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CoffeeShop Valentine Textures!

>> Sunday, January 11, 2009

Thank you so much for helping me choose a name for my newest portrait action. I was so entertained reading all of the great and sometimes hilarious suggestions. I obviously have very creative (and brilliant!) readers. I will be releasing that soon, so please keep an eye on my blog!

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In the spirit of another holiday, I whipped up some Valentine textures. They are a bit grungy and not your typical "pretty" paper, but I think you will like them. Just open them in Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, or any program that you edit in and use them as textures, frames, or digital paper on photos, cards, or templates.

I used two free textures on these papers, Door Panel by Paul Grand also his Scratches Inverted (I love that texture!) and Painted Frame Texture by Irisb477 . They have other great free textures, so be sure to check them out and thank them for being so generous.

And thanks again for visiting my blog and leaving such great comments. I really appreciate it! I have tons of stuff on the horizon, so please keep on checking back, you never know what you might find here! And feel free to email suggestions of things you would like to see on my blog to coffeephotolove@yahoo.com. And be sure to visit my CoffeeShop Flickr Group to post your images edited with my free stuff, ask questions, find out the scoop of what I am currently working on, or to just say hi.

36 Thoughtful Comments:

belle January 11, 2009 1:42 PM  

Fabulous! Thank you so much.

Lindsay January 11, 2009 2:02 PM  

You are amazing, as always!!!!
Thank you.

twoboyz00 January 11, 2009 2:31 PM  

Thank you very much!

Megan January 11, 2009 3:56 PM  

thanks for these great textures! can't wait to play with them.

Digi Free January 11, 2009 4:00 PM  

Thank you! Your blog post will be advertised on the DigiFree Digital Scrapbooking Freebie search engine today (look for timestamp: 11 Jan [LA 01:21pm, NY 04:21pm, UK 09:21pm] - 12 Jan [OZ 08:21am]).

Not Scarlett January 11, 2009 4:01 PM  

Sigh, more yumminess! Thank you!!!

jfeely January 11, 2009 4:17 PM  

Awesome, thank you!!:)

Staci B January 11, 2009 8:48 PM  

Thanks again, Rita! Awesome job.

amymom24 January 11, 2009 9:35 PM  

Thank you, Rita!!

Anonymous January 11, 2009 9:49 PM  

These are beautiful! Thanks so much!

Rhonda

Jenn January 11, 2009 9:55 PM  

Thank you so much Rita!

Can't wait to see what the name is going to be for your new action...*drum roll...*

Blessings, Jenn

--sme January 11, 2009 10:29 PM  

I can't wait to try these out! Thanks for sharing!

Heather January 11, 2009 11:59 PM  

You're right - I do love them! Thanks so much for all your shares. You're da bomb!

Angela~Kclmomof4 January 12, 2009 6:13 AM  

these are pretty neat, love them!

trishia January 12, 2009 8:10 AM  

love them, Rita! Thank you!!!

demingglobal January 12, 2009 8:47 AM  

thank you! love the v-day papers. the textures are so cool!

Lori Decoite January 12, 2009 9:43 AM  

hi rita- loving the new textures!! Thank you.

Becky January 12, 2009 9:45 AM  

These are beautiful; thank you so much.

Missy January 12, 2009 10:41 AM  

These are awesome! I'll definitely be using them!!

Lori Decoite January 12, 2009 3:37 PM  

hi rita-me again- played around w/ the textures- I am sure I have not done your beautiful textures justice, but I am a newbie ; )-check it out..
http://suzieqscrapper.blogspot.com/2009/01/still-loving-textures-and-layers.html

Nicole January 12, 2009 4:21 PM  

Thank you so much! these are so pretty

Franny January 12, 2009 6:44 PM  

Come to post all your freebies at:

Picklebeans dot com / Forum

I hope you or your CT's will use the forum to post your freebies, it is really easy!

Be sure to tell everyone you know....it's new!

Hope to see you there:)

Megan January 12, 2009 8:14 PM  

You are extremely creative and your textures are wonderful! You are so very generous to provide them for free!! Thank you Thank you Thank you!

Corinna January 15, 2009 10:11 AM  

Wow, Rita, these are so amazing. I can't wait to play with them. Thanks so much!

Jo January 15, 2009 10:23 AM  

Those look awesome Rita, you're a Sweetheart!! (haha, pun intended!)

Jo January 15, 2009 10:25 AM  

Hmm, both those links are not working for me? Any chance you'll be re-hosting them Rita? Thank you =)

April Alcorn January 18, 2009 9:06 PM  

Rita I was just directed to your blog today and let me tell you... You are one talented, generous lady!!!! Thank you SO much for all that you do!!!!! You are my hero!! :) I too am a stay at home mommy, I have a 5 1/2 boy with Asperger's Syndrome, a 3 3/4 year old little girl and our 1 year old baby girl! Never a dull moment around here!!!! I too play in PS CS4 after the kiddos are down for the night and it's mommy time!!! I just wanted to give you some kudos and say you are doing AWESOME stuff!

Catesmeow January 19, 2009 11:43 AM  

Thanks so much- these look really fun.

candyw January 21, 2009 7:21 PM  

Thank you, these are beautiful. I learn so much from you site!!

Teresa January 25, 2009 11:26 AM  

Thank you, Rita. We love you!!!

Lisa January 31, 2009 6:07 PM  

Rita, I really want to thank you for all of your hard work. I love everything you have offered. Thank you.
Lisa

Edna B February 3, 2009 11:21 AM  

Thank you so much.

Chris February 4, 2009 2:53 PM  

Thank you so much!

joey March 16, 2009 6:33 AM  

Thanks a Million, have been looking for these kind of textures for ages !!!

thescrappywife January 28, 2010 7:36 PM  

Gorgeous! Thank you!

Oliag February 2, 2010 11:23 PM  

first time ever to use a texture on a photo with PE8 I used one of these valentine textures...I had lots of fun...thanks!