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!