Designs by Latisha Yoast

Here is my card for Mojo Monday. I know its Sunday and I just got it done. Where does time go? I need some more of it. Its so much fun playing with Julee's sketches. I woke up early today, so it was really quiet and peaceful . For those beginning stampers out there, to make the flowers appear they are coming out of the flower/watering pot. First you stamp an image on desired cardstock. Then you stamp it again on a post-it note, eclipse tape, or paper and then cut it out. Once the image is cut out you now have a mask. So I put a mask on my flower/watering pot, and started stamping my flowers over it. I generation stamped using barely banana and cameo coral. Remove the mask and tadaa, a pretty little flower bouquet. I used a blender pen at the bottom to blend the colors a little more, to give the image some depth. Once the ink was dry, I took my Martha Stewart glue pen and went over the entire image. You need to work fast because the glue doesn't stay tacky for very long. Then I...

I in a swap hosted by Alex {Californiastampin on side bar} and you have to use all current SU stuff. Which isn't a problem because I have a ton of SU stuff {hobby demo}. I have way too much Groovy Guava paper, so I have to use that for one of my swaps. I have to make two sets of 8 cards. This card took a long time to make because I finally decided to use my blender pens with the chalk. You get really pretty results using this technique, but because I have so much coloring to do, it took a while. If I can only find my watercolor pen, I could do this using ink and would go a little faster. Not sure if this is the one that I'm going to send in, but its a start. All SU Materials used: Groovy Guava, Kraft & Whisper White cardstock, Ginger Blossom dp, Groovy Guava ribbon, Basic Black ink, Heartfelt Thanks & Embrace Life stamp sets & dazzling diamonds glitter to glitterfy the flower.

So here is a card I actually made the other night, but couldn't post it. I'm mailing it to one of my best friends Chris. She is having surgery tomorrow, so I hope this bright card will make her smile. I wanted to watercolor an animal, but I don't have too many animal stamps, so this neglected uninked chicken worked perfect. I stamped the image in black stazon ink, colored her in with prisma watercolor pencils & used a blending medium and stump to blend the colors together. This stamp is actually really big, but after I punched it out with a marvy scalloped circle punch {the really big one} it made it easier to work with. I layered it onto real read cardstock, which makes the yellow really pop. The polka dot paper is actually from a 12x12 Christmas paper stack that I got at Hobby Lobby or Joanns. After I cut it to size, I got out my SU corner rounder and took off the plastic protector, and stamped along one edge of the polka dot paper & it creates a scallope...

Jacob has a little flu thing going on. So guess who got to sleep on the floor with him last night? Any guesses? Yep me lol. Around 5:30 am the bathroom floor got the best of me, it was so hard and uncomfortable I had to get up. So whats a girl to do with her children and husband asleep, but to blog hop and make some cards. I always check out Taylors blog { www.tayloredexpressions.blogspot.com } but I don't think I'm worthy enough even to post a comment. Have you seen the stuff she makes? She is amazing! For those of you who are PTI freaks you know exactly who she is. Anyhow, Taylor has a cupcake challenge, to use her sketch {below} and she will pick a winner and you will get this stamp set. How awesome is that...VERY!! The only thing is, you have to get your card submitted by tomorrow morning 8am PST. All you do is leave a comment on the challenge post and link her to your blog or on your split coast gallery {upload using TECC12}. I really don't have any cupcake stamps e...

So yesterday I really needed to get out so I found a scrapbooking store out of Pape r Trends, and it happens to be really close to me. Well the store had some yummy black May Arts ribbon. I saw this ribbon first In Jan Marie's ordering room, but I was about to move and couldn't be buying stuff then. So I picked up 6 yards of it {its the ribbon on the left side of the card, not the organdy} I think I might use it on my swap I have coming up, hmmm have to think about that >" So, Verve Visual is having their 2nd Honored Guest challenge. The card needs to be a long card. Mine is 3x6 is that considered long? I think so>" Before I really looked at the sketch I knew I was going to use this ribbon and kraft paper. After a look at my cardstock, I noticed I was still hoarding the Aqua Mist paper from Papertrey, so I cut away and it didn't hurt. I actually didn't care. Normally when I have been hoarding something like paper, when I cut into it I get a li...

I know this isn't the best picture, but holy moly is it bright outside & t oo dark inside, so this is the best I could come up with. Anyhow, this card is an inspiration challenge going on at Verve you can link to it here http://vervevisual.blogspot.com/2008/04/another-vervalicious-challenge-for-you.html the winner will get $15 in verve bucks to spend at the store. Now that we have the deets , on to the card. I took my inspiration from the colors and the detailed flowers. If you have Verve stamps they wanted to use them and since I only have two of her sets {need to get more} I was a little limited but I made it work with some creative thinking. I'm not sure if its a requirement to use Verve stamps or not I guess I should have re-read the post before starting. It made it fun for me having a limited amount of stamps to work with. Sometimes when you have to choose from a jamillion {yes that's a word, ask a 5 year old lol } stamps its overwhelming. I really lucked out...

Right before I moved I recieved this stamp set from Verve Visual. Julee who owns the company has a blog www.poeticartistry.blogspot.com so go check her out she does weekly sketch challenges. Oh the website to the store is www.vervevisual.com . I knew I wanted to use acetate/vinyl and some Cosmo Cricket paper I have been hoarding. So this card came together very easy, don't you just love that when that happens. I had no intentions on sending this card to anyone, I just made it for fun. However, when my inlaws came for Jesse's winging, we found out Jesse's step-brother Rusty eloped to Mexico. So I gave this card to Karen {mother in law} to send to the new couple. Oh when you use acetate or vinyl you need to use a permanent ink like stazon, there are other brands too, this is just what I used for this card. The ribbon is chocolate chip grosgrain ribbon by Stampin Up.

Well we made it to San Diego a few days ago. My house {really its an apartment} is full of boxes. I am driving my family nuts because when a box is unpacked the stuff has to have a place, they cannot unpack it just to unpack it. All of my craft stuff is packed in boxes which is depressing because I really need to create. Once the kids are in school and Jess starts flying again, I will be able to sit down and not feel guilty. Today I want to get stuff on the walls. I am sure my husband wants me to put all of my shoes and clothes away, but they can wait >"