World Of Michael Trent

This project all started when I got an email from  Gerda Steiner Designs  asking people to download a free digi of a surfing duck, make something with it, and upload it to the Instagram Surf Challenge.  Um....sure! Being in Brasil, without easy access to a stamp store, has made me embrace digi stamps a lot more than in the past.  So I went  HERE  and downloaded the free Surfing Duck digi, below.   Oh, I named him Sam, by the way.  Sam the Surfing Duck!   I started with an A2 side folding white cardstock base.  I cut a piece of navy blue cardstock, 4 1/4" x 5 1/2", which I adhered to the card front.   Then I cut a piece of light blue cardstock, 4" x 5 1/4", placed the "Shine" stencil by Memory Box over the cardstock, and sprayed it with Lemon Zest Dylusions ink spray.   For the palm trees I used a set called "island2visit" by The Stamps of Life.  I wanted the palm trees to be taller than the stamp allowe...

TGIF!!  I cannot believe that I woke up at 6:30 a.m. with enough energy to light the town for a month.  LOL.  Of course I lost all my energy when I found out that the UK decided to leave the EU.  The markets will tumble today, the media will talk to us about end times and, in a week, all will be back to normal. But I will just make the most of it and make cards and color. Speaking of coloring..... Kathy from The Daily Marker  is having her next 30 Day Coloring Challenge July 5th to August 5th - and I cannot wait!!  This is a great challenge and I really suggest people play along with her.  There is no stress with this challenge - other than to try and color something - it can be a small little image to a giant full page - at least once a day for 30 days.  If you want more info on the challenge you can click HERE to watch Kathy's video.  I hope you will be joining me.   Today's card is my 2nd card in honor of July 4th or In...

George & Scarlett Are Off On An Adventure Good morning everyone!  According to the reports last night we were expecting torrential rains lasting through today.  They were wrong!  They must have passed us by because it is bright and sunny outside!  I am working on a huge "scene" project but will need to take a break soon so that I can take Max or Bandido on a very long walk.   Today's card was made at least two months ago and I have no idea why I never blogged about it.  I really love how it came out.  I'm not happy with where I put the sentiment but I can deal with it for now.  All the stamps used on the card are from Unity Stamp Co . A little back story (because it's kinda fun to do this) -  The couple on the card front are George & Scarlett.  They have been married for 5 years now.  Scarlett met George at his restaurant where he is the chef.  She not only fell in love with the decor, the food, and the w...

Hello everyone.  Hope y'all are having a good week so far.  I was not feeling great this past weekend so I chose to chill and catch up on some of my shows. I am feeling better this morning and got the idea for this card after I saw the trailer for the new "Independence Day" movie coming out.  The first movie is one of my favorites and, as much as I know the new movie will probably disappoint, I cannot wait to go see it on Thursday!  To celebrate....I made a card for July 4th! I am using one of my favorite dies - Woven Ribbons Card Panel by Frantic Stamper .  I have also used it HERE .  To start, I cut a piece of textured red, white, and blue cardstock - just a bit larger than the die.   Then I applied 2" wide double sided tape to the back of each piece and burnished well with a bone folder.    Using my die cut machine, I die cut each of the pieces with the Woven Ribbons Card Panel die (use a metal adapter plate for a b...

Hello everyone.  One year ago my friend Justin Krieger started the Stamp Ink Paper Challenge blog. This week is their One Year Anniversary and they are having a Card Maker's Choice challenge -  And, not only do they have a blog hop happening but you can also win a few goodies!  I hope you can check all the posts out, show all the designers some love, and enter a card or project into the challenge.   The card I made for the challenge is a card I made yesterday for someone in town.  Her sister's birthday is this weekend and, since her sister is in the first year of Vet school, she  asked me to make a card related to both.  You would think, with 6 dogs and 3 cats, that I would have stamps and papers related to animals, but I don't.  So I went to my favorite site - Etsy - and found THIS adorable digi image of a female vet -  and then I searched a bit more and found THESE digi papers, which I knew would go perfect with ...

Hello everyone.  It seems my mojo is certainly flowing this week!  I think it's because it's so cold here this week!  Woke up to 40F (7C).  I'm not happy but it is supposed to get warmer this weekend.   Today I am sharing {what I think is a really adorable card}, that I made for the Retro Rubber Challenge Blog and their Challenge 40 - Kind of Sketchy challenge -    I've had a few sets from Reverse Confetti sitting around for over a year that I have been wanting to get dirty.  As soon as I saw this sketch, this card idea popped into my head.   I started with a top folding A2 white card base.  To the front of the card I adhered a piece of scrapbook paper, 4 1/4" x 5 1/2", from the Hootenanny Six By Six pad by My Mind's Eye .  I loved the reverse side and had enough left from the same sheet to cut the strip, 1 1/2" x 4 1/4", which I adhered across the card front.  Then I stamped the phrase from Later Alliga...

Good morning everyone!  Like so many other places across the globe, we are having the strangest weather here.  This is our dry season when construction happens all over the place because there is no rain.  Yet today is the first day with sun after 10 days of rain. And winter here is in July but it feels like it started in April.  Woke up today with 43F!!  No heat in the house so not happy.  But it will warm up soon. Today's card is for the Stamp Ink Paper Challenge 51 - Sunsets !    I really thought that this was a great idea for a challenge and ran to grab my distress inks to get this idea out of my head. I started with an A2 top folding white card base. Then I grabbed another piece of cardstock (a little bigger than my image), and applied distress inks to the front.  Squeezed Lemonade on the bottom, Victorian Velvet in the middle, and Dusty Concord at the top. After blending them all in, I think I got a pretty good "su...

Hello everyone.  OK...I am bad.  I disappeared. Without even announcing a winner to the cards I made.  I am truly sorry but just as the contest was ending I got swamped with work and completely forgot to pick a winner for all the cards I made!  I had two people ask me to make a signature album for their weddings, I had 3 couples come in for me to make their wedding invites, I had one lady come in asking me to make some photo albums she wanted to give as small gifts and I had to make a travel mini album for a private class I was giving.  I missed making cards!! Let's start with the winner - after printing out all the comments and folding them into little pieces, I closed my eyes and picked a winner.  And that winner is.....Star a.k.a. Estrella!! Estrella...please send me your address and I will get the cards and that chocolate off to you.  If you can't have chocolate, I can always send some great Brasilian coffee.   Now, for t...