World Of Michael Trent

Hello everyone.  I am having "cyber" coffee and sharing cards with Deb and Celeste again today. Our theme for today is Halloween - one of the holidays I really miss from the states.  It's not a typical holiday here and, although there might be some parties and the kids will dress up for school, there is no trick-or-treating and there is no candy corn!!  I know...sad.   For today's hop I am enjoying a cuppa Cinnamon Blueberry Crumble (YUM) in a new cactus mug that Ruy got a few days ago and which gave me an idea for a card but that will be next week and, I digress.      For my card today, I decided to use a digi stamp I have from  Bugaboo Stamps  called  Trick or Treat Feet  and I printed 4 of the images at 90% onto white cardstock.   I trimmed one of the images and colored it using a variety of BIC Ultra Fine Tip Markers  (my favorite markers).  I also layered it on to a piece ...

Hello everyone and Happy Friday!!  I wanted to make a quick post to show you guys another Halloween card that I made for the If You Give A Crafter A Cookie Challenge Blog - Challenge No. 105.  This is the 2nd card I made for this challenge because I love (and miss) Halloween.  The first card was yesterday and you can check that card out { HERE }.   For today's card I used two digital items.  The first was a digital image from Vera Lane Studio on Etsy.  I love her images...quirky and fun.  The image I used is called October  and it comes with the girl holding the pumpkin and two phrases.  I started by printing out the image two times, coloring them with BIC Markers....one of them fully colored and just the pumpkin on the other.  I fussy cut her out and then I fussy cut just the pumpkin.  I then went back and added some Firefly Stickles (Ranger) to her eyebrows and some Orange Peel Stickles (Ranger) to her dress and h...

Hello everyone.  I wanted to share with you guys a card I made for the current challenge over on the If You Give A Crafter A Cookie Challenge Blog .  This is Challenge No. 105 and the inspiration photo for the challenge is -  I wanted to make a Halloween card but not a typical card with typical colors or images.  I found this great image called " Have A Magical Evening " from a store on Etsy called  All Dressed Up . I started by printing the image at 60% on white cardstock, I cut it using the 2nd largest die from A2 Matting Basics A ( S5-131/Spellbinders ).  Then I colored it using Ultra Fine Tipped BIC Markers . I made an A2 card base of white cardstock and adhered a piece of black cardstock to the front.  Using the largest die from A2 Matting Basics B ( S5-132/Spellbinders ), I cut a piece of apricot colored cardstock.   I adhered the apricot cardstock to the card front and then the piece with the image to the apri...

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!...