World Of Michael Trent

  Hey everyone.  OK...so much to talk about.  This past Saturday, Ruy and I joined about 150 other photographers for a walking tour around several interesting spots in Sāo Paulo that was put together by our friend Jose Luiz.  He runs an amazing photo/cinema club in Sāo Paulo called FCCB - Foto Cine Clube Bandeirante.   We met a lot of new people and we took lots of cool photos.  I will have another blog post about that. I wanted to make an album or folio for Jose Luiz and, since there was also a challenge in the Your Book of Memories Community to make the Abstract Folio by the end of January, I decided to make the folio for the challenge and give the album to Jose Luiz.     The papers and clipart I used in the folio come from 3 different sources - Angie Blom Digital Designs, A Whimsical Adventure on Etsy, and my friend Anne of Constantly-Carding.   I had problems finding a mature and realistic collection of papers for photograp...

Hello everyone!  Most of you know that my first love is to make cards.  But coming in a close second -  I also love love love to make handmade mini albums and photo folios.  There is something about building an album or folio from scratch.  I call myself a paper architect.   Today I wanted to share a wedding folio that I made for Ruy's sister who got married a few months ago.  It was a very simple wedding and she is a very simple person who did not want a full-blown album with flowers, and ephemera, etc.  So I made this simple tri-fold folio. The front of the wedding folio. The inside when you open the front of the folio. The folio with both the right and left flaps opened.  There is a waterfall component on the right side and flaps on the left and center. The folio fully opened.  I love all the flaps and flips! If you are interested in watching, below are two videos.  The first shows...