World Of Michael Trent

Hello everyone.  I had to make a "fish/sea" card for my card swapping group and I thought I would take you along on my process.  I'm using supplies I have had in my stash for some time but most of them are still available to buy.  Cool!   I started by making a top folding A2 card base.  Then I needed paper for the "water" look.  I found a paper pad in my stash called Sweet Nectar from K&Company  which has papers with a textured look but without any actual texture to the paper.  This way, I can stamp and color without any problems.  I adhered the light blue to the card front. Next, I die cut a piece of white cardstock with a 4" x 5.25" stitched rectangle die. Then I die cut it again using the Confetti Plate die by Spellbinders .  This will be my top layer. Since I want to stamp in the circle sections, I placed it on top of my card front and lightly traced where I plan to stamp. Next, using my Misti, ...

Hello everyone.  Thanks so much for all the love after my first "Guest Designer" post last Friday over on Coffee Loving Cardmakers .  It put a smile on my face all weekend!! For this week, Week 2, I have two 3D Coffee To Go Ornaments that you can make for your Christmas tree, to hang from a window or even the rearview mirror in your car, which is where mine is.  Today I show how I made the smaller one and tomorrow, over on my blog, I will have a post for the larger size ornament.   I've loved making 3D projects since I stumbled on Outlines Rubber Stamps years ago.  Sadly, they are out of business but I still love to find stamps that I can make a 3D project with.  And the "to go" coffee cup images from Stamplorations make it super easy!  Let me show you how.     I had already decided to make this ornament with 3 "levels" so the first thing I did was to print 6 of the same image.  This project uses the  Flor...

Hello everyone!  It's that time again...time for the next challenge over on the  If You Give A Crafter A Cookie Challenge Blog  -   Challenge No. 123 , which is all about camping, campfires, and smores.  Sadly, I have to admit, that I have never been camping.  But I still had fun making this card and it's such a simple, yet fun card to make. First off, here is the inspiration photo that the DT had to work with -  I have no traditional camping stamps and the digital stamps I found online were not really inspiring me so I went back to my stash and found a stamp set from Stampin Up called "Glamper Greetings".  I bought this about 2 years ago and I decided to finally put some ink to these stamps and go with a different sort of camping...a camper!!   I started by cutting a piece of white cardstock with a stitched rectangle die.  Then I put the camper stamp, along with the sentiment, into my Misti and I stamped the ...

Hi everyone!!  I am super excited to announce that Amy Tsuruta asked if I would like to be the August Guest Designer for Coffee Loving Cardmakers and, of course, I said YES!  I also said yes to all 5 Fridays - what was I thinking??  LOL  Coffee + Cards - perfect fit! If you are on Facebook there is even a group called Coffee Loving Papercrafters - so come on over and join us.  The inspiration, creativity, and support is like an overflowing cup of Joe!  Come join us.    Today's card was built around this sentiment - "I don't need an inspirational quote, I need coffee!"  I saw this on a  t-shirt and had to use it on a card - and it had to be in a speech bubble - and it had to be coming out of a cute girl (with attitude) drinking coffee.  Lots of "had to be" in that sentence. So I jumped on Etsy to begin my search. I found this adorable " Coffee Girl " digi stamp (who I named Bella) from The Happy Graphics . ...

Hello everyone!  Well, it's time for the next challenge over on the If You Give A Crafter A Cookie Challenge Blog !!  We are up to Challenge No. 122 and this time it's all about Robots!!  Here is your inspiration photo if you want to play along -  I realized when I saw the above photo that I didn't have any robot stamps!  But then I remembered that, for some super strange reason, I have two stamps sets called Lots o Bots (Stampin Up/Retired).  Why I have two, I have no idea, but one of them came in perfect for this card.   I started with a side folding A2 card base of white cardstock.  Then, using a stamp positioner and Memento Tuxedo Black ink, I stamped the left edge with the 0/1 stamp in the Lots o Bots set. Then I cut a piece of white cardstock and a piece of white fun foam, 3.75" x 5.5", embossed the cardstock with the gears embossing folder from the Clock and Steampunk Set by Tim Holtz/Sizzix , adhered the fun foa...

Hello everyone and welcome to the first Anthony's Paper Craft Blog Hop of 2019!!   I am once again teaming up with some of the other design team members - Debra ( Meticulosity ), Mary Kay ( MKW Cards ) and Mike ( Dezines By EM ) to show you guys some of the new sets being released by Anthony's Paper Craft on February 2, 2019.  This is an amazing release filled with several beautiful floral images, a new coffee set, a set of owls, some new tiles....and more.     For this hop I used Floral Background 2, the link of which will be added on Feb. 1, and which is also one of my favorites.  I started by stamping Floral Background 2 with Memento Tuxedo Black ink on white cardstock.  I then used my stitched rectangle die to cut the image out. I then colored in - very lightly and quickly - the stems and leaves of the flowers using my Key Lime Ultra Fine BIC Marker. Next, I colored in the flowers with my Pink Flamingo ...