Color Burst Mixed Media Canvas

Dunja Ducker from the creative team wow's us today with this gorgeous canvas.  Using the reverse of a canvas is a great idea for a mixed media project.  So many different textures and elements combined, amazing !.

Don't forget there is still time to submit your projects for the Ken Oliver April Challenge. Full details here. Email your submissions to sharon@kenolivercrafts.com or share them on social media with the tag #kenoliveraprilchallenge.  You could win some Color Burst for your stash.

Supplies:

Color Burst

Turquoise, Ultramarin Blue, Alizarin Crimson, Fuchsia, Tangerine

Liquid Metals 

Mandarin, Metals Sky, Metals Rose

Click It Ink Pad Lamp Black

Creative Team Meet Up ! Day 2

Yesterday we shared a great project by Kimberly that she created during our day on creative fun, today we are sharing more images from our fun day and a few more of our projects 

How's this for a selfie!!!!!, smile Ken, Kimberly, Nikki, Krista and Dakri

Krista and Nikki in full flow

Dakri's turn now to take a photo !

Ken and Nikki

Here is a peep at some of the art created, come back again tomorrow for the final installment.  

Have you checked out the Ken Oliver Crafts Facebook page?.  Make sure to follow us because coming soon there will be an opportunity for you to join in the creative fun every month alongside the Creative Team.  More details to follow.

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving to you from Ken and the Creative Team. We are so very grateful for your continued friendship and support.  

Today Giovana Smith has create a set of cards using the Color Burst Powders.  

Giovana Says:

"Hello everyone, Giovana Smith here sharing a set of cards I made in no time! The other day I was getting ready to go to bed and had a great idea, so I decided to craft instead of going to bed. When I get and idea and I say I will do it tomorrow, things change and they don't become as my original idea. Anyway, first started cutting all the papers I needed it, took some of my Color Bursts Powders and let the magic begin. I put 4 colors of Color Burst on my watercolor paper and spritzed water, let the colors mixed, ten I die-cut the leaves. I created background with Ultramarine Blue, to experiment, I added some pink crystal salt, at the end it look like water spots, I was very pleased with the wonderful look!! "

You can see more about this project on Giovana's Blog here.

Thank You Giovana

Color Burst Indigo Moon Accordion Book

Creative Team Member Kimberly Jones has created a truly stunning Accordion Book with Color Burst and we are over the moon !

Color Burst Indigo Moon Accordion Book

Kimberly says:

"Hello everyone! My name is Kimberly Jones and I am over the moon to be a part of Ken Oliver's new Creative Team! To celebrate this new venture, I decided to create an accordion mini book using Color Burst. These amazing powdered watercolors are so fun to use because they literally burst into vivid, surprising colors with just a spritz of water!

This fun project includes Color Burst, Khadi paper, plaster cloth, glitter, and more! For a step by step tutorial please visit my blog Serendipity Vintage Studio. Hope to see you there!"

Serendipity Vintage Studio: Colorburst Indigo Moon Accordion Book 

Thank you Kimberly for sharing with us today.

Color Burst Card Inspiration

Today we are sharing an inspirational creation from Creative Team Member Yvonne Blair, 

Yvonne says:

"So excited to be here and share with you my first 'official' project for Ken Oliver! I am totally honored and giddy to be a part of Ken's Media Team.  

Today I am sharing a card that I made for someone who needs a little inspiration and pick me up in here life.  We all have friends that go through tough times and we want to help, or try and give them something to smile about right! That is the inspiration behind this card.  Butterflies are kind of my trademark...most of my projects have butterflies included..I find them to be a great representation of change, growth, metamorphosis and beauty. 

I spritzed my watercolor paper with water and then added some spritzes of Color Burst.  I LOVE the effect you get, it is NEVER the same thing twice! I added more water and more Color Burst until I had the look I was going for...kind of a Nebula type look.  

I did a second watercolor paper using the Ultramarine Blue with the Lemon Yellow mixed in...this is where I stamped my butterflies to 'fussy' cut out. 

Then it was just a matter of putting the card together! 

I hope you enjoyed and found some inspiration! 

Until next time! Have a very Happy Thanksgiving! 

Yvonne"

You can find out more on Yvonne's blog at

www.yvonneblair.com

Thank you Yvonne for sharing.

Color Burst Christmas Ornaments

Today we want to share with you some amazing Color Burst Christmas Ornaments created by our Creative Team member Tracy Pounds.

Tracy is the proud Owner and Creative Director of The Little Blue House located in Keller, TX…just north of Ft. Worth. It is a fabulous Paper Arts Store & Studio.

On the Little Blue House blog they are celebrating a 12 Days of Ornaments Blog Feature… and Tracy has created these wonderful Color Burst Ornaments designed with pretty stencils from The Crafters Workshop and using the amazing Color Burst pigment powders!

If you would like to see the full tutorial on how Tracy created these fabulous Color Burst Ornaments, please hop on over to the LBH blog at

www.thelittlebluehouseblog.blogspot.com

Thanks Tracy for sharing these wonderful ornaments with us.

New Creative Team Announced Ken Oliver Crafts

I am more than a little excited today to announce a new creative team!  It's been a really challenging proposition and I am about a month overdue in naming the team!  Why?  Over 500 crafters, artists and bloggers from around the world sent in submissions.  

I was overwhelmed at the task...and had to call in some support to help with the decision making process.  

You know, if it was up to me, I'd choose EVERYONE! If you submitted art, and weren't selected for the team this time, thank you so much for your submissions, I loved looking at every single one.  And, keep in touch as we're going to feature guest contributors regularly.

I am so very proud of the team we've assembled...CONGRATULATIONS to all!  We have a very talented, well-rounded, world class team.  We have members from Germany, Italy, Canada, Ireland and the USA.  And, the new team features mixed media artists, stampers, card makers scrapbookers, lifestyle crafters and painters!  We wanted to offer a wide variety of arts and crafts "disciplines" to make it really interesting every day!

The new team members are:

Sharon Callis, Ireland

Krista Riley, USA

Nikki Davis, USA

DAKRI Sinclair, USA

Buffy St. John, USA

Zoey Emanuella Scarpelli, Italy

Diana Hetherington, Canada

Tracy Pounds (Miss Tracy), USA

Dunja Dücker, Germany

Kimberly Jones, USA

Laurel Beard, USA

Jeanne Streiff, USA

Jessica Frost-Ballas, USA

Yvonne Blair, USA

Giovana Smith, USA

I have extremely high hopes for the team...each one is so talented and I am so grateful that they've chosen to work with my products.  And I know that you're going to love the works of art they create.  

I started to do a bio for each one of them on this post, but I decided that we should "spotlight" each one of them separately to introduce them and let you know a little more about each team member.  I'll start the "spotlight" blog posts next week, so make sure to check back.  I'll send out Facebook reminders too, so you'll make sure to catch every post.  

In the meantime, follow them on Facebook...follow them on Instagram and Pinterest!  You are gonna love what you see!

Please join me in wishing everyone CONGRATULATIONS!  

I am telling you...this team is gonna rock the house! 

til next time,

Ken