World Of Michael Trent

  Hello everyone and welcome to the April 2021 Edition of The Crafty Elves' Countdown to Christmas.  If this is your first time here, the Crafty Elves (Debra of " Meticulosity ", Lisa of " Life of BZscrapper ", and myself) make 4 Christmas/Holiday cards per month and post them to our blogs on the 25th of each month.  And, this month, we have a Special Guest Crafty Elf - Vanessa Osbourn - and she has an amazing card over on her IG page.  And, since there is an amazing  Spring into Christmas 2021 {BYSHC} Hop  happening, these cards will also be entered there.        Now...on to my cards for the month.   Card No. 1 I found this Happy Hanukkah Script die in my stash and realized that I have not made a Hanukkah card in a few months and I decided to make one.  If you need to make cards for Hanukkah/Chanukah, this card is super easy to make.  All you need is dark blue paper, decorative paper, and the die! I started by ...

Hello everyone.  There is a huge Instagram hop happening today called Paper Crafters Unite Against Racism. Although I am not taking part in it (my own fault for not signing up in time), I wanted to show my support with the Paper Crafting community. Racism in the USA and the world is out of control and really needs to be talked about.  No one is born racist. It comes from our upbringing.  I was taught to love people.  The color of their skin or where they were from was not important.  What was important was who the person was.   We just need to talk to each other.  Start a dialogue. Educate ourselves.  Attend protests, if possible.  Try to be part of the change! Anyway, at the end of this post is a screenshot of the crafters taking part in the hop if you want to stop by some or all of their Instagram pages to show support.  For my card - I recently saw a quote that moved me.  "The heart never knows the colour of the skin." By Ch...

    Did you know that April is National Letter Writing Month (NLWM)?  It is.  Really.  Trust me!  You can read all about National Letter Writing Month - the history, how you can participate, what you can do...all by clicking HERE .  You can also do a search for "National Letter Writing Month" and you will get lots of links and ideas.  Even though the postal service here is horrible, I wanted to make some cards and promote NLWM. My friends Debra and Celeste also did a post about NLWM and snail mail.  Just click on their names to go over to their blog posts.  It's also the start of a new 10-Day Coloring Challenge with TheDailyMarker.com and, since I have been up since 5am coloring these images, perfect timing!  So...my cards...I used Scene It Snails from Bugaboo Stamps .  I printed 4 on a piece of A4 white cardstock.  Then I used a stitched rectangle die to cut 3 of them out leaving the 4th to be fussy cut.   I made...

Hello everyone and welcome to the April 2021 Anthony's Paper Craft Group Design Team Project.  This month we are inspiring you guys with birthday cards since these are used all year long.  And, since April is Misty's birthday (April 29th, I believe) - we decided to also use purple in our projects since that is her favorite color.  So, my card.  This was originally a Mother's Day idea.  And, to be honest, you can swap out the Happy Birthday sentiment for a Mother's Day sentiment.  Two ideas in one!      I started by stamping the hyacinth flowers from Flower Set 1 and the tulips and daffodil images from Flower Set 2 , both from Anthony's Paper Craft , on to white cardstock and then I used my Scan N Cut to cut the images with a slight border.  Super easy peasy to do! I made my slimline card base, 4" x 8.75", to fit in an envelope from here.  Then I printed one of the "purple" designs from the Prima Marketing Life In Colors Di...

  Hello everyone.  I hope everyone is doing well.  Today I have my card for the Anthony's Paper Craft April Design Team project.  We are focusing on Mother's Day cards and the idea for this card has been festering in my head for some time now. I started by stamping the flowers from Flower Garden two times on white cardstock.  I then fussy cut one of the images in full and then fussy cut just parts of the flowers from the second image. Then I colored the flowers using a variety of fine tip Sharpie markers.  I colored the whole bunch of flowers first and when I colored the single parts, I changed some of the colors. Next I used some dies from Impression Obsession to cut all of my die cut pieces.  First I die cut the Wheelbarrow die with Mirri Silver Cardstock .  Then I went back and used Mirri Black Cardstock for the wheel and handles and Mirri Red Cardstock for the "barrow" part. I also die cut the Fancy Cutout Border from white and kraft c...