Day 1 of the 12 Days of Textures

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Welcome to Day 1 of the '12 days of Textures'. I'm super excited about this!! 

I have more than textures to share with you over the next few weeks.

I will be posting part 2 of 'my story'.... I have some new offerings to tell you about....and I thought I'd share a little Christmas tour of our home.... I'm almost done decorating.....  woo hoo!

Let's ease into it all..... and start simply with our Day 1 texture ~ Lilly.....

I used 'lilly' on my image above.... Here's the easy-peasy recipe. Lilly did all the work on this one. 

• Layer 1 - Image (white balance and exposure edited in lightroom)
• Layer 2 - Lilly at soft light 100%
• Layer 3 - Blank layer at soft light blend mode. Painted black using a soft round brush at 80% opacity to faux burn the left side of the image. 
• Layer 4 - Black and white adjustment layer at soft light 45% opacity.
• Layer 5 - Final curves adjustment to darken the inside of the image.
• Layer 6 - Added the quote.

Okay I'm going to leave you here....

Feel free to use the 'inlinkz gadget below' to share your '12 days of textured photos' only throughout this series, . Please link back to the series. The gadget will remain open until December 25th.

You are welcome to right click and copy the 12 day banner above if you wish or grab the button code at the bottom of this post.

Basic texture party rules apply....  :) Your image must contain one of the textures from the 12 day's series.

Click HERE to download 'Lilly'.

I will be back again tomorrow with your Day 2 texture and some holiday decorating photos.

xo,

New to the Café and Textures? Wanna build your texture stash, check out the 2011 Texture Collection.

Get the saving's details HERE.

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Comments

[Joanie]

oooooh... I love this one! Love the musical notes...

[Barbara]

Kim, thank you so much for all you share! I so appreciate your generosity!

Barbara Carroll

[Deanna]

Oh I am lovin this one.....I especially like the textures with music or writing. Thanks again!!!

[Linda]

Kim - Thank you so much for this beautiful music! I love it!

[Skye]

thank you so much for the freebies! You always go above & beyond! :) Merry Christmas!

[barbara]

thank you so much Kim!

[chasity]

oooohhh...... love this.

[Barb]

Thank you so much Kim, for this awesome texture!!

[kelly]

oh, kim, i love this one! gorgeous... can't wait to play with these gifts all month. thank you so much!

[Laura K Aiken]

Lovin your quote and texture today, Kim. Thank you!

[Pat Mark]

Thank you Kim, Merry Christmas to you. I wish we could all send you gifts too, you are so generous with us.

[June Scott]

How fun is this! Looking forward to participating... love your Lilly texture - looking forward to "part 2" Thanks, Kim!

[Natalie E.]

Love this one. Thanks so much.

[Lorena]

I love the musical notes on this one. Perfect for designing a layout for a sick friend who is a singer. As always, Kim, you hit the mark! Thank you so much.

[Diana]

Thanks, Kim.... you are always so generous and such a loving person to your followers.

[Jayne]

Thank you!! So amazingly beautiful!!! Your the best!

[norah]

Great texture! What is the font you used?

[Mary Ann Potter]

Thanks so much, Kim. What a beautiful texture! I'm so anxious to see and use the rest as the days go by! 8-)

[Kelly]

happy *sigh*...LOVe this introductory texture Kim...Gorgeous image.

[Pixel Berry Pie]

I love your idea of the 12 Days of Textures! This is bound to be awesome.
Thank you for all your work on these textures, because I appreciate them!

[Kia]

Awww, I love this one so so much! I adore all your musical textures, so artistic and beautiful. Can't wait to have a wee free time and play with it. :)

[DiginanLiz]

Thank you so much, Kim, this is so pretty and can't wait to see the remainder of your 12 days of Christmas! Warm Christmas Wishes to you and yours:)

[Sara]

EStoy encantada con estas maravillosas texturas

[Lisa]

I hear your praises sung on many of the blogs I visit. Your textures are amazing. I'm a texture novice and am just now getting interested in using them in various ways. Your photos are so inspiring!

[JenN]

Thank you!! This is beautiful.