World Of Michael Trent

Hello crafty friends and anyone else that is along for the ride.  TGIF!!!  I am back with the team - Debra , Mike and Mary Kay  for Week 4 of the  Anthony's Paper Craft  "Christmas in August" Blog Hop.     So, the other night I was on Pinterest and I saw a "shaker ornament" pop up in my feed.   I don't know why but my mind immediately thought of the " faux string art " stamps that Anthony's Paper Craft sells and my head started spinning with ideas on how to use these images for "shaker ornaments".     I decided to just go with it and see where this takes me and I wrote this post up as I made the ornament.  I hope it turns out the way the idea in my head looks.  LOL  The first  I decided was that I would need a sheet of double sided decorative paper.  I went thru my stash and decided to use "Letters to Santa", which is from Graphic 45's 2009 Christmas Past Collectio...

Hello everyone!!   I hope y'all are having an awesome week so far.  We're starting to get some warmer days here, which is making me very happy!!  I love the hot weather and the sun!  I am in a card swapping group on Facebook and one of the cards I picked this month was a "jack-o-lantern" card.  I had just seen this adorable digi set from Vera Lane Studio on Etsy and knew she would be perfect for this card.   I started by printing the October Digi stamps  in the sizes that I wanted.  Not knowing where this card was taking me, I duplicated the images in case I wanted to pop dot the witches hat.   Better to print them all now.   .   After playing around with different dies I decided to go round.  I die cut the image with the hat using the largest die from the Standard Circles set (Spellbinders S4-114).  I also used the same die to cut a piece of black fun foam to layer the image on...

Hello everyone and Happy Hump Day!!!  Man, this year is flying by.  I cannot believe it's almost September!  Crazy. But, I have a fun card for you today - all about fish! The If You Give A Crafter A Cookie Challenge Blog has a new challenge - No. 101 - and this is the inspiration photo we need to work with -  I decided to use a digi-stamp set that I recently purchased from Vera Lane Studio  on Etsy called Ocean 11 , which has nothing to do with George Clooney and a lot to do with 10 fish and a shell.  LOL I started by making an A2 card base of white cardstock to which I adhered a piece of blue cardstock (for the water).  I then took 3 of the fish and sized them so it looked like they were each fish food for the other, printed it on a piece of white cardstock, and die cut it with a stitched rectangle die.   Next...I colored the fish using a variety of BIC markers.  Then, using the River Rocks 6 stencil by StencilG...

Hello, my crafty friends and TGIF!!!  I have once again teamed up with  Debra ,  Mike , and  Mary Kay  for Week 3 of the  Anthony's Paper Craft "Christmas in August" Blog Hop.  I really wanted to use this coffee cup image.  Although it is not a Christmas set, I turned it into one and made a tag that will hold a  gift card to your favorite store!     I started by cutting a tag die with a piece of manila/cream cardstock and a piece from patterned paper.  The tag is from a set called Tags (Little B)  (discontinued). The paper is from the Twas The Night Before Christmas Vol. 2 paper pad ( Echo Park ).  I then distressed the edges of both using Coffee Archival Ink (Ranger). Using the Coffee Archival Ink, I stamped the coffee image from Coffee 1  as well as some of the smaller images from Christmas Set 3 - the tree, gingerbread man, and cookie - both from Anthony's Paper Craft , on to the manil...

Hello everyone!!  Thank you so much for making last week's blog hop with the Anthony's Paper Craft Design Team such a success.  Once again I have teamed up with  Debra ,  Mike , and  Mary Kay  for week two of the Anthony's Paper Craft "Christmas in August" blog hop.   Remember,  any orders at  Anthony's Paper Craft  -  over $25 (U.S.A. only) can get free shipping by using the coupon code  "freeship25".  Offer is good until August 31, 2018! This week I wanted to make a Christmas card - but not a typical Christmas card.  I went through my stash of stamps and pulled out a set that is  really for birthdays or parties, I knew that it would be perfect for my "not your typical Christmas card" idea.      I started with my card base to which I adhered one of the designer papers from the Twas The Night Before Christmas pad (Echo Park) .  Then I die cut a piece of textured red cardstock w...

Hello everyone and Happy Saturday!!  It's a bit cold today.  We woke up at 6am and it was less than 35F so Ruy went and made a fire in the fireplace.  Go figure!!  Normally July is the cold month and by this time it's warming up already.  Now that I have defrosted I can get this quick post done!!  LOL I made this card for the 100th Cookie Challenge over on the If You Give A Crafter A Cookie Challenge Blog .  My friend Debra is on their design team so I thought I would show her some support.  The cookie inspiration photo to use is -  I decided to go with a mermaid card and I used a digi stamp called Mermaid Kisses  that I bought from an Etsy shop called All Dressed Up Stamps.    I printed her on a piece of white cardstock and then colored her in using Milky White (E51) Copic marker for her face and body and a variety of BIC Markers on the rest of her.   Her hair is Tiki Hut Tan, her fin is...

Hello everyone.  I am so excited to announce that I am participating in the first ever Anthony's Paper Craft Blog Hop.  The amazingly talented members of the Design Team - Debra Davison , Mike Fernholz , Mary Kay Werry and myself have teamed up for a "Christmas in August" hop - happening each Friday in August, starting today!   We hope to inspire you with some amazing Christmas projects - along with having some fun and maybe a prize or two to win.  I hope you will visit each of us, leave comments if you love our ideas, follow our blogs, Facebook and Instagram pages if you wish, and spread the news to all your fellow crafters!!!  There is even a code at the end of this post for free shipping over at Anthony's Paper Craft . My card for the hop is a 3D card using one of the beautiful fireplace images, along with one of the mantles, and a bunch of other smaller images that all work together to give a homey holiday card.  ...