Taylored Expressions Studio Challenge

Taylored Expressions is introducing a new monthly challenge for the design team:  The Baker's Dozen Studio Challenge.  This will be an opportunity for us to share what makes our stamping studios hum.  Each month we will have a fun, crafty question so we can share our favorites, some tips and tricks, stamping advice and more.

The question for July is:

You are stranded on a desert island. The good news is that you find a fabulous stamping hut well-stocked with papers, inks and other stamping supplies, however you only have the 5 stamp sets you brought with you in the luggage you managed to salvage. So tell us, what stamps sets did you bring and why?

First, I would have to grab Love Grows Here.

I think I would miss having all the different seasons throughout the year if I were on a tropical desert island, so Love Grows Here would help keep those seasons close to me.  I made a little something using the happy little beehive tree from the set.  I started by stamping the image in Memento Tuxedo Black Ink and then colored it with Copic Markers.  I used some Sweet Day 6x6 papers from Echo Park and the MOJO250 sketch.

Here are 5 stamp sets I'd rescue from my sinking ship:

Love Grows Here: I need me some seasons!

 Friendship Blooms: I need to have a flower set with me, especially one with leafy green branches.  I love the different petal shapes and sentiments, and of course they have coordinating Taylored Dies!

In the Clouds:  I adore these little blimps and banners and there are sentiments for all sorts of occasions.

Green Acres: I'm all about 'corny' humor, so I would definitely bring this darling set along, just to make me laugh some coconut milk out my nose.

Woodland Winter:  I'd need to have this set with me so I can dream of white Christmases, and snow, and aspen trees, and my beloved mountains.  These little cuties make me smile!

Hop on over and see what the other Baker's Dozen designers are choosing to save:

• Charmaine Ikach
• Jen Shults
• Jodi Collins
• Melody Rupple
• Regina Mangum
• Sankari Wegman
• Shannon White
• Shelly Mercado 
• Stephanie Kraft
• Taylor VanBruggen
• Wanda Guess

Check out these fun items in the TE store:


 






recipe - 
stamps: love grows here (te)
paper: kraft (te), choice snow white (te), sweet day 6x6 (echo park)
ink: memento tuxedo black
accessories: copic markers, scalloped eyelet border die (te), circle/scallop spellbinders dies, fishtail flags stax/sentiment strips die-namics dies (mft), lemon drop buttons (mft),  ladybug twine (doodlebug inc), sewing machine, thread, foam tape