World Of Michael Trent

Hello everyone and welcome to the October 2020 Edition of The Crafty Elves Countdown to Christmas, but I like to call it the Countdown to the Holidays since I also make Hanukkah/Chanukah cards for my family and friends.   The other Crafty Elves ( Debra and Lisa ) have also been busy making their cards, which you can find on their blogs by clicking on the links below.  I hope you can find some time to show them some love too. Debra - Meticulosity Lisa - Life of a BZ Scrapper Now on to my cards for October! Cards No. 1 For these 3 cards, I used images from  The Happy Holiday Tags Bundle Digital set  from The Paper Rabbit on Etsy.  You might know The Paper Rabbit as Lindsay Ostrom -  Creator of Cuteness  - one of my favorite designers.  The bundle comes with both Christmas and Hanukkah images.  Back for the August 2020 Crafty Elf post , I made some cards using the Christmas sheet and this month, as promised, I made some Hanukkah cards. The...

Hello everyone!  I should be making holiday cards for my Crafty Elf post on the 25th but my brain is still in Halloween mode!  The other day I made THIS Halloween card using the Happy Haunting Chipboard Elements from the Happy Haunting Collection from My Mind's Eye, that I had in my stash.  I wanted to use more of the chipboard elements and was thinking of cards to make when my eyes settled on the piece that says "Witches Brew" and I immediately thought "coffee".  And that is how this card came to be.       I started by making a top-folding 4" x 9" slimline card using black cardstock.  I also printed some of the digital papers from the Halloween Digital Set No. 001646 from VectoriaDesigns on Etsy. Using the largest die from the Slim Stitched Rectangle Die Set from Pinkfresh Studio , I cut the paper with the larger checkered design and adhered this to the card front. Next, using the Large Coffee On the Go die from Memory Box, I die cut t...

  Hello y'all.  How is everyone doing?  We had a bit of a hurricane here last week - tiles flew off the roof and we had a bit of flooding inside the house but now, a week later, all is back to normal.    It's that time - a new challenge over on the  If You Give A Crafter a Cookie Challenge Blog .  We are up to Challenge No. 153 and it's all about Halloween, or bats, or witches, or scary cats, or even the colors of Halloween.  Here is the inspiration photo the Design Team had to work with should you wish to join us! I had a bunch of ideas in my head but then I started to clean and I found this in my stash -  It's the Happy Haunting Chipboard Elements  from the Happy Haunting Collection from My Mind's Eye.  From 2013!  And I had to use it for this card.     I decided to make a slimline card using the 6 letters that spell out S P O O K Y.  It's the perfect type of card since the letters each measure about 1 3/8...