World Of Michael Trent

  Hello everyone and TGIF!!  I wanted to share with you guys a mini-album that I recently finished.  Other than card-making, making mini-albums and photo folios is my other big passion.   I used the " Beginners Mini Album V.2 " tutorial from Your Book of Memories along with the Field Study Paper Pad from Paper House Productions .   Below are photos of the book and, at the end of this post you will find a link to the walk-thru video on my YouTube channel.  The video also has a code for 20% off Paper House products. Click below to be taken to the video.  There is a code for 20% discount on Paper House Productions products there too.  I had so much fun using this album tutorial that I made 2 more books - a baby boy book and a baby girl book.  Those vids will come soon.   I'd love to know what you think.  Do you make albums?  Folios?  Let me know!!  As always, thanks for stopping by my blog.  Until n...

Hello everyone and welcome to the May 2021 edition of The Crafty Elves' Countdown to Christmas.  If this is your first time here, there are 3 Crafty Elves - myself, Debra of Meticulosity  and Lisa of Life of a BZscrapper . Each month the 3 elves make 4 cards for the holidays and we share on the 25th of each month.  And, this month, we have a Special Crafty Elf joining us - Crystal O. Minkler who you might also know as Tawny Owl Paperie .     Have you started making any holiday cards yet?  If not, I hope these cards inspire you to start.  I actually made 5 cards this month because we 2 of the designs I had 2 ideas.   Card No. 1 I actually started this card last month during the 10-day coloring challenge from The Daily Marker but never finished it.  Until this month.  I have had this " Pointed Oval/Circle " stamp set from Anthony's Paper Craft for over 2 years and never really knew what to do with them.  Then I just started...

Hello everyone!  This month the Anthony's Paper Craft Group Design Team Project is about Father's Day. Having recently lost my own dad, I know that some people might no longer have their dad around, or they might not have a relationship with their dad, or, maybe they don't have a dad.  Each of us has a different situation.  I was having a hard time thinking of a card to make and was not focusing.  But I think my dad sent me a message.  I still had my nautical sets sitting on my desk from the two cards I made the other day, which you can see { HERE }, and my dad was in the Navy in his youth and he loved to fish when I was a kid.  So I decided to go with a "nautical-themed" Father's Day card in his honor.  The creativity was flowing and I ended up making 3 cards.  Even if you don't have a "dad" to give a card to, maybe this card will inspire you to make a birthday card for that guy in your life that you look to as a dad, or a neighbor, or even ...

Hello everyone and welcome to my May 2021 Design Team project for  Anthony's Paper Craft .  This month's theme is "cards for guys" - nautical themed cards, masculine cards, birthday cards, and, the group project on the 15th is all about Father's Day.  The idea I had in my head was to use a map with blue cardstock.  Since I was going to use two sheets of paper and the die I used gives a negative and positive, I made 2 cards at the same time. This way everything I cut got used.   Let's start by making our card bases.  I made two top-folding A2 cards from white cardstock.  Then I adhered kraft cardstock to the front of each one.  I wanted a map and the color blue for the cards.  So I pulled out a blue sheet from the  Brights Cardstock Stack  and one of the map pages from The Maps, Text, & Ledgers Stack .  Because this is paper, I adhered it to a piece of kraft cardstock before cutting.   Then I cut eac...