February's Textures Challenge

As some of us are getting very (in some cases totally!!) addicted to textures - we decided to do a monthly challenge. I sent one of my photos for us to play with.

Well - OMG - what fabulous photos you have all sent! It is amazing to see everyone's different effects on the same photo and each of them is so beautiful! Feast your eyes on these works of art (in no particular order!)

Textures used : Ghostbones, Canvas Straw

Textures used : Sigmaman, Kjwphotograpy

Textures used : Hardcore Vintage Grunge by Princess of Shadows, Ghostbones

Textures used : The Veil - Playing with Brushes, Snowflakes Falling - Pink Sherbert

Textures used : Groundstream - Gray darkened Edges, Rosewell 04

Something Blue - Fresco, Princess of Shadows Vintage Grunge Texture 1

Textures used : Pareeerica, A N Other

Textures used : Andrew McConnochie, Ghostbones, Summerspot

Textures used : Skeletal Mess - New Testament, Ghostbones - Stone

Textures used : bb_freetextures (rust), icy_leaves and saab bonnet by lillykins

Text - Marcelle Script

Textures used : Amy Teets Paper, Leonora Sanford - Picture this Texture

Liv Photoplay Freebie, Acid Wash action (EZ Actions)

Textures used : Ghostbones, Horses and Tigers, Kaptain Kobold

Vancayzeel Olivier

Textures used : Ghostbones x 2, SwimmingintheEther, Pareeerica, RiotJane

Ladies, awesome work!! Thanks for playing and cant wait to see your take on the new challenge!

If anyone wants to participate in this challenge (which is just for fun) please leave me a comment! Or leave me a comment anyhow lol!

Textures!

WOW, had such a fantastic response to my textured work and so many of you have now become addicted to them lol! I told you and warned you all that you would get hooked!! Aren't they fantastic?

If you grabbed my tutorial and found it helpful, drop me a quick line via the comments - would love to hear how you are getting on! I have seen so many gorgeous works of arts in the gallery!! Beautiful stuff!!

A few of us are having a textures challenge - watch this space - will post everyone's creations at the weekend!!

Photos with Textures

After posting a few of my photos with textures on the gallery at Jessica Sprague, I got asked for a tutorial on how I do this. I created a onea ges ago which I am adding to this post. I really just tend to play around adding different textures to a photo, going through the blend modes, re-arranging the order of the textures, changing hue and saturation. That's all there is to it! Hopefully my tutorial will help you out a bit. Otherwise please contact me if you need further help! I find all my textures on Flickr - check out my page on Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/veevs/ (username is Veevs3) as all my texturised photos are there and I list out whose textures I used.
Creating Artwork With Textures

Publish at Scribd or explore others: Other Manuals textures Tutorials

New Year

Yep as usual I am so behind on blogging that I nearly gave it up! This is just a small entry to test out the slide show on Flickr. I am working on a Shutterfly book of my photos which have been modified with textures and they are uploaded on Flickr. Let's see if this works!


Ohhhh yeyyyy, it works but not only for one set, it shows all photos! Oh well, no probs, that is cool too. Hope everyone had a lovely Xmas and here's hoping for a great 2009. I will have to play catch up with the events from 2008 that I didn't get a chance to blog!

Chicago, Sunday - sad day

As I am on a roll I might as well finish up with the last day in Chicago.  What a sad day - we were all leaving to go back home so that was so depressing.  Everyone departing at different times of the day that we couldn't really plan anything.  Just being there to wave goodbye and hug and kiss and cry!  Before that we met up for our last breakfast together.

Some of us did manage a bit of a walk about.

But it was mainly waiting for the inevitable - everyone leaving! 

Joan and I were the last ones to go (apart from Liv who was staying on a few more days).  We shared a taxi to the airport - I was flying back to London.  It seems everyone flying in the US got delayed, poor Joan didn't get home til the next day minus suitcase!  I think I was the only one whose flight left on time. 

What a weekend - what a wonderful bunch of girlies - what fun and camaraderie!  We felt we had all known each other for years and we all got on so well.  Just wish we had been together for a week because a weekend was too fast!  I miss all my mateys - I know we all communicate a lot but they are all my wonderful friends, mateys, sistahs!  Can't wait til we all get together again in Las Vegas next year - wooooohooooooooooo!!!

Chicago - Saturday afternoon and evening!

Oh, hmmmmmm, ok - it's been over a month since my last post! Eeeeekk!! Where does the time go! I can't believe I am so behind and its October now and I am still blogging about Chicago in June.

So, where were we. Ahhh yes, we got back from the wonderful boat ride. We got told we had to go back to the hotel, not sure why. Tori, Laurie, Deb and Shell were supposed to head off to see Wicked but Shell had to get something from the hotel. Aha, did she though - nope! Coz the little plotter had been plotting a surprise, none other than Kari!! So we walk to the front of the hotel and Kari is there - well, you can imagine the screams - especially from Tori and Laurie! Yeah and everyone else! It was awesome! You know what, since being on JS I say awesome a lot - I never used to say that before! Here's Kari screaming with everyone!

Soooo Liv had mentioned she wanted to go to this thing called The Bean - which is That Big Shiny Thing in Millennium Park. We went yeah ok let's go there and took a long walk not knowing what to expect. Having a bit of a rest before continuing on!

But before getting there we stop at the Giordanos, the Pizza place where we will be eating in the evening to check it out and have a bit of a rest! Check us out!

As we get to the Millenium Park we bump into Liv's DH RJ and her 5 gorgeous kids!

OK back to the Millenium Park. What a fantastic place! And The Bean - amazing!!

Yep, loads of cool photos taken at The Bean. Then some went off to a museum and Joan and I decided to go walking and look for a bookstore. Took a while but we found it and had a nice drink and chilled out for a bit. Walking back to the hotel found a great arty type shop, of course we couldnt resist it and we shopped!

Got back to the hotel to be told we had 5 minutes to get ready to go have dinner! So walked back to Giordanos to have the most spectacular pizza I have ever seen! It was thick, it was

very deep-pan, it was very gooey and tons of cheese and it was soooo good but filling!

Onto more group photos! Todd, what a great guy, was the official photographer having to take photos with 16 cameras!! You did great Todd!

The food was great, the company even greater! We were supposed to go wandering off somewhere to watch fireworks, but think everyone was pretty knackered by then! So Jessica invited us all up to her suite for girly yakking and some free yummy desserts!!

Of course there were more speeches and gifts and laughing anc crying and more laughing!

Yeah, you get the picture. It was great fun! AWESOME!!!

Some of us disappeared to bed whilst others stayed up yakking! Sadly, that was the end of Saturday!