Touchable textures

Last week I attended one of Brenda Brown's workshops. I really love going to them as Brenda always has such unique ideas for the projects. Last week was no exception and the name of the workshop was Taking the rough with the smooth". It was all about creating different textures using Decoart products.  This is Brenda's board and she took us through all the 9 different textures, 1 at a time.

Brenda's board had a French theme but I decided to try a different theme...the season's.
A very pleasant day was spent creating the 9 tiles and I learnt so much.

 Here is Brenda in action

Here is our group in action, well actually eating lunch whilst crafting ;0) 

 I sat at this space on the right next to a lovely fellow crafter called Hazel,

Hazel used pinks and reds for her colours. Here she is finishing up, I loved  her boards.

Below are my spring and summer boards coming together.  

I managed to get all my textures bar 1 finished at the workshop. I need to make the last tile and the backing board at home and I finally got some time to do this on Thursday.
This is the tile I finished below.

I added WOW embossing to the wet texture paste which you will see in the photo below.

I added some seasonal die cuts and remnant rub numbers so that I can check out which technique it represents. I put some rivets through my board, added the string and here is my finished seasons' texture board.

and here are the textures seasons by season.

Spring showing stamped texture paste and stencilled crackle.

 Summer showing textured collage and rusted enamel.

 Autumn showing crinkled low and highlights and layered shapes.

 and Winter showing subtle layered shapes and textured wallpaper

 The centre tile is weathered white....I decided to add some die cuts from each of the seasons to the 4 corners to link my board together.

I will hang my board up in my studio, it will be a useful reminder of the many textures I can use with my mixed media work. It was a really lovely crafty day, thanks to Brenda and I look forward to the next one.

I would like to enter my textures board into the following challenges;

Pixie's snippets playground  3/3 #212 I used a snippets of card for my die cuts flower and a snippet of twine for the hanger.

Crafting from the heart anything goes
Rhedd's creative spirit anything altered art

Crafty friends  anything goes

Simon says stamp Mondays  best friends Brenda is the very best of teachers and also a great blogging friend too ;0)

We love to create  #2 anything mixed media

WOW embossing challenge anything goes  

Anything but cute Ring out the old...bring in the new all these Decorart products are new to me, my favourites are the gorgeous crackle and the blue paints I used for the winter tiles.
Crafty calendar something new these are mostly all new texture techniques for me.
Country View crafts Be inspired by Bottles...I was inspired by dozens of gorgeous Decoart acrylic paints and chose the ones above.
Moving along with the times 1/3 wet or dry embossing I have used wet embossing on tiles 4 and 9
Winter wonderland 1/3 something new my new are all these great Docrafts paints and lovel textures.
Craft heaven 1/3 something old something new old are the die cuts I added to my tiles my new are all these lovely Decoart paints and textures.
Craft your passion 1/3 anything goes

Thanks for all the birthday wishes you left for my Hb on Wednesday. We had an amazing day and lunch at the Shard was just incredible...and the sun shone too. I will have a sort out of my photos I took and will be back with a post (and a Moment) very soon.

 Another weekend is here again and it looks like milder temperatures are returning here in the south. It has been a bitterly cold week so it will good to warm up a little again.

Enjoy your weekend and I hope you get some time to be creative, it's certainly not gardening weather! Welcome to my latest follower too, it's great to see you joining my creative journey here.

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x