World Of Michael Trent

Hello everyone.  So, here it is, Tuesday night and I am trying to figure out what card to make for tomorrow.  I want it to be about coffee since the Spring | Summer 2018 Coffee Lovers Blog Hop is still going strong (850 entries so far).  But I get distracted when I am stressing myself out so I jumped on Pinterest to see if something inspired me.  The first image I saw was this quote about wildflowers growing.... ...and, lately, I have felt like this wildflower - trying to grow here in Brasil where I never thought I would.  And that sparked my idea to use flowers in a coffee cup!!!  I know...a strange path but I will not argue with fate!  LOL I pulled out two sets - Coffee Cup Clear  by  Prickley Pear Rubber Stamps  and Wildflower Set 465 by Rubbernecker Stamps , which, sadly, is no longer being made, but other flowers stamps will work just as nicely.   I started with an A2 base of white cardstock....

Hello everyone and Happy Tuesday?  This post was supposed to go live yesterday but the day got away from me.  For Day 5 of the Spring | Summer 2018 Coffee Lovers Blog Hop   I wanted to share these simple "coffee-themed" Warhol(ish) note cards that I made for someone in town that owns a small cafe.  She told me she wanted 4 small note cards, with a coffee theme, and a simple motivational type of message on each card.  And she wanted them in English.    And this is what I came up with. I started with 4" square cards as my base.  Using this   Coffee and Donut  digital paper, I printed 4 designs and adhered one design to each card front.   I cut 4 pieces of white cardstock using my Stitched Squares set by  Gina Marie Designs .  On each of the pieces I stamped the coffee cup from  Coffee 1  by  Anthony's Paper Craft  in different distress ink colors - Pea...

Happy Memorial Day everyone!!  At least to those in the USA.  My dad was in the Navy when he was a youngster and I think it is very important to remember all those that fought, died, and are still fighting for freedom - not only for the USA but for other countries around the globe.   So...THANK YOU!!!   I made today's card for the If You Give A Crafter A Cookie Challenge Blog .  Their current challenge, No. 94 , is all about cats and dogs.  Here is the inspiration for this challenge -  I decided to use a new stamp set from Your Next Stamp called Photo Booth  along with its matching die called Photo Booth Polaroid .  I cut the die 3 times using textured white cardstock, stamped one of the phrases on each of them, then I stamped 3 of the cat/dog images on plain white cardstock with black ink, placed the die over each of the images and cut them out.  (I ended up only using 2 for the card). Then I colore...

Hello everyone!  I hope everyone is enjoying their Sunday and that everyone in the U.S.A. is enjoying their 3-day (or 4-day) holiday weekend.  Today is Day 3 of the Spring| Summer 2018 Coffee Loving Papercrafts Blog Hop and I am spending it having coffee with my friends Deb and Celeste .  Today's coffee is an amazing chocolate with mint Brasilian coffee in my favorite pig mug!  When Deb asked me to join them for today's hop I got a bit worried because I realized I didn't have any coffee related stickers.  I know...bizarre.  But then, later that day, the mail arrived, and in it was an envelope from Deb.  She had sent me a card she made - along with a little glassine envelope filled with little coffee to go cups.  Talk about saving the day! I decided to use these little guys for today's card by turning them into stickers.  The cups were designed by Nola Chandler and can be found on her stamp set called Coffee Set Valentin...

Happy Friday everyone!  I'm excited because today starts the week-long " Spring + Summer Coffee Lovers Bloghop " over at Coffee Loving Cardmakers .  Being a coffee loving papercrafter I have a bunch of coffee stamps and papers and I hope to get a card made each day for the week.  There are a lot of prizes to be won so I hope you will join me and check it out. For the first day, I am doing a sort of mini blog hop between myself and my friend Mike of Dezines By EM .  Mike lives in California and is not only part of the Anthony Paper Craft's Design Team but he also makes some awesome SVG files.  And we both decided to do a project using the new Coffee 1 stamp by Anthony's Paper Craft.   He made a gift card holder and the link is all the way at the end of this post!   I made two cards - both using the same idea but with different images.  I started with a piece of A2 Kraft cardstock for the bases.  I then adhered a ...