Designs by Latisha Yoast

A new sketch is up over at 2sketches4you , and a new sponsor, Living Rooms Direct . With my sketch, I took inspiration from their site and one of the chairs (picture below). Doesn't that print look a lot like the Jenni Bowlin paper I used in my card, so cool. I had to add a little red contrast, if I owned that chair I could see myself putting a red pillow on it. I hope you get to play along this week, the sponsor is offering a nice prize. "fo llow your own star"

If you just came from Julie's blog, you are in the right spot, if not go back to the beginning at the Paper Maniac Blog . Today the design team is doing a Pre Grand Opening blog hop. Here is my card that I made using the 100% Happy Unity Store kit. "sweetness" Leave a comment at my blog as well as the Paper Maniac blog for your chance to win this awesome blog candy prize, which includes, Unity 100% Happy kit, Nikki Sivils dp, Cord Brads, Robin's Nes tear drops, American Crafts Thickers, Pack of flair, Chipboard shapes. You have until Sept 6th to leave a comment and on Sept 7th the winner will be announced. The Paper Maniac store is having a grand opening sale, 15% off of everything using the coupon code GRAND15, valid Sept 1st-6th. The next person on the blog hop is Rache l !!

Today over at the Flourishes Newsletter , Cindy is giving a tutorial on masking. Masking is a fun and easy technique that gives you some different ways to use your stamps. I don't have a tutorial for you, but here is the steps I did for my stamped ornaments. 1. Stamp circular ornament onto card stock, and then once again onto your eclipse tape . 2. Cut out image from the eclipse tape, and place it over the stamped image 3. Using the long ornament image, stamp it next to the ornament, making sure a little is going over the circular ornament. 4. Stamp the long ornament again onto the eclipse tape, cut it out, and place over the stamped image. 5. Using the pine tree branch image, stamp it along the tops of the ornaments. 6. Remove your masks, and color in your images, you now have a cute little scene. For more masking techniques and ideas head on over to the rest of the Design Team blogs Julie Koerber Cindy Lawrence Christine Okken Leslie Miller Faith Hofrichter

Well its Wednesday, and the week is going pretty well so far, the kids are adjusting to their new schools, and I need to use my time better during the day while they are gone. Time really goes by so fast, I'm already missing my slow summer days. I still have a little Early Bird paper (cosmo cricket) and chipboard left, so I have been using it up. This is a fairly easy card, some kraft card stock, some scrap paper, chipboard sticker and ribbon. The sentiments are both from Papertrey Ink.

Well if you are like me and many other Mother's, you dropped off your children today for their first day of school.  I absolutely love spending summers with my children, so I'm a little sad that it has ended.  Today I plan on going for a run, and then coming home to bake some banana nut bread and cookies.   Then if I have time make a few cards.  If you have extra time today, you should head on over to 2ketches4you , Laura has a new sketch up, and a new sponsor, EAD.  EAD creates these really cool rub-ons, and they are big so they would work perfect for card making and scrap-booking.  "hi"

Happy Friday!!  Today Stacy has challenged us to distress.  I really don't distress a lot, but I do love the look of it, and add so much texture to your card.  For Stacy's tutorial head on over to the Flourishes Newsletter . So yesterday, I took my daughter to her 8th grade orientation, basically she got her schedule and found her classes.  We home schooled our children last year, so she has missed most of the Jr. High drama, so I am freaking out a little bit, I don't think she is ready for the "mean girls".  Kendall is the sweetest girl, very studious, polite, kind and still says, "yes ma'am & yes sir".  Sometimes I can't believe I have raised such a wonderful person.   Both of my children start school on Monday, and with my hubby gone, I don't have anyone to go out to breakfast with that morning.  I have had a tradition since my daughter was in Kindergarten, I drop her off at school on the first day of school and then go to breakfast w...

My Unity store kit, 100% Happy, came in the mail today...woohoo, I love this kit!!  I got mine from Paper Manic, and Patty has it on sale right now too!  This is a limited edition kit that you can only find in stores, so pick yours up now before the September kit comes out.  I stamped my image in Memento, and then colored in the pear with Copic Markers.  After, my image was colored in, I cut and embossed the cardstock using a square scalloped Spellbinder die.  I paired it (hee hee pair lol), with some pear Reminise designer paper.  I adhered my square panel down, then poked two holes through my paper, and ran ribbon through, to tie a bow.  To finish it off I added a button.  This card makes me smile.  I hope you have a wonderful day today! "100% Happy"