Designs by Latisha Yoast

Ok ladies, I do not endorse products unless I absolutely LOVE them. The other night I got to try out the new Sakura Stardust clear pen, which is the best glitter pen that I have ever used. Also the new Ranger Inkssential white pen (jelly pen). http://www.flourishes.org/ sell both of these and they ship internationally, they are one of the best stamp companies out there right now and have amazing customer service. The stardust glitter pen is $3.50 for 2 pens!! {how cheap is that} and the Ranger Inkssentials white jelly pen is $3.00 each. The picture below shows the white detailing you can do with the white pen. I am in the middle of a move right now so I can't show examples, but I will as soon as i get a chance. go to www.flourishes.org and check them out...if you buy $45.00 worth of product shipping is free even out of the US...international ladies this is great for you too!!

Here is the winging banner that I made to congratulate him with. A few of my neighbors stayed up pretty late, helping finish it. So thank you to the doyle st project banner people lol. This banner is made out of different types of materials, the hardest to work with was the gold lame. We had to cut it out to look like wings, then I wento over the wings with a sharpy to make all of the defining edges. At the top most people put "congratulations" its ok to go against the grain so I put "not to brag, BUT..." I thought that would be really fun and cute. This banner hangs in front of our house for a week or so. It turned out terrific!! Here is a picture of us from the left: John{dad} Karen,{stepmom}, Jess, Jacob, Kendall, Me. The winging ceremony just got over and so we took a picture in fron of a Helo. Here are a few pictures of the wining party. I had a lot of fun this night! Can you say LEMONDROPS....these were delicious >" Kendall and Jacob on Easter morning...

I apologize for not blogging in a week but my life is really crazy right now. As most of you know my husband just finished flight school. There is a lot of pomp and circumstance that goes into a winging, most of it is just tradition. So I have to make a winging banner...which isn't done and I have at least 5 more hours to put into it until its done {needs to be hanging in my yard at the latest by Friday}. Tomorrow is his soft winging, not a problem but is takes up most of my day. Then Thursday is his winging, basically everyone gets dressed up and its a fancy graduation with top Navy/Marine officials there...lots of brass if you know what I mean. Then that night is a party...all the "wingers" get to let loose because they finally are done with flight school and everyone is moving. All of this isn't a problem, I can deal. So today my husband is stuck in another town because of winds and he couldn't fly back, so we are trying to find out where we are moving ...

So remember a while back when my friend Chris sent me one of these notebooks, well I had to make one...they are so cute. So last weekend I went to Office Max, and bought a package of 12 notebooks {8 x 5 1/2 in}, then I took it to the counter {where you get copies done and stuff.} and asked them to cut the notebooks in half, so now they are 8in x 2 1/2in, and now you have 24 cut notebooks. I did get charged 75 cents for each cut {he made two cuts}, but I hear some places will not charge you for each cut. I got a piece of white cardstock 8 1/4 x 5 1/2 in...you need to leave room to score and a for a little bit of the cardstock to hang over the edges of the notebook. I believe I scored my paper at 2 1/2 inches and 2 3/4 inches, then I did the same with this paisley pink dp that i put over the cardstock. I did this because the dp is really thin and I needed something a little sturdier, to hold it all together. I punched out a scallop circle and used the borders and corners monogram se...

If you ever check out Julee Tilman's blog http://www.poeticartistry.blogspot.com/ then you know every week she has a new sketch to try out. I havn't really had a chance to play with my Embrace Life stamp set from SU, so this was the perfect opportunity. I started out with the big flower stamp and stamped it all over the kraft cardstock, using Tim Holtz walnut stain ink. I opened up my ruby red ink pad, put some ink on the inside lid and used that to watercolor the flowers. The designer paper on both sides of the main image are from the Ginger Blossom pack {I love double sided paper, SU got it right with this one} I layered whisper white paper on ruby red cardstock, and stamped the cherry blossom looking image, rotating it with every stamp so it looks random. I watercolored the cherry blossoms and once I was satisfied with the way it looked, I added a little more color using a red spica glitter pen, to make the flowers pop. I added chocolate chip satin ribbon and tied white ri...

I am starting to feel a lot better, so today I am starting on some projects. We will be moving the end of March, beginning of April time frame, so everything needs to get done asap. Right now I am working on Mother's Day gifts. I bought some of the clear card boxes from PTI, and I am making different sentiment cards. So in each card box there will be around 10 cards for different occassions/sentiments. These will be for my mom, mother in law, cousins, aunts and other special woman in my life. Its very affordable since I have everything on hand. This is a "feel better" card, its a really easy sketch that I go back to a lot. Its simple and I don't use a ton of paper, because some people, do not appreciate paper the way I do lol. For the card base I use pti spring moss cardstock, layered with SU ginger blossom dp. The image I bought from Ellen Hutson's store, and is made by Lockhart. I used a blender pen and a ruby red & spring moss stamp pad to color in the ima...

Sorry I havn't been posting lately, I have the flu. The last few days have been a blur so hopefully I can get some stuff done tomorrow. My brain is full of medicine right now and its difficult to write a sentence. I hope you all are well. I have too many projects to finish up, so I will just have to push through this sickness and get them done. Talk to you all soon & keep purell with you al all times...it keeps the germs away lol.

**Note this onesie layout is (c) by Lauren Meader { www.laurenmblogs.splitcoaststampers.com } meaning, you can use this layout out for personal use but cannot be submitted for publishing** This card was is cased/inspired by Lauren Meader. I am making 16 of these for one of my neighbors. She is expecting a little girl, so when I saw Lauren's blog I new I wanted to make these into Baby Shower invitations {I asked Lauren first, she said yes >"