Designs by Latisha Yoast

Today, I had every intention of making a few Halloween cards.  However, it is just around 100 degrees here, in North East Florida, and I just could not get into seasonal stamping lol.  My bright City Park paper from American Crafts was calling out to me loud and clear.  This line makes me so happy!  From the graphic design American Crafts is known for, to the amazing images, plus they scattered glitter all over it, just screams fun!  To start, I cut/embossed my pattern paper with a Grand Scalloped Square die template, using my handy dandy Grand Calibur .  Die cutting has never been easier or more fun using these new tools!  Okay, so now that my paper is die cut, it was time to score it.  Since the die cut is a perfect 6 inch square, I scored at 3 inches (you have got to love easy math).  Oh, let me back track for a second, I am using the Card Positioning Systems sketch # 190 , I am a sucker for a great sketch!  Now that my card is scored, it was time to start embellishing it.  The fu

Happy Monday! I really should have done all the laundry in the house yesterday, but I really just wanted to veg out.  So, today I will be doing what I avoided.  Instead of doing actual laundry, I colored in this cute laundry basket image (Lockhart Stamps), it was so much more fun than the real thing lol.  Isn't that sentiment so true?  Wash * Dry * Fold * Repeat  I know all of you reading this are nodding your head yes in agreement with me.  Sometimes you just need to rest your body, the laundry is still there waiting, but the rest was so needed and will get me through this week.  But seriously, I think my laundry breeds & multiplies at night, like Gremlins, it just never goes away! Oh did you all see the SF Giants vs Phillies playoff game the other night? As a girl born and raised in N. California, I was yelling at the tv cheering them on! So excited to see them go to the World Series! They are going to kick some Ranger booty :) Materials Used: GinaK pure luxury card stock

Now that the holidays are fast approaching, it is time for me to get my Christmas card game on! You know what I mean? I am gong to be way ahead of the game this year! So for my card today I am mixing up the Beyond Borders stamp set and Very Merry Sentiments from Mint Motif.  You can never go wrong with a clean graphic design, white on white card stock and minimal embellishments.  This isn't too bulky, so I am pretty sure it will meet my one stamp requirement.  I put my fancier Christmas cards in with a present, so the USPS doesn't ruin it.   What I love is that, it would be pretty easy to mass produce these if I wanted.  If you all know me I don't really mass produce cards anymore, so mass producing to me is nothing more than 4 lol.   Well I better go, I have to wake up at O-dark-thirty in the morning, as my oldest has a Cross Country meet to be at, at 6:30 am!  Jeepers! Have a great weekend!! Materials Used: Mint Motif Very Merry Sentiments & Beyond Borders stamp

Welcome to JustRite Stampers’ newest Wednesday feature, 12 Weeks of Christmas Blog Hops 7!   Every Wednesday up until Thanksgiving some of your favorite designers will be joining some of the JustRite design team for a series of Christmas blog hops, showcasing JustRite’s entire  Christmas Collection  of stamps!  You also might see some projects from the JustRite design team, using some of their newly released line of CLING stamps!  You can find our new collection of cling stamps  HERE .  This week, the designers joining us are most of the  Spellbinders  and  Caardvarks  design teams!  So mark your calendars for Wednesdays at 9am Central for great Christmas gift, card & project ideas, starting at the  JustRite Inspiration blog ! For my project today, I used the JustRite Christmas Ornaments Set .  These ornaments are really beautiful and beg to be colored in. I started by stamping my image onto Neenah white card stock, then began to color in the ornament with Copic markers.  Once the

Hello and welcome to the i {heart} papers 2 nd Birthday Bash blog hop and scavenger hunt!   You should have arrived here from Kimberly's blog .  If you're jumping into the middle (or if you're lost!) be sure to start at Kate's .  You don't want to miss a thing! Today we’re celebrating two great years of IHP and are delighted to have some fabulous guest designers playing along with our talented design team members to bring some birthday paper-crafting inspiration your way!  Our design team and guests are revealing their creations for this month's design team challenge--to design the "Perfect Pair"--a birthday card and coordinating gift, tag or other presentation item. We would love if you would join us in making a Perfect Pair of your own (upload to your blog or an online gallery with the keyword IHPBB10 ).   Be sure to post your link on Kate’s blog so we can see your project and enter your name in our challenge prize drawings . In addition to t

If you are here for the Flourishes A Gift for you blog hop scroll down to the next pos t Today the Mint Motif stamp sets Very Merry Sentiments & Beyond Borders are revealed!! So exciting!! You can buy them exclusively at i{heart}papers . Make sure to visit the rest of the design team and their amazing projects. You will also want to leave comments, one person will win the Beyond Borders set & another lucky winner will win the Very Merry Sentiments set.  Cool right!?! Geny Cassady Julie Overby Kazan Clark Charlene Austin Kimberly Crawford i{heart}papers blog For my project today, I decided to make a set of tags.  These are the perfect item to make using all of your scrap card stock hanging around.  Just like cards, you can never have enough tags, especially Christmas tags for all of those gifts! 1. Trim tags down to size. 2.  Stamp border, to create a pattern. 3.  Color in the ovals with a Copic marker. 4.  In two of the rows fill the ovals in with glitter. 5.  Cut/emboss

Flourishes has invited the Spellbinders Design Team to take part in their new release, here is a little info about the stamp set. If you’ve been searching for a perfect set that could give class and elegance to your Christmas gift packaging, search no more! Today, Flourishes is sneak peaking a brand new set called, A Gift for You, and some of the Spellbinders’ team is joining them in the fun! This set was designed not only to coordinate with some of Flourishes best-selling Christmas stamp sets but with more than a handful of Spellbinders Template Dies!  A Gift For You  - drawn by the ever-so-talented Marcella Hawley - offers 8 different tag styles and 8 different mini sentiments to fit inside! To make sure your tags come out with a regal style and design, this set coordinates with Spellbinders Labels 14, Labels 15, Labels 16, as well as some of the new circular and square shaped designs like Lacey, Eyelet and Beaded Circles and Lacey or Eyelet Squares! The customizable options are end

Happy Monday! Today I get to sneak a brand new set from Mint Motif called Beyond Borders, available on Oct 14th. What is so wonderful about this set, is that is is a background builder set.  It can be used on any project you can dream of, all year round.  I really enjoy stamping on my scrapbook pages, so I used one of the stamps from this set, to stamp a great background instead of using pattern paper.  Only stamps could have given me this look. I started out with a 8 1/2 x 11 inch sheet of kraft card stock.  I then took out some Crackle paint, spread it on part of the card stock, and let it dry.  Once dry, I stamped my image with Palette ink , I did this three times to create a nice pattern.  I then adhered gems down, partly over the crackle paint and stamped pattern.  The gems were originally clear, but I took out a Copic marker, to coordinate & customize it with the ink.  I then adhered a picture of my daughter, that was the inspiration of this page.  A while back I bought the

I decided to play along with this weeks Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger ,  called a Funky Fall. The inspiration pieces always seem to get my mojo jump started! I was inspired by the colors the most in the above photo, especially the green. There are so many beautiful fall pattern papers out there to choose from, which would have been amazing to use.  However, I love the City Park line from American Crafts, and the sheet of pattern paper that I chose just worked perfectly.  I also needed to make a happy birthday card that I wanted to be non-seasonal.  The sheet of paper is actually embossed and has a really great texture to it.  After I adhered the pattern paper (floral and solid green strip), I grabbed my Mint Motif stamps.  The white label die cut was cut/embossed using the Spellbinders Labels Sixteen.  The sentiment is from the Very Square Sentiments stamp set, and the green pattern underneath the sentiment was created by using one of the square back ground builders from the Very Square

Today is the last day of the Lawn Fawn October sneaks. This cute little fella is a single stamp called Winter Bunny. I stamped the bunny and colored it in with Copic markers.  I know a lot of you might be afraid to color or use Copics, but with a little practice you will love them.  Because this is a smaller image, it was very easy to color in!  The snowflakes are from the Frosties set, shown yesterday, and the tag (and sentiment) are from the Bow and Holly stamp set, shown just the other day.  The fun die cut the bunny and snowflakes are on was cut/embossed using the Spellbinders Labels Seventeen die set.  To give the card some dimension, I popped the bunny up with foam tape.  The label die cut, is also popped up with foam tape, it is much easier to adhere a label over ribbon if it is popped up. Head on over to the Lawn Fawn blog , and leave a comment to win this set. Also, visit the rest of the design team for more great projects with this cute winter bunny. Danni Reid    Lea Lawson

I am giving you a sneak peek, of a stamp set called Frosties from Lawn Fawn Stamps . This is a great twist on a snowflake stamp set, that is distinctive Lawn Fawn style.  For my project, I decided to make a cut tag set.  Besides making cards, I really love to make tags.  Tags just give a gift that final touch of class.  These were super simple to make (directions at the end of the post).  Head on over to the Lawn Fawn blog for a chance to win this stamp set. Stop by the rest of the design team blogs to see their fantastic Frosties projects. Danni Reid    Lea Lawson   Lynnette Kauffman   Mariana Grigsby   Teri Anderson   Tiffany Johnson &   guest designer Maile Belles Directions: 1.  Cut/emboss white card stock using the Spellbinders S5-25 Labels Seventeen. 2.  Stamp snowflakes in a blue ink. 3.  Distress the edges with ink. 4.  Cut/emboss vellum using the Labels Seventeen. 5.  Trim vellum, and stamp sentiment in red ink. 6.  Punch hole in tag, string ribbon through, tie w