World Of Michael Trent

  Hello everyone.  We are back!  The QKR Stampede Design Team had to take a month off because if you have not heard, Stamp On It sold their stamp lines to Want 2 Scrap and they needed time to get all of the fantastic images up on their site.  Not all the images are there yet and they are working their butts off - so keep checking back. My Design Team ideas for the new May 1st QKR Stampede "Anything Goes" Challenge are a 4th of July card and a simple 4th of July tag.  I really love making anything for the 4th of July / Independence Day.  I have color combo issues but, with a red, white, and blue color base, ideas are easy peasy.   Wanna make this card too?  Here's how to do it. I made a top-folding A2 card using white cardstock.   I printed one of the 4th of July Digital Papers that I bought from Bella Creative Design on Etsy , and die cut it using the largest die from the Stitched Rectangle Set 1 dies from  Pink & Mai...

Have some exciting news to share with everyone!!! There is a huge arts & crafts show here in Sao Paulo called the Mega Artesenal , and I will be demoing for a company called True Colors .  I am very excited about this and it's a huge opportunity for me.  Back in November, when I decided to try Brasil for two months (to make sure I could really really live here), Ruy and I met with Luciana at True Colors.  True Colors makes products for the scrapbooker, cardmaker, altered artist, and the hobbyist, and I was interested in selling their products here in our store.  But, before I could sell any of it, I had to understand what the products did.  And, since the products all have Brasilian names, I had to know what was what.  Gesso here is not the same as gesso in the states.   So Ruy and I went for a 3 hour training class, which I blogged about here.   During the training, Eduardo, the owner, came down to meet us.  Luciana sho...