Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Color Burst Goodness

Hello all! I'm off today to demo Ken Oliver's Color Burst Powders at the Great American Scrapbook Convention in Arlington, Texas, for the week. I've made lots of samples for the show, but since a few of the samples use Wendy Vecchi goodies, and her challenge for the month of June at the Make Art Challenge is "Embossing", I thought I would show them to you. They are not much, and easy to do, but they would look great on tags, cards, or even in an art journal. And...speaking of Wendy, I've had the privilege to hang out with her all week and take some awesome classes from her. How lucky am I?!!
Color Burst Powders are remarkable! The pigments are so rich, and there are so many ways to use them!
I used paper coasters for these. They work a lot like watercolor paper, so they were perfect. I stamped Wendy's Coneflower in Potting Soil Archival and poured different colors of her Embossing Powder on. LOVE the look!
Once heat embossed, I readied my palette of Color Burst Powders with a little water. These work a lot like the watercolor pastey paints. I painted in the flower.
To protect the image some, I rubbed it with Tim's Distress Micro Glaze. It makes a barrier for what comes next.
I sprinkled on a few colors of the Color Burst. A little goes a very long way as they are super concentrated. Then I misted over the coaster with water. I used a paper towel to clean away the Micro Glaze, and then added some doodling.
I did the same for the Rose,...
the Zinnia...
and the Daisy.
If you happen to be able to go to the show, come look for me at the Millenium Marking booth. Thanks for looking! 

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I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!

17 comments:

  1. Wow these are amazing! Love the bright colors! Have fun demoing at the show this week! Hugs, Sandra

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  2. they are awesome!!! and so are you! wished i could come and see you at that show!!!

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  3. Love them!! Great use of all those goodies! Have a fantastic time demoing, those star bursts look amazing!!

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  4. How lucky to be able to spend so much time with Wendy (and Wendy with you!). I keep seeing these Color Bursts being used, they certainly make the most wonderful backgrounds. I love what you did with them and the doodling around the edges looks amazing! Hugs, Anne xx

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  5. These are fabulous, love all the color here. Pinning!

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  6. How cool is that ! Missed you on CC3 Challenge #30 ... I can see you are BUSY ! Enjoy the show !

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  7. These are so awesome and amazing. I really appreciate you taking the time to put a tutorial together. They are so bright and vibrant, just the way I like things.

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  8. What bright and colorful coasters!

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  9. It sounds like you have had an awesome week! Lucky girl!! These are absolutely stunning. I'm sure all that watch your demos will walk away with some great ideas. Have fun!

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  10. See, this is why you are the Artful Maven, Anita!! LOVE THESE COASTERS!! And what a fun surface to work on--gotta find/get some of those coasters! I'm loving Ken's Color Bursts, too, and lucky you--you get to play with them all week!! Artful Maven-You make my heart sing!! :) You do everything Groovy!! :) :) XOXO-Shari

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  11. Wow Anita, these are just gorgeous! Your colours are so vibrant and what a completely clever idea to transform coasters!! I'm addicted to the colour bursts, have all them but the purple now. Amazing project! hugs :)

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  12. Whadaya mean 'they are not much'! They are fabulous! So pleased for you enjoying happy arty exchanges with Wendy. Have a ball exhibiting. Nicola x

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  13. Wow! These intense bursts of colour are just sensational - hope you've been having an absolute ball with the demoing, as well as hanging out with Wendy!
    Alison xx

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