{Texture Tuesday}The Not-Necessarily Textured eDition

 

An iPhone photo - Looking for Shapes

Hello friends, 

This Week's TT Challenge details

It's another 'not necessarily textured edition'.... So that means.... pretty much anything goes! Fun stuff. Textured, not textured, processesed, not processed, iPhone image... simply share a fav photo.

Before we start linking up.... let's talk next week's TT theme..... 

Next Tuesday's TT Guidelines are:

Your image must be centered around the prompt 'back to school'...... and contain at least one layer of any of my textures. That's it..that's all.. Fun stuff!

New to Texture Tuesdays? Here's the short and sweet TT rules.

• please link directly to your TT post, not to your main blog url or flickr stream. Please do not link to your online shop. 
• please link back to the Café. You can grab the TT button HERE, if you wish.
• please visit the other TT participants and leave them some comment love. Remember it's a party.... and what's a linky party without lots of comment love? Right! 

Want more details? Click HERE for the full scoop!

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Okie doke... time to get started..... Have fun....and as always .... BIG GRATITUDE to each of you that play along. 

xo,

{Texture Tuesday} Free & Easy eDition Guest Hosted

beautiful image by Sylvia - mouse over to see the original

Hello everyone, I'm Sylvia from Cosiness and I'm so honoured and excited to be the guest host here at the Café today, thanks so much Kim!

This week's TT theme is free & easy ... anything goes ... the only requirement is your image must contain at least one layer of any of Kim's textures. Kim is so generous giving a lovely free texture each week and with her magical tips and tricks she encourages to make wonderful creations.

For this week's challenge I chose a photo of pretty sweet peas from our garden ... adjustment layer Brightness/Contrast to add more contrast, black & white adjustment layer at Soft Light 100% opacity, a layer of 'take heart' at Multiply 56% opacity, a layer of 'sweettreat' at Soft Light 100% opacity, adjustment layer Curves, blue and green channel a bit down, added my name, the font is 'writing something by hand'

Tuesday September 4ths Texture Tuesday Details

Next week is the first Tuesday of the month and the theme is always Anything Goes. This means you are free to link up any photo you like ... textured, not textured, iphone, edited, unedited ... simply link up a fav photo.

I want to end with John C. Maxwell's quote : 'Dreams don't work unless you do.' I'm looking forward to see your creations ...

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Big thanks to Sylvia for hosting this week's TT. Sylvia's photo touches my heart... so very lovely. 'sigh'....

Please.... leave sweet Sylvia some love in the comments...and pop on over to her site to say hello..... There's nothing sweeter than a little love and encouragement along the way. Don't you think? :)

Thank you again Sylvia....

happy sigh.....xo, Kim

p.s. new to textures, check out my latest tutorial here.

{Texture Tuesday} The Dream-it eDition

another....on the front porch....textured with dream-it.... mouse over to see the original.

Hello friends, 

Welcome to Texture Tuesday. I'm so glad you are here.

This Week's TT Challenge details

Your image must contain one layer of dream-it... that's it, that's all.

If you missed dream-it, check out last week's post for the download.

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I have a new texture for you today. I call this one 'take heart'.

Texture Lovin' Listers.... The download link is coming your way. Watch for it soon.

Want freebie textures? ....Be sure to join the Texture Lovin' List HERE.

Before we start linking up.... let's talk next week's TT theme..... 

Tuesday, August 28th Texture Tuesday Guidelines are:

It's the last Tuesday of the month...which means... it's a free & easy eDition... and we will have a lovely guest host visiting. 

So fun!

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New to Texture Tuesdays? Here's the short and sweet TT rules.

• please link directly to your TT post, not to your main blog url or flickr stream. Please do not link to your online shop. 
• please link back to the Café. You can grab the TT button HERE, if you wish.
• please visit the other TT participants and leave them some comment love. Remember it's a party.... and what's a linky party without lots of comment love? Right! 

Want more details? Click HERE for the full scoop!

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Okie doke... time to get started..... Have fun....and as always .... BIG GRATITUDE to each of you that play along. 

xo,

{Texture Tuesday} The Look-Down eDition & a Give Away.

on the front porch....textured with dream-it.... mouse over to see the original

Hello friends, 

Welcome to Texture Tuesday. I'm so glad you are here.

This Week's TT Challenge details

In honour of Shutter Sister's month long celebration of Elevate the Everyday (more HERE) I thought it would be fun to match today's Elevate prompt which is.....Looking Down.... 

In celebration of Tracey's beautiful new book.... I'd love to send one lucky TT'er a copy of Elevate the Everyday. To enter, join today's TT link-up and leave a comment below stating one of your favorite everyday, ordinary moments..... I will announce the winner on Sunday. The contest will close on Saturday at midnight. 

So for this week, your image must center around 'look down' and contain at least one layer of any of my textures. And why not pop over to Shutter Sisters and link-up there as well.

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I have a new texture for you today. I call this one dream-it.

Click HERE to download dream-it. Want free textures? Be sure to join the Texture Lovin' List HERE.

For my image up top I simply opened it in PS and added a layer of dream-it at soft light 80% opacity...then applied a fairly high gaussian blur filter.... which basically allowed me to borrow the tones rather than the texture. 

Before we start linking up.... let's talk next week's TT theme..... 

Tuesday, August 21st Texture Tuesday Guidelines are:

Your image must contain at least one layer of today's texture, Dream It. That's it...that's all.

New to Texture Tuesdays? Here's the short and sweet TT rules.

• please link directly to your TT post, not to your main blog url or flickr stream. Please do not link to your online shop. 
• please link back to the Café. You can grab the TT button HERE, if you wish.
• please visit the other TT participants and leave them some comment love. Remember it's a party.... and what's a linky party without lots of comment love? Right! 

Want more details? Click HERE for the full scoop!

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Okie doke... time to get started..... Have fun....and as always .... BIG GRATITUDE to each of you that play along. 

xo,

p.s. i had the honour to share an interview with Lesley Riley of Art & Soul Radio....If you'd like to have a listen, click here. :)

One more look down.... same recipe as the up-top image.

Update on August 20 by Kim Klassen

thank you for your entries, the book give away is now closed. The winner is Margaret Bednar. xo

{Texture Tuesday) The Not Necessarily Textured eDition

An iPhone photo - our Daily Dock Stop - processed with camera plus, iQuikDoF and instagram

Hello friends, 

This Week's TT Challenge details

This is our second 'not necessarily texture tueday'.... So that means.... pretty much anything goes! Fun stuff.

Before we start linking up.... let's talk next week's TT theme..... 

Tuesday, August 14ths Texture Tuesday Guidelines are:

Your image must contain at least one of my textures and be centered around the following prompt: Looking Down....  
which happens to be the same prompt over at Shutter Sisters in honour of August's Elevate the Everyday event. So you can double link or play twice... have fun with it...There are just so many possibilities..... As always, I know you will rock the challenge!

New to Texture Tuesdays? Here's the short and sweet TT rules.

• please link directly to your TT post, not to your main blog url or flickr stream. Please do not link to your online shop. 
• please link back to the Café. You can grab the TT button HERE, if you wish.
• please visit the other TT participants and leave them some comment love. Remember it's a party.... and what's a linky party without lots of comment love? Right! 

Want more details? Click HERE for the full scoop!

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Okie doke... time to get started..... Have fun....and as always .... BIG GRATITUDE to each of you that play along. 

xo,

p.s. Registration for my new eCourse, Round Trip: from Lightroom to Photoshop and back again opens tomorrow. :)

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{Texture Tuesday} Guest Hosted eDition

photo by Barb from Keeping Up With the Time......mouse over to see the before

Hello fellow texture lovers!

It's Barb Brookbank here from Keeping up with the times. Today I am the guest host for Texture Tuesday! An honour beyond my wildest dreams - thank you Kim! You are the sweetest person ever!

This Week's TT Challenge details:

This week's TT theme is free & easy...anything goes...the only requirement is your image must contain at least one layer of any of Kim's textures.

The textured photo that you see today was my submission for the guest post. I picked some delicate grasses that were growing along our dock and after I put them in an old 'Watkins' jar I knew I had the makings for a great TT image.

First I adjusted the exposure and cropped the photo. I added a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer and adjusted the greens to -40 and the yellows to -42. I added one layer of Kim's 'Sunkissed' on soft light at 100% opacity. The quote is by Victor Hugo and the font is DJB Gimme Space by Darcy Baldwin.

Before we start linking up, let's talk next week's Texture Tuesday theme!!

Tuesday, August 7th's TT Guidelines:

As always, the first Tuesday of each month is Not Necessarily Texture Tuesday. What does this mean? So glad you asked! :) This is a chance to link up your fav photo of the month. It can be textured, untextured, edited, unedited.... or even an instagram or phone photo. Fun stuff!

I can't wait to see what all you ultra-talented artists come up with! It will be an extra special week for me and I will be visiting as many of you as I possibly can. I also want to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has visited my blog and left a loving and encouraging comment. This is the best community ever!

Love and hugs from Barb Brookbank - wife, mother, grandmother, homemaker, scrapper, artist, and the person behind Keeping up with the Times.

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Big thanks to Barb for hosting this week's TT. Her photo is absolutely breath-taking.... truly....adore.

Please.... leave Barb some love in the comments...and pop on over to her site to say hello..... There's nothing sweeter than a little love and encouragement along the way. Don't you think? :)

happy sigh.....xo, Kim

{Texture Tuesday} The Outside eDition

mouse over to see the original

Happiest Tuesday......

This week we are taking TT outdoors.....  

Here are this week's challenge details:

Your image must be shot outdoors and contain at least one layer of any of my textures... that's it...that's all.

Above is one of the photos I took on Sam's graduation day..... Sam is Bryce's oh-so-sweet girlfriend..... her escort was a school friend....they made a deal to attend grad together..... So Mr. Bryce was on the sidelines. 'smile'.... Anyhow, Sam looked absolutely stunning....

For the sake of creativity and all... i decided to play a little with this photo.... I created a sepia effect in Lightroom...then into photoshop where I added some blur...then 2 layers of a recent TK texture, called Word.... one layer at soft light 100% and another at multiply 65%. To finish it off.... I added the quote.... 

Before we begin linking up.... remember next week is Guest host Texture Tuesday.... There will be a lovely guest host here, waiting for you..... Please be sure to leave some love for the host!

The theme for guest host week....will always be Free & Easy.... The only requirement....the image must contain at least one layer of any of my textures.

Okie doke...time to begin linking up!! 

Have fun.

xo,