World Of Michael Trent

Hello everyone!  I hope y'all had a great weekend.  I put the final touches on today's  project, which took over 3 weeks to finish!  This might be a long post but I hope you can read through the post and see how all the different components came together to make this creation. Way back in the day I used to love building scenes with rubber stamps and would spend countless hours using multiple images that have nothing to do with each other but, when used together, gave me a piece of "art".   Several companies are represented in this piece but the main images are from Clear & Simple Stamps , a company I stumbled upon many years ago.  I immediately fell in love with their "Rag Doll" line because, for the first time, there were images for African American crafters.  And they were fun, young and fresh!  I found out a few weeks ago, after posting some "sneak peeks" on my Instagram account , that the whole line is designed by Steph Zerbe ...

This project all started when I got an email from  Gerda Steiner Designs  asking people to download a free digi of a surfing duck, make something with it, and upload it to the Instagram Surf Challenge.  Um....sure! Being in Brasil, without easy access to a stamp store, has made me embrace digi stamps a lot more than in the past.  So I went  HERE  and downloaded the free Surfing Duck digi, below.   Oh, I named him Sam, by the way.  Sam the Surfing Duck!   I started with an A2 side folding white cardstock base.  I cut a piece of navy blue cardstock, 4 1/4" x 5 1/2", which I adhered to the card front.   Then I cut a piece of light blue cardstock, 4" x 5 1/4", placed the "Shine" stencil by Memory Box over the cardstock, and sprayed it with Lemon Zest Dylusions ink spray.   For the palm trees I used a set called "island2visit" by The Stamps of Life.  I wanted the palm trees to be taller than the stamp allowe...