World Of Michael Trent

Hello everyone, and welcome to a new Yes It's A Holiday or Yes, It Is A Holiday collab with my Instagram buddies - Debra and Lori .  Today, November 21st, we are helping to celebrate National Gingerbread Cookie Day, which encourages us to make a batch of gingerbread cookie dough, grab some gingerbread cookie cutters, and make some fun cookies.   To read more about today's holiday, just click  HERE . Below is a video on how I made the card on my YouTube Channel. To help celebrate, I made a that embraces gingerbread cookies, Christmas, and coffee, since they all go perfectly together.  All the digital printables I used to make this card are from  KCS Designs by Kim on Etsy I made a top-folding A2 card using red cardstock.   I printed one of the designs from the Brew and Blend Craft Papers .  I chose the design with the coffee cup rings.   I then die-cut a portion of the print using a 4" x 5.25" stitched rectangle die, distressed the ...

Hello, y'all.  Today, I am joining my friends Deb ( Meticulosity ) and Celeste ( Crafting Junky ) for a new collaboration we are calling the KCS Designs by Kim Collab, since we are using digital printables from KCS Designs by Kim , a store on Etsy.  KCS sells digital products for you to use in your junk journals, cards, home decor, or anything else you can think of making.  I am also on the KCS Designs by Kim Design Team, and I love almost everything in her store.   Before I get to how I made my card...since this will post at Midnight, when I wake up later today, I plan on enjoying a cup of Lingua de Gato coffee from Dolce Gusto, a Brasilian coffee brand here.  We went on vacation a few weeks ago, and I came home to find this 4-pack sampler waiting for me as a gift.  Dolce Gusto is one of my favorite coffees here. My morning Lingua de Gato coffee.  YUM! Now, for today's cards.  I used an image from InkBotanics Photoshop Brushes from KCS...

  Hello everyone.  I made these "retirement cards" for the  2025 Fall | Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop , which runs through November 14th (tomorrow).  There are 35 Super Sponsors with lots of prizes to be won.   All the information about the hop, the Super Sponsors, the prizes, and how to enter a card can be found on the Coffee Loving Papercrafters socials listed below: Coffee Loving Papercrafters Blog Coffee Loving Papercrafters Facebook Page    I made one of these cards for someone who is retiring and loves coffee.  Even if they don't love coffee, the images are perfect for a retirement card.  I used the Before Coffee Crew Funny Men Clip Art and the Before Coffee Crew Funny Women Clip Art - both from KCS Designs by Kim on Etsy .   KCS is a Super Sponsor of the hop.  All of her coffee kits are 40% off through the hop, and one of the prizes is a $20 gift card to her Etsy store. For each of the cards: I imported one of the...

Hello everyone.  Today, I would like to share another card I made for the  2025 Fall | Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop .   The hop runs through November 14th, there are 35 Super Sponsors, and lots of prizes to be won if you make a card of your own or even comment on the posts.   All the information about the hop, the Super Sponsors, the prizes, and how to enter a card can be found on the Coffee Loving Papercrafters socials listed below: Coffee Loving Papercrafters Blog Coffee Loving Papercrafters Facebook Page    I knew that I would use a stitched slimline rectangle die measuring 3 5/8" x 8 5/8" as my main layer, and a die measuring 3.25" x 8.25" for the top layer/image layer, and I had to make sure the image would fit inside.  After a few tries on printer paper, I settled at 86%, and printed the image twice, at 86%, on heavyweight white cardstock.  The dies I used were made by Pink Fresh Studio but have been discontinued.   ...

Hello everyone.  Today, I would like to share with everyone the 4th card I made for the  2025 Fall | Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop .   The hop runs through November 14th, there are 35 Super Sponsors, and lots of prizes to be won if you make a card of your own or even comment on the posts.   All the information about the hop, the Super Sponsors, the prizes, and how to enter a card can be found on the Coffee Loving Papercrafters socials listed below: Coffee Loving Papercrafters Blog Coffee Loving Papercrafters Facebook Page    Now on to how I made this card.  Links to everything I used are at the end of this post.   I made a 5.5" square card base by cutting a piece of Kraft cardstock, 5.5" x 11", placed the long side at the top of my scoreboard, scoring it at 5.5", and burnished it well.  Easy Peasy.   I printed, on white cardstock, one of the papers from the Brew & Blend Craft Paper digital kit from KCS Design...

  Hello everyone.  Today begins the 2025 Fall | Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop .  And, being a huge coffee lover, I must participate.  The hop runs from today, November 7th, through November 14th.  There are 35 Super Sponsors with lots of prizes to be won.   All the information about the hop, the Super Sponsors, the prizes, and how to enter a card can be found on the Coffee Loving Papercrafters socials listed below: Coffee Loving Papercrafters Blog Coffee Loving Papercrafters Facebook Page    Today's fun card was made using 2 coffee digital kits from KCS Designs by Kim on Etsy.  KCS is a Super Sponsor of the hop.  All of her coffee kits are 40% off through the hop, and one of the prizes is a $20 gift card to her Etsy store. The two kits I used are: Brew & Blend Craft Papers , and Before Coffee Ladies Crew Clip Art I printed one of the ladies from the Before Coffee Ladies Crew Clip Art at 75% on white cardstock, and I die-cut he...

  [Portuguese below the English] Hello everyone.  Long post, but lots of interesting info about today.   Today is Day of the Dead, also known around the world as All Souls Day, Dia dos Mortos here in Brasil, and Dia de los Muertos in Mexico and other Spanish-speaking countries.  It's also one of my favorite holidays of the year.  Not because I love death, but because today is a day to honor and commemorate the lives of the dearly departed and to welcome the return of their spirits. The Day of the Dead dates back to Aztec culture and is predominantly a Mexican holiday with traditional practices, such as placing marigold flowers on altars and offering certain food items, which are thought to help spirits return to visit the living. To commemorate the dead, people also dress up in colourful skeleton costumes. The origin of All Souls' Day in Brazil is linked to Catholic tradition, which established November 2nd in the 10th century as a day for praying for the d...