World Of Michael Trent

Hello...Hello....Hello.....everyone.  Yes, I am in a good mood today.  That's because I was asked to have "cyber" coffee with my friends Deb and Celeste again and the theme is "anything goes".  This time I am bringing cupcakes.  Well, a cupcake card that it is. Before I get to the card let's talk about today's choice of coffee.  A few week's ago Ruy and I went to a green market in the town next to use and there was a coffee food truck there.  The coffee was great and we bought a bag of the beans.  Freshly ground Brasilian coffee is the best!!  Now, for the card -  The first thing I did was to print out the USA Cupcake digi stamp from Bugaboo Stamps.   They also have a Canadian Cupcake and both are on sale for $1 right now.  Yes, $1 US!!   I trimmed the image to 3" x 4" and then I applied some white puffy paint to the cupcake.  I wanted it to look like it was white frosting.  Althoug...

Hello everyone!  As you guys know, I made a card the other day for Challenge No. 120 over on the If You Give A Crafter A Cookie Challenge Blog .  If you missed it, you can check it out HERE .  I had a lot of fun making some more cards with this fruit theme and wanted to share another one with you today.   But, first, a little back story.  I started to watch RuPaul's Drag Race a few weeks ago and fell in love with this show.  Not something I ever thought I would say.  LOL  One of RuPaul's catchphrases is "You Better Work" but he uses "work" with an "e" - like this "Werk".  While on Pinterest the other day a card popped up in my feed of a gold crown and the phrase "Work That Crown".  I immediately thought of a pineapple, since it also has a crown, and I wondered how I could "werk" this phrase into a card.  And today's card was born.    I started with a top folding A2 card base of purple cardstock.  ...

Hello everyone!!  It's Pride weekend in a lot of cities around the world this weekend and I wanted to make a card to show support for my community.  Sadly, it's scary times right now - globally - for the LGBT community and I hope that the strides we have made in the past 50 years do not get removed or go away.  I truly believe that every human being is entitled to the same rights no matter your race, sexuality, or color of your skin.  I wish everyone felt this way. Now, on to the card!!  This idea for this card actually came from an ad that I saw of a black tank top with a rainbow heart in the center.  I decided to run with this idea and make a card.    This is a great project because you don't need to have a heart die or banner die to make the card.  You can draw your own heart and cut it out and then you can cut strips of the colored cardstock for the heart. Supplies Used: Cardstock in red, orange, yellow, green, blue, pur...

Hi everyone.  I have some exciting news to share with everyone.  I am now a Design Team member for the If You Give A Crafter A Cookie Challenge Blog .  My friend Debra has been on the team for some time now and she urged me to apply and I was asked to join the other talented people.  It's a fun blog where the inspiration for each challenge is based on a photo of a cookie.  And I do love cookies, and cake, and brownies....sorry, I digressed.  I hope you will start to follow them and play along with us. The inspiration for my first project for the Design Team was this photo for  Challenge No. 120  - Having no images of fruit that I can think of, I jumped onto Etsy and found THESE adorable digi images of fruits to use, which also happen to be on sale for 50% right now!   I started by printing out a sheet of the pineapples at 25% of their original size on to white cardstock.  Then I played around with some of my BI...

Ahoy everyone!!  Summer is in full swing in the USA and other parts of the world and that means weekends on the beach, at the shore, and on a boat.  Not here.  We are in fall and it's a bit colder than normal for us.  But I still had fun making some nautical cards using this month's Stamp of the Month from  Anthony's Paper Craft  called " Nautical 1 ".   Each Thursday in June, different members of the Design Team have posted a "nautical" project using this stamp set and today it's my turn.  Links to all the other Design Team projects are at the bottom of this post.   To make this card, I used the following supplies -  Nautical 1 stamp set (Anthony's Paper Craft);  Maps, Text & Legers paper pad (DCWV) Faded Jeans distress ink (Ranger) Ink blender or makeup brush (Amazon) Stitched Circle Dies (Memory Box/30036) Dotted Die D-03-13 (Avery Elle) Ocean Border Die (Impression Obsession/DIE101...

Hello everyone and Happy June!!  It's that time of the year again.  No, not summer!!  Father's Day!  And, just in time, Challenge 118 on the  If You Give A Crafter A Cookie challenge blog, is all about "superheroes", of which many men in the dad role, are!     My friend Debra , who is on the If You Give A Crafter design team, made an adorable card for this challenge (you can see it HERE ) and I had to join her because this card was itching to get out of my head.   I started with a top folding A2 card base of which cardstock.  I adhered the Circle Rays stencil ( StencilGirl Products ) to the card front with painter's tape and, using a blending tool, I blended in squeezed lemonade distress ink.  I also found a (very old) die from QuicKutz called City Skyline, which I die cut using a piece of decorative paper from my stash.   I then adhered the skyline to my card front and cut away the excess. ...