Hello! We’re so excited to announce our August Guest Designer – Michael Trent!
My love of stamping started over 25 years ago when I into my first rubber stamp shop in NYC. I was completely hooked and this was the start of my creative journey with rubber stamps, inks, stencils, markers, and papers. My first love is card making and mini albums, but I also try to find time for 3D scenes and projects, mixed media projects and StenDoodle Designs – all with lots of color and a dash of humor. I have done work for Stamper’s Quest E-Zine, Outlines Rubber Stamp Company, and the Stamp, Ink, Paper Challenge Blog, and Momento Divertido and True Colors Tintas, both Brasilian art supply companies. Currently, I am on the Design Teams for Anthony’s Paper Craft and the If You Give A Crafter A Cookie Challenge Blog. I am the creator of the StenDoodle Technique, which is doodling with stencils. Although I am a 100% New Yorker, from Long Island, I currently live in the countryside of Sao Paulo, Brasil, with my partner, Ruy, our 7 dogs, 3 cats, garden, and our very own rubber stamp store – Cosmo Carimbo E Scrap.
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I am super excited to be the Guest Designer for August. {Thanks Amy}. I’m a NYC papercrafter now living in Brasil so Coffee + Cards is a perfect fit.
Today’s card was built around this sentiment – “I don’t need an inspirational quote, I need coffee!” – that I saw on a t-shirt and had to use on a card – in a speech bubble – coming out of the mouth of a cute girl (with attitude) drinking coffee. Lots of “had to be” in that sentence. I found this adorable digi stamp (who I named Bella) from The Happy Graphics on Etsy. Bella seems to have some attitude and I had the speech bubble die in my stash. All set!
I printed and fussy cut Bella, made a top folding card base to which I adhered a piece of decorative paper, cut a piece of white cardstock using a stitched rectangle die and I cut a piece of fun foam to go under it. Phew!
I secured the white cardstock, placed a stencil over it and applied Applemint ink (Gina K. Designs) with a makeup brush.
I printed the sentiment onto a piece of white cardstock and die cut it using the same stitched rectangle die as above – to keep the stitched edge the same. I also die cut a piece of darker pink cardstock with the die too. It will make sense in a moment.
Then I positioned the Big Word Pop die (Memory Box/99047/Retired) where I wanted it and die cut the sentiment. Then I did the same with the piece of pink cardstock but I cut it a bit bigger to give an edge to the sentiment.
I adhered the fun foam to the white cardstock, then to the card front, then I adhered the sentiment to the pink cardstock, which I then adhered to the top, colored in “coffee girl Bella” with BIC markers (my fav) and adhered her to the bottom with pop dots/foam tape.
And, because she needed a little sparkle, I added Glam Pink Stickles to the star in her hair and two tiny crystals to her glasses.
Coffee Loving Papercrafters 
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