Designs by Latisha Yoast

Hello friends! Taylored Expressions is releasing new stencils and blender brushes today! The blender brushes are smaller, to fit into all the nooks and crannies of your stencils. Which is perfect for stencils where you use a multitude of colors.  Sometimes when creating a stenciled background, I want a muted color and not something as bold and bright as white cardstock. Once the card base and diecut "hello" were created using plum punch cardstock. The process of going through my TE cardstock to find a color that coordinated, started. From past cards, plum punch & peaches and cream go so well together and have been some of my personal favorites, it was an easy decision to make. The stencil was secured over the panel using purple tape. Then using a variety of ink colors and blender brushes, the gradient rainbow was created. Once finished inking a background, the "hello" diecut was adhered to the card using foam adhesive. The crystals were added for a final embell...

  Hello! I cannot believe it is October 20, 2020! I honestly did not thing that the pandemic and shut downs would last this long. Does anyone else feel exhausted and fatigued from this year? I am hoping the holidays bring me more joy as I finish out the year. One can never have too much joy and happiness. Speaking of joy and happiness, I get to share a few new products with you today from Taylored Expressions. They are releasing new stencils and PASTEL BLENDER BRUSHES! I mean come on!! It doesn't get better than that. I love a good tool. Head on over to the Taylored Expressions website for more info on this release!! So, For this first card I used the stencil called A New Leaf. To me, the image looks similar to hops. Its a plant that grows hops for beer, which looks close to wheat. Anyhow, they are beautiful. So with the hops/wheat in mind I wanted to use yellow tones as a blended background. For added interest I did not blend the entire card. This is a perfect masculine card in m...