Creative Team March Challenge - Krista Riley

The Creative Team were challenged this month to create projects under the Floral/Spring Team and we are sharing their fabulously creative uses for Ken Oliver products. The brief for this month was to create a project that was not a card, tag or Journal !, As we near the end of the team's submissions today or Creative Team coordinator shares her project

Krista Riley has used the Ken Oliver range of 12 x 12 papers and the Studio Stamps on this bright and beautiful layout.

Products Used

Butterfly Stamp - Studio Set 1

Color Burst 

Fuchsia, Turquoise, Tangerine

Click it - lamp black

Ken Oliver Watercolor Florals 

Ken Oliver Watercolor Tulips

Creative Team March Challenge - Zoey Scarpelli

The Creative Team were challenged this month to create projects under the Floral/Spring Team and we are sharing their fabulously creative uses for Ken Oliver products. The brief for this month was to create a project that was not a card, tag or Journal !, tricky but the team as always knocked it out of the park.

Zoey Scarpelli has used so many different techniques on her project, collage, mixed media, paper flowers. The concept is so clever and the end result is absolutely breathtaking.

Supplies Used:

Color Burst - Tangerine, Lime Green, Sepia, Yellow Ochre

Liquid Metals - Metallic Mandarin

Paper Hometown Cottage

Stamp Studio 1

Embossed Copper Collage Classes

Last week, I had the opportunity to teach a couple classes in St. Louis Missouri and in Evansville Indiana...I am always amazed with the creativity my friends and students share when we're creating together.  

I feel extremely blessed to get to teach techniques that inspire others to make art.  

I wanted to share just a few of the photos from each class. I loved seeing the finished projects, and I think you will love them too.  

At the base of this project is embossed copper...we use embossing folders, copper sheets, and patina solution to create stunning backgrounds for our collage pieces.  

It's an easy technique that gives amazing results.  

Often, students bring family photos, my friend Ann commented that she had relatively few photos of her parents together in the same photo...she pieced a couple photos together to create this tribute to them.  

 I love how this project below has a family photograph incorporated into the collage.

  

Thank you again For Keeps Sake in St. Louis, Missouri, and Mary's Scrap Den in Evansville, Indiana for letting me share some art and some new techniques with everyone at your shops. 

'til next time,

Ken