Ken Oliver June Challenge Day 4

It's day 4 of our June Challenge, this months theme is 'Vacation', over the next couple of days we will be sharing creations from some of the Creative Team and you have a chance to join in too and win a pack of Ken Oliver Color Burst.

To participate create a 'Vacation' themed project using Ken Oliver products along with any other products and mediums you choose.  To submit you can either email your entry to sharon@kenolivercrafts.com, post to Facebook and tag #kenoliverjunechallenge or add your link to the project in the comments at the bottom of this post.  Deadline for Submissions is July 12th.

(p.s. we are working towards introducing an inlinkz option to future challenges, thank you for your feedback.)

Hey did you know that we are having a Creative Team Call?.

We are looking for Team Members who can work in all mediums, be

adaptable, relish a challenge, understand color and can work in a team environment to meet our various creative needs, deadlines &

requirements.

Full details on how to apply can be found here.

Todays we have not one but two fantastic projects from Nikki Davis, the first is somehting we will all recognise i'm sure, a great watercolor of Big Ben and the second is something we could all use, a savings jar for our vacations.

Supplies

Color Burst

Water Media Paper

Mod Podge

Tissue

Glass Paint (for writing)

Twine

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

Nikki Davis

Supplies:

Color Burst

Liquid Metals

Ken Oliver Water Media Paper

Mod Podge

Gesso

Acrylic Accents

Vintage newspapers and magazines (on Vase of Flowers Canvas)

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.

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 !

Creative Team April Challenge - Day 3

It's day 3 on the blog of the April Challenge.  Thank you all so much for your comments and feedback so far, we cannot wait to see your submissions, so just to remind you here are the details:

 The theme this month is 'Family' and the challenge was to create using three Color Burst colors, one metallic color, Stick it, any stamp and die cuts. (If you haven't got all the supplies above don't worry you can still enter as long as there is Color Burst in the project)

This month we will be opening up the challenge to you. Create a project following the brief above and share it on Facebook with the tag #kenoliveraprilchallenge or email your submissions to sharon@kenolivercrafts.com.  You could win some Color Burst for your stash.  

The deadline for submissions is April 29th. Winners will be announced her on the blog and Facebook on May 1st.

Today's inspirational projects are from Yvonne Blair and Nikki Davis

Yvonne Blair

Supplies used:

Color Burst - Ultramarine Blue, Lemon Yellow, Turquoise 

Liquid Metal- Sky Blue

Stick-it

Dies-Impression Obsession 

Number die-DIE282-T

Alphabet typewriter- DIE159-M

Doilies-Wilton

Frame recycled from Goodwill.

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Nikki Davis

Ken Oliver Crafts photo mat

Color Burst: Sepia, Turquoise, Ultramarine Blue, and Terre Verde (black was made by mixing other colors)

Liquid Metal: Metallic Sky, Copper and Pewter

Ken Oliver Crafts Tool-It-All tool

 Stick It

in'spire by Spellbinders Anchors Away die

Black colored pencil

Sea shells from our Spring Break 2016 Florida trip

 

Creative Team March Challenge - Nikki Davis

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.

One of our Creative Team Coordinators Nikki Davis has made not one but four projects for her challenge.  The egg garland is so much fun.

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Supplies Used:

Color Burst

Liquid Metals

Valentine Projects made using Color Burst.

Nikki Davis was on the road again this weekend so had time to create some Valentine's using Color Burst.  She use a resist technique, sketching and painting to create these fun Valentines.  Lots more pictures and information over on her blog here.

Watercolor Masking with Color Burst

Our Creative Team Co-ordinator Nikki Davis is away this weekend with her family at a tournament this weekend and she has found some time to create.  Take a look at her blog here to see the full details of these amazing birds and the gorgeous 'Thank You' and how she used masking fluid with Color Burst.

Up-cycled Paper Patterns Dress with Color Burst

Here's an exciting mixed media piece that is so cool! Nikki Warner Davis from our Creative Team has created a paper dress from up-cycled vintage dress patterns! You'll want to read her blog today, she shows you how to make a "dye bath" with Color Burst to color the pattern pieces.

Click here for Nikki's blog