Digital image capture & editing - Still life & Homemade Texture

I wanted to play with textures more but this time create my own texture rather than using textures off the internet.

 

First I got one of my Mum's piano music books and ripped a page out......not really, she'd kill me. I photocopied a page from the book.

 

 

 

 

Then I ripped it round the edges and screwed it up and dipped it in tea. When it dried, I used some brown ink to give it more of a 'worn' look and splattered some in spots on too.

 

 

 

 

Then I scanned the texture onto the computer and saved it.

 

 

 

 

 

I used this image below that I took of a rose, and using photoshop, merged the texture with it.

 

 

 

 

 

This is the finished result. I changed it to a sepia colour as I thought it suited the style more.