Designs by Latisha Yoast

I got this really cool designer paper the other day, you can see the edges of it in the card, so that how the idea got started.  The Fantasy Floral Garden stamp set is my favorite set from Flourishes  and it has a few flowers in the set that would look really good with this paper.  Flourishes has a distinct classic style, but this paper gave me an idea to make it current and fresh.   I started by stamping the Coffee cup {coffee with friends} and then added a flower from Fantasy Floral Garden, so the image tied in with the paper.  I colored in the cup and flower with Copic markers & doodled in the saucer with a black micron pen.  I added some felt rick-rak ribbon and Basic Grey buttons to finish it off.  The designer paper is by Tinkeringink.  The button are much brighter in real life, they look faded in the card.

So today or yesterday? Is Emily's birthday, she is the owner/founder of Stamping Bella, so in honor of her birthday I made her a card {shannon is having a birthday card challenge over on the Bella forum on SCS}.  Isn't she too cute!  All of the paper is this cool textured paper by Bazzil.  I colored her in with Copics and put stickles over her apron and a few blingy things on the scallops.  The sentiment is from Verve. Today's limited supply challenge on SCS is to only use a brad as your only emellishment, I also paired this challenge with the challenge from Sharon {notimetostamp} to make a 10 minute card.  I used the stamps from Flourishes LLC Peony set and the sentiment is from the Siberian Iris set.  Again I used the cool textured paper.  I colored in the bee's and the flowers with Copics.  The brad is from Basic Grey. I am off to a hail and farewell with my hubby, gotta run >"

So yesterdays sketch challenge 182 was a card with squares, I changed mine a little and made it into a rectangle with my mega-nestabilities.  I used the Coffee with Friends stamp set by Flourishes I cut the white card stock in 1 inch squares, and stamped the coffee cups on them, rotating the stamp so they look random.  I then took out some Basic Grey Boxer paper {that Chris sent me} and stamped the same coffee cup on the paper.  I cut out the coffee cups, stamped them with a flourish on them {from Siberian Iris}, layed the cut out coffee cups on the white squares, trimmed the edges off the ones that needed to be trimmed and then put Diamond Glaze over the tops of them.  So now that they are dried the coffee cups look like they are made out of ceramic/porcelain.  So basically I paper pieced the coffee cups and then put Diamond Glaze over them >" I used Chocolate Chip card stock for the base, Ruby Red and Stamper Select white Rectangle Megabilities dimmensionals Basic Grey Boxer ...

This month is to make something using acetate, I chose to use vinyl because it is much thicker and its glossy on both sides.  When making a card with acetate/vinyl I always cut two of everything, why? because you do not want your tape marks to show.  So no matter what way you look at the card, it looks polished.  I tried to upload more pictures to show how I made the card step by step, but I am having blogger problems, so I will have to write a lot instead of show you. Here you can see a side profile of the card.  I did a gate-fold card.  I have to be really creative when using vinyl because everything kind of need to be hidden.  So on the inside I have a circle and then layered on top of the lavender moon circle, I got some aqua mist paper, scored it and then laid a smaller circle nestabilitie a little over the score line, so I have a little circle card.  Inside this little circle card is where I will put my hand written note/message. Here in this view you can see what I am talking ab...

So yesterday I got a box of new Unity Stamps, so I played a lot today!  The first two cards, I took inspiration from today's color challenge, it was Wild Wasabi, Taken with Teal and Whisper white.  I would have never put these colors together, but they turned out nice. For this one I used the textile embossing folder on the whisper white cs.  The wild wasabi paper, I cut with a circle nestability along with all of the other circles.  All of the stamps are from Unity Stamp Co.  Oh on the bottom, I took out my dusty small creative memories circle punch and punched out a bunch of circles, and then ran them along the bottom of the white paper to create a scalloped border.   For this card, same colors again.  All of my stuff was out so why not make another card.    The frogs are from Pond Life {Papertrey Ink} and the rest of the images are from Unity Stamp Co.   SnowChristy on SCS does a sketch every week, so I played along and came up with this.  We went to the San Diego's Zoo Wild...

Yesterday's featured stamper on SCS was "lostinthe60s!" Dianne.  She has a great gallery, and this is the card that I chose to re-do here .  I kept the integrity of the sketch the same but changed a few things.  Its a very simple card, but I love it.  The sentiment is from PTI and the image is from the cute Salt Box Studios stamp set I just picked up.  The designer paper is from the Honey Pie line from Cosmo Cricket and the ribon is SU, oh and the cuttlebug embossing folder is the textile folder.  I colored in the image with Copic markers. Well this is a quick post today, I have lots to do.  Stay hydrated and cool for all of you folks who have warm weather today.

I went to the cutest Stamp Boutique yesterday, its called Paper Tales, here in San Diego.  If you are in the area go check out the store, you will love it.  So I picked up the baskets stamp set from Salt Box Studios.  Right now I am soooo multi-tasking right now, you would be impressed lol.  I have company coming over in a few minutes, so I am finishing up with the food.  For lunch we are have a cold pasta salad, turkey, cheese & avacado sandwiches on Focaccia bread, humus & pita chips, broccoli salad and grapes.  I am so hungry I am salivating looking at the food.  Anyhow, here are the two cards that I made with my new stamps, are they not the cutest baskets ever!!  There is a whole set of them with different themes, too cute.  The card stock in PTI stampers select white and then I used A-Muse polka-dotted designer paper & May Arts ribbon.  I stamped the image, colored them in with Copic markers, cut them out using Nestabilities, then put Diamond Glaze over the image, they...