World Of Michael Trent

  Hello everyone.  Welcome to Week 3 of my Equality For All Cardmaking Series. Every Friday in May and June, my fellow cardmakers and I are making cards to help celebrate Pride and the LGBT+ community.  If you want more inspiration, check out the  Equality For All Makers Hop on Instagram  we had 2 weeks ago.  All the amazing cards can be seen  in  this  post on my Instagram page.   This week I made an easy rainbow colored card using an old die in my stash - Leafy Sprig Border from Poppy Stamps along with some rainbow colored paper.    Now, to make this card: I made a top-folding A2 card using white cardstock.  I printed one of the watercolor splash papers, die-cut a piece using a 4.25" x 5.5" stitched rectangle die, and adhered it to the card front.   I printed rainbow colored striped paper from the Pride Month Digital Paper Collection (link below).  I added 2" wide double-sided tape to the back and die...

  Hello everyone.  Welcome to Week 2 of my Equality For All Cardmaking Series.  Every Friday in May and June, my fellow cardmakers and I are making cards to help celebrate Pride and the LGBT+ community.  Last week we had an Equality For All Makers Hop on Instagram , and if you want to check all the amazing cards that were made, head over to THIS post on my Instagram page.   This week I made an easy-peasy, bright, and glittery card using glittered fun foam and stickers from Paper House Productions , one of the sponsors for the Instagram hop. They have many stickers and papers related to Pride, and if you head over to their website and enter "Pride" in their search bar, you will see everything they offer.  Help support a brand that supports the LGBT+ community.   Now, to make this card: I started with an A2 card using white cardstock.  Then I printed a confetti paper I picked up on Etsy, die-cut it using a 4.25" x 5.5" stitched rectangle ...

    Hey everyone.  Welcome to Pride Month 2023 and a new Equality For All "Pride 2023" Collaboration with Misty, aka The Jolly Fat Elf .  I won't go into a big blah, blah, blah about the hate being thrown at the LGBTQIA community since it's all over the news.  And, I want my posts this month to be fun, filled with Pride, rainbows, and lots of bright colors.   So, let's get started. Today I made a slimline card - an idea that has been in my head for over 2 years.  I love the "Converse" sneakers in the Stand Up For America digital stamp set from Polka Dot Orchard  and I have made many cards using this set for July 4th.  But, with the stripes on one of the sneakers, I've always seen a Pride card too, and it feels great to finally get this idea out of my head.       I started by printing one of the papers from the Rainbow Vibes Digital Paper Pack from Graciellie Design , and the Converse sneakers from the Stand Up F...

  Hello everyone and welcome to the Pride 2023 Makers Collaboration that I am doing with Misty a/k/a The Jolly Fat Elf.  We already started an "Equality For All" Makers Collaboration in the past and, since June is Gay Pride Month, we are hoping to post a card every Friday thru the end of June (Gay Pride Month) but, that's actually 11 weeks and that means that we have a lot of work ahead of us.  Let's see what happens.  Links to Misty's social media pages to see her cards are at the end of this post.   As an out and proud gay man - I am extremely supportive of the WHOLE LGBTQIA+ community.  I don't care what letter you use.  I may not fully understand every letter but I believe that you should be allowed to be whatever letter you want to be.  And I am really angry over what is happening in the USA with regard to LGBT rights!  We've come so far and now, because of some ass-backward uneducated "conservatives", the USA is going back in ...

  Hello everyone and welcome to Week 4 of my LGBTQ+ Pride Month 2022 collaboration with my friends Debra of  Meticulosity , and Misty aka  The Jolly Fat Elf .   Our cards from the last three weeks can all be found over on our social media pages, along with a lot of other fabulous card ideas, links to which can be found at the end of this post. I think this was one of the fastest cards I made so far.  All it involved was a stencil, some Gina K. Designs inks, and an alphabet die.  After using this Happy stencil, I can see so many cards being made.  Hope you love this idea too.    I started by securing the Lots of Happy Stencil ( Heffy Doodle ) to a piece of white cardstock.  Then I used a Mini Blending Brush and inks - all from Gina K. Designs - in a rainbow fashion.  I started with Red Hot, then Tangerine Twist , Wild Dandelion , Lucky Clover , Powder Blue , and, lastly, ended with Lovely Lavender .   I did have one...

Hello everyone.  Hope your June is going well so far.  We have had some freakin cold nights here but 3 blankets, while we sleep, help a lot.  We wake up to 33F to 35F but it goes into the 80s during the day and then cold again at night.  Hopefully, this cold front will end soon.   Today, while making a card for an upcoming blog post, I screwed up.  So I decided to use my mistake to make a card for today.  Since it's Pride Month and my project includes the NYC subway map, I thought I would make a quick card in honor of the NYC Pride Parade that will happen on Sunday, June 26th.   If you should need any info about the parade, just click HERE to be taken to their official website.  I started by making a top folding A2 card base.  Then I printed one of the designs from  these rainbow papers I bought from Best Graphics Online on Etsy and I die-cut part of it using an A2 stitched rectangle die from Pink & Main .  I a...

  Hello everyone and welcome to Week 3 of my LGBTQ+ Pride Month 2022 collaboration with my friends Debra of  Meticulosity , and Misty aka  The Jolly Fat Elf .    Our cards from the last two weeks can be found over on our social media pages, links to which can be found at the end of this post.  Once again the three of us used products from  Paper House Productions  for our cards this week.  They are huge supporters of the community and have a nice selection of products for the LGBT+ community.  At the end of this post, there is a discount code giving you a 15% discount on their site. Now, on to my card for week 3. For this card I used the Stacked Hearts die from Simon Says Stamp and I paired it with a sticker from the Planner Stickers Book - Love is Love Minis   by the artist Sierra Mullen of River & ink and  Paper House Productions .   The idea was to make a shaker card using this die but I must have had a bra...

  Hello everyone.  Today kicks off Pride Month 2022 and I felt like celebrating by making some Pride shaker cards.  If I can't shake my booty at a pride parade, my cards are gonna have to do do some shakin for me here on my blog. LOL.  Also, each Friday during the month of June, I will be doing a card collaboration with my friends Misty, The Jolly Fat Elf , and Debra, of Meticulosity .  Although they are not part of the LGBTQA+ community, they are allies and supporters and we are each going to make cards to help celebrate Pride month.  I hope you'll check back each Friday to see what we have come up with. Before I get to my shaker cards, I want to give a shout out to Paper House Productions .  They have two pages of stickers, under their " this is US " line, which celebrates the things that make us different - diversity, equality, pride, love, self care and empowerment. Kuddos to them!!   My friend Debra is a Brand Ambassador for Paper House...