World Of Michael Trent

Hello everyone and welcome to Day 8, the final day, of the  Spring | Summer Coffee Lovers Hop .   Well, this week went by super fast.  I cannot believe that I got a coffee-themed post for each of the 8 days of the hop.  It's like Hanukkah!  LOL  I actually made 13 cards in the past week.  Crazy!!   Today I have a very easy and short post as my final card for the hop.   I started with a top folding A2 card base of dark brown cardstock.   Then I printed one of the papers from the Coffee Lovers Digital Paper Pack from Graciellie Design  which I then die cut using a stitched rectangle die. Using a double stitched rectangle die, I cut a piece of white cardstock. I stamped the coffee cup and the sentiment from the Warm Wishes stamp set from Waffle Flower. Then I colored it in using BIC Intensity markers.   I layered the white cardstock to a piece of dark brown cardstock and then...

Hello everyone and welcome to Day 7 of the  Spring | Summer Coffee Lovers Hop .   Today I am back with some more ideas on how to use just a sentiment on your card front.  I really believe that sentiments, especially in many digital stamp sets, go unloved.  The cool thing about digital stamps is they can be printed in any size you want. And, sometimes, you just don't want to pull out the watercolors or the markers and want an easy peasy card.  Let me show you!  All of the papers and stamps used for these cards are from Graciellie Design .  The first thing I did was to print each of the papers from the Coffee Lovers Digital Paper Pack .  You get 13 designs and, again, you can print them in any size you want.  For these cards, I printed two of each design on an A4 sheet of cardstock.  They print 5.75" x 5.75" so they are even perfect for a small mini-album.  I also went thru the digital stamp sets I own to look at...

Hello everyone!  How are y'all doing?  If you don't already know this, I live in the countryside of Sao Paulo, Brasil, where Covid-19 is now the worst in the world.  Just to let you know, we are fine, have food, flour, yeast, meat, and even toilet paper.  Other than going to the supermarket, we are staying indoors where the 7 dogs keep me busy.       Today's Design Team project is for  Challenge No. 143 on the  If You Give A Crafter A Cookie Challenge Blog  and it's all about tools.  If you wish to play along with us, which I hope you do, below  is the  inspiration photo that the Design Team had to work with when making their projects.   When I see a toolbox I immediately think of my dad. When I was growing up we lived in a house without a finished basement and I remember working with him to finish it.  Sheetrock, spackle, nails, and his toolbox.  Happy to say that I now own many o...

Hello everyone and welcome to Day 6 of the  Spring | Summer Coffee Lovers Hop .   I am running late today so I decided to make a pretty quick and easy card for the coffee hop.   I started by making a top-folding A2 card base to which I adhered a piece of Kraft paper.   I cut another piece of white cardstock using a stitched rectangle die, which I placed into my Mistii and then I stamped the Coffee Bean Background by Rubbernecker Stamps using Vintage Photo Distress ink.   Next, I die cut a piece of white cardstock using a double stitched rectangle die and a piece of dark brown metallic paper using the next size up.   I stamped the cat and sentiment from the Safety First set by AALL & CREATE  on to the white cardstock and colored it in using BIC Intensity Markers and adhered it to the brown cardstock. Then I adhered the brown cardstock to the card front using foam tape. L...

Hello everyone and welcome to Day 5 of the  Spring | Summer Coffee Lovers Hop .   Today I want to talk about something that is overlooked with many digital stamp sets - the sentiments.   Sentiments are not just for the inside of a card.  Let me show you what I mean. For all these cards I used the  Coffee Lovers Digital Paper Pack by Graciellie Designs , one of the coolest paper packs out there, and for the sentiments, I used 3 digital stamp sets from Polka Dot Orchard . I started by making 3 top folding A2 cards using white cardstock to which I adhered a different paper, from the Coffee Lovers Digital Paper Pack to the front of each card. For this card -  I used a sentiment from the Happiness In A Cup digital stamp set from Polka Dot Orchard .   I printed out the sentiment on a piece of white cardstock. Then I die cut it using a double-stitched rectangle die, adhered it to a piece of the same lig...

Hello everyone and welcome to Day 4 of the  Spring | Summer Coffee Lovers Hop .   You might have already seen this card because it's part of my earlier post today called Crafty Elves Countdown to Christmas - May 2020 Edition .  But I wanted to make a stand-alone post for the Coffee Hop also.  Today's card uses two stamps from Anthony's Paper Craft and a retired cup/mug die from Memory Box. I made a top folding A2 card to which I adhered a piece of red cardstock and then a piece of decorative holiday paper that I cut with a stitched rectangle die.   Using the  Cozy Mugs  set from  Memory Box , I cut the middle-sized mug out of decorative paper and adhered it to the card front with foam tape.   Then I stamped the  Poinsettia  image from  Anthony's Paper Craft  on to white cardstock, cut it with my Scan N Cut, colored it using Copic markers, and adhered it to the card front using foam tape. ...

Hello everyone and welcome to the May 2020 Edition of the Crafty Elves Countdown to Chrismas.  I hope everyone is doing okay...staying safe...wearing masks...keeping sane.  The elves,  ( Debra ,  Lisa ,  Jessica , and myself), have a Special Crafty Elf joining us this month - Amy Tsuruta.  You might know her blog,  Tsuruta Designs , or from Coffee Loving Cardmakers or from Facebook,  Coffee Loving Papercrafters .    Now, on to my 4 Crafty Elf cards for May.  Links to the other Crafty Elves' cards are at the end of this post. Card No. 1   Today also happens to be during the Spring|Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop so I had to make a coffee-themed Christmas card!   I started with a top folding A2 card to which I adhered a piece of red cardstock.  Then a piece of decorative holiday paper that I cut with a stitched rectangle die.   Using the Cozy Mugs set from M...

Hello everyone and welcome to Day 3 of the Spring | Summer Coffee Lovers Hop .  Today I am working with a beautiful stamp set called Happiness In A Cup from Polka Dot Orchard .        I'm also going to enter this card in two card challenges -  https://aperfecttimetocraft.blogspot.com/2020/05/a-perfect-time-to-craft-open-challenge.html http://crafterscastle.blogspot.com/2020/05/may-challenge-29-april-winner.html I started by printing the image of the flowers in the coffee cup twice.  I used my Scan N Cut by Brother to cut one of the images and I colored the image using BIC Intensity Markers - both the Ultra Fine Tip and the Fine Tip.   I also made a top-folding A2 card base to which I adhered a piece of decorative paper from my stash (Botanical by Prima Marketing #842130/Retired). With the 2nd image, I fussy cut the 4 flowers and colored them using the same markers.  I also printed the sentime...

Hello everyone and welcome to day 2 of the  Spring | Summer Coffee Lovers Hop !   Today's card is an idea that I have had in my head for some time now...to make large backgrounds using some smaller coffee images from Coffee 2 from Anthony's Paper Craft .  And today I got to play and I really love how they turned out.  For both cards, I started by making a top folding A2 card base of white cardstock.  Then I adhered a piece of decorative paper to the front of each one.   For the first card, I die cut a piece of white cardstock using a stitched rectangle die.  Then I randomly stamped the "to go" cup from Coffee 2.  I colored all the cups using BIC Intensity Ultra Fine Tip Markers, adhered a piece of fun foam to the back and then I adhered this to the card front.  Lastly, I stamped "coffee" from the set several times, used my Scan N Cut to cut the words out, glued them together and adhered it to the card front ...