Designs by Latisha Yoast

We went to go see the Padres, & we all had a great time.  Since its Labor Day weekend and all, traffic was going to be terrible.  Petco Park is only a few miles from our house, but dealing with tourists, parking, traffic & drunk people we took the train.  It was cheaper than parking & I got to people watch. The Padres won, its so nice when the home team wins.  Although the Padres are not my favorite baseball team, I had fun cheering them on.  We had soda's, hot dogs, licorice, kettle corn & cotton candy.  Those walking vendors get me everytime, especially when they have the cotton candy, I only let my kids get cotton candy at special events like this, oh and I'm OCD about it, I only get the pink, not the blue and not the mixed in the bucket...what the heck is that, you need it on the stick thingy LOL.  To top things off it was cap night so we all got free SD Padres caps/hats. There really isn't a bad seat in the stadium, it was designed very well for a Baseb...

I made this the other day & forgot to post it.  I had just finished my swaps and all of my paper was still out, so I made a card :)  I actually used my Prisma color pencils, I always forget to use them.  It also helped that the challenge on SCS on Thursday was to use pencils, but I really like how this turned out.   "Thanks" Prism, Cosmo Cricket, Unity Stamp Co. August Kit of the month, Cosmo Cricket ribbon, buttons, twine Does anyone have fun plans this weekend?  We are going to go see the San Diego Padres vs the Colorado Rockies later on today (Major League Baseball for you ladies who don't follow sports  >" Be Safe this Weekend!

These are my Papertrey Ink swaps (held on SCS) that I just finished.  So now I need to get them mailed off.  I am now done with all of my swaps I had signed up for.  Things are going to start to get hectic here soon.   The base of the card is PTI, but the white & red card stock is from Prism & the designer paper is Cosmo Cricket.  I used Spiral Bouquet and Mixed Messages stamp sets (both PTI) and stamed them with Spring Moss, Ruby Red and Memento Brown ink.  I made little tags and tied them onto the Cosmo Cricket ribbon using brown twine.  The felt scalloped ribbon is also from Cosmo Cricket. Anyhow, I hope the ladies like them, I can't wait to see what everyone else created! "Bloom"

I participated in a Unity swap, they asked us not to post our creations until everyone got theirs back, and since I just got my return swaps in the mail, I thought I would share them.  This first card is from the stamp set Birds of a Feather, I'm not sure what the price is, all I remember is that is was inexpensive & that is comes with a butt ton of stamps {love that!}.  The sentiment is also from Unity, I just don't have a clue as to what set.  You can't tell from the picture but in real life part of the tail and tummy are sparkly, I used a Sakura Stardust pen, to glitter it up.   "Thank You" Noteworthy dp, Vintage cream cs from PTI, Copics, dimmensionals, Old Olive twill, Kraft dp, Sakura Stardust pen, scallop tool For this card, I used Tiny Trinity, its really cute & versatile, I probably use this set the most right now.  The card stock is from Prism, and the designer paper is by Cloud 9, and the twill is from Martha Stewart "Family Tree" Pris...

So today (Wednesday) over on the Unity Forum on SCS there is a challenge to case one of the design team cards and then post it.  Also if you look on the right hand side of my blog you will see a list of Unity Challenge blog hoppers, go visit each of their blogs, and leave a comment one of them is giving away a free Unity Stamp set! For those of you who have not participated in Hip Hop Thursday (tomorrow) it is also on the Unity Forum, and they give away stamp singles and sets and sometimes handles through out the day.  So if you have hesitated about buying them, here is your chance to get them free!  Last week I won the single So N So loves, that I used on my card yesterday.  Let me tell you they do not skimp on the free stuff either, its awesome! So I cased the ever talented Maren's card that you can see here   I changed the paper that I used also the ribbon, I used the same stamp set but I stamped the image with versa mark and then embossed it using clear embossing powder.  I ...

One of my best friends is going through a tough time right now, she recently lost her Dad.  I knew I wanted to make her a card, that always seems to put a smile on a person's face, to get pretty snail mail.  So today's color challenge ( cc181 black, kraft & rose red) work really really well together, so it just seemed to work.   I place a Unity order last week, then a few days ago I decided to get their kit of the month, so that came today.  The kit of the month not the first order, so maybe I will get that soon too >" "Friends" "kraft, black, rose red card stock, may arts ribbon, dimmensionals, copic marker, stampamajig, Adirondack ink

I hosted my first swap, you have to be pretty organized & have a helper when you go to the post office to make it run smooth.  Here is one of my cards that I did, its pretty similar to one I made a few days ago.  The swap was a Flourishes swap, so we had to use those images on our cards.  This image is from Summer on the Patio.  The owners of Flourishes sent me tons of their May Arts ribbon that they sell, to put in with the swaps.  Let me tell you I just wanted to roll around in the ribbon and keep it for myself, but I was a good girl and sent it out with the swaps. On a side note something is wrong with our Desk top computer so that has made the last few days really tough to try and get the kids through their lessons (I homeschool).  We have a lap top and another PC in storage, but I have to be able to print off of that computer and we need two of them so the kids can be working at the same time.  Needless to say its been a long week and since we are down one computer my kids hav...