Designs by Latisha Yoast

Here is a fun card, perfect for the stud muffin in your life (ha ha ha), that sentiment and image combined gives me serious giggles.  I'm thinking, I might leave it in my husbands car one day, so he will find it on his way to work.  Something cute like that, would make is day a little better. For this card I used a few different Lawn Fawn stamp sets, Love n' Breakfast and Bannerific .  I really like the layout of this card, it would be really easy to change out the image and sentiment. Materials Used: Bannerific Love n' Breakfast red cardstock My Minds Eye pattern paper Spellbinders M-bossabilites Want2scrap black bling memento ink

Just a quick little post to say hello, and hope you all are having a wonderful holiday season with your families.  We enjoyed a nice Christmas yesterday.  It consisted of, sleeping in, eating, going to the movies and eating some more.  It was perfect. While we were together as a family, there are many military members who were away from theirs.  So, I thank them for their service.  If you have a minute during this festive time of year, say a little prayer for those deployed.  Being away from the ones you love the most at Christmastime, is unbearably sad. Here is a little card dedicated to all of the heroes out there. Have a great day!! materials used: kraft cardstock My Minds Eye pattern paper foam tape red buttons twine mini clothes pin

Join Spellbinders™ Paper Arts and Crafters Home as we celebrate a Fall Sneak Peek! Spellbinders and  participating stores  in the Crafters Home Buying Group are excited to introduce three new die template sets  sold exclusively  through Crafters Home stores through January! You’ll have to wait until February to find these die template designs in non-member stores.  These new dies are in stock! Get yours now at a participating Crafters Home store!  See the  Spellbinders Blog  for a list of participating stores.   Visit the  Spellbinders Blog  November 14 - 16 to see a new Spellbinders die template revealed each day! Visit designer blogs to enter the daily contests and see inspiring projects using the new releases. Comment on Designers Blogs and the Spellbinders Blog count as entries into daily drawings. Daily winners receive all three of the new designs! Today's new die is S5-068 Dress Forms $19.99 Lattice Dress: 1 7/8 x 2 ¼” Sca...

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

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 ...

With only 7 days left of the school year, I need to get cracking on "thank you" notes for my son to give to his teachers.   I wanted to use some fun images, so I went to my Lawn Fawn stamps.  I grabbed the Critters in the Sea stamp set and Cruising Through Life .  I paper pieced the whale and waves, then stamped the "thank you" sentiment a few times.  These are simple enough, that I can make quite a few of these, and use up a bunch of scrap paper. We are supposed to have rainy weather off and on this weekend, so I plan on cleaning...super glamorous I know.  I don't like deep cleaning, but it has to be done. Materials Used: Kraft card stock Lawn Fawn stamps My Minds Eye paper Foam tape Twinery Bakers Twine memento ink

Welcome to the first day of the  Spellbinders™ Paper Arts   Holiday Hoppin’  Blog Hop!  Spellbinders, along with Spellbinders are showcasing their newest products just in time for your Holiday crafting and gift giving.  Lots of creative ideas are in store, as well as prizes galore!  Each participating company has generously donated towards the prize package listed on the  Spellbinders Blog .  A total of two identical prize packages, one for each day, November 18 and 19 will be given away!  To enter, just leave a comment on a participating blog!  Comments in the first 48 hours of the post are eligible.  One commenter each day will be randomly selected as the winner.  Winners will be announced on November 22, on the  Spellbinders Blog ! Be sure to see all of tomorrow’s  Holiday Hoppin’  blogs for inspiring projects and another chance to win! Visit all of today’s Holiday Hoppin’ blogs: Latisha Yoast  ...

The days and weeks leading up to CHA (Craft & Hobby Association), I was really busy working on projects for different booths.  What this left me was a huge mess, and a ton of scraps.  If it is a nice card stock or a pattern paper, I try to find a use for it.  I had a small scrap of kraft paper left, and if you love kraft card stock like I do, there is no way you are getting rid of it.  Looking at the scrap paper, I could tell it was just big enough to make a few tags, but too small to make a card, so I went with the tags. The paper was 4 1/4 x 8 inches, so all I needed to do was trim the tags to a length that I liked.  I went with 2 1/4 in width by 4 1/4 long.  Now this next part was just pure luck.  As I was trying to figure out what stamps to use (because I new I would use the MME So Sophie pattern paper), I grabbed my Cake Shoppe Too stamps from Mint Motif (sold through iheartpapers ).  I took a look at the bottom layer of the largest cak...

How are the days just flying by? My children are keeping me very busy this summer. I am trying to find a nice balance with everything. I apologize for the lack of posts lately, I am working on CHA projects and other fun things. On this card, I used some fabulous Ali Edwards stamps by Technique Tuesday .  The are fun versatile, and have so much meaning behind them.  I was inspired by some pretty My Minds Eye paper that I picked up last month.  This card would be perfect for anyone.  If I were to send it to a man, I would probably change the bow into a knot & maybe remove the butterfly.  Butterflies seem a little feminine to me, and most of the men in my life (dad, hubby, son) are manly men.  To soften the card up, I rounded the corners on the bottom, then on the bottom corner of the pattern paper.  This is a longer/taller card, I believe the measurements are 3 3/4 x 6 inches, and I used bazzill kraft card stock.  Oh and the butterfly is from J...