World Of Michael Trent

I was asked to make this card for someone in town, and I am sharing how I made it since everything I used is digital, and easy to get if you want to remake this idea.  The person who wants this card is giving it to a female photographer.  She asked for the card to have a camera on the front, maybe some flowers, and, if possible, could I incorporate the phrase "Say Cheese" somewhere on the card.    Can I make it?  SURE!  Easy-peasy!  Links to everything I used are at the end of this post.  For the paper, I printed out the paper that says "Say Cheese" all over it from the Say Cheese Digital Paper collection by Angie Blom Digital Designs.  Then I die-cut a piece of it using a 4.25" x 5.5" stitched rectangle die from Pink and Main, and adhered it to the front of the black card base.  For the camera with the flowers, I printed two of the cameras with flowers (link below), and colored them with Touch alcohol markers.   One,...

  Hello everyone.  Welcome to Week 2 of my Equality For All Cardmaking Series.  Every Friday in May and June, my fellow cardmakers and I are making cards to help celebrate Pride and the LGBT+ community.  Last week we had an Equality For All Makers Hop on Instagram , and if you want to check all the amazing cards that were made, head over to THIS post on my Instagram page.   This week I made an easy-peasy, bright, and glittery card using glittered fun foam and stickers from Paper House Productions , one of the sponsors for the Instagram hop. They have many stickers and papers related to Pride, and if you head over to their website and enter "Pride" in their search bar, you will see everything they offer.  Help support a brand that supports the LGBT+ community.   Now, to make this card: I started with an A2 card using white cardstock.  Then I printed a confetti paper I picked up on Etsy, die-cut it using a 4.25" x 5.5" stitched rectangle ...

Hello everyone. I'm excited to announce that today, on Instagram, the 2025 Equality For All Maker's Instagram Hop begins! 17 makers, including me, have come together to help celebrate Pride Month with a hop full of color, creativity, and community! This collaboration was created to honor the LGBTQ+ community and promote kindness, love, and equality through handmade art. We also have some amazing prizes up for grabs donated by our amazing sponsors - Brutus Monroe, Stamp Me Some Love, Stamp Anniething, Scrappy Boy Stamps, Pixi Dust Designs, The Rabbit Hole, Hand Crafted By Gaz, and Paper House Productions. Do you want a chance to win a great prize? All you have to do is "Hop" along with us. Start HERE on my Instagram page! Then head over to each of the makers’ pages listed in my post, leave a comment, follow each maker, and use the hashtag #EqualityForAllMakersHop in your comments to show your support for the amazing creators participating. The hop starts on Friday...

Hello everyone, and welcome to another Woodblock Wednesday -  the day of the week we set aside to give some love to woodblock stamps that we have not used in some time.     I am joining my friend Amy, who posts a Woodblock Wednesday card to her blog on the last Wednesday of each month.   For today's card, I used 2 woodblock stamps from my stash.  One is a white dude (ME) on a beach sipping a fully loaded alcoholic drink.  This stamp has no name and it was made by The Stamp Barn out of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.  The other is a stamp was made by Putting on the Ritz and says "Life's a Beach".  Both companies are long out of business.    I stamped the guy on the beach on white cardstock, colored the image with BIC Intensity Ultra Fine Tip markers, and die-cut it using a 3.25" x 4.5" stitched rectangle die.  I added white glue to the areas of the image where I wanted sand, sprinkled on real sand, knocked off the excess, and all...

Hey everyone.  Today, I am sharing some cards I made using these  Dandelions I found in my stash that are made by  2Crafty , an Australian chipboard company, which is still in business and you can still buy them!  Considering the state of the crafting industry, this is great news.   I bought them intending to use them on a card, but hit a brick wall and tossed them in a box.  Fast forward to 2025, and, not being a scrapbooker, I still had no idea what to do with them. Story of my life.  So, I jumped on Pinterest and, after searching a bit for "dandelion card ideas", I stumbled on these cards, which I decided to case.  The link on Pinterest does not take you to these cards specifically, but to the YouTube channel called GSCraft , an artist in Pakistan, who must have made them (it's important to give credit when I can).   The photo below shows a rough sketch of the idea in my head with most of the supplies I will use to make them - t...