World Of Michael Trent

Hello everyone and welcome to the Crafty Elves Countdown to the Holidays - January 2020 Edition.  I am back with the other Crafty Elves (Debra, Lisa, and Jessica) to bring you 4 Christmas/Holiday projects. This month I made 3 cards and 2 envelopes that I think you will really like.   For my first card, which I had so much fun making, I used several stamp sets from Reverse Confetti that are not Christmas stamps sets but I used them to make a Christmas card.   I used the " Cured " stamp and matching die.  I stamped and die cut the two pigs using decorative paper.  Then I stamped and die cut the feeding trough using white cardstock and colored it with a gray marker.  I made a top-folding A2 card base, which I covered with decorative Christmas paper and then I cut a piece of white cardstock using a stitched rectangle die.  I stamped the sentiment "let's celebrate" from Fancy Word Coordinates and then I adhered the images....

Hello everyone!!  I hope y'all are doing well this Thursday morning.  Tomorrow starts Carnaval here in Brasil and not much happens over the next few days other than the big parties in Sao Paulo and Rio.  We are going to try and get away to the beach on Sunday and enjoy the quiet. It's time for a new challenge over on the If You Give A Crafter A Cookie Challenge Blog .  We are up to Challenge No. 136 and it's all about birthdays!  Who doesn't love to get a birthday card?  Here is the inspiration photo that the design team had to use when making our project.   For my project, I am using a digital stamp called Birthday Critters Sign from Bugaboo Stamps .  I love this image, not only because of the pig, but because of the big letters that can be colored in bright birthday colors.  I love pigs and I love bright colors. I started by printing 4 of them at 65% on to a piece of A4 white cardstock.  This way I can mak...

Hello everyone!  I hope everyone is having a good February so far.  This Friday is Valentine's Day and, even though it's not really celebrated here in Brasil, I wanted to make another card and I had to use  Word Critters Spring Birds and Cool Tag Banner Sentiments , both by Your Next Stamp , because they are sitting on my desk mocking me!!  LOL  I honestly think this is probably the simplest card I have ever made!   I cut a piece of white cardstock using a stitched rectangle die, which I put in my stamping platform.  I then arranged the branch and the bird couple (from the Word Critters Spring Birds set) and the sentiment "I Love You" from the Cool Tag Banner set, and I stamped them using Jet Black Amalgam Ink from Gina K. Designs. I made a top-folding A2 card base of white cardstock to which I adhered a piece of red cardstock.  Then I colored the card using Ultra Fine Tip BIC Markers - Yellow Blaze and Sunset Orange ...

Hello everyone.  Today is the Final Day of my Turner Syndrome/Butterfly Card Week.  If you have not seen my previous posts, I took part in the  It's A Girl Thing/Turner Syndrome Blog Hop  last Saturday.   Since the hop is running for a week to give people time to leave comments, I thought it would be fun to make a week's worth of butterfly-themed cards.  So, today is my last day, Day 7, of my It's A Girl Thing/Turner Syndrome Butterfly Week! There are amazing creations from 57 artists and makers and a lot of prizes to be won.  It ends on February 7th so you still have time to enter.  H ead over  HERE  to check out all the amazing cards made and to enter to win one of the many prizes up for grabs.  I apologize, but, sadly, there is no step by step for this card.  I was going to make it yesterday, and then today, but life got in the way big time.   I really love how this card came out and I wa...

Hello everyone!  It's time for a new challenge over on the If You Give A Crafter A Cookie Challenge Blog . We are up to Challenge No. 135 and it's all about babies...or Valentine's Day....or animals....or the color pink!  I went with the baby theme and made two cards - one for a baby girl and one for a baby boy. Here is the inspiration photo that the Design Team had to use when making their cards should you wish to play along with us.  I started with top folding A2 card bases of white cardstock to which I adhered a piece of decorative paper to each card front using the boy and girl versions of the Bundle of Joy A New Addition (Echo Park).  Then I cut two pieces of white cardstock using a Stitched Rectangle die from Gina Marie Designs.     I went thru my box of baby stamps and found two sets from The Greeting Farm that I wanted to use. I've had them a long time, they are retired, and there are no names on the packaging, but...

Hello everyone.  Today is Day 6 of my Turner Syndrome/Butterfly Card Week.  If you have not seen my previous posts, I took part in the  It's A Girl Thing/Turner Syndrome Blog Hop  this past Saturday.   Since the hop is running for a week to give people time to leave comments, I thought it would be fun to make a week's worth of butterfly-themed cards.  So, consider today Day 6 of my It's A Girl Thing/Turner Syndrome Butterfly Week! There are amazing creations from 57 artists and makers and a lot of prizes to be won.  It ends on February 7th so you still have time to enter.  H ead over  HERE  to check out all the amazing cards made and to enter to win one of the many prizes up for grabs.  For today's card, I kinda cheated!  Remember THIS card that I made on Day 3 - the big square card with the big butterfly?  After I adhered the small negative pieces to the card, I had a really pretty positive piece l...

Hello everyone.  Today is Day 5 of my Turner Syndrome/Butterfly Card Week.  If you have not seen my previous posts, I took part in the  It's A Girl Thing/Turner Syndrome Blog Hop  this past Saturday.   Since the hop is running for a week to give people time to leave comments, I thought it would be fun to make a week's worth of butterfly-themed cards.  So, consider today Day 5 of my It's A Girl Thing/Turner Syndrome Butterfly Week! There are amazing creations from 57 artists and makers and a lot of prizes to be won.  It ends on February 7th so you still have time to enter.  H ead over  HERE  to check out all the amazing cards made and to enter to win one of the many prizes up for grabs.  Today's card is built around THIS roll of "Happy Birthday Dymo Label" washi tape that I found while rummaging thru my stash.  I forgot that I even owned it but I had an idea in my head.      I made a top...