Tag Archive for ‘Michael Trent’
Holiday Blizzard Project – Michael’s Mail Art
Decorative Holiday Envelopes By: Michael A. Trent, Artistic Guide With all the joy and creativity going into making your own holiday cards, why not decorate the envelopes as well? It doesn’t have to be fancy or time consuming. With a few rubber stamps and some markers or colored pencils, you will put a smile on [...]
Stamp A Candle – Give The Gift of Light
Stamping On Candles Technique For a long time I thought that stamping on a candle would be a difficult, painful, or time-consuming process. I even tried to duplicate Martha’s way (and we all know who Martha is) in which she applied scrapbook paint to a bold image rubber stamp and then she rolled the candle [...]
Two Trees of Christmas for the Discoverer
Two Trees of Christmas for the Discoverer By: Michael A. Trent, Artistic Guide Completed Card Size: 5.5″ x 4″ This is a great little card for those people just getting started in stamping or for someone that wants to make a fast and easy Christmas card. Although I never really think of blue as being [...]
Inchies Fall/Thanksgiving Card for the Adventurer
Inchie Fall/Thanksgiving Card for the Adventurer By: Michael A. Trent, Artistic Guide Completed card Size 6.5″ x 5″ As the Stamper’s Quest website states, an inventor “explores unknown regions, or one who enjoys taking a risk.” Well “inchies” were an unknown region to me but I took a risk. The main set I used for [...]
Hanukkah Card for the Inventor
Hanukkah Card for the Inventor By: Michael A. Trent, Artistic Guide Completed Card Size: 5.5″ x 4″ Supplies: Stamps: Happy Hanukkah (Club Scrap) Papers: White cardstock or pre-made card Trail Mix Paper (Basic Grey – the Granola Pad) Blue and Camel Textured Cardstock (DCWV, Fall Cardstock Stack) Inks: Moonstruck Ink (Close To My Heart) Silver [...]
October Card Sketch
Can you believe another month is gone?! Won’t be long before Christmas is here. Until then, here’s a sketch to keep you warm during the cooling temperatures of fall! This month’s samples created by our Artistic Guides are as varied as the fall colors. Don’t forget! Create your own cards with this sketch and submit [...]
Featured Vendor Designs for The Rubber Cafe
Continuting with our featured vendor, The Rubber Cafe, we have more ideas for you. Today’s artwork is by our Artistic Guide Michael Trent. We think you’ll agree that Michael took the challenge and ran with it! Michael received the following stamps: D-438 Letters, H-853 Voyage of Discovery, C-349 Nedini Post, G-735 Palms Post, H-341 Leopard Post, [...]
Try to “RESIST” Alcohol Inks
Alcohol Ink Resist Technique One of my favorite media to play with is alcohol ink by Ranger Industries. These are acid-free dye inks specifically made to work on non-porous surfaces such as glass, plastic, acetate, glossy paper, dominoes, metal, shrink plastic, and other slick surfaces. What’s great about these inks is that each project you work [...]
Make Your Own Background Paper Rose Card for the Inventor
Make Your Own Background Paper and Rose Card for the Inventor By: Michael Trent, Artistic Guide I love the Floral Dingbats from The Angel Company and always wanted to use this as a background. But, since the image did not come as background paper, I decided to make my own and layer the Rose Botanical [...]
Wedding Roses Card for the Adventurer
Wedding Roses Card for the Adventurer By: Michael A. Trent, Artistic Guide Finished Card Size: 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ Supplies: Stamps: Wedding Roses Stamp (Heartfelt Creations) Papers: 1 Sheet each of Monochromatic Paper: (Bazzill) Saltillo Arizona Adobe 1 Sheet Brass Metallic Cardstock (DCWV) Inks: VersaMark Ink (Tsukineko) Other: LePlume II Markers: (Marvy) Dusty [...]
Shells Card for the Discoverer
Shells Card for the Discoverer By: Michael A. Trent, Artistic Guide Finished Card Size: 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ Supplies: Stamps: Shells Image No. H1071 (Impression Obsession) Papers: Coral Red 2 Cardstock (The Angel Company) White Cardstock Black Textured Cardstock (DCWV) Inks: VersaMark Inkpad Other: Metallic Bronze Embossing Power (JudiKins) Stamp Positioner Tombow Permanent Adhesive [...]
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