World Of Michael Trent

  Hello everyone!  Of all the recent albums I made, this one worried me the most.  And yet, I had the most fun making it.  This is the 3rd of 7 albums I made using my Double Facing Waterfall Album.  The  album is for my friend's dad and,  I don't know why, but I have issues making masculine albums or cards.  Not having many "masculine" papers in my stash, other than for travel, I jumped on Etsy.  My friend told me his dad liked golf, baseball, football, beer, and tools.   I found a seller on Etsy with the coolest collections -  The House of Mockery - and I ended up buying 5 collections that I knew would work perfectly in this album -  American Golf , American Baseball , Beer, Ball, and BBQ , Mr. Fix-It , and Paper Pad 11 , which had some cool photos.   Honestly, I cannot wait to make my next masculine album.   Here is a video walk-through of the album explaining what I did in the album.  You can a...

  Hello everyone!  Today I am sharing the 2nd of 7 albums I made using my Double Facing Waterfall Album.  This album uses the Fetch Collection from Photoplay Paper, which is a few years old and not made anymore.  Sadly.  But they have so many amazing collections to choose from if you want to recreate it.   Below is a video walk-thru from my YouTube channel.  You can also click  HERE  to be taken to my channel and, if you are more of a photo type of person, there are lots of photos of the album below the video.   Here are photos of the book and box. I hope you love this book as much as I do.  Making an album for someone to hold their memories gives me such pleasure.  My social media pages are below if you would like to follow me and see my other work.     World of Michael Trent YouTube Channel World of Michael Trent's Instagram Page World of Michael Trent's Facebook Page Thanks so much for stopping by my...

Hello everyone!   What a crazy month and a half it's been.  There I was, cutting pieces for my new Double Facing Waterfall Album so that I could make a video tutorial for y'all - when I was commissioned to make 8 mini-albums.  For Christmas gifts.  In the USA.  Being that I am in Brasil, I would have to get them to the USA in time, and I had a lot of work ahead of me.  I basically spent most of November and part of December making each of these albums together with a box for them to be stored in.   I decided to use my new Double Facing Waterfall Album for each of the albums but I did my best to make sure that something in each of the albums was different than the others.  Each album also has a different theme to it.  This was a lot of work but so worth it and so much fun to do.   Here is the first album, which uses the Let's Travel Collection from Carta Bella.  I had a few of the collections left here and used the phy...

Hello everyone.  If you saw my blog post yesterday { HERE } you know that Technique Junkies is having a huge December Inventory Reduction Sale with 40% off over 750 stamps.    This month I will be posting lots of card ideas using the stamps on sale.  Yesterday I showed you 3 cards using the Jellyfish and Stir Your Soul - great cards for ocean and beach lover.   Today, I have a slimline birthday card for using Party Chicks and Birthday Blocks - both on sale for 40%.  I had so much fun making this card.  This is an idea that has been in my head for at least 10 years and finally get it out of my head feels amazing.   Now, let's make the card. I started by making a slimline card base with white cardstock - 4" x 9.25".  Then I printed one of the designs from { THIS } Confetti paper collection from hksmart on Etsy , and adhered it to my card front. Next, I stamped a bunch of the larger chickens from the Party Chicks - Set of 1...

  Hello everyone, and welcome to the November 2023 Edition of The Crafty Elves' Countdown to Christmas.   If this is your first time here, on the 25th of each month, I take part in a Christmas collab with some of my Crafty Elf friends - Debra of  Meticulosity  and  Lisa of  Life of a BZScrapper  - and we each post a fun Christmas or Holiday card to help inspire you to make your own.   This month we have a Guest Crafty Elf -  Amy Tsuruta of  Craftee1 .  Links to all of our cards and our social media pages are at the end of this post.  This month I decided to make a Hanukkah card since I have not made one in some time and the first night of Hanukkah is December 7th. Using a piece of white cardstock, I made a top-folding A2 card base. I put double-sided tape behind two pieces of glittered fun foam - one silver, the other dark blue.  Then I cut them into strips and adhered them to the card front alternating betw...

  Hello everyone!  Welcome to, not only November but also a new "He Made It/She Made It" collaboration with my friend Debra of Meticulosity  and fellow Technique Junkies Design Team Member.      The end of the year is almost here, the holidays will soon be upon us (don't ask what holidays), and we're all getting a bit stressed.  This month Debra and I decided to use the brand-new Bottle Won't Open stamp , part of the November 2023 Stamp Release  from  Technique Junkies .   I made a 5" x 7" card base to which I adhered a piece of Christmas designer paper. I embossed a piece of gold mirror cardstock using an embossing folder from here with different wine names - perfect for the sentiment. I adhered the embossed gold mirror cardstock to a piece of black fun foam, and then to the card front. I stamped  Bottle Won't Open  on white cardstock, die-cut it with a stitched square die, layered it on the same designer paper as th...

  Hello everyone, and welcome to the November 2023 New Stamp Release  from  Technique Junkies .  This month there are 11 new stamps with something for everyone - vintage, sentiments, animals, Christmas, and even a mushroom and snail.       The stamps in the November 2023 Stamp Release are 15% off through Wednesday, November 8th - no code needed - and, if you use my code - TJ10Michael - you can take an additional 10% off the rest of the website.   If you love them all, take advantage of the  Gotta Have It All deal where you get all 11 new stamps for $50.88 - normally $67.55.  You save $16.56 with this deal.    To kick off this new release, I made this Christmas card using the new Bottle Won't Open which I paired with Champagne Toast .  I made a 5.5" square card using red cardstock.   I stamped Champagne Toast on a piece of 5" square white cardstock using black ink, adhered it to a piece of ...