World Of Michael Trent

Hello everyone.  I am back from my much needed 5 days on a beach vacation!  The beaches in Ubatuba are amazing and each one is more beautiful than the next.  I will share some photos soon. Today I want so share a card I made for the 100th sketch challenge on Can You Case It !?  Congrats to Eva and her whole team.  I think today's card is just perfect to help them celebrate their milestone post!    The 100th Sketch was -  I started with a top-folding A2 white card base.  To the card front I adhered a piece of black cardstock that has embossed dots on it.  I found it in my stash. To this I adhered another piece of cardstock - silver with white circles.  I die cut the 2nd largest rectangle from the Stitched Rectangles Stax by My Favorite Things with white cardstock.   Next, I embossed the image of the champagne glasses from the Clink set by Your Next Stamp  with silver embossing powder - on the piece of ...

Hello everyone!  I cannot believe that tomorrow is Christmas Eve...and my birthday.  Trust me, it's not fun to have a birthday on Christmas Eve!!!  We are a heading a few hours up the coast to Ubatuba, a beach town here in Sao Paulo.  5 days of beach! Won't have much Internet but I have scheduled a card or two and will try to post some photos.   Today is a quick fun square card - again with my favorite snowmen.  I actually used the same two sets as yesterday - Snow Way and Insta-Cute , both by Susan K. Weckesser for Unity Stamp Co. I started by stamping the large Polaroid image from the Insta-Cute set on white cardstock with black ink. Then I stamped just the diamond pattern on the bottom using Warm Red Chalk Ink by Colorbox. I also cut them both out.   Then I masked off the 4 sides - where the photo would be - with sticky notes and applied some Tumbled Glass Distress Ink to give a hint of a blue sky.  Then I stamped the trees ...

Hello everyone!  WOW!....my button card from yesterday certainly got a lot of likes on Facebook, comments on my blog and on Instagram.  Thank you so much!!  Who knew buttons could make so many people so happy?  LOL Today I have another cute card using my favorite new snowmen set - Snow Way by Susan K. Weckesser for Unity Stamp Co.   Susan has an awesome Christmas Love Campaign that you should check out.  Canadian Scrapbook Magazine is one of her sponsors and they are having a contest....go check it out. I wanted to make a "from our family to yours" type of card and was looking through my stash when I found another set, also by Susan called Insta-Cute . One of the images in the kit is a film strip and I just pictured each of the snowmen in the frames....and it all came together after that.  I think it's a really cute card and I hope you agree too!   Since I do not have a stamp with the phrase I wanted, I typed it up on t...

Hello everyone.  I hope you all had a great weekend. Today I have a card that has pretty much been a year in the making.  I bought a die from Simon Says Stamp called Ring Frame last year and it took me a year to use it!  Crazy.  But I just loved the die.  It was talking to me.  And for some reason it was whispering for me to use it with just buttons Yes...buttons.   To make this card  I started with a top-folding A2 card base of textured white cardstock, another piece of the same cardstock, 4" x 5.25", and a piece of white fun foam also 4" x 5.25", which I adhered to the piece of white cardstock.   Then I die cut the Ring Frame out of red textured cardstock, which I adhered to the front of the white cardstock using my Zig Two Way Glue. (If you get any glue residue on the front you can remove it with a Xyron Adhesive Eraser ). Then I stamped the phrase, that I found on an older Hero Arts set called Holiday Messages (CL244) , wit...

Hello everyone!!  Today I want to share a card I made for this week's Freshly Made Sketches #217 challenge.  This is actually their last sketch for 2015 and you have until January 4, 2016 to enter one of your own if you so want to.  Here's the sketch that I had to use for inspiration -  And since I got more happy mail today with some Unity Stamps inside, I decided to use Whispy Prairie for the card sketch.   I started with the following - (1) a side-folding A2 Kraft card base, (2) a piece of designer scrap paper that I cut with the large stitched rectangle die from "Bundle of Stitched Shapes" by Simon Says Stamp, (3) a piece of black fun foam 4" x 5.25", (4) white cardstock that I cut using the 4th largest die from A2 Matting Basics A Card Creator by Spellbinders, (5) a piece of Kraft cardstock using the horizontal stitched strip from Blueprints 1 by My Favorite Things . I distressed the edges of the card front and the designer...

Hello everyone!  The weekend is here and I am finally over this cold!! This morning was supposed to be my last Portuguese class until next year but it seems they changed their minds because when I got to the school, it was closed.  LOL.  Well, now I can head to the green market to get some stuff for a small BBQ we are having today.  One of Ruy's sisters is in town with her daughter and we will get to see them.     Now...for today's project.  It  was really fun and fast to do and I made it in honor of the artist - Susan K. Weckesser. Although we have never met in person, we are friends on Facebook, and we chat from time to time. But you get to know a person by what they post and the photos they share and, I have to be honest here, she is such an inspiration to me. This was a tough year for her.  Some of her children are missionaries and travel a lot and I know she is always worried about them.  One of her children was in Paris wh...

Hello everyone.  Today I have a really cute card using a stencil and some rubber stamps. Last time I was in the states I went to a rubber stamp show and bought a bunch of little Christmas Village stamps from DRS Designs to make a winter scene.  I already had this project forming in my head - I saw the light bulb stencil by Carolyn Dube from the April 2014 StencilGirl StencilClub Kit in my head....I saw these little images forming into a Christmas scene in my head....but it took several months to get this project out of my head!     To make this card I started by cutting a piece of white cardstock 4" x 5.25".  Then I masked off the top and center of the light bulb with post it notes, placed the stencil down on the paper and, using a dauber and some black paint, colored in the outline of the light bulb.  I did this 3 times at different heights. Next up I masked off the area below the screw part of the bulb, placed it back over each of the ...

Thank You Card with Concord & 9th Images Hello everyone.  It's Thursday!!  One more week and I am off to a beach for 5 days.  I have not had a vaca in many years and am looking forward to chilling on the sand.  With my stencils and trying to get my StenDoodle mojo back!!  Even though I have been fighting a cold for two days now I seem to have had more energy with the cold!.  Go figure.   This week I got some happy mail from the states -  a die and some stamps that I ordered from Concord & 9th .  Check out that Tree Ring!!!! This is a relatively new company that has been getting a lot of buzz....especially on Instagram...and for good reason.  Their images rock!  They are unique, fun, fresh, and are NOT just copies of what every other company is doing.   The stamps are really well made and I highly suggest you check them out!!  OMG...the Tree Ring I use today and their New Releases ....I don't kn...

Hello everyone!!  I love Pinterest .  I admit that I can spend hours on this site finding inspiration with all the amazing talent in the world!  Sometimes something on a card or project gets the gears in my head moving.  This was one of those times.     Today's card was inspired by this card that I found on Pinterest- It was made by a woman named Lynn Mangan and you can click HERE to see her original blog post from 2011. And, since my mind works in strange ways, I focused on the wreath/circle stamps because I remembered that I have a stamp set by The Scrapbook Diaries that would work.  This card really started because of the above card and a circle stamp.     After almost 25 years of stamping I have a mountain of images I have bought but never used.  I've had some fun lately digging into that vault and pulling out some great stamps! Today I am using a Hero Arts set called Merriest Christmas Wishes .  They don't...