World Of Michael Trent

  Hello everyone and welcome, once again, to a new Crafty Elves' Countdown to Christmas.  If this is your first time here, on the 25th of each month, the Crafty Elves [me, Debra of Meticulosity , Lisa of Life of a BZ Scrapper , and Misty of The Jolly Fat Elf ] each share at least 1-holiday card idea.  We believe that if you make your holiday cards all year round, you won't be scrambling or stressing come November.  Links to the other Crafty Elves' cards can be found at the end of this post.  Misty took this month off but she'll be back with us next month.  We hope.  I have had the Santa's Clothesline die from Cottage Cutz - in my stash for some time now and I finally decided to use it by making a Mini Slimline.  I've never made one before but I thought it would be the perfect size for the clothesline.  Although the die is retired, you can still find it online in some stores. I made my card base using red cardstock - 7" x 6" and scored in hal...

Hello crafty friends!  I hope y'all had a great weekend.  Ours was busy!  Ruy and some friends have started a photo club here in town.  The first exhibition of photos is being held this Thursday night.  So, we have been running around having meetings, promoting the club, printing photos, etc.  But I did get to meet the Mayor...and he thinks I am "off my meds" for moving from NYC to here.  Go figure!  LOL I did find some time to make a super simple Christmas/Holiday card using another beautiful image from Anthony's Paper Craft .  Honestly, I made this card in under 10 minutes (not counting the time the Stickles needed to dry).   But...before I get to the card I wanted to let you know that Anthony's Paper Craft is having a 20% off SALE until Dec. 31st.  So, if have loved my projects using their stamps, now is a great time to grab some.  No coupon needed.  Just add what you want to the cart and the s...

Hello everyone!  It's been a crazy couple of weeks and I am very excited to announce that I have come out with a small line of Halloween stamps here in Brasil.  Long story short....I was asked to give a charity class next weekend and they asked me for Halloween projects.  I knew I could never get stamps here in time so I finally took one of those ideas in my head and made it a reality.  My friend Francine here has a rubber stamp company called Scraplooving and I have always loved her images.  So I tossed the idea out to her of me designing some Halloween images that she could make for the class (and to sell).  She said let's run with this and before I knew it, I was sketching ideas, which is really not that easy for someone who is not an artist, and the next thing I knew....I had rubber stamps in my hands that I made!  Crazy!   Here are the designs I have come out with -  I wanted to share a card I made yesterday using ...