World Of Michael Trent

Hello everyone!!  Yes, it's true.  Today is National Coffee Day.  Not that I need any special day to celebrate coffee since I drink it daily...several times a day, in fact.  But, since today is an extra special coffee day, I made a card....coffee themed. And I am drinking some of the best coffee in Brasil by Melita!  YUM!  I started with a digi stamp called Stay Strong that I recently purchased from Gracielle Designs on Etsy .  If you do not like digi stamps, you can also buy this set as a rubber stamp { HERE } at Unity Stamps.  I printed a full A4 sheet (cuz I will use these).  Then I had my Scan N Cut cut some of the cups out.    Next, I printed out one of the sentiments and die cut it with my stitched rectangle die.    I also stamped the flower image from Blossomy Condolences (Unity Stamp) and had my Scan N Cut cut it out. I colored in the cup and the flowers with a variety of BIC Mark...

Hi everyone!  I am always posting my cards, which I love to do, but I also love to make mini albums. I've always loved taking photos.  And I miss going to a Kodak store to pick up my package of photos that I took with my roll of film.  Remember an actual roll of film??  LOL  Nowadays we keep all of our memories on a cell phone, Instagram, or Facebook and people have forgotten what it's like to sit down and turn the pages of an album and look at an actual photo.  Hence the reason I love to make mini albums.  For this album, I used the Paper Dream printable template from Jen Of Eve Designs along with a digital paper pad from Paper Phenomenon called Flight 2715 . Here is the cover of the book -  And here are some of the pages inside the book -  I made a video of the book, which you can watch { HERE } over on my YouTube Channel.  I hope you enjoy it.  I'd love to know so please leave me a comment below (o...

Hello everyone.  Today's card has been in my head for weeks and I finally found the time to make it. I did some fine tuning as I made the card and it actually came out better in the end than it was in my head.  Has this ever happened to you?  And I have to thank my friend Debra for the sentiment idea.  I was going to use "Seasons Greetings" but then she suggested "Seasonings Greetings", which I love even more, and that's what I went with in the end!   So, thanks Deb!!   Here's how I made this card -  1.  I prepared the sentiment "SEASONINGS GREETINGS" on the computer and printed two of them out on A4 white cardstock.  2.  I positioned the stitched rectangle die over the sentiment, adhered it with some washi tape, trimmed the cardstock, and die cut it with my Big Shot.  (I'm sure there is an easier way with software but I do not know how to do this.  So, if you do, please let me know in the comments and I...

Hello everyone!!  This week was super busy.  Our town held their annual Festival of Immigrants - Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights - and we went each night to take photos and hang out with our friends.  It was a lot of fun but man, I am tired.  And yesterday we went back to Amparo, a town about an hour away, for a private tour of the main Cathedral in town.  A beautiful church and I'll try to have some photos later in the week.   Last week I was the winner on the  If You Give A Crafter A Cookie Challenge Blog (IYGACACCB) .  I won 4 digi stamps from Bugaboo Stamps for my " Fintastic " card.  This week on the IYGACACCB it's their 4th Anniversary and their 102nd Challenge , which is an "anything goes" challenge, and I decided to join them again using a " dream catcher " image I recently purchased from  Little Blue Button .   Other than the coloring part, this is a super easy card to make!...

Hello crafty friends and anyone else that is along for the ride.  TGIF!!!  I am back with the team - Debra , Mike and Mary Kay  for Week 4 of the  Anthony's Paper Craft  "Christmas in August" Blog Hop.     So, the other night I was on Pinterest and I saw a "shaker ornament" pop up in my feed.   I don't know why but my mind immediately thought of the " faux string art " stamps that Anthony's Paper Craft sells and my head started spinning with ideas on how to use these images for "shaker ornaments".     I decided to just go with it and see where this takes me and I wrote this post up as I made the ornament.  I hope it turns out the way the idea in my head looks.  LOL  The first  I decided was that I would need a sheet of double sided decorative paper.  I went thru my stash and decided to use "Letters to Santa", which is from Graphic 45's 2009 Christmas Past Collectio...

Hello everyone!!   I hope y'all are having an awesome week so far.  We're starting to get some warmer days here, which is making me very happy!!  I love the hot weather and the sun!  I am in a card swapping group on Facebook and one of the cards I picked this month was a "jack-o-lantern" card.  I had just seen this adorable digi set from Vera Lane Studio on Etsy and knew she would be perfect for this card.   I started by printing the October Digi stamps  in the sizes that I wanted.  Not knowing where this card was taking me, I duplicated the images in case I wanted to pop dot the witches hat.   Better to print them all now.   .   After playing around with different dies I decided to go round.  I die cut the image with the hat using the largest die from the Standard Circles set (Spellbinders S4-114).  I also used the same die to cut a piece of black fun foam to layer the image on...

Hello everyone and Happy Hump Day!!!  Man, this year is flying by.  I cannot believe it's almost September!  Crazy. But, I have a fun card for you today - all about fish! The If You Give A Crafter A Cookie Challenge Blog has a new challenge - No. 101 - and this is the inspiration photo we need to work with -  I decided to use a digi-stamp set that I recently purchased from Vera Lane Studio  on Etsy called Ocean 11 , which has nothing to do with George Clooney and a lot to do with 10 fish and a shell.  LOL I started by making an A2 card base of white cardstock to which I adhered a piece of blue cardstock (for the water).  I then took 3 of the fish and sized them so it looked like they were each fish food for the other, printed it on a piece of white cardstock, and die cut it with a stitched rectangle die.   Next...I colored the fish using a variety of BIC markers.  Then, using the River Rocks 6 stencil by StencilG...