World Of Michael Trent

  Hello everyone and Happy Father's Day to those that are celebrating.  Today I am joining my friends Deb ( Meticulosity ) and Celeste  ( CraftingJunky ) for their June Coffee and Card Collab.  Each month they make a card based on a specific mood board, theme, or color, and they talk about the coffee they are drinking that day.    My coffee for today is just everyday Brasilian coffee by Melitta, which, in my opinion, is the best and smoothest.  It's being had with my chocolate chip loaf in my fav cup.  Not the loaf, the coffee.  And the mood board that we had to work with is below.  Lots of tones of brown and, since today is Father's Day, I thought I would make a quick card using scraps from my stash. The first thing I did was to make a top-folding A2 card using brown cardstock.  Then I die-cut a piece of white cardstock using a 4" x 5.25" stitched rectangle die and adhered it to the inside of the card.   Because the mood...

  Hello everyone and Happy Saturday!  When we go to the beach I love to sit and watch the surfers on the waves.  It must be an amazing feeling to be riding a wave.  And, surfing is huge here in Brasil.  When I saw the new Hang 10 stamp from Technique Junkies I knew I would be doing a lot of coloring and, I also knew that the surfboards on Hang 10 would go perfectly with the Learn to Surf stamp.  Because Summer will arrive soon in the USA, and it's always summer here in Brasil, I thought this would be a fun card to make.   First, I stamped Hang 10 on white cardstock and used my Scan N Cut to cut the surfboards with a small border.  You can also fussy cut then if that is your thing.   I colored in a few of them and then applied glossy accents to each surfboard so they would have a glossy when dry.  Then I set them aside to dry for a few hours.  While they were drying, I made a top-folding card using blue cardstock. I die-...

  Hello everyone and welcome to the June 2024 New Stamp Release with Technique Junkies .   This month there are 14 new stamps - all screaming SUMMER!  All the new stamps in the release are 15% off through Saturday, June 8th.  And, if you use my code - TJ10Michael - you can take 10% off the rest of the website. If you love and want ALL the new stamps, grab the  Gotta Have It All Bundle , all the new stamps for $91.73.  These stamps would normally cost $122.30. You save $30.57 by buying the bundle.  It's a great deal and it's as if you're getting a few of the stamps for free. To help celebrate the new release, I made these fun, colorful, and easy cards using the new Flip Flops Background  stamp and I paired them with The Glass Slipper stamp.  These two stamps were made to go with each other.  The Flip Flops Background stamp is the perfect stamp to color, paper piece, or you can stamp it on a colorful background and let the paper do...