World Of Michael Trent

  Hello Hello Hello everyone!!   It's time for a new challenge over on the  If You Give A Crafter A Cookie Challenge Blog .   If you would like to play along with us for Challenge No. 150, here is the "inspiration photo" that the team had to work with -     I am also going to enter this card into a few "anything goes" card challenge blogs if you want to play along with them too. As soon as I saw the photo that the Design Team had to work with, I got the idea in my head to make a slimline card with books stacked up high and a girl sitting at the top, reading.  Let's first make a top-folding slimline card -  I cut two pieces of white cardstock, 3.5" x 8.5" and  3.5" x 9".   I placed the 2nd piece with the 9" side along the top of my scoreboard and scored at 1/2".      Then I burnished the 1/2" section, applied double-sided tape to it, and adhered it to piece 1 to form the card.     ...

Hello everyone!  As I say every year, I cannot believe it's September....summer is over (for you guys in the USA)....and it's back to school for the kids.   Over on the If You Give A Crafter A Cookie Challenge Blog we are celebrating the "back to school" theme with Challenge No. 126 and here is the inspiration photo the design team had to work with -  I started with a top folding A2 card base of white cardstock to which I adhered a piece of decorative paper from the Bundle of Joy A New Girl Collection from Echo Park.   I used one of the sheets called Alphabet Antics because of the letters on the sheet - perfect for a back to school theme. Next up was my image.  Using Gimp (a free image editor), I merged two digital stamps into one - book stack  and book sitter - both from Bugaboo Stamps . After printing it to the size I needed, I die cut the image, along with a solid piece of cardstock, using dies from the A2 Matti...

Hello everyone and Happy Thursday!  I hope everyone is well.  It's been a crazy week here.  Ruy and I had a photo exhibition last weekend at the Belle Epoque Cultural Center here in town, which we did as a benefit for a charity.  It was nicely received and was a great feeling to see everyone's reactions to our photos.  I will try to get a post done this weekend about the show.  Of course afterward, I got sick for a few days, but am finally back up and running.  Today is Brasil's Independence Day so everything is closed and I finally found some time to do a new blog post.   Yes, 2nd post about "back to school".  This time for the Retro Rubber Challenge Blog  -  I started with a piece of white cardstock.  Using some washi tape I taped down the "Numerals" stencil (TCW200S) by The Crafter's Workshop .  Next, using a mini blending tool (Ranger) with some inks from Reverse Confetti ( Piggy Bank, Salsa , an...