Designs by Latisha Yoast

Welcome to the first day of the Spellbinders Abilities and Beyond Blog Frenzy ! Spellbinders™ Paper Arts is absolutely thrilled to bring you our largest product releases ever! These new collections are some of the most innovative and beautiful die cutting and embossing templates in the world! The Spellbinders Abilities and Beyond Blog Frenzy allows you a sneak peek of our introductions for the 2012 Winter Craft and Hobby Association trade show later this month.  Win today’s new Spellbinders products! Be eligible to win the Grand Prize by entering each day, see the schedule below! This contest is now closed   Enter my Blog Frenzy from 12:00 am Eastern Standard Time (EST) January 12, 2012 until 11:59 pm January 13, 2012. Today’s participating Blog Frenzy includes my blog and Debbie Olsen and  Michelle Woerner’s blogs. See the Spellbinders Blog for the complete schedule of designers and contest rules. Thank you Spellbinders Paper Arts for sponsoring this conte...

Lawn Fawn is having a product swap with Glue Arts Adhesives this week.  Designers from both companies will be sharing their projects everyday with you.   Today, I am sharing a bright and happy Get Well Soon card.  With it being winter, and prime time for cold/flu season, I need to have a stash of these cards ready to give out.  After I die cut card stock using a Spellbinders die template, I stamped a few images from the On The Mend stamp set .  While I was deciding how to color in my images, I got started on the card base.  The green polka dotted card stock is from Bo Bunny (it seriously is one of my staples), and I adhered the American Crafts pattern paper to the card base using Glue Arts adhesive.  To have a little bit of contrast between the two bright papers, I added a little piece of kraft card stock.  I added some silk May Arts ribbon, and rounded the bottom corner.  Once the card base was done, I just grabbed a few Copic markers that s...

Lots of ladies are pregnant in my neck of the woods, so I need to make a few "congrats" cards to have on hand.  I am not drinking that water, you better believe that!  Sometimes I wish I was able to have more (medical issues), but really I am so happy with two.  I cannot imagine trying to get more than 2 children to all of their activities.  I have a 9th & 4th grader, I do a heck of a lot of transportation.  I understand the whole "mom taxi" statement now.  I don't know which is worse, getting up in the middle of the night with an infant, or being awakened hearing a text message go to your child's phone in the middle of the night?  Sometimes I wish I could turn back time to when my children were younger.  Younger children are 1000% times easier to raise than tween/teenagers.  I am convinced alcohol was invented for parents of teenagers. My teen is really good, but on those days where she gives me the "mom you are so stupid look",  it...