The January Giveaway: Fourteen Textures for 2014!

[wizard509]

Those look great Gare, thank you. I was going to submit something useing at least 1 of them but having puter troubles at the momentl

[Crow Haven]

Thanks for the great textures and gears, Gare!
Here's a quick idea with 3 of the new textures...

[angelize]

Great job with those Maya! I love the peanut brittle.

Here is another idea for using the textures. The background texture is simply a rectangle filled with the burlapse of memory and adjusted with the photo tools (hue saturation etc) the doiley was done using my snowflake maker and a suggestion by Christine Farrely in that thread to apply a bit map transparency to the master shape of the snowflake maker. The paper hearts are red hearts with a layer filled with the mars surface blended with a stained glass transparency set at about 34% Add in some drop shadows and it's a happy valentine's day

[Gare]

@Maya—most impressive, especially considering you don't have the benefit (or burden, depending on your opinion) of watching the videos!

I think I'm just going to continue semi-periodically throwing stuff out there that I myself can't find a purpose for, and watch you talented folks come up with inspired artowrk.

I love the valentine, Frances; don't push the holidays, though, okay? We have stores here that are beginning to put up St. Patty's Day dreck!

It took me a moment to realize what the texture was. Nice recoloring work, nice thought process!

My Best,

gary

[Crow Haven]

Thanks Angelize (love your design!) and Gare!

With the extremely slow dial-up I'm stuck with, videos are out of reach, I'm afraid; just trying to download the texture packs of 5 Mb +/- can take about an hour at 3 Kb/sec. provided I don't get a dropped connection (happens frequently).
My Xara Xtreme doesn't have extrude tool, photo tool, live, etc., so I just have to wing it with whatever work-arounds I can come up with. It's fun though!

[angelize]

I understand what you mean about the holidays but did you know there is only 3 weeks left before Valentines Day? I am used to pushing the holidays ahead of time as advertisers need to get their ads out early enough to draw customers in which means they need to get their copy into us even earlier