World Of Michael Trent

  Hello everyone, and welcome to February.  I hope everyone is staying warm and doing well.  I'm thrilled to start this month off as a Guest Designer for the February Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge on the Coffee Loving Papercrafters Blog .  The focus this month was to make a coffee-themed Christmas card using products from Hero Arts .  As much as I love this company, since moving to Brasil 15 years ago, I have not really bought anything new for a long time due to shipping costs, import taxes, and now tariffs.  So I dug into my stash and found two wood-mounted stamps that will work - Envelope Pattern S5507 , circa 2011,  Cup of Coffee K5332 , circa 2010, and Sparkle Clear: Holiday Messages CL244 , circa 2008. This is the card I created for this month's challenge. This is how I created my card, in case you want to make one like it.   I made a top-folding A2 card base using red cardstock. I die-cut a piece of white cardstock using a 4...

Hello, everyone.  I'm so happy today because  Deanne Saunders and I are both guest designers on the March Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge .  This month's theme is "Green".   To make these cards: I made 2 top-folding A2 cards using red cardstock to which I adhered some strips of leftover Christmas paper from my stash.     I printed the 2 Christmas cup images at 120%.  Then I colored and fussy cut them.  I also printed the sentiments.  The cups and sentiment are from the Christmas Joy Mugs  digital stamp kit from Angie Blom Digital Designs .    I embossed 2 pieces of white cardstock using 2 different embossing folders - Christmas Wishes from Crafter's Companion and Mosaic Triangles from Sunlit.   Before adhering the sentiments to the cards, I applied Glossy Accents to the lightbulbs and red and green sprinkles to the whipped cream, which came from Heart With Rainbow Sprinkles from Dress My Craft....

Today I would like to share with y'all my 2nd card for 2025 - a slimline "coffee-themed" Christmas card for the Caffeinated Christmas #37 card challenge on Coffee Loving Papercrafters . The theme is "snowflake" and, of course, it has to have a coffee, cocoa, or tea theme included also.   Let me show you how I made this card.  I printed Coffee Cup Row from Stamplorations on a piece of white cardstock, die-cut it using a 2 5/8" x 7 5/8" slimline die, colored the cups using 5 different alcohol markers, and adhered a piece of fun foam to the back. Using a snowflake stamp I found in an old Avocado Arts (out of biz) stamp set, I stamped a snowflake on the front of each cup using Jet Black Archival Ink.    I made a top-folding 3" x 8" white slimline card base. I die-cut a piece of red cardstock using a stitched slimline die and adhered it to my card front.    I adhered my colored cups to the front of the card. I stamped 3 sentiments, die-cut them...