World Of Michael Trent

  Hello everyone, and welcome to the August 2025 Edition of the Crafty Elves Countdown to Christmas with  Deb  and  Lisa .  If you are new here, on the 25th of each month, we (the Crafty Elves) post one or more holiday cards in hopes that we inspire you to start  making your own so that, come November, we have cards ready to mail.     .       This month I used Christmas Collage from Viva Las Vegas Stamps .  I've had this stamp in my stash for years, and it felt great to put some ink on it.  If you are interested in this stamp, check out THIS link.  You can buy this stamp wood mounted, on cling, or as an unmounted stamp.  To make this card: I made a 5.75" square card base using red cardstock, and adhered a piece of white cardstock, 5.5" square to the inside.  I cut a piece of holiday paper, 5.5" square, and adhered it to the card front. I stamped Christmas Collage on white cardstock using Onyx Bla...

Hello everyone, and welcome to a new "Yes, It's a Holiday" collab with my Instagram friends Debra and Lori .  Today, August 8th, we are helping to celebrate Global Sleep Under the Stars Night.  It's a day to get people to appreciate the beauty of the night sky by sleeping outdoors.  The event was started in 2020 by Eddie Bauer to help celebrate his brand's 100th anniversary.   To read more about today's holiday, just click  HERE . To help celebrate, I made today's card using Mountain Adventure and Glamper Greetings .  Both of these sets were made by Stampin Up and, although retired, you can still find them for sale on Etsy or Ebay.       I made my card base using dark blue cardstock.  Then I cut a piece of white glittered cardstock and adhered it to the card front. I die-cut a piece of white cardstock using a 3.75" x 5" stitched rectangle die. I stamped the mountain from the Mountain Adventure set, masked it off using Ec...

  Hello everyone.   This is a short post celebrating Wednesday Addams and Halloween.   I am a huge Wednesday Addams fan, and I'm happy that the 2nd season of Wednesday returns tonight.   The other day, I was working on some Halloween cards using the Tangled Souls Journal Papers from KCS Designs by Kim , and I realized that one of the papers in the collection looked like Wednesday Addams.  I had to make a few cards using this image.  And, since she is known for her morbid wit and detached demeanor, I wanted to use some of her quotes on the cards too.   All 3 cards use the same image - doesn't she look like Wednesday?  One of the cards has a simple Happy Halloween sentiment on the front, and the other two use quotes I found that could be used on a Halloween card.    This card uses a simple Happy Halloween sentiment on the front of the card ,and inside is blank for a message.     This card uses her quote ...

  Hello all.  It might be August, but Halloween is right around the corner, and today is a great day to start to make some cards.  Today's cards are Design Team Projects for KCS Designs by Kim  on Etsy, and they are super easy and fast to make.   I used one of the papers from both the  Carnival of Shadows Journal Papers  digital kit, and the  Mixed Media Paper Purples and Greens digital kit.   The Carnival of Shadows kit has 20 different images of haunted, creepy, gothic, and disturbed employees of the Haunted Circus that only comes to town in October each year.  For my card, I used Wicked Wanda, the witch.  For the background, I fell in love with the Mixed Media Paper Purples and Greens because it has all of the colors of Halloween - purple, lime green, and black.  Card No. 1   I made a top-folding A2 card using black cardstock. I printed one of the papers, die-cut it using a 4.25" x 5.5" stitched rectangle die...

Welcome to Woodblock Wednesday.  The day of the week to use woodblock stamps in your art.  On the last Wednesday of the month, my friend Amy celebrates her love of woodblock stamps with a post on her Woodblock Wednesday Instagram page. If you make a card of your own and link it to hers, you have a chance to win her giveaway.  Check out her IG post HERE . I recently discovered two woodblock stamps in my stash and decided to use them to create this slimline card.  One is called Winsome, from Penny Black, 3811J, and circa 2007.  The other is called Beautiful Day from A Muse Artstamps.  Circa, unknown.  And, if you live in England, you can find the Penny Black stamp HERE .     I made a slimline card base using white cardstock.  Then I die-cut a piece of paper from my stash using a 3 5/8" x 8 5/8" stitched slimline die and adhered it to the card front.  I die-cut a piece of white cardstock using a 3" x 8" stitched rectangle die, s...

  Welcome to a new "Yes, It's a Holiday" Collaboration with my friends Deb and Lori on Instagram.  Today, July 30th, we are celebrating Paperback Book Day.   According to National Today, in 1935, Allen Lane, owner of Penguin Publishing, was on the verge of going bankrupt, and he was looking for any idea to save his company.  One day, while on a train with Agatha Christie and her husband, they talked about the low quality of paperbacks at the time.  He wanted higher quality paperbacks like Agatha's books, which Penguin was already publishing, but in hardcover.  He then got the idea to start offering higher quality books in paperback, and on July 20, 1935, they published Ariel by André Maurois.  It was one of ten titles released on that day, and it started the "Penguin paperback revolution".    To read more about today's holiday, just click  HERE  or HERE .  To help celebrate, I made today's card using the I Like Books, Girl...

  Hello everyone, and welcome to the July 2025 Edition of the Crafty Elves Countdown to Christmas with  Deb  and  Lisa .  If you are new here, on the 25th of each month, we (the Crafty Elves) post one or more holiday cards in hopes that we inspire you to start  making your own so that, come November, we have cards ready to mail.    .       For this card I used the Diamond Parade Die from Simon Says Stamp.  Sadly, it's no longer available but maybe someone out there has one.  I've had this die in my stash for years and before I list it on my Brasilian destash, I wanted to make a card with it.    I printed one of the papers from  this  digital Christmas paper collection on Etsy, available from  Your Paper Stash , die-cut a piece of it using a 4" x 5.25" stitched rectangle die, adhered a piece of fun foam to the back, and then to the front of an A2 card using red cardstock.  Next, I die-cut ...

Welcome to a new Woodblock Wednesday, the day of the week that we use a woodblock stamp (or more) to make a card or other project.  This week I paired the Coffee Girl rubber stamp on cling from Technique Junkies, with a wood-mounted rubber stamp from Inkadinkado.  Sadly, both brands have closed.          I made a top-folding A2 card using white cardstock and adhered it to my desk using washi tape.  Using vintage photo distress ink, I blended a coffee stencil from my stash to the card front, and set it to the side.    I stamped and colored the two images on a piece of white cardstock, die-cut it using a stitched rectangle die, adhered a piece of fun foam to the back, and then adhered it to the card front.  Lastly, I added Diamond Glaze to the glasses to give a glassy effect and set it aside to fully dry.   I hope you have enjoyed this idea.  Remember to use your stash!!   Until next time... Hugs from Brasil. ...

Hello everyone.  I hope y'all are doing well.  Today I am sharing an album I made using the Polk-a-Dot Mini Album Tutorial from Your Book of Memories (YBOM).  Frances, the brains behind YBOM, is offering this tutorial for FREE on her website.  If you have never made or are curious about how to make an album, follow the tutorial.  Frances walks you through everything you need to know - what supplies you will need, how to cut and score the cardstock, and how to put this together.   She is offering a 25% discount on your first month's subscription.  Just use the code ALL4ME2C at checkout.   All the papers I used in this album are digital junk journal kits from KCS Designs by Kim on Etsy.  I used 4 different papers: Mixed Media Black Junk Journal Paper Mixed Media Flowers Junk Journal Paper Gelli Dreams Junk Journal Paper Quirky Circles I Junk Journal Paper KCS Designs by Kim is having a big SUMMER SALE and EVERYTHING in her Etsy sto...