Designs by Latisha Yoast

Today, the CardMaker Blog Team is showcasing projects using the fun new We R Memory Keepers Punch Boards.  This was my very first time using a Punch Board, and honestly I was a little scared at first.  However, the instructions are very clear, and it was extremely fast and easy to finish the bags shown below.  What I really love about this punch, is how versatile it is with the different sized bags I have the choice in making.  Click on this link here, to watch a video on the board I used.   (it's the first video, the yellow bag punch) Please take a few minutes, to visit the following blogs. Next up on the hop is Michelle . CardMaker Alice Golden Latisha Yoast Michelle Woerner Rosemary Dennis Stacy Morgan Here is the Punch Board that I used for today's projects Materials Used: Lawn Fawn Peace Joy Love Collection (pattern paper) Gina K Mistletoe Memories stamp set Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L 3D Foam S...

Today the designers from Crate Paper, and CardMaker Magazine , are showing off some great new projects using the Maggie Holmes Collection.  If you have time, head on over to the Crate Blog , they are giving a Maggie Holmes prize package worth $40. Your next stop is to Piradee's blog! (the complete blog list is below) I have a few cards to show you today, it was hard just to make one project.  I was on the CHA show floor when this line debuted, and I was blown away!  There is just something in the color palette of this line that I'm drawn to.  I have used it many, many times...it just makes me so happy! Materials List for Say Cheese Card: Maggie Holmes Wonderful paper Maggie Holmes Emily Jane paper Maggie Holmes Die Cuts (tag, camera, ticket stub) Maggie Homes Stickers kraft cardstock Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L foam squares & EZ runner May Arts ribbon Twinery pink twine M aterials List for Love You Dear Card: American Crafts white...

Head on over to the Crafty Power Blog , to see how I made this card.  Using the new Maggie Holmes line by Crate Paper, and of course Scrapbook Adhesive by 3L products.

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 st...

It is hard to believe summer is almost over, and my children start school in 2 weeks.  How on earth will I have a 5th & 10th grader?  I just can't wrap my head around that one.  My daughter has an especially hard course load this year (so does my son), so we sat down, and I let her go through my pattern paper stash, to re-cover/alter a composition notebook.  We made one for one of her really good friends as well. Kendall, finally settled on some beautiful Crate paper, and picked out some girly Teresa Collins paper for her friend.  It just made sense to use some Lawn Fawn stamps to personalize the notebooks for the girls.  The larger alphabet set is Quinn's ABC's and the smaller alpha set is the Harold's ABC's set.  I also used the S choolhouse backdrops set too.  I love that the Harold's set fit so perfect within the lines!!  I colored in the girls names using Copic markers to make the names pop a little more, then accented the letters...

Oh, how I have waited months to show this stamp set on my blog!  I was completely in love with this stamp set from the moment I saw it.  It is a larger scale alphabet set, that is perfect to color in, paper piece or just stamp alone. In a little over a day, my husband will be coming home from his deployment.  Most of you know, he is a helicopter pilot in the US Navy, and this deployment was really rough.  It has been a little over 6 months since me or my children have seen him, so the anxiety level in my house, is through the roof right now.   I plan on writing him a little note inside this card, and placing on his side of the bed.  I will probably apologize too for being a bed hog until I get used to him being there again lol.   With each hour of this deployment coming to a close, I feel a release of sorts.  For the last 6 months, I have had to be the Mom, Dad, friend, disciplinarian, coach, teacher, taxi driver, money hander-overer, tear wiper, ...

Today the designers for Lawn Fawn are showing sneaks of the upcoming stamp set called, My Silly Valentine. This set is going to make you smile! Just looking at it makes me smile, it is a happy stamp set, but I think all Lawn Fawn stamp sets are happy. A clean & balanced card for you today. A perfectly balanced card is always what I strive to make, whether it is graphic & clean or maybe a little layered card, balance will always make it shine (in my opinion). Some nice textured card stock, pretty pattern paper, twine, foam tape, a border punch and some markers. Visit the Lawn Fawn blog as well as the design team for more awesome projects! Latisha Yoast   Lea Lawson   Lynnette Kauffman   Mariana Grigsby   Teri Anderson   Tiffany Johnson