World Of Michael Trent

  [If you are a maker who would like to join us for this Pride collab or, maybe, one of our Equality For All collabs, or be a Sponsor - just reach out to either myself or Misty.  The more voices, the louder the message.] Welcome to Week 2 of the Equality For All / Pride 2023 Makers Collaboration with Misty aka The Jolly Fat Elf.   I wanted to make two cards showing gay couples off to the Pride parade in the big city.  The idea was to use both of the Stamp Anniething stamps and dies that Misty sent me several weeks ago.  Sadly, the male couple stamp has decided to play hide and seek with me and will have to be used when I find it.    Let me introduce you to Margaret and Angela.  They live in a small town surrounded by 3 rivers and a lot of nature.  Margaret is an art teacher in her local high school helping her students get in touch with their inner artist.  She is also on the school board and fights hard for all of the LGBTQIA+ stud...

  Hello everyone and welcome, once again, to a new Crafty Elves' Countdown to Christmas.  If this is your first time here, on the 25th of each month, the Crafty Elves [me, Debra of Meticulosity , Lisa of Life of a BZ Scrapper , and Misty of The Jolly Fat Elf ] each share at least 1-holiday card idea.  We believe that if you make your holiday cards all year round, you won't be scrambling or stressing come November.  Links to the other Crafty Elves' cards can be found at the end of this post.  Misty took this month off but she'll be back with us next month.  We hope.  I have had the Santa's Clothesline die from Cottage Cutz - in my stash for some time now and I finally decided to use it by making a Mini Slimline.  I've never made one before but I thought it would be the perfect size for the clothesline.  Although the die is retired, you can still find it online in some stores. I made my card base using red cardstock - 7" x 6" and scored in hal...

  Hello everyone and welcome to the Pride 2023 Makers Collaboration that I am doing with Misty a/k/a The Jolly Fat Elf.  We already started an "Equality For All" Makers Collaboration in the past and, since June is Gay Pride Month, we are hoping to post a card every Friday thru the end of June (Gay Pride Month) but, that's actually 11 weeks and that means that we have a lot of work ahead of us.  Let's see what happens.  Links to Misty's social media pages to see her cards are at the end of this post.   As an out and proud gay man - I am extremely supportive of the WHOLE LGBTQIA+ community.  I don't care what letter you use.  I may not fully understand every letter but I believe that you should be allowed to be whatever letter you want to be.  And I am really angry over what is happening in the USA with regard to LGBT rights!  We've come so far and now, because of some ass-backward uneducated "conservatives", the USA is going back in ...

  Hello hello hello everyone!  I hope y'all are doing great.  Today I am sharing my Design Team project for the QKR Stampede Blog .  On the 1st and 15th of each month, QKR has an "Anything Goes" card challenge.  You can use one of their images - or not.  But, you can also win free digi images from them if your card is one of the winners.  Not bad! Quick note: The QKR and Eureka brands have been sold and, at this time, are not available to purchase.  Once the new owner has her store up and running, I will update any images used here with current links.  So, check back if you love these images!   For my project, I made a birthday card using the Happy Birthday with Balloons digital stamp from Eureka! Stamps (link will be updated soon).  I printed the Happy Birthday with Balloons image on white cardstock in the size I wanted, which I then die-cut using a 3.75" x 5" stitched rectangle die from Pink & Main .  Next, I colored...

  Hello everyone and welcome to a new Yes, It's A Holiday collaboration with my friends Debra ( @djdavison814 ) and Lori ( @mamakobs ), and today we are celebrating National Look Up At The Sky Day ! According to National Today, the history behind today's holiday is vague.  Some believe it started in honor of Jack Borden, a former Boston newsman who quit his day job after looking at the sky for what he considered to be the first time.  He wanted others to see what he saw that day and founded For Spacious Skies, a nonprofit in the 1980s.  Interesting...there is much more about today's holiday and you can read all about it HERE . I have to be honest, I had issues coming up with an idea for today's holiday.  I was thinking clouds...then a night sky...then astronauts...balloons...but my brain was just going in circles.  I decided to see if Google had any good "look up at the sky quotes" and one, in particular, jumped off the page.      The qu...

***Please note that right before this blog post went live, Stamp-On-It sold their stamp lines, including the QKR and Eureka digital stamps, and the links in this post will probably not work.  Once the new owner has the new website up and running, I will fix all the links in case you wish to buy these digis.    Hello everyone!  It's the 1st of the month and that means that there is a new "Anything Goes" card challenge over on the QKR Stampede Challenge Blog .   For my Design Team project, I decided to make one more Easter card because there is still time to make a few more.    And, heck, these digi images are $2 each.  How can you go wrong?  Right?     For this card, I used  Bunch of Eggs  for my main image and Happy Easter  for the sentiment.  Both are digital stamps by Eureka! Stamps .  I use Pages on my Mac with my digi stamps.  I imported both images to Pages on a card sized 4.5" x 5.5"....