Taylored Expressions June Studio Challenge

It's time for the Baker's Dozen Studio Challenge.  This is a monthly opportunity for the Taylored Expressions team to share what makes our stamping studios hum.  Each month we  have a fun, crafty question so we can share our favorites, some tips and tricks, stamping advice and more.

The question for June is:

What's on your summer reading list?  Are you a big reader or not?  If you are, what books have you read lately that you would recommend?  Do you have a favorite author or genre? How about something for sitting out by the pool, or the beach, or even just the backyard...some nice light summer reading? 

Do you use fancy bookmarks or do you dog-ear your pages?  Or, do you use an e-reader? Everyone can use bookmarks and they make great favors and gifts.  Let's see a little inspiration!

My Mother and I both love to read and we share almost all our books.....we both like Ken Follett and David Baldacci. There is nothing like a good murder mystery to get your blood pumping!! We have also started the Ladies of Covington  series and I gotta tell you, this is such a wonderful series and I highly recommend it...it's a perfect read for a lazy summer day sitting on the back porch swing with a glass of sweet tea!!!  However, our favorite books to read are cook books so we really enjoyed reading Julie and Julia.....it's a fun story by Julie Powell about how she spent a year making every single recipe in Julia Childs French Cooking cook book.  I remember watching Julia's French cooking show on TV many years ago...she was a hoot!!! 

For my project I decided to make my Mother a set of bookmarks for her cookbooks. She always use bookmarks and would never lend me another cookbook if I dog eared any of the pages...LOL!!! White card stock was used for the base of both bookmarks and the fun retro papers are from the Mom's Diner Cookbookin Recipe scrapbook Kit from PJK Designs. The stamps and sentiments from Taylored Expressions What's Cookin set were all paper pieced and a few Copic touches were added. I resisted popping up any of the cutout stamped images so the bookmarks would remain flat. Baker's Twine adds the finishing touch.

I also decided to make a matching recipe card for each bookmark...Mom is going to love these!!!

Isn't this sentiment fun....*I never trust a skinny chef*...LOL!!!

How would you like to see some awesome inspiration from the fabulous Baker's Dozen Design team...check it out!!!

Carole Burrage

Charmaine Ikach

Jen Shults

Joan Ervin

Kerri Michaud

Sankari Wegman

Shannon White

Shelly Mercado

Stephanie Kraft

Tammie Edgerton

Taylor VanBruggen

Wanda Guess

Thanks for stopping by...have a great day!!!!