Hi! I'm Rita and the blogger behind CoffeeShop and a stay-at-home, home-schooling Mom to two naughty but adorable little boys (Duke is 8 and Imp is 5), wife to my high school sweetheart, and passionate about all things photography.
CoffeeShop Christmas Grunge Texture and Tutorial!
>> Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Here are two free Christmas Grunge textures. They are big enough to use as backgrounds for your blogs or as textures on storyboards/cards/etc. Read below for a step-by-step tutorial (and the download link) on how I created them using free textures I found on the web.
1. I made a new document 2000px by 1200px, transparent background.
2. Next I made a new blank layer ... on top and used the Pixels&IceCream Christmas flower pattern in green (the small version). This is cute as is (thank you Jen!!!), but I want to grunge it up a bit.
3. I added Tone Texture 2 from ShadowHouse Creations. I put this layer in Overlay, 100%.
4. I then added Parchment 4 from ShadowHouse Creations. This layer was put in Linear Light, 16%.
5. I made a copy of this layer (Ctrl-J) and put the copied layer in Overlay, 40%.
6. Finally, I added the last free texture, GrungeBox TOTD # 112 from ShadowHouse Creations. This layer was put in Overlay, 57%.
7. If you want the texture in green, flatten and save. If you want it red, then add a color fill layer with #823e3e, Overlay, 100%. Then flatten and save. (Click on the images below to see the layer pane larger.)
Download both free CoffeeShop Christmas Grunge Textures HERE or HERE!
And I would be remiss if I did not post about Jerry's newest free Christmas brushes! Click on the images to be directed to his site so you can download them all. :-)
If you have any questions, please post them them in my CoffeeShop Flickr Group!
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9 Comments:
Wow Rita - love the textures! Can't wait to play!! Thanks so much!
Thanks! Love this!
Thank you so much for this Freebie. I want to let you know that I posted a link to your blog in CBH Digital Scrapbooking Freebies, under the Page 5 post on Dec. 02, 2009. Thanks again.
Oh this looks so fun! Thank you so much. I love your work. Can't wait to play with these.
Thank you! Your blog post will be advertised on the DigiFree Tutorials search engine today (look for timestamp: 02 Dec [LA 02:00pm, NY 05:00pm, UK 10:00pm] - 03 Dec [OZ 09:00am]).
Fabulous......love the grunge effect you applied to these. I also wanted to say thanks for introducing me to SkeletalMess and his blog....I have officially joined you in the fan club. :)
Thanks for the freebie. I used the red texture background from this pack on an upload to flickr:
Ginger's Christmas Letter
hallo,
thanks for sharing those cuties!
you have a lovely blog,it was nice finding you :P
etta
Thank you so much for this site and your hard work xxx
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