World Of Michael Trent

Hello everyone, and welcome to a new Yes It's A Holiday, or Yes, It Is A Holiday collab with my Instagram buddies - Debra and Lori .  Today, August 2nd, we are helping to celebrate National Coloring Book Day, a day that celebrates the stress-relief and meditative benefits of coloring - for both adults and children.      To read more about today's holiday, just click HERE . A few months ago, I bought the Abstract Zentangle Coloring Book from Circa Sassy on Etsy.  It has 256 pages to color.  And because it's digital, you can print a page whenever you want, on any type of paper you want.  If you don't have any coloring books or coloring pages to use, you can do a search on Google for "free coloring pages" and you will find a lot of options.  The main reason I love this abstract coloring book is that you can print a page, color the whole page, and make 4 cards.  Let me show you... This is how I made these cards:        ...

  Hello everyone, and welcome to a new Woodblock Wednesday card.  What is "Woodblock Wednesday", you ask?  Well, it's the day of the week to dust off and ink up a woodblock stamp, and make something with it.  On the last Wednesday of the month, my friend Amy celebrates her love of woodblock stamps with a post on her Woodblock Wednesday Instagram page. If you make a card of your own, you can link it to her card HERE   by August 3rd at 5am Pacific for a chance to win a small prize.     I recently pulled out a box of woodblock stamps and found one of a tissue box that I don't even remember buying.  It was made by Ann-ticipations out of Stockton, CA, circa 2004, and it cost me $12.  I have a feeling that the card I saw in my brain when I saw this stamp, all those years ago, is the same card idea that I am finally making today.   I know tissue boxes are a big thing in supermarkets in the USA, but we don't have those color- or patte...

Hello everyone, and welcome to the July 2026 Edition of the Crafty Elves Countdown to Christmas with Deb and Lisa .  If you are new here, o n the 25th of each month, we (the Crafty Elves) post one or more holiday cards, with the hopes that we inspire you to make your own cards for the holidays.  You guys know I live on Etsy.  Well, I recently found a digital kit on Etsy filled with the quirkiest, most whimsical, and fun images to use for Christmas cards!  The kit is  Whimsical Christmas Doodles from Pink Lake Studio  on Etsy.  This collection has 156 images - traditional images of stockings, Christmas trees, reindeer, wooden soldiers, and lots of Santa images, as well as fun and quirky images of dogs, cats, women shopping, having coffee - there are so many to choose from.    To make these cards: After deciding which images I wanted to use, I printed two of each image on a piece of white cardstock.    I die-cut one of each of the i...

  Hey everyone.  Back on June 22, I posted a card to my Instagram page that I had made using hexagon dies and bright, glittered fun foam.  You can see the card HERE or below.  I had a few pieces left over that looked kinda cool for a card front, and this is what I came up with.  I made 2 top-folding A2 cards using white cardstock. I die-cut 2 pieces of white cardstock using a 3.75" x 5" stitched rectangle die, embossed them with the Cross Weaves 3D embossing folder from Altenew, adhered a piece of white fun foam to the back, and then I adhered them to each of the card fronts.  I adhered each of the glittered fun foam pieces to the front of each card.   For my sentiment, I wanted something different.  I pulled out a bunch of the Tim Holtz Quotes, decided which one for each card, and adhered one to the front of each card.  I will also be entering this card in two "anything goes" card-challenge blogs.  If you want to play along, ther...

  Hello everyone.  I noticed that two card-challenge blogs I follow are hosting a red, white, and blue challenge for July.  This is a color palette I never thought of using for a summer/floral card, but here I go.  I pulled out a really old floral stamp from Outlines Rubber Stamps.  Sadly, I cannot remember the name of this stamp, and I can't find my old catalog.   I stamped the image on white cardstock and colored it in a red, white, and blue palette, with a little yellow thrown in for fun.  I die-cut it using a 4" x 5.25" stitched rectangle die. Then, using my DIY cloud stencil, I added the clouds in the background.  I added a "hello" sentiment from a retired set from Simon Says Stamp. Lastly, I adhered a piece of white fun foam under my colored image, then to my card front. And I added a piece of white cardstock to the inside for my message.  The card-challenge blogs I am entering this card into are below.  If you want to play al...