Designs by Latisha Yoast

If you go over to www.vervevisual.blogspot.com they are having a Guest Designer contest. There is a sketch posted & you need to make a card using the sketch. So here is my first card {I plan on submitting a few cards} you can enter as many times as you want. This card is for a little boy named Gabe who just turned 8 yrs old. I have the hardest time making masuline cards without it being to froo froo {girly} I am glad this card is going to an eight year old who will not notice I really messed up on the gromets. I am still new at using my new big bite and I didn't place the gromet on the right, in the *right* place...it should be a little more to the left. Since I was using a dark background paper I needed to fix it somehow to not seem blah. So I cuttelbug-ed the layers with the textile embossing folder, then lightly went over the raised part with Tim Holtz distress ink in walnut stain. I had originally stamped faux stitches using all in a row by SU, but I didn't li...

So did anyone visit Flossie's blog a few weeks ago and she totally was an enabler LOL. She had posted a pictures of this and HSN was selling is earlier than in stores and was cheaper. Well I bought it hehe and it came in the mail yesterday. Its the new Crop-a-dile called the Big Bite. I have only played with it once so far, but it does some pretty impressive stuff. The next two cards are going to Beate she has the blog Fresh and Fun (we all know who she is lol) Her husband is deployed right now and she wants to fill a box with blank Valentine's Day Cards so the guys and gals can send a Valentine home. My husband is at a training command right now, but in the past when he was deployed the men appreciated stuff like this, so I am more than willing to send a few cards to her. Materials used: Chocolate Chip, Purely Pomegranate, Whisper White & Pink cardstock by SU, Smitten Paisly Glitter paper by K & Company, Chocolate Chip grosgrain ribbon & Purely Pomegranat...