Designs by Latisha Yoast

Flourishes is now carrying Copic markers, and they have put them into perfect blending collections.  Today I'm going to show you how I colored in my present from the All Wrapped Up stamp set, using Copic markers BG11, BG13, & BG15, which make up the Water collection. To start off I stamped the image using Tuxedo Black Memento ink, if you do not have Memento, the next best ink is Palette.  I then took the BG11 marker and colored in the entire image.  If you are beginner with these markers, you want to use a small circle motion while coloring, this will prevent streaking. Next, I took the mid-tone marker in this collection, BG13 and added some darker shadows to the present.  I went into the bow a little and on the left side of the package. To blend I went over the darker colored parts with the BG11, this now has blended BG13 a little more nicely, it doesn't look as bold. Here I colored in the lid of the present, some of the bow, and some piping with the BG13 marker. The lid a...

A new sketch is up over at 2sketches4you , this weeks sponsor is from Score-it.  I wanted to do something a little different with my American Crafts designer paper, so I took out my Mini Score-it and made score lines every 1/4 inch, vertically and horizontally on my paper, this made a really cool grid pattern.  On my ivory card stock, I also used my mini Score-it to score lines above and below my scalloped border.  Little details like scoring make a card look polished.  The image is from Unity Stamp Co & the sentiment is from Papertrey ink. "special friend blend" My image was colored in using Copic markers, if you head on over to the Flourishes Newsletter there is a tutorial up on coloring with these markers.

The ever fabulous Leslie challenged us to make a card using solid image stamps this week for the Flourishes Friday Focus .  When using solid image stamps or silhouettes, you pick your image, color of ink, then start stamping, its as simple as that.  I believe that is why so many people are attracted to that style of stamp, they are easy to use. For my card, I stamped the poppy image from Summer Botanicals in red ink, then took the dragonfly image from the Summer Blossoms set and stamped it in black ink, onto some Cosmo Cricket Dutch Girl designer paper.  Before adhering my designer paper onto the black card stock, using a distressing tool I distressed the edges of the paper.  To take the card to the next level, I used some lovely red/cream gingham ribbon and attached a tag and button to the center of the bow. "thank you" Head on over to the Flourishes Newsletter to see Leslie's tutorial then, take a blog hop to check out what the design team has created. Christine Okk...

Here is my card for the Unity addicts challenge, to make a card using red, white & blue. I was in a clean and simple kind of mood, you don't need lots of layers and embellishments to make a cute card. I colored in the tricycle using copic marker R27 & R29, I did my shadows using C1, for the blue I used a heart shaped blue button by Making Memories, and tied some twine through it. The image and sentiment are both from Unity Stamp Co. "smile"

I should be moving stuff right now, but I took a break and made some of these cute little notebooks.  I'm going to an untraditional baby shower on Saturday, some of the spouses in my husbands squadron are having a tea for one of the wives.  We will have tea and eat some yummy scones, salad, quiche and dessert, so I don't think any of the quirky baby games will be had, so I am making all of the ladies attending one of these notebooks, I'm not done yet, but I have until Saturday.  I'm using some of my Just Rite monogram stamps and borders, which is making these so much easier!  I stamp the image, cut and emboss them using my Nestabilities and then color in the center using Copic markers.  This is an excellent way to use up some scraps.  From left to right here is the paper I used: Crate, K & Company, Cosmo Cricket & Making Memories. I hope you all are having a wonderful day!  I'm off to the post office ttyl latisha Monogrammed Notebooks

Kazan's Sketch #29 The flower on my card, is an image from Starving Artistamps, which happens to be this weeks sponsor over at 2sketches4you .  I stamped the image in Memento ink, colored it in using Copic markers, then cut it out and set it aside.  Using my mini Score-it, I scored all 4 sides of my card.  The two strips of designer paper are from Teresa Collins (love that stuff!).  I ran some ribbon around the card, tied a bow and then attached a button using some natural twine.  The circles were cut and embossed using circle Spellbinder Nestability dies.  I then attached my flower and added the "hi" using felt thickers. "hi" i hope you have a wonderful Monday!!

Most of the big stuff is moved over to the new place, still lots of little things to move.  The cable guy/girl hooked up phone, internet and cable yesterday and now today it does not work.  So hopefully they will have someone to our place soon.  Looks like Panera Bread will be seeing me lol.  Its 102 here today (not including the humidity)...off to eat some food and move more things over. Happy Father's Day to all the Dad's out there!! hugs, latisha