World Of Michael Trent

  Hello everyone, and welcome to a new Yes It's A Holiday, or Yes, It Is A Holiday collab with my Instagram buddies - Debra and Lori .  Today, June 29th, we are helping to celebrate National Camera Day, which recognizes the history of the camera and the art of photography, honoring the device's ability to document history and preserve cherished memories.  To read more about today's holiday, just click HERE . To make this card, I used the following digitals: - Camera With Flowers from DakhaShop on Etsy - Background paper is from the Say Cheese Papers  from Angie Blom Digital Designs   This is how I made this card:              I made a top-folding card, 5.5" x 4.25".   I printed one of the papers from the Say Cheese Papers.   I printed two of the camera images on a piece of white cardstock, die-cut one using a stitched rectangle die, and fussy-cut the flowers from the 2nd. I cut a piece of black cardstock,...

  Hello everyone and welcome to another "Yes, It is a Holiday" or "Yes, It's a Holiday" blog post.  Today, the holiday crew - Debra, Lori, and myself, are celebrating National Camera Day , a day to celebrate the fact that photography, once so complicated and expensive, is now part of almost all of our everyday lives.   Did you know that the word "photography" is based on two Greek words that, when put together, mean "writing with light"?  I didn't.  As an avid photographer, I have many stamps, dies, and papers related to photography and photos and had to take part in today's holiday.  So, to  help celebrate I made this fun card using a few RETIRED products from  MFT Stamps/Die-Namics  - Die-namics Cute Cameras 2, Die-namics Precious Polaroids, and Picture This Stamp Set.  Maybe one day they will re-release them.   I made a top-folding A2 card base of white cardstock to which I adhered a piece of decorative paper from my st...

  Hello everyone.  Today I would like to share a mini album that I recently finished.  Besides card making, this is my other favorite thing to do and I have been very busy lately.  This is a coffee-themed album using the Gateflip Folio tutorial from Frances at Your Book of Memories , which I paired with the Coffee Lovers Digital Paper Pack and the Coffee Queen Digital Stamp Set , both from Graciellie Designs .   Funny back story here.  This is not a new tutorial from Frances.  I watched the video of this book when she first came out with it but the paper she used was not my style and the book was not whispering in my ear "buy me....make me..."  LOL But then, a few months later, she made the book again with paper that did talk to me, and this time I listened to the voices in my head and I bought the tutorial.  It's really amazing to me how a paper pack can make an album look.  I did follow most of the tutorial, making only a few ch...

Just a funny photo I took the other day.  Well, not really funny, kind of pathetic if you ask me.  The sign says "Don't throw garbage on the road."  Considering that there are no homes or businesses near this sign, Brasilians are dumping garbage near the sign as a joke.  Funny?  Not to me.

I am not really one for resolutions but I have made one for 2014 - to post more often to this blog.  This past week I have been very busy trying to finish some projects for Stencil Girl Stencils.  I will be their guest blogger on January 29th.  While working on the project, I took this photo, which I think is really cool, and just wanted to share.   Color Pencil Shavings