of Chartreuse to fill in the background.  When everything was colored, I went back to the surface with a fine tipped Sharpie to redraw the flowers for added visual interest.  I finished the surface with a waxing medium to protect the watercolor. 


Now, you have to check out the projects over at The Mixed Media Monthly Challenge!  The mixed media art on the blog is incredible! And, take the challenge to create a mixed media piece! It's always good to challenge your self to create something new.  When you take the challenge and post it...you'll have the chance to win a set of Color Burst Caribbean Brights!  Make sure to read the rules and requirements for eligibility...I am telling you, you will love the art you'll find there!

Here's what I used to create this piece:
8"x10" Mixed Media Mat Board
Caribbean Brights Color Burst
Fine Tipped Sharpie
Watercolor Brush
Water
Wax Finish

Thank you for visiting my blog today and make sure to take the challenge at The Mixed Media Monthly Challenge! 

Until next time, 
Ken

April Challenge Winner

Thank you to all who entered the April Challenge, this months lucky winner randomly selected from entries is:

Jennie Lin Black



Congratulations Jennie

Please email sharon@kenolivercrafts.com with your contact details an we will get your prize out to you.

Don't worry if you didn't win this month, details of the May challenge coming this week.