World Of Michael Trent

Hello all!  I am joining my friend  Deb (Meticulosity)  today for her "Coffee and Cards" day.  She normally does this with her friend  Celeste  but Celeste is away so I stepped in to play.  We decided to go with the theme of Christmas in July and, since I am in the process of making a Christmas card, I thought I would just blog about it.   To go along with the theme, my coffee and coffee mug of choice is Starbucks Christmas Blend Vintage 2016 with my favorite Christmas Pig mug (thanks Sue M).  Don't worry, the coffee gets kept in the freezer to keep it fresh.   To make this card, I started with a top folding A2 card base to which adhered a piece of Christmas decorative paper.   I am using a retired set called Christmas Village Holiday from CTMH.  I place a piece of white cardstock into my Misti and I stamped the Church, the Sweet Shoppe, and the sentiment, using Amalgam Black ink (...

Hello everyone.  It's been a long time since I played along with the folks over on the Retro Rubber Challenge Blog and I thought I would make today's card for their Challenge No. 115 , which is all about purple, yellow and green.  Perfect colors for flowers.  Also a great time to use some of my stash that has not been used in over a year! For today's card, I was inspired by  Penny Black and their stamp called Bunches For You .  I love this stamp but it would take forever to get here if I ordered it.  So I decided to "case" it using some things I have in my stash that have not been used a long time.  Not the same but close.  LOL   I found a paper pad in my stash called Artist by Paper House.  It's retired but had the perfect colors for my card base.  I adhered a piece of purple to the card front.  Then, using the largest die from Stitched Rectangles ( Memory Box/30009 ) I cut a piece of white cardstock....

Hello everyone and Merry Christmas (in July)!! Today is my DT time for Anthony's Paper Craft and it's all about Christmas.  Considering the heatwave taking over most of the USA and other parts of the world, I think many of you wish it was Christmas.  I love to find new ways to use images and today I will show you how to use Tile 4 and Tile 6 to make an ornament for your Christmas tree.   You can actually use any of Anthony's "tile" stamps. For Tile 6 - I started with the image stamped on a piece of white card, along with a piece of designer paper with a light design, a stitched circle die ( Memory Box/30036 ) and the bow and ornament topper from Circle Ornaments (Divinity Designs/CDB45) . Using the stitched circle die, I cut the center of the image and a piece of the designer paper.  I also cut the bow from red cardstock and two of the ornament topper from a piece of gold cardstock. Next, I grabbed the Christmas colors from my Ultra Fine ...

Hello everyone!  Well, it's time for the next challenge over on the If You Give A Crafter A Cookie Challenge Blog !!  We are up to Challenge No. 122 and this time it's all about Robots!!  Here is your inspiration photo if you want to play along -  I realized when I saw the above photo that I didn't have any robot stamps!  But then I remembered that, for some super strange reason, I have two stamps sets called Lots o Bots (Stampin Up/Retired).  Why I have two, I have no idea, but one of them came in perfect for this card.   I started with a side folding A2 card base of white cardstock.  Then, using a stamp positioner and Memento Tuxedo Black ink, I stamped the left edge with the 0/1 stamp in the Lots o Bots set. Then I cut a piece of white cardstock and a piece of white fun foam, 3.75" x 5.5", embossed the cardstock with the gears embossing folder from the Clock and Steampunk Set by Tim Holtz/Sizzix , adhered the fun foa...

Hello everyone!!  The beach!  I love and miss the beach!  Even though I live in Brasil, we are at least 2 hours (or more) to a beach and the traffic we have to deal with can be insane!  So I spend summers at the pool instead.  We are now in winter and that means no beach or pool here in the countryside of São Paulo but I can still make a fun beach card and imagine the sand between my toes! There is a new challenge over on the If You Give A Crafter A Cookie Challenge Blog .  It's Challenge No. 121 and it's all about the beach.  Here is the inspiration photo the design team was given to work with in case you want to play along with us -  The first thing I wanted was a sunset background.  I have a lot of distress inks but I recently got all of the Gina K Design inks and wondered if they would work the same way.  I found this nice color combo from The Colours of Magic , an Instagram account I follow.  Next, I picked 5...