Lemon Meringue Pie

"I'm a sweet eater.
I love lemon pie and sweet potato pie.
Claude Williams "

Made for an UNhealthy Recipe Swap!

When I was asked to think of an UNhealthy recipe to make into cards for a scrapbooking swap, I immediately thought of lemon meringue pie. It always brings back thoughts of my childhood when I bite into its flaky pastry with the sweet and sour filling, topped by fluffy, snowy whiteness. Yum!

Another advantage of this swap is that I cooked the recipe itself so I could take some pictures of it for my cards. We had pie for desert that night cos you can't let it go to waste!

Here's What I Used to Make the Cards:

• Shades of Yellow and caramel coloured cardstock
  
• Patterned paper with pictures of recipes and ingredients on it
  
• Pictures of the finished article
  
• The recipe printed on lined note paper
  
• A note paper punch, a heart punch with two sizes of hearts, a scallop punch and a corner rounder punch
  
• Yellow and caramel coloured ink pads
  
• Copper and gold metallic pens
  
• Double sided tape, cutters, ruler
  
• Pop dots or dimensional tape
  
• Ribbon
  

Here's What I Did:

• Cut out your cards - here I used 5" x 7" (12.7 x 17.8cm or thereabouts) cards.
  
• Cut out all elements you intend to use on the cards and round off the corners with the corner rounder punch where desired
  
• Punch the sides of some elements to make them look like note paper with the note paper punch
  
• Ink the edges of the elements as desired
  

  

• Tear the edges of the recipe sections and ink them
  

  

  
  
  

  

• Attach double-sided tape to the lengths of ribbon and adhere it to the background patterned paper. I did not wrap the ribbon around the patterned paper as I wanted the picture of the pie to stand out and have a stable surface to balance on
  

  

  
  
  

  

• Apply pop dots to your matted photo and place over the ribbon on the patterned paper(the ribbon will help to support the picture)
  

  

• Attach the filling and meringue recipe to the front at the right of your pie picture
  
• Turn the card over and decorate the back with a pie crust recipe
  
• Punch out your hearts and decorate the top one (smaller one) with gold pen
  
• Attach strips of patterned cardstock (edge it with ink first and draw a line of copper metallic pen down the centre of one) and ribbon as desired
  
• Adhere the heart embellishment over the paper strips and ribbon

I chose to sign my cards with my swap name.

And there you have it - a recipe card with the UNhealthy recipe - Lemon Meringue Pie! (I still love it)

Have you made some recipe cards for a swap before? Did your swap have a different theme? Will you share them with me?

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