Blending Anyone?

I've been taking a class by Linda Sattgast of Digital Scrapper.  While I have learned so much from my guru, Kim Klassen...I was interested in seeing what other things I could learn from another source.  It's been eight weeks (and STILL not done) and it has been a wonderful learning process.

I learned how to make a texture by combining color and other textures...FUN!

Our homework was to create a texture and then add it to a photo...

This is the texture I made using a pale yellow-green base, then added three textures:  one of Styrofoam, one of distressed wood, and one of metal in various blend modes.

This is the original photo...not remarkable... (This is a veterans' chapel at our local oldest, active cemetery...lots of history here!)

But then some edits and desaturation...and then add the texture I created...

MAGIC!!!  (Kinda Gothic...remember Dark Shadows?)

Such fun!  And I had to create a folder of textures that I have created...so far I have a grand total of one!

Texture Tuesday Already?

I had so much fun with this setting from the hydrangeas Edster bought me...I thought I would make another up for Kim's Texture Tuesday...

...and then I couldn't stop.

I desaturated this photo in lightroom, then brought back some of the blue and some green.  The texture used was an older one of Kim's called, "Start."

This one...from above...was not done with a pattern...some of you may remember that early on in the Beyond Layers class.

Then I just had to do one in sepia...using Kim's 2303.

And of course, then...I had to do it in color...using Kim's July-2.

And then just one last one...using Kim's Avery texture...

What fun!  Nothing heavy today...just enjoying making pretty art and grateful to be able to do so.