Texture Tuesday

Kim klassens 'Texture Tuesday'

This weeks challenge is to use at least one Kim Klassen texture and the image should centre around the colour White.
So where's the White in my image you may ask........
Weeeeeeell if you look reeeeeeeal close Huntly has a sweet White arrow on his chest!
That's it, that's all I got!
But it is the ONLY White bit on him so it kinda fits the spec yes? 

Gorgeous aint he!
Meet Huntly, my Great Dane boy and bestest friend in the world (other than hubby of course!).
He's 3 years old and has a typical Great Dane character - lots of slobber! Plus he carries his teddy bear everywhere - so darned cute!

I used a KK texture with this photo and then created a layer mask and erased out the texture on Huntly - that's it!
Oh and added a border.

Thank you to Kim Klassen for hosting Texture Tuesday, if you guys head on over to her website you can see other participants and even have a go yourself!

Linked up to:
'Life with my 3 boybarians'
'Night owl crafting'
'Ginger snap crafts'
'Primitive & proper' 
'Lilluna'

Texture Tuesday

Texture Tuesday.

OK so this weeks 'Texture Tuesday' challenge from Kim Klassen must include one of her textures and should be centred around the theme of happiness.

My entry this week is of a Rose my sister bought for my mum one mothers day. I have fond memories of these Roses because I had just got my first DSLR and I wanted to test it out.
As this was also one of the first times I had used anything other than a point and shoot I was a bit OTT with the water droplets - too eager and heavy handed.
In fact this poor Rose was drenched during my first attempts and had to survive much shaking to dry it out a bit - patience is a virtue I do not possess, no way was the Rose going to dry out naturally.
Happy times!

Edited in CS5 using 2 of Kim Klassens textures set to multiply and soft light and the opacitys adjusted. 
Hard to see the textures I know but they are there - they looked more obvious in CS5 than they do here for some reason.
Enjoy!

Linked to:

'Craft Junkie Too'
'The Shabby Nest' 
'Its a hodgepodge life'

Texture Tuesday

I enjoyed Kim Klassens 'Texture Tuesday' last week so much that I've been itching to give it another go this week.
I'm still new to this texture stuff though and I just couldn't get the effect I wanted on the original image I wanted to use so I kinda had to make it easier for myself and use an easier image - boo me!
Here's the SOOC

OK when I say SOOC I kinda mean SOOC plus a colour boost, a frame and a watermark - I actually can't find the SOOC because that's how organised I am and I'm thinking I may actually have deleted it - oops!
Now here's my texture edit:

I added the textures through CS5 and the textures I used were Kim Klassens Organic, KK Musiclovin and KK Simplicity and then I did the most professional thing ever and ............played!
I can't remember what I did to each layer but I basically had the 3 layers set on different effects i.e one was on multiply, one on colour burn and one on........................ see, told you I couldn't remember.
Anyways, after that I just fiddled with opacity and fill on each layer until I got what I wanted and Voila! Done!
Not everyone's cup o tea but each to their own and all that! I personally love the sepia oldie misty kind of groove it's got going on now, hope you do too.

Now, why not head on over to Kim Klassens blog and have a little go yourself or just head on over and check out all the other cool edits?
Thanks for stopping by.

 

Texture Tuesday

Texture Tuesday -

Fuschia Sarah's Delta.

The texture challenge this week on Kim Klassens blog is to use her fabulous 'simplicity' texture.

This is a completely new challenge for me and sooooo out of my comfort zone as I'm only just learning what textures are all about but was inspired to have a go by some of the other entries.
I stuck to using just the Simplicity texture here as I have a tendency to overdo things if I try to include too many steps. All I did after that was reduce the opacity a teeny amount.

Kims blog is a new one for me - I just happened upon a link on Artistically Amys blog and spent ages there going through the rest of Kims content before deciding to take part in the challenge and I must say I luuuuurve this texture and am quite chuffed with how it's transformed my boring fuschia image.

 

This post is linked to:

'Cherished Bliss'
'Project queen' 
'A fresh perspective' 
'Deb duty photography'