Minnesota Warm Up Series #11

Pushing some lettering into this warm up series to get some practice. Here is the badge lock up for Rochester Minnesota, a First Class City!
I am also adding some process stuff into the attachments to help explain how I am creating these.

Trying new techniques for texture and such. I created theses badge graphics in illustrator, then brought into photoshop, added the texture, then brought back into illustrator and live trace until I got the desired effect.