World Of Michael Trent

Hey everyone.  It's been some time since I last posted.  Not good.  Not good at all!!! This past weekend we had our friends Rommel (his Blog ) and Betto (his Blog ) over for the weekend.  They had just finished a huge scrap festival here in Brasil and needed a weekend to just chill.  It was great to finally get a weekend to just make art with friends - for the sake of just making fun art!!  They were kinda freaked out by all of the "stuff" I have here but were in heaven with all of the Viva Las Vegas stamps, Tim Holtz stamps, Dyan Reaveley stamps and sprays and all of the Character Constructions stamps by Catherine Moore.   Here is the big Zombie Mixed Media piece I made.   A few weeks ago I was at a stamp show and saw the Zombie Head stamps by Art Gone Willd and had to have them.  I knew they would go perfect on the Dyan Reaveley Couture Stamp sets she came out with.  After making the big piece, I scanned it and th...

With Easter coming up, I wanted to share a very easy basket to make using the Metric Scor-Pal, 1 sheet of scrapbook paper, and 1 piece of coordinating solid paper.  This basket is not just for Easter - use this tutorial to make baskets at any time of the year. I originally saw this basket done on the Scor-Pal blog.  I have re-done it here - in metric measurements - and with changes to the handle.  Click  HERE  to see the original project on the Scor-Pal blog, in American measurements. And here is a link to a video I made a few weeks ago making the basket - HERE . Supplies Used: Metric Scor-Pal and cutting mat 1 sheet of Easter scrapbook paper (Oficina do Papel) 1 sheet of coordinating solid paper Oval Punch Doily Lace Trim Punch Corner Rounder Punch 4 Brads Ruler Craft Knife Double Sided Tape or Glue Stick Pen or Pencil Paper Cutter Step by Step: 1.  Trim your Easter paper to 27cm x 27cm. 2.  Place it on the Scor-Pal an...

Hey everyone.  Hope you all had a great holiday and New Year.  Now, Resolutions....my main one is to start making videos for the blog.  I love my step by step with photos, and get lots of nice feedback, but, if you are like me, videos really show how things get done.  I am a very visual person and love videos.  So, without further ado, I give you my first video. This video is about Viva Decor's 3D Stamp Paint, which is a very versatile product and in this video, I show all the ways to use it.  More videos will be done in the next few weeks showing specific projects using the paints.  Hope you enjoy.

Well, another Wednesday in October means another Stamping Scrapping project/tutorial.   The story behind this idea - my niece's birthday was back in September and I had a lot of cute photos I wanted to show off.  Although I love photography, I am not a scrapper, and I wanted a way to show a lot of smaller photos without going the scrapbook page route.  One day I printed out a sheet of of wallet size photos - 9 to a page - and was wondering what I could do with it.  Then I saw this unmounted wood frame that I had bought at a craft store and the idea popped into my head.  A Scrap Frame for the wall.  Now Abigail can put this on a shelf and always be able to look at it.  And, since I love to mount or layer photos, the Card Creator dies work perfectly!! Supplies Used: Card Creator A2 Matting Basics Set A Card Creator A2 Matting Basics Set B Square Wood Frame from Local Craft Store  2 sheets of cardstock in 2 different colo...