World Of Michael Trent

  Hello everyone!  It's a holiday today here in Brasil, it's very quiet out there and I decided to make a few cards using two sets from KCS Designs by Kim - a band new sentiment set - Word Snippets Books & Reading - that paired perfectly with  Whimsical Tea & Tales Clip Art , a clip art set with 24 images of books, butterflies, and cups for coffee or tea.    I printed two of the images from  Whimsical Tea & Tales Clip Art  at 50%, and I die-cut them using a 3.25" x 4.5" stitched rectangle die from Pink & Main.  Then I printed two of the sentiments from  Books & Reading Word Snippets ,  at 100%.    Using white cardstock, I made two top-folding A2 card bases.   I didn't have a book or reading paper for my background, so I hopped on DigitalScrapbook.com and downloaded two fun papers - Enchanting Books Paper (the colorful paper) and Book Page Paper (the B&W paper).   I adhered on...

  I woke up today seeing on the news that today is "Dia Mundial  Café" (World Coffee Day) here in Brasil.  This confused me since, for me, International Coffee Day is celebrated on October 1st.  After doing some research, it seems there are a boatload of holidays celebrating coffee from many different countries.  Per the Environmental Education Portal of the São Paulo Governor's Office, we celebrate "World Coffee Day", established in 2015 by the International Coffee Organization (ICO) to celebrate the beverage, its producers, and to highlight the importance of coffee in the global economy.  You can read more about the holiday, HERE , but the page is in Portuguese. I decided to help celebrate by making some quick coffee cards to send to people since April is National Card and Letter Writing Month , using papers from the Coffee Junk Journal Kit from Lunic Art Design on Etsy.  Although this kit is used to make junk journals, the individual papers can be...