Designs by Latisha Yoast

I'm still out of town, but I had time to pick a winner before we start our long drive back to San Diego. On Monday or Tuesday I will have a new post. I hope you all had a wonderful weekend and Thanksgiving. My winner is: Great notecards, Latisha! Thanks for the opportunity to win!--Amy November 29, 2008 5:04 PM Amy please email me your address :)

This is a super quick project to make as a gift, or for even yourself.  I made a set of 6 monogram notecards for my sister, using some Just Rite product and left over scraps that we all have Here are a few of the things that I will be using,  Just Rite Monogram stamp set, I'm using the Curlz set and the mini alpha ribbon left over patterned paper some sort of punch or nesties The note cards are 4 1/4 by 5 1/2 inches, this is just one sheet of paper with those dimmensions.  Next find some scrap paper, I cut mine at 1 1/2 by 4 1/4 and layer it at the top of the cardstock. Next up is tying your ribbon, depending if you are going to just knot your ribbon or tie a bow the length will vary, if you want to conserve ribbon, I suggest just tying a knot.  Using the little Alpha set from Just Rite, I wrote out my sisters name, then using the large curlz alpha, I placed the letter "k" underneath her name (last name starts with a k)  To make it easy, I stamped the entire image in blac...

Happy Thanksgiving I hope all of you are having a wonderful day! As I said in an earlier post, this is the first time in 10 years that we have made it home for Thanksgiving, due to the fact that my husband is in the military and we have been on the opposite coast (east) from our family, except this year (for a month longer).  So we have made the 10 hour drive to be with my Dad & siblings.  My sister had a baby about 10 days ago, so I decided to make her some burp cloths.  I have seen them in baby boutiques and they were too much money I was will to pay for them, so I just made them myself.  I went and bought a pack of burp cloths and baby safe material, the rest I had at home.  I used a Trajan alphabet set (pti) to monogram my sisters last name.  I didn't use my nephews name just in case they have more children they can use them over or keep them.  The stamp of the baby resting on the moon is from the Rock a Bye stamp set from Flourishes , its a really sweet set & was perfe...

I'm sure you have seen these done, on many blogs out there, my friend Chris and I saw them and kind of winged it, on how to make them, so here is a little tutorial to help you out.  Here are the products I used for this project.  You will need the mini legal pads that you can find at your local office supply store, take the pads to the copying/printing center and have them cut your pads in half.  My Office Max charges me 75cents for each cut, and they cut 6 pads at a time so its only $1.50 to cut them.  Your 12 pads are now 24 mini journal pads ready for you to alter. You will need a 5 3/4 inch by  8 1/4 sheet of cardstock score it at 2 11/16 in and then again at 3 inches you will now have something  that looks  like a folder I took some designer paper that I wanted to put on the front, one piece longer than the other and put a piece of adhesive in one spot to hold the paper together, while I stitched along the edge.  You can completely leave this part out, I just liked the way the...

Here is a 6x6 scrap book page that I made for my Dad, for an album that I'm making him for Christmas. I used the Floral Fantasy Garden from Flourishes, to stamp and emboss the little flowers randomly that you see at the top left & bottom right corners.  On the photo, I used the "Life is Sweet" sentiment from Sweet Treats and stamped it in the corner and then stamped 2008 (from the Holiday Greetings set) below it.  I distressed a piece of paper, and then used it to journal on, to finish off the page, I ran some twine around the page a few times. I really liked the page, but I didn't want to make another one for myself (a lot of work goes into a page lol) so I took a picture of the page, cropped it and then made a hybrid page in Photo Shop Elements.  Once I figured out the layers, it came together really fast!!  So here is my first hybrid page.  If you have any kind of photo editing program, give it a shot, you might like what you see. Fantasy Floral Garden has alw...

I think I have around 10 Christmas cards done so far, I know I am way behind but I have time.  This year, I don't think I'm going to mass produce cards this year, for a couple of reasons.  One, I have far too many cute holiday stamp sets to choose just one to use.  Two, I have found when I make more than 5 or 6 of the same card, by the time I get to #7, my mojo gets zapped and I start to not be excited about my Christmas cards.  So I am just going to make a couple here and there and use all of my favorite stamps.  For years I have made a prototype (which took forever!!) and then I would cut, stamp and assemble, this works fantastic for most crafters, but this year, I just can't commit to one card LOL. Here are two I made over the weekend, both are really simple cards, but the one on the right I added ribbon and rhinestones.  After adding the embellishments I decided that it really looked fine without them, so I didn't add them on the second card.  I know thats a one pos...

Its Sunday and all I have made this weekend is one Christmas card, maybe I can get on the ball later.  Last week I found a slab of MME Christmas paper & it actually is really pretty, I am loving it so far.  Thank goodness Michael's is finally getting some good paper!  Anyhow, I put a piece of adhesive on the back of the dp to keep it in place when I sewed over them.  I put some striped red/vanilla grosgrain ribbon along the front of the dp and then added red velvet ribbon on top and added a ribbon slide too.  I'm trying to make a pretty Christmas card without it being too heavy, the post office here is very picky and add a surcharge to just about every card I send out because of the ribbon knots or embellishments that they can feel. Using the Labels 2 die (from Spellbinders) I cut and embossed my paper, then I left my paper in the die & using a sponge dauber and distress ink, I inked up the paper.  By leaving the paper in the die, I get the clean crisp edge to it, it al...