World Of Michael Trent

Hello everyone!  Most of you know that my first love is to make cards.  But coming in a close second -  I also love love love to make handmade mini albums and photo folios.  There is something about building an album or folio from scratch.  I call myself a paper architect.   Today I wanted to share a wedding folio that I made for Ruy's sister who got married a few months ago.  It was a very simple wedding and she is a very simple person who did not want a full-blown album with flowers, and ephemera, etc.  So I made this simple tri-fold folio. The front of the wedding folio. The inside when you open the front of the folio. The folio with both the right and left flaps opened.  There is a waterfall component on the right side and flaps on the left and center. The folio fully opened.  I love all the flaps and flips! If you are interested in watching, below are two videos.  The first shows...

Hello everyone. The other day while cleaning I found some wood jars I bought but never used.  I don't even know who made them.  And, my friend Debra also sent me a package of wood jars in a box she sent me - thanks, Debra!  So I thought...why not make some Valentine's Day cards with them.        On the left are the jars from my stash.  On the right are the jars I got from Debra. I decided to make two cards using a jar from each package and with the same Bouquet die from Impression Obsession .  This die has a lot of pieces to it but it's so easy to work with.  The first thing I did was to make a top folding A2 card base of white cardstock to which I adhered a piece of pink cardstock. Then I used my Stitched Rectangle die to cut another piece of white cardstock, which I adhered to a piece of fun foam, which I then adhered to the card front. I did this twice.  I made one pink base and one kraft card base. ...

Hello everyone.  My friend Debra ( Meticulosity ), and her friend Lisa ( Life of a BZscrapper ), came up with an idea at the begging of last year.  They decided to make 4 Christmas cards per month and 1 blog post per month showing the world what they made.   They call themselves the "Crafty Elves".  A few weeks ago Debra asked me if I would also like to be a Crafty Elf.  I said YES!  Who doesn't want to be a Crafty Elf?  And Lisa asked her friend Jessica ( Polka Dot Orchard ) to be an Elf.   Now there are 4 Crafty Elves! And, since I say, e very year, that I will make a card a week so that by the end of the year I have a stash of handmade cards to send, and that NEVER happens, this will be a good thing because now I am forced to make the cards and do a blog post.  And, I will have a mixture of Christmas, Hanukkah, and generic holiday cards.   Here are the cards I made for January 2020.    Car...

Hello all!  It's time for a new challenge over on the If You Give A Crafter A Cookie Challenge Blog . This is Challenge No. 134 and it's all about "retro". Here is the photo that the Design Team had to use when making their card, should you wish to play along with us.   I have to admit...even though my childhood consisted of 8-track and cassette tapes, playing Pacman and Ms. Pacman after school in the game room at the mall, trying to get all the colors to match on my Rubik's Cube, and attending the original Ghostbusters on opening night at the movie theater...I am NOT a retro card kinda guy.  But, for some strange reason, I ended up making 3 retro cards.  Go figure! First, I had to find a retro image to use.  I went to Esty and found a digital stamp of a cassette tape, which you can find HERE . I printed a few, both at 30% and 35%, on to white cardstock.  Then I looked thru my digital papers and found some cool retro feeling papers ...

Hello everyone!  January is almost over and I needed to make a Valentine's Day card for a card swap group that I am in.  I did not want to make a typical red or pink card and wanted to go with purple.   I started by going thru my paper stash.  I found a REALLY OLD (circa 2011) paper pad called "what's up" from Basic Grey with some flowered designs in purple and dark orange that I thought I could use. I made a top-folding card base of purple cardstock. Then, using my stitched rectangle die, I cut a piece of white cardstock, which I adhered on the inside and a piece of orange cardstock for the card front.  I placed the Inlay Heart Die (Poppy Stamps) on the orange cardstock, die cut it, and then adhered the orange piece to the purple card front.  Next, using the same Inlay Heart die , I cut a piece of the decorative paper.   Then I carefully glued the pieces into the card front leaving the heart areas the color ...

Hello everyone!! Happy New Year - and welcome to 2020.  Crazy how time flies!  I hope everyone had a great holiday, whatever you celebrated and that you had a great New Year - because we all celebrate that!  With a new year comes new card challenges with the If You Give A Crafter A Cookie Challenge Blog .  The first challenge, Challenge No. 133, is all about "Snowflakes" and here is the inspiration photo that the Design Team had to work with should you wish to play along -  I know it's winter in many parts of the world but it felt a little strange to be making cards with snowflakes after the holidays.  But then I realized that it's never too early to start making holiday cards for 2020 and that is what I did.  I made two cards. I started by cutting my A2 top-folding card bases from a piece of 12x12 white cardstock.   With the excess part, I stamped two of the snowflakes from 4 by 4 Snowflakes  ( Anthony's Paper Craft...