World Of Michael Trent

Hello everyone!!  Yes, it's true.  Today is National Coffee Day.  Not that I need any special day to celebrate coffee since I drink it daily...several times a day, in fact.  But, since today is an extra special coffee day, I made a card....coffee themed. And I am drinking some of the best coffee in Brasil by Melita!  YUM!  I started with a digi stamp called Stay Strong that I recently purchased from Gracielle Designs on Etsy .  If you do not like digi stamps, you can also buy this set as a rubber stamp { HERE } at Unity Stamps.  I printed a full A4 sheet (cuz I will use these).  Then I had my Scan N Cut cut some of the cups out.    Next, I printed out one of the sentiments and die cut it with my stitched rectangle die.    I also stamped the flower image from Blossomy Condolences (Unity Stamp) and had my Scan N Cut cut it out. I colored in the cup and the flowers with a variety of BIC Mark...

Hi everyone!  I am always posting my cards, which I love to do, but I also love to make mini albums. I've always loved taking photos.  And I miss going to a Kodak store to pick up my package of photos that I took with my roll of film.  Remember an actual roll of film??  LOL  Nowadays we keep all of our memories on a cell phone, Instagram, or Facebook and people have forgotten what it's like to sit down and turn the pages of an album and look at an actual photo.  Hence the reason I love to make mini albums.  For this album, I used the Paper Dream printable template from Jen Of Eve Designs along with a digital paper pad from Paper Phenomenon called Flight 2715 . Here is the cover of the book -  And here are some of the pages inside the book -  I made a video of the book, which you can watch { HERE } over on my YouTube Channel.  I hope you enjoy it.  I'd love to know so please leave me a comment below (o...

Hello everyone.  Today's card has been in my head for weeks and I finally found the time to make it. I did some fine tuning as I made the card and it actually came out better in the end than it was in my head.  Has this ever happened to you?  And I have to thank my friend Debra for the sentiment idea.  I was going to use "Seasons Greetings" but then she suggested "Seasonings Greetings", which I love even more, and that's what I went with in the end!   So, thanks Deb!!   Here's how I made this card -  1.  I prepared the sentiment "SEASONINGS GREETINGS" on the computer and printed two of them out on A4 white cardstock.  2.  I positioned the stitched rectangle die over the sentiment, adhered it with some washi tape, trimmed the cardstock, and die cut it with my Big Shot.  (I'm sure there is an easier way with software but I do not know how to do this.  So, if you do, please let me know in the comments and I...

Hello everyone!!  This week was super busy.  Our town held their annual Festival of Immigrants - Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights - and we went each night to take photos and hang out with our friends.  It was a lot of fun but man, I am tired.  And yesterday we went back to Amparo, a town about an hour away, for a private tour of the main Cathedral in town.  A beautiful church and I'll try to have some photos later in the week.   Last week I was the winner on the  If You Give A Crafter A Cookie Challenge Blog (IYGACACCB) .  I won 4 digi stamps from Bugaboo Stamps for my " Fintastic " card.  This week on the IYGACACCB it's their 4th Anniversary and their 102nd Challenge , which is an "anything goes" challenge, and I decided to join them again using a " dream catcher " image I recently purchased from  Little Blue Button .   Other than the coloring part, this is a super easy card to make!...