Designs by Latisha Yoast

Today, I am sharing a card using the October Ho, Ho's & Holiday Blessings stamp set from Avocado Arts.  It has a mix of fall & winter/Christmas images, and since I'm not quite ready to jump full force into Christmas, a fall card it is.  Not too mention, I have a bunch of fall & Halloween pattern paper I need to use up.  The chipboard and pattern paper are both from Crate paper, so I paper pieced a few of the leaves and applied them to the chipboard.  I originally stamped the sentiment onto the pattern paper, but it kind of got lost and was hard to read.  So, I thought about it for a few minutes, and re-stamped it onto white card stock, and I like it much better that way.   Head on over to the other designer blogs, I am always so inspired by what they create. AJ OTTO BECKY OEHLERS JULIA STAINTON KIMBERLY CRAWFORD AVOCADO ARTS BLOG AVOCADO ART WEBSITE materials used: Avocado Arts October stamp set Crate paper and chipboard white card stock foam tape copic

Welcome to the Spellbinders and Core’dinations Blog Swap! This week Spellbinders™ has teamed up with our Core’dinations Color Core Cardstock® to showcase the wonderful ways our products work together! For more details and information please visit the  Spellbinders blog . For my project, I decided to make a trio of tags, using the I ronwork Motifs die templates, with pink & ivory Core' dinations cardstock.  Once I cut/embossed the cardstock, I sanded the edges, which helps in exposing the embossed edge.  The, "Noel" stamp is from the Technique Tuesday stamp set called Believe , stamped in black ink.  I layered the die cuts using foam tape, and finished them off by adding twine and Want2Scrap ivory pearls. upclose picture of the tags Sophistication, value and maximum versatility make Spellbinders™ die  templates #1. Beautiful Details Inspiring Creativity…Spellbinders unique t riple function die templates allow you to cut, emboss, and then stencil  through the d

This week Clear Snap is sponsoring the sketch over at Card Positioning Systems .  I used the Smooch Pearlized ink to color in the house (lettuce, mocha, plum berry, sweet melon & banana custard) , and tree.  I have to admit, I was a little scared at first to use these inks.  They come in super cute bottles that look like nail polish, then once opened, the coloring brush is kind of like a fine point brush.  Once I figured them out (which wasn't hard) , I had a lot of fun coloring in the house.  The stamps are from a new stamp set from Lawn Fawn called, Happy Haunting .   Materials Used: Lawn Fawn Happy Haunting Clear Snap Smooch Pearlized ink foam tape MME pattern paper Clear Snap Licorice Color Box ink Black satin ribbon Bazzill card stock

Do you ever feel, you just never have enough time?  I feel that way all the time!  With my children sick the last 3 weeks (now much better), and with Kendall in the hospital for one of those weeks.  I really did not have time to do anything but take care of my children.  Sometimes, when I want to create something, but really have no direction, and just want to play.  I will things that I like to call starter tags.  Its kind of like an ATC, but I don't have a set shape or size that I follow everytime.  Usually, I will just grab whatever is in reach, and use that.  I can use these starter tags on cards, layouts, gift bags, or use them as a tag.  They are just little bits of fun to use when I need them.   All of the stamps used are from Lawn Fawn   ( Schoolhouse Backdrops , Happily Ever After , & Hello Friend ) and the papers are American Crafts (Amy Tangerine) and My Little Shoebox.

A few weeks ago (before the sickies hit our house), my son went to one of his best friends birthday.  When it comes to birthdays for tweens & teens, I just go with a gift card now (however Jacob didn't think a gift card was enough, so we had to get Pokemon cards too lol).  So, I created a fun custom card for a 10 year old boy...bold colors and nothing to foo foo.   The "happy birthday" sentiment is from the Sophie's Sentiments stamp set, then I stamped "josh" using the Quinn's ABC's set (then colored in the letters using blue copic markers).  I didn't like all of the colors of the star chipboard, so I colored over them with red & blue Copic markers. inside of the card Materials Used: Lawn Fawn Stamps: Quinn's ABC's & Sophie's Sentiments October Afternoon pattern paper Fancy Pants chipboard Spellbinders Labels One Nestabilities May Arts twine Copic markers red ink black ink

 Last week was a little nutty (family emergency...everything is better now), so I was unable to post my other cards for the Lawn Fawn inspiration week.  Now that things are settled down, and I have a few moments on the computer, I have time to share them. The first card I used the Ornate Ornaments set, and on the second card I used Making Frosty Friends .  Whether you like to color in images or paper piece, or just stamp them the way they are, both sets are very versatile.  I have to admit, I loved coloring in that ornament!  Plus I can see myself doing a fun winter scene with Say Cheese with the Making Frosty Friends...how cute would that be?!? Did you know there is less than 100 days until Christmas?  So crazy!

Welcome to the start of the Lawn Fawn Inspiration Week (for September).   The design team is showcasing a super duper cute stamp set called, Pa-rum-Pa-Pum-Pum.  Head on over to the Lawn Fawn blog for all the details on how to win this fun stamp set, then head on and visit the designers to see what they did with this set. Chan Vuong Julie Campbell Lea Lawson Lynnette Kauffman Nichol Magouirk Teri Anderson Tiffany Johnson Chari Moss

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Can you believe that it's September 1st?  Here in Florida we are still having 90 degree+ weather, so somewhere along the line, summer zipped on by.  I guess it's time for me to start thinking fall/holidays.  Kind of scary how fast time flies. Anyhow, today the Avocado Arts design team is showcasing the September, Thankful for You stamp set.  It has images/sentiments for both Halloween and Fall (kind of love that), so you will have multi uses for this set.  I created, a card base using the Labels Twenty-Three from Spellbinders, layered it with some My Minds Eye pattern paper, then die cut more MME pattern paper using the Star Circles die set.  I paper pieced the pumpkin onto pattern paper, then colored it in using Copic, and did the same thing with the stem.  To give the card some dimension, I popped up each layer using foam tape.  To finish off the card, I added some natural twine at the top of the card. If you have time, visit the rest of the designers, I am sure they have