Designs by Latisha Yoast

Waahoo I did a layout :) its Friday night and I am trying to get in the mood to scrap book, so I started with some fun photos.  The pictures are of my son and his teacher (mrs. b) that we had to leave in Florida.  She was his Kindergarten teacher, then she decided to loop up to first grade the following year, so he got to be in her class for Kindergarten & First grade.  She became a part of our family.  Emily came to my children's birthday parties, became my shopping & bingo partner, she attended my husband's winging & truly loved my child.  We worked as a team to make sure Jacob didn't get bored with school (he is academically gifted) and went far and beyond what a teacher is required to do.  Anyhow, you get the picture :)  So this layout is going into my son's schoolday's album.   When I scrapbook, its for me, so I don't follow trends really, the pictures tell me what to do.   I happen to journal a lot.  Journaling is just as important as the pictu...

So I have been hoarding this BasicGrey paper (mellow) far too long, so I took it out and cut into it.   I double dog dare you to go use up some paper you are hoarding ...trust me its not that hard, & you will be so proud of yourself! Jeanne put out a challenge to make a fall inspired card & yesterdays SCS challenge was to use a quote, so I combined them.  I made this so fast even my husband and kids were impressed LOL, it just came together nicely (I love that when that happens).  The trees were paper pieced (giggle grove stamp set), the one on the left is popped up with foam tape/dimmensionals, because it looked kind of plain laying there flat lol.  It was really hard for me to not put ribbon on this card, but I really could find the right spot for it.  So no embellishments on this little lady.   So what is everyone's plans for the weekend?  I am going to try to scrap book!  I really really need to.  If I don't show a page in the next few days don't forget to call ...

So today's Unity challenge, is a sketch challenge from Maggie (scroll down to see sketch).  I have not played enough with my Sept. kit of the month so I used the butterfly that has the distressed dots in it (so cute!) and the "Thank you for being my friend" sentiment.  I know I used a butterfly yesterday, but I kind of have a thing for them lol and dragonfly's, I just love them.   I colored it in with Copic markers, I added pink in the middle to make it pop & it seems to draw your attention there which I wanted.  I used the Martha Stewart lace punch for the scalloped border.  Hardly ever do I use bling on my cards, but its the only thing that seemed to fit (prima's were just too big)  Of course the sheer ribbon is from May Arts (best ribbon ever lol)  If you decide to play along make sure you post in the Unity forum, tomorrow is Hip Hop Thursday and they are always giving stuff away for just making a card (so awesome!) "thank you" creative imaginatio...

Today's color challenge CC:186 over on Splitcoaststampers is Really Rust, Chocolate Chip and Baja Breeze, I don't have any Baja Breeze, so I used Sage Shadow instead.  The color challenges help me out with getting started on a card, its almost cheating because its makes it too easy :)  I originally had some patterned paper where the larger white paper is, but it didn't look right so I replaced it with the white, it gives it a cleaner look. A few weeks ago I won the Floral Fantastical stamp set from Unity, its a fun & whimsy set so I choose the butterfly.  I colored it in with Copics, but it would look really pretty paper pieced to with some nice patterned paper (for those of you who don't like markers any more lol).  The sage looking ribbon is from Making Memories Passport collection of ribbon. So who else is excited that fall tv is back...my favorite show is Greys Anatomy! "hi" chocolate chip, really rust & sage shadow card stock, prism paper, Unity s...

I had family visiting this past week, all of you military folks out there know how special it is when you have visitors, because it doesn't happen often enough.  Anyhow, they left yesterday, so today I needed to make some thank you cards.  Some of the people who read my blog do not craft (crazy I know!) so today I am walking you through my thinking process when I make a card. So because I have to make more than one card, I am going to mass produce.  I went and got one 12x12 sheet of cardstock (bazzill) at the bottom cut off a 4x12 inch slice (then cut 4 inches off of it so its 4x8) Go back to the  sheet and its now a 12x8 inches, which will give you 3 more 4x8 inch pieces of paper.  Just so you are not lost, you should have 4 pieces of paper that are 4x8 inches and then an extra piece that is 4 inches square (put that in scrap pile)  Score the 4 sheets at 4 inches.  This will now give you 4, four inch square card bases.  Still with me? Now go and get your favorite background stamp ...

This weeks Unity Challenge is to paper piece. So I used the little fairy lady from the September Kit of the month. Isn't she precious :) I stamped her once on white cardstock and then twice more on different sheets of designer paper. I cut out the dress and the wings, then propped them up with dimmensionals. The sketch is from todays SC195 over on SCS, so I really didn't need to think much. I like that :) If you play along make sure to upload your card and post in the Unity forum (they pick winners everyweek from the challenge thread...and give you free stamps, awesome!) Also tomorrow is HipHop Thursday and you never want to miss that fun (they are releasing new stamps). "Love"

Hi bloggers :) I was pretty sick last week, so I took some time off from crafting to lay in bed to rest and heal. While I was in bed I started the Twilight Series of books Oh My Gosh!!! Holy Moly are they good! Now I'm just trying to get all of the characters out of my head, I read 4 pretty big and intense books I'm sure it will take a few days to detox from them LOL. So one of my oldest, dearest & best friends {Erica} I talked to a few days ago and told her to go get the book Twilight {ladies its freakin good go get it}, so I talked to her today and she finished the first book and had already went and bought the second book in the series, New Moon. I feel a little guilty {just a tinge, not too much, you need to share Edward LOL} for getting her addicted, so I made her this pretty bookmark, Twilight inspired. I can't really get a good picture of it, but believe me its really really pretty in real life. I clear embossed the Damask background, the sentiment isn...