Color Burst Card Backgrounds

Winter CHA is over for another year and Creative team member Jeanne Streiff was a very busy lady during the show.  Ken made some watercolor backgrounds using the new Caribbean Brights Color Burst and Jeanne added the finishing touches using the Ken Oliver stamps to create these fabulous cards.

You can read more about these cards on Jeanne's Blog here.

Color Burst Winter Bird ATC's

Kimberly Jones from the Creative Team has used her Color Burst to create these four superb ATC's. These pint-size beauties are just 2 1/2 by 3 1/2 so they don't require a lot of time or materials for great results. This set of four winter bird themed ATCs were created using just two types of Color Burst and a few other simple elements.

Kimberly says:

These cards incorporate several of my favorite elements for collage including watercolor paper, magazine images, pretty patterned papers, tea bags, a white Uni-Ball Signo pen, a Stabilo pencil, and Color Burst watercolors. The elements you gather will be unique to you, but I would love to share some of the details in my ATCs.

I started by cutting 3 pieces of watercolor paper to 2 1/2 by 3 1/2, the standard size for ATCs. ATC #3 was cut from Ken Oliver's Hometown Cottage - Garden Cottage 12 x 12 patterned paper. Each card includes cut out images and text from one of my favorite magazines, Birds & Blooms. Finishing details include white dots made with the Uni-Ball pen, and shadows and edging made with a Sepia Stabilo pencil and a water brush.

ATC #1 background features handmade papers and a scrap of vintage piano roll that were colored with a sprinkle of Sepia Color Burst and a spritz of water.

ATC #2 has a piece of paper torn from Ken Oliver's Hometown Cottage - Garden Cottage 12 x 12 patterned paper and watercolored with Merlot Color Burst. The bird image is layered on a torn piece of a tea bag that was stained with Sepia Color Burst mixed with water in a bowl.

ATC #3 was cut from Ken Oliver's Hometown Cottage - Garden Cottage 12 x 12 patterned paper and layered with a snippet of handmade paper.

ATC #4 is a piece of watercolor paper that was painted with a mixture of Titanium Buff paint tinted with a sprinkle of Sepia Color Burst. A piece of handmade paper completes the card.

Making these little cards is so enjoyable and relaxing! I hope you will have fun making some Artist Trading Cards of your own!

Color Burst Hello Friend & Art Cards

Today Creative Team member Giovana Smith has not one but two stunning cards to share.  For these cards she used the Ken Oliver Watercolored Memories Set 1 Acrylic Stamps and Color Burst.  

Giovana says:

Hello friends! Giovana here today, presenting you a couple of projects I created with my new (yes, I finally was able to use them) Color Burst! I have to say that I love, love, love the Sepia one, oh boy, it is delicious! LOL.

I applied 4 colors of Color Burst: Sepia, Merlot, Yellow Ochre and Ultramarine Blue on a piece of watercolor paper, mist water and let the Color Burst do the magic!!

After the piece dried, I cut it in 4 pieces 

For the 'Hello Friend' card I stamped the flower from Watercolored Memories Collection Set 1 in Versamark Ink and applied Gold Embossing powder and heat set. I Cut the panel to 3.75" x 5" and adhered it to a white card base (A2 size). Then I die-cut the 'hello friend' in white cardstock (x2), using Stick it to then stick the die cuts to the card base. A little strip of teal cardstock and few sequins and the card was done.

For the second card I used the star, art, butterfly and numbers (BG stamping) from Studio Collection Set 1, the star and art were stamped in Turquoise Ink and the little swirls are from Watercolored Memories Collection Set 2 and stamped in Lamp Black Ink . I have added a red pearl in the middle of the star and adhered it to the panel on a A2 white card base.

Hello from CHA

Hello from the CHA Mega Conference and Trade Show.  If you are attending you can find us at booth #2652.  Come say hello and see the newest releases in the range, see live demonstrations and learn some new techniques from the experts.  For those who cannot attend don't worry as we will be sharing details and photo's on the Ken Oliver Crafts Facebook page, Instagram and here on the blog too.

Keep an eye out for your change to win some Ken Oliver goodies too!

Look forward to seeing you there.

Purple Coneflower

Creative Team member Buffy St John is back today with a beautiful Purple Cornflower, created using Color Burst and a dash of table salt!.  Buffy also shares a video of this stunning work of art.

Buffy says:

Hi Everybody!

Buffy here with you today and I wanted to share a cheerful painting titled Purple Coneflower. Living in central North Carolina I am blessed to have a beautiful perennial garden for about 9 months of the year. One of my favorite flowers is the Purple Coneflower. I started with a reference photo and from there I drew this simple yet beautiful flower.

Then it came time to select the colors I wanted to use...

Color Burst, Yes!!!!! I used

Lemon Yellow, Yellow Ochre, Ultramarine Blue, Terre Verte, Violet, Orange, Burnt Orange, Sepia,

I love the transparent, vibrant colors and the way they behave with each other on the paper!

   The richness of the Sepia makes me so happy!

I have created a short video today

and I hope you enjoy!

Color Burst Valentine MDF Puzzle

Creative Team member Dunja Ducker has our hearts in a flutter with her latest mixed media project.  She used a MDF puzzle piece, die cut hearts, distressed paper, netting together with Merlot and Alizarin Crimson Color Burst, the result is this stunning wall art.

2015 Photo Folio

Hello and a very Happy New Year.  Starting off 2016 today we feature Creative Team Member Buffy St John who has created a truly memorable Photo Folio to commemorate 2015 and she shares with us not only pictures but a video too!.

Buffy says: 

Well it looks like another year has come and gone...where does the time go?

Every year I create a photo journal of the year that is ending; to record memories, visits with family, my gardens and the classes that I have taught as well as taken...(yes, I take a lot of classes!)

Today I would like to share a Photo Folio that I have created using

Ken Oliver's Studio 12x12 Collection Pack papers, stamps and Ink.

I love this collection pack, it has 2 sheets each of beautiful images plus 2 sheets of double sided 4x6 cards for journaling PLUS a sheet of beautiful matching ephemera!

I backed the ephemera sheet with a sheet of Stick It and cut out the pieces to use within the project.

 I used every scrap of this collection in this project.

The stamps in these sets are beautiful and crisp, and I use Lamp Black Click It to insure a perfectly stamped image.

To read Buffy's Blog, please visit:

Lets Go Paint Something: Photo Folio 2015

To view the photo slideshow of this project, please visit:

https://youtu.be/HMh8e6RBn30