Designs by Latisha Yoast

  Over at Taylored Expressions today, the free with purchase items from the last few months are now available for purchase. The card I am sharing today is from the Mixed Blooms layering stencil along with the Little Bits Mixed Blooms. The stencil is 3 separate pieces which really allow the crafter to come up with so many options. The ink was applied to the lavender glaze card base. There are a few ways to get a bold ink blend when using a darker cardstock. You can first go over the stencil with a white pigment ink, like sugar cube. Let the ink dry and then go over it again with your water based ink. Or you can use something like distress oxide inks. Both work great. Once the ink dried, with a white pen I made little marks inside some of the flowers for contrast. The "thank you" was stamped in coordinating lavender glaze ink onto sugar cube cardstock, then die cut out and adhered to the card. The diecut mixed blooms were then added around the sentiment for added interest. 

Do you like interactive cards? Taylored Expressions has made this theater fold interactive die kit, so so easy. You will need to diecut the outer layer, and two inside pieces. But included are pieces already diecut and scored, ready to use.  After die cutting sugar cube cardstock to create the top layer. Using watermelon, candy corn and pinapple inks, the diecut panel was ink blended to create a gradient of red/orange/yellow. A stencil was placed over the panel and ink blended again to create a design.  The thank you sentiment was stamped, then diecut to place over the pre cut and scored diecut pieces. Then using the same stencil and ink colors, to create the same pattern.  When you pull the sides of the card apart, there is a secret area to place another sentiment/image. So fun! I am loving these big bold sentiments with coordinating dies. They really can add that extra zing to a card when you stamp the sentiment onto colored cardstock and diecut it out.  To start,...

  Today Taylored Expressions is releasing stamps that you can now purchase which were once free gift with purchase or exclusive gifts. How fun is that!! At first look, this card looks classy and elegant. But, with further inspection it has a funny sentiment. Its not lying though how true that is. I created a tone on tone background by stamping the spring spray stamp with lavender glaze ink multiple times onto lavender glaze cardstock. Then repeated the pattern onto a smaller white panel. Its a beautiful and easy way to create a card, and the sentiment can be changed out for the occasion. If there is a stamp set that you are on the fence about, take a second look at Big Hello. It has large and small "hello" sentiments in different fonts. In my card I stamped a few different "hellos" in three different inks for contrast, but also to show how well they work tougher too. This is the perfect sketch to mass produce a handful of hello cards to have on hand in your card ...

Hello friends. For those who celebrate I hope you enjoy this Easter weekend. How are all of you doing? Quarantine is weird. Some days I am fine and some days I find myself really missing my friends. Missing a great meal at my favorite restaurants or even just the simple pleasure of grocery shopping. Everything seems so stressful. But, I am so thankful that I have a craft room where I can escape and make pretty cards to send out.  Today my friend Laurie Willison has a new line of dies from Spellbinders called Effortless Greetings.  These are made to be use with the Glimmer Machine. The Glimmer Machine allows you to letterpress foil onto your projects.  For this blue card. I used the Framed Details hot glimmer plate. It has this sweeping branch leaves plate as well as a double rectangle frame (that I will show on other projects below), that I foiled in gold. Then using the same blue cardstock and gold foil, I used the Effortless Sentiment Glimmer "thank you" ...

Welcome to the CardMaker & Taylored Expressions Blog Hop! Today designers are showcasing cards using the Taylored Expressions, Stamp of the Month kits. Up next on the hop is, Tracy Clemente . (the  full list is at the bottom of this post) Taylored Expressions is giving away one stamp set from the Stamp of the Month Archives (plus its coordinating die) to one lucky winner! To enter, leave a comment on each participating designer's blog. Winner will be chosen at random from all comments. Comments close  midnight PST on Friday, November 22, 2013 . For my card, I used the May 2013 Stamp of the Month , called Cutie Pie. Also, the coordinating die set, Branches Banner & Bloom                                                             Hop List: Taylored Expressions Blog Wanda Guess Alice...