World Of Michael Trent

  Hello everyone!  I hope y'all are doing well and staying cool.  Today I am sharing an album I made for a friend in town.  His name is Maik, he's 21, and about to embark on the biggest adventure of his life - working on a cruise ship in Europe for 8 months.   I met Maik at an event at a language school that my friend owns back when he was only 17 or 18 and a student at the school.  I was really impressed with how good his English was considering he had only been learning for about 6 months.  After getting to know him more over the years, he told me that his dream was to travel the world as a flight attendant and he lived and breathed learning English.   He had just gotten his certificate at Flight Attendant School when the pandemic hit and everything changed.  It was impossible to get a job on an airline and when planes began to fly again, they were not really hiring.  But he kept studying and focusing on getting out of this t...

Hello everyone and welcome to the July 2023 Edition of the Crafty Elves' Countdown to Christmas.  If this is your first time, this is a collaboration that I do on the 25th of each month with some of my fellow Crafty Elves - Debra ( Meticulosity ), Lisa ( Live of a BZ Scrapper ), and Misty ( The Jolly Fat Elf ).   Links to their projects and all of our social media pages are at the end of this blog post.    The idea for this card came about while I was looking in my box of Technique Junkies stamps.  I found this Christmas Lights stamp that had yet to be used.  If you have been following me for some time, you know I love making cards with Christmas lights.  And this is such an easy and fun card to make.  I made a top-folding A2 card with white cardstock to which I adhered a piece of red cardstock to the front. I stamped Christmas Lights on a piece of white cardstock and die-cut it using a 4" x 5.25" stitched rectangle die. I colored in each o...

Hello everyone and welcome to July.  Today I am sharing 2 cards I made using the new Rum is Gone stamp which is part of the July 2023 Release from Technique Junkies .   When I saw Rum Is Gone stamp it brought back so many memories of my college days.  I used to go to clubs with my friends Chris, Jorge, and Gayle and Gayle always ordered Malibu Rum and Coke and she loved to say "I'm the reason they are out of rum".  Good times, good memories.   Did you know that pirates gravitate toward the colors red and black?  Yup.  I asked Google.  Most pirate flags are red and black.  Don't believe me?  Click HERE ! So, I decided to make 2 cards using those colors for inspiration.  Of course, having pirate-themed scrapbook paper on hand with one side being red and the other black, helped a lot.    This paper was made by a Brasilian company but, sadly, they are gone.  BUT...I found THIS  digital pirate scrapbook p...

Hello everyone and welcome to a new Yes, It's a Holiday Collaboration with my Instagram friends - Debra and Lori.  Today we are helping to celebrate  World UFO Day !  According to National Today , UFOs have been the stuff of legend for centuries, but it wasn't until the 1950s that flying saucers grabbed national and international attention.   So, why July 2nd, you ask.  This date represents the anniversary of the famed 1947 incident in Roswell, New Mexico where people believe a UFO crashed.   What do you believe?  Leave a comment, below, letting me know.   To read more about today's holiday, just click HERE .  The idea behind this card started with this card, below, which I made for Pride in about 5 minutes using an LGBT sticker.  I thought it was such a cool idea, I decided to make a card for today using stamps and dies. How to make this card: I made a top-folding A2 card using black cardstock.   Then I cut a pi...

Hello everyone.  I hope everyone is doing well and having a fun summer or winter so far, depending on where you live in the world.  Here it's winter and a bit chilly this year so I have been busy making cards with stamps from July 2023 Stamp Release from Technique Junkies.     All the new stamps are 15% off thru July 8th and you can see them all HERE . If you love them all and just " Gotta Have Them All ", click HERE to see the special deal where you save almost $30.  If you want to save an additional 10% on the rest of the website use my "friends & family discount code" - TJ10Michael - at checkout. To help kick off the July 2023 Release, I made 2 cards using the new " A Passport " stamp, which is perfect for all your summer travel crafts - bon voyage cards, maybe in your travel journal, maybe even on luggage tags.   For my first card idea, below: I made a top-folding A2-sized card base using black cardstock. Then I stamped " World Compass ...