Designs by Latisha Yoast

Day 2 of sneak peeks, today I am showing you a card using the stamp set All Wrapped Up, which will be released tomorrow (friday).  I have 3 samples done with this set, and this is the one I settled on showing today.  Its a back to basics stamped card, some paper, stamp, ink pad and embellishments.  No button today...can you believe it lol.  I have not decided if I'm sending this for a Valentine's Day card or Birthday card...with a gift card inside.  Isn't it just perfect! Make sure you visit the Flourishes Newsletter blog today, for your chance to win this stamp set, go visit now, its a one day only blog candy.  This stamp set is so fun and different than anything out there right now, I think you are really going to like it. "All Wrapped Up" materials used: black & vintage cream card stock, MM Sabrina designer paper Curvy Rectangle Spellbinder dies All Wrapped Up stamp set from Flourishes llc Brilliance Graphite Black ink MM Sabrina ribbon, Kaiser gems, MM ...

Today is the final day of sneak peaks, and I'm showing you two cards I made using the Chairs to You, stamp set being released tonight, as well as Home Tweet Home and Birthday Celebrations.  Make sure you go visit the Flourishes Newsletter today, leave a comment and this stamp set could be yours & if you don't win it there.  Tonight from 7-9pm est on the Flourishes forum on Splitcoast, there will be a release party and prizes, including a chance to win all three sets! For this first card I use the sweet little dog image sitting on his/her doggie pillow and paired it with the "Just sitting here thinking about you" sentiment.  I stamped and colored the image onto Prism paper, I just love the texture of it.  I stamped the image and sentiment in Adirondack Espresso ink and colored in the dog using copic markers.  The red card base and back panel to the white paper is also by Prism, and the patterned paper is by My Minds Eye.  The two little paper clips things are fro...

A few weeks ago Julie {Flourishes DT coordinator} asked if any of us would like to participate in a Secret Christmas Card Swap, I said yes of course.  We all are posting the cards we made and sent to our fellow team mate.  The card below is the card that I made for the one and only Cindy Haffner.  She lives in Canada so I was freaking a little worrying if she received it, I hear that she did.  The image is from the Poinsettia & Boxwood stamp set and the sentiment is from the City of David stamp set, both are from Flourishes llc.  I distressed the edges of my back panel and sewed along the edge.  The red and vintage cream card stock was cut and embossed using a Spellbinders Label 2 die.  I colored in the image using copic markers.  The patterned paper is from this years MME Christmas paper pack.  A card wouldn't be perfect without some yummy ribbon, so I used some SU stripped grosgrain ribbon, then using twine I attached a button to the center of the bow.  I hope this brought a ...

I started my thank you cards from my birthday, they will be late but I have to start getting them out.  I pulled out the Thank You set from Flourishes , I just love the background stamp and tulip, they work so perfectly together.  I first stamped the background image in black ink and then using my Tim Holtz distress inks (walnut stain & tea dye) and a dauber, I sponged around the edges and then worked my way toward the center.  Once I was happy with the distressing, I stamped the tulip and colored it in using Copic Markers (R29 & YG17).  This is a 4.25 inch square card. "thank you" materials used white, kraft & poppy card stock Thank You stamp set from Flourishes llc May Arts ribbon scalloped edge punch from SU Copic markers Adirondack black ink Tim Holtz walnut stain and tea dye distress inks sponge daubers

Every Tuesday there is a chat in the Flourishes forum on Splitcoaststampers, and during the last couple of chats, a few of us have been talking about Twilight {insert grin}...so, last week we decided to have a challenge (flourishes twilight challenge, keyword FTC on scs).  To make a card inspired by the books and to incorporate something sharp on the card.  The something sharp can really be something sharp or a play on words, for instance using a paper piercer tool, a star is sharp, using a sharpy pen,  etc... you get the idea. I took my inspiration from Bella's lullaby that Edward wrote, that is why I used the sheet music paper.  The tulip kind of reminded me of the cover of New Moon and then I added the sentiment Always Be Mine, always and be mine are actually two separate stamps but I combined them for my card.   I'm explaining this for the ladies who have not yet read the book :) all of you Twilighters totally get this card.  Twilight would make an excellent Christmas gift ...

I'm happy to say, I'm almost done with my Christmas cards.  I spent a long time addressing the cards and writing a note inside, that really takes it out of you.  Needless to say, my right hand is numb and tingling.  Here are a few more cards that I made over the weekend, fairly simple, but post office friendly.  My post men/ladies have told me not to come to the post office on Mondays, its normally the busiest day.  Well I'm going there today, and I will keep them busy for a while, its their own fault really, they must insist on feeling every single envelope and adding extra surcharges.  Most of my out of state cards are going out today and tomorrow. "Wise Men" materials used: poppy & vintage cream card stock copic markers may arts ribbon City of David stamp set from Flourishes llc paper piercing tool corner rounder sakura glitter pen **Edited to add** I got the card of the week over at 2sketches4you this week and won a score-it!!  How cool is that!  If you a...

Today I'm sharing the third newly released set from Flourishes llc , called Lace and Trim, it has a beautiful vintage feel to it, which I have enjoyed playing with.  The set was inspired by some antique lace that Jan Marie has (an owner of Flourishes), the lace is starting to fall apart, so they made it into a stamp to preserve the image/pattern.  Isn't that just so neat!! For this card, I did very easy stamping (no technique or coloring involved) only using my stamp pad.  The sentiment is stamped on a label, which is a die from Spellbinders.  I added some red satin ribbon at the top and then added some red gems next to the sentiment to tie it all together. Don't forget to stop by DT blogs to check out their creations Julie Koerber Faith Hofrichter Cindy Haffner Laura Fredrickson Cindy Lawrence Christine Okken Festive Flourishes Friday This week I am playing along with the Friends of Flourishes blogging team, and the challenge is all about crisp and clean winter white cards...

Today I am sharing with you the newly released Thinking of You stamp set from Flourishes llc .  Its from the Simply Sophisticated line of stamps, so they are very easy to work with. For my first card I used some Urban Prairie paper and brads from Basic Grey.  The base is kraft card stock followed by a light teal Prism card stock, then the dp.  I distressed the edges of the teal and urban prairie paper, then sewed them together.  The front panels on which I stamped on were cut and embossed using the Labels 2 dies from Spellbinders.  Oh I forgot to add that I used a scalloped border punch on the teal prism paper.  I punched a hole through the white card stock and ran my ribbon through the holes and tied a bow.  After the bow was tied, I then added dimmensionals on the back side of the kraft paper.  There is very little stamping or technique on this card, it was stamp and go :)  Its all of the embellishments that make it fancy lol.  The paper, brads, ribbon, and Spellbinder dies can all b...

This month there are 3 new stamp sets being released from Flourishes llc .  For my international readers, they do ship world wide.  Today I will be showcasing the Rose set.  Shown below is the actual stamp set and you can buy it here .   For my first card I used the long stem rose stamp and stamped it with Adirondack black soot ink.  I used re-inkers and a water brush to color in my rose (pink pirouette, riding hood red & kiwi kiss).  I had really good control over the shading so this technique was perfect for this image.  I cut and embossed my rectangle panels using the large rectangle Nestabilities by Spellbinders.  The patterned paper is Basic Grey from the Infuse line.  Before glueing down my panels I ran green satin ribbon followed by sheer white ribbon around the dp and tied a bow.  Using a glue dot I adhered the button to the ribbon, glue dots are super strong and keep the buttons in place.   For this card I used Kazan's sketch #15 from 2sketches4you "Love" He...

Here is a 6x6 scrap book page that I made for my Dad, for an album that I'm making him for Christmas. I used the Floral Fantasy Garden from Flourishes, to stamp and emboss the little flowers randomly that you see at the top left & bottom right corners.  On the photo, I used the "Life is Sweet" sentiment from Sweet Treats and stamped it in the corner and then stamped 2008 (from the Holiday Greetings set) below it.  I distressed a piece of paper, and then used it to journal on, to finish off the page, I ran some twine around the page a few times. I really liked the page, but I didn't want to make another one for myself (a lot of work goes into a page lol) so I took a picture of the page, cropped it and then made a hybrid page in Photo Shop Elements.  Once I figured out the layers, it came together really fast!!  So here is my first hybrid page.  If you have any kind of photo editing program, give it a shot, you might like what you see. Fantasy Floral Garden has alw...