Friday, March 4, 2016

Ken Oliver Crafts/Impression Obsession Blog Hop





Welcome to the Ken Oliver Crafts/Impression Obsession Blog Hop!

We have some beautiful projects to share AND PRIZES to give away!

The hop will run for 2 days (3/4/16 - 3/5/16) with a list of participants on the Ken Oliver Crafts and Impression Obsession Blogs each day at 8am EST. Visit the fabulous designers from both team’s blogs (only one comment per blog please) for a... chance to win 4 great prizes!
The more blogs you visit … the better chance you will have to win!!!
Ken Oliver Crafts will be giving away a set of Color Burst to two lucky winners!
Impression Obsession will be giving away a $25 Gift Certificates to two lucky winners!


Comment entries will be open until 9pm EST on Sunday March 6th and all winners will be announced Monday March 7th on the
Ken Oliver Crafts and Impression Obsession Blogs.


Good luck!



I had tons of fun playing with the colorburst on  the  Ken Oliver Mixed Media 6x6 Artboard

I used a stencil and the following colours to create the delicious background:

Violet Color Burst 
Ultramarine Color Burst


I stamped the background with the following stamps:

Open Brushed Heart - Embossed in Gold
You Make Me Happy (sentiment)
Umbrella Silhouette- I paper pieced the umbrella, fussy cut the image and mounted on foam dimensionals.
Lastly, I added the Die Cut "Love" in gold to compliment the embossing on the heart


Be sure to hit all the spots on the hop for a chance to win~

Friday- March 4th

Vicki Garrett---You are HERE!!



Saturday - March 5th

Yvonne Blair 
Dina Kowal
Giovana Smith
Jenny Gropp

Laurel Beard
Kittie Caracciolo
Zoey Emanuela Scarpelli
Daniela Dobson

Krista Cheryl Riley 


94 comments:

  1. Hi nice to meet you - your back ground is just fantastic, and the effect of your card is stunning. Great use of the color burst.

    Crafty hugs Pen x

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  2. This is such a cool card with so many layers and textures - a work of art for sure!! Thanks so much for sharing it!

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  3. I really like how the background came out. I wish I could do that, maybe with some more practice. Thank you for sharing your card and inspiring me.

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  4. Vicki, Vicki, Vicki, your project is amazing!! Love it.

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  5. I like this style of card. The mixed look is very cool and artsy!

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  6. I love how this turned out. I want to try these colorburst powders!!!

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  7. Beautiful card... love that background! This would be great for a journal page too.

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  8. Thanks for the great step by step. I can't wait to play with these fantastic tools.

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  9. Wonderful! Just simply wonderful!!

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  10. love this card! all the layers just keep my eye moving around...didn't want to miis a thing! lol! i've been trying the use of stencils with the color burst!'tfs, sandyh

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  11. Gorgeous mixed media project! Awesome colors and details! I love the dies you used!

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  12. The colors and the umbrella make this pop. Thanks for sharing.

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  13. Love your background. Beautiful project. TFS

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  14. Your creation is stunning, I just love everything about it. The background colours and how you applied them is incredible and it is so dramatic with the black silhouettes of the two people. Thank you for sharing, I am feeling very inspired!!!

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  15. Very pretty card, love the theme

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  16. I love your 3-D card. Color Burst is such a versatile product. Can't wait to use the new colors. Thanks for the inspiration.

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  17. I love the drama of this card. The background does not overshadow the silhouettes and yet is so bold. Wonderful!

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  18. Oh...I be needing some of these. lol

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  19. Love the background. Great job!! I need to get practicing.

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  20. Love the background. Great job!! I need to get practicing.

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  21. Awesome background and love your card.

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  22. Awesome background and love your card.

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  23. FANTASTIC! Wow! This is really creative and quite awesome!

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  24. What a beautiful card. Love your use of the different elements.

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  25. What a beautiful card. Love your use of the different elements.

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  26. Great card. The silhouettes look so great under the pretty umbrella.

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  27. I just LOVE this card. The silhouettes of the couples and the stamped saying just tie it all together. Great water colors too. Thanks for sharing

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  28. Vicki, your card looks like you had a TOTALLY FUN TIME in making it!!! SUPER JOB!!!! ;)Collagey fun! :D

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  29. Your artwork is very inspiring. I haven't done much mixed media and this is a great project. Thank you.

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  30. Art board, you say? Super inspiring!

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  31. Beautiful vibrant color! Looks awesome!! Love the people inside of the heart that you embossed, great idea! Love it. :) Thanks for sharing.

    Katie B.

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  32. Don't you just love Color Bursts? They are great with stencils. And IO stamps are so great. Thanks for sharing.

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  33. Wow--beautiful colors and design.

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  34. This is my favorite color combo! So pretty

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  35. Love everything about this card!

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  36. I love that silhouette against the splashes of Color Burst background!

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  37. Beautiful background!! I haven't tried the Colorburst with a stencil yet but this has inspired me to try it :)

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  38. This is beautiful. I love all the texture you added with your paints!

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  39. What a fun artsy background ... love the umbrella

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  40. Love what you did!!! Great job!!

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  41. The background is so beautiful. Love the stamp too!

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  42. Love, love the background. It is just perfect! Great job!

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  43. This is an awesome, very artsy project.

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  44. Gorgeous background and love the paper pieced umbrella.

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  45. What a wonderful background! Your card is awesome!

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  46. Nice card. Love the background.

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  47. What fabulous layers on your cool piece!

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  48. The umbrella silhouette has been on my IO wish list for a while. I love the way you've used it, and your background is beautiful.

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  49. Beautiful background on your sweet love card. Thanks for the inspiration.

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  50. Oh what a lovely card...I love the background with the sentiment! It goes
    perfectly together! LOVE IT!

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  51. These backgrounds are so interesting.

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  52. I am in Love with this stamp and the way you used this on this card is wonderful!!!

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  53. Very cool stenciling and stamping!!!! I need to get more adventurous with my stamping projects! :)

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  54. Colorburst and stencils make a great textured card!

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  55. Awesome project, love the colors.

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  56. Fantastic project. Love all the different elements you used.

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  57. Vicki your card is way cool! Love the abstract treatment and the application of the color bursts!

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  58. Love the colors in your card!!!! Great card!

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  59. Great colors and I love that you used lots of stamps and stencils!

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  60. Amazing card. I love your designs and the colors. Beautifully done.

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  61. Gorgeous card love the background and all the texture and layering. Thanks for sharing.

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  62. Fun collage of stencil, stamps & color! Great sentiment with the image!

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  63. Very nice card! I love all the bright colors you used!

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  64. Beautiful colours and very romantic.

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  65. Your art board is beautiful

    KathleenR



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  66. Love this! So many great details on it!

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  67. I really like this a lot - lovely bg to accent the silhouette - and the heart is perfect!

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  68. Thank you for sharing your art board! Such a great use of color and I love the sentiment!

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  69. ALl those items worked wonderfully on the background.

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  70. Stunning colors! Great technique, too.

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  71. Thanks for showing us such a lovely art piece. It has so much going on to catch our attention.

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  72. Just gorgeous!!!

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  73. Terrific card! I love the background!!

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  74. AWESOME! I absolutely love how the Color Burst moves and blends! I'm trying to figure out if you applied a second color of Color Burst through a stencil over an already dry background of another color of Colorburst?

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  75. I love the combination of colors. Very cool card.

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  76. What a great card! I really like your paper-pieced umbrella and how you've framed the couple with the gold embossed heart: clever and so striking.

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Thanks so much for visiting my blog. I hope you have a wonderful day and I very much appreciate your sweet comments!

*****Vicki*****