World Of Michael Trent

Hello everyone!  Just wanted to pop in with a quick card I made yesterday for a few blog challenges.  First is the CAS On Sunday Challenge Blog .  I was so happy to be one of their top picks last week for Challenge #106  and had to play along again for this week's Challenge #107 , which is is to use glitter or sequins on a card.   I'm also adding it to this week's challenge over on the Stamp Ink Paper Challenge Blog , which is Challenge #97 - Mother's Day . And this week's challenge on the Cards In Envy Challenge Blog , which is a Motherly Love Card Challenge . Now...my first thought when I saw the words glitter and sequins was to make a shaker card.  But I figured that would everyone's first thought and I decided to go in a different direction.  I decided to use glitter as an element in the image. I started by making a top folding A2 card base out of white cardstock to which I adhered a piece of decorative cardstock. I cut ano...

Hello all!  I hope everyone had a great Easter or Passover, whichever holiday you celebrated!  I've been on overload.  The bakery in town asked me to make Easter cards for them to sell so I pumped out 25 a week before the holiday. And now I am working on Mother's Day cards and projects to teach.  I need a nap!! LOL I am in a card swap group on Facebook and one of the card swaps I'm in for May is to make a "thinking of you" card.  I pulled out the " Blossomy Condolences " set by Unity Stamp Co. because the kit has a few nice phrases that would be perfect.  (Also, it's on sale for a whopping $6).  I also decided to use pastel colors so that I can enter this card in two card challenges going on -  the Pretty Pastels Card Challenge over on the Cards In Envy Challenge Blog and the April CAS Card Challenge over at Stamplorations has a pastel challenge. So...let's get started.  I grabbed some white cardstock and cut the large s...