Texture Tuesday..and a bit more

Tomorrow is Texture Tuesday at Kim Klassen's Cafe. I'm off work today and this is my first contribution to Texture Tuesday so thought I would go ahead and try to get this posted while I have some extra time. This week's theme is the color orange.

This is my buddy Mr Hibiscus who has been with me since 1998 or so.  He usually tends to look a little scraggly and is by all accounts fairly neglected.  Even through all the abuse, he still blooms for me several times a year and I was lucky enough to have some of his fabulously orange blossoms this week.

Mr Hibiscus was cropped and then I used (kind of) Kim's Beyond Layers tutorial "Sweet Adjustments" (day 68) to edit the photo.  I then added a few of Kim's textures-Edges, Paper Stained and Pumpkin Grunge to the mix and tweaked them all a bit until I ended up with this version of Mr Hibiscus. It was a lot of fun and I enjoyed using some Photoshop skills that had gotten a bit rusty.

Thanks for the inspiration, Kim!

Let's see if I can get this posted :)

I forgot to add that the font I used is Pharmacy-one of my all time favorites :)