World Of Michael Trent

Hello everyone and welcome to the March 2023 Edition of The Crafty Elves' Countdown to Christmas.  On the 25th of each month, the Crafty Elves - me, Debra , Lisa , and Misty - share some card ideas with the hopes of inspiring you to make holiday cards too.  Direct links to what the other Crafty Elves have made this month, as well as links to all of our social media pages, are at the end of this post.   This month I am focusing on Kwanzaa.    You would think that, since I make holiday cards each month, I would have made Kwanzaa card ideas earlier.  To be honest, it's not a holiday I grew up learning about and I had no stamps to use.  Being a Jew that also celebrates Christmas, Hanukkah and Christmas cards are a no-brainer.     But that all changed a few weeks ago when I was on AliExpress looking for bulk items to buy for my projects (flowers, sequins, beads, etc.)  On the sidebar, I saw an ad for adhesive stickers.  I've a...

  Hello everyone!  It's the 15th of the month and that means that there is a new "Anything Goes" card challenge over on the  QKR Stampede Challenge Blog .   Since Easter is fast approaching I decided to make an Easter card and fell in love with the Happy Easter with Bouquet Digital Stamp .  I knew this would make a beautiful slimline Easter card.   I printed the Happy Easter with Bouquet digital stamp - twice - on a sheet of white cardstock and colored one of them using some GRAF Duo alcohol markers and the Key Lime ultra fine-tip maker from BIC.    Next, I die-cut it using the smaller stitched slimline die from the Slim Stitched Rectangle Die Set from Pink Fresh Studio. Next, I made my card base, 3.5" x 8.5", using a sheet of dark pink/hot pink cardstock to which I adhered a piece of "Easterish" paper to the front and a piece of white cardstock to the inside for a message.   I also layered my Happy Easter on a piece of the sa...

  Hello everyone and Happy Pi Day...Happy Pie Day...Happy π Day!  I've been waiting months to make this card and it's finally here.  This is a short but fun post.   According to piday.org , the first 10 digits of Pi is 3.1415926535 (although I count 11).  But, if you type π into a calculator and press enter, you will see 3.141592654 because the display is most often limited to 10 digits and it rounds the 10th number up to 4.  Pi, represented by the lower-case Greek letter π - is one of the most well-known mathematical constants, the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter.  Pi has interested people around the world for over 4,000 years.  To learn more about Pi - go to piday.org .  It's quite fascinating.   Now, on to my card... I started by typing the first 10 digits of Pi on a piece of white cardstock and then I die-cut it using a stitched rectangle die measuring 4" x 5.25".  I made a top-folding card base using...

{English is below the Portuguese} Fiz este álbum em julho de 2022, para homenagear a memória de Levita, um jovem marcante na cidade, que morreu em um trágico acidente há pouco mais de um ano. Embora não fôssemos grandes amigos, ele fazia parte de um grupo de teatro - Abrakortina - com alguns amigos meus, e tive o privilégio de vê-lo em duas peças. Ele era muito talentoso - um dançarino e coreógrafo fantástico, artista, ator, professor e mentor/modelo para tantas pessoas. I made this album in July 2022, to honor the memory of Levita, a remarkable young man in town, who died in a tragic accident a little more than a year ago. Although we were not close friends, he was part of a theater group - Abrakortina - with some of my friends, and I had the privilege to see him in two plays. He was very talented - a fantastic dancer and choreographer, artist, actor, teacher, and mentor/role model to so many people. Não consigo nem começar a explicar a quantidade de dor e depressão que se insta...

  Hello everyone and welcome to March!  I hope y'all are doing well.  With all the rain we have been getting, I've been staying indoors a lot making cards, albums, folios, recipes, and a mess.  LOL. It's good to have something to do to pass the time.     Today is also a new Yes, It's A Holiday collaboration with my friends Debra ( @djdavison814 ) and L ori ( @mamakobs ), and we are celebrating  National Pig Day .  Today is also my first card for the QKR Stampede Blog and, to kill two cards with one stamp, I used the Christmas Pig digi and a Merry Christmas digi sentiment digi (link coming soon), both from the  QKR Stampede  store. And, they are only $2 each! But, if you love these images and want them as a physical rubber stamp, they have those too.  Click HERE for the Christmas Pig rubber stamp and click HERE for the Merry Christmas sentiment rubber stamp . I LOVE pigs.  I also love bacon but, please, don't tell the ...