Tuesday 5 June 2012

texture tuesday - the quote edition 5.6.12

Kim Klassen's Texture Tuesday challenge this week 
is to share an image with one of our favourite quotes and any one of her textures...

I was pretty excited about this!

I am a quotaholic...
and, as it turns out, my introduction to textures was when I stumbled upon 
 Kim's video tutorial - Textures in Ten - and through joining her "texture lovin' list"...
as well as her Skinny Mini eCourse

I pulled out one of my first texture attempts and reworked it 
using what I have learned since that time
through experimentation and through many of your blogs

I used two of Kim's textures
and this is what I came up with


For this I used two layers of Kim's 'music lovin' texture, both in multiply blending mode
and one layer of her 'paper stained' texture in soft light mode
I used a soft brush to remove some of the texture on the coffee cup and added my text...
(which, as I look at it here, perhaps should have been a bit larger)

and then I couldn't stop....

I really loved the Post Card texture 'dear dreamer' that Kim sent out this past weekend!!
It reminded me of the Post Cards we sent to friends while on vacation as a kid.

I experimented with it as well... 
I couldn't come up with what I felt was the right quote for it in the moment, 
but since I had chosen a photo from a visit to a beach we frequented during my childhood 
I decided to use it as a post card to my brother


I used Kim's texture as the background in this one 
adding my text to it and then adding my photo as a layer
using the soft light blending mode at 53% 


Check out everyone else's wonderful submissions to today's Texture Tuesday
They are awesome!



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10 comments:

  1. What lovely photos and processing - that mug is beautiful! I love your quote. Thanks for sharing!

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  2. I've always loved that quote...and the idea behind it!

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  3. ♥ I'm madly in love with your second photo with the post card texture! perfect!

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  4. These are both wonderful, I hope you have lots of good memories :)

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  5. Yes, the results are magnificent. The truth is that this photo is exquisite colors and textures.

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  6. Janet, these are so very, very beautiful.
    I especially love the second one. It is so heartfelt.
    You should be VERY proud of these!

    P.S. Thank you for your comment, and the smile that reading it, gave me! :-)
    My back is doing better, but definitely not where it should be quite yet.
    Thank you so very much for asking, and I will definitely pop in there tomorrow or the next day.
    Seems like I've been away from there for an awfully long time. :-(

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  7. Love the postcard. Suits the composition of the photo. Valerie

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  8. oh that postcard turned out great. good job

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  9. Oh my, Janet! Both are amazing photographs, but the postcard knocked my socks off! Its absolutely beautiful! Wonderful work!!

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  10. I love these Janet! Your editing is wonderful! Thank you for the tutorial. xoxo

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