Recipe Cards

Written and Created by PaperCraftCentral Susan

Personalised Recipe Cards make anyone's cooking days seem brighter!

"Lentils are friendly —
the Miss Congeniality of the bean world."
~Laurie Colwin

My Savoury Lentils - Made for a Healthy Recipe Cards Swap

If you have some heirloom recipes or some family favourites, why not make up your own personal cook book, album or box with some like these?

There are plenty of reasons to use this idea as a delightful and practical gift for someone too. For instance, I thought of making a batch of never-fail recipes up for a new bride recently, or for sending with your son or daughter as they leave the family home, or to show a grandparent how special their tastes of the kitchen are, and you may have even more ideas about how to use them. You're bound to treasure them even more once you have created a scrapped version of your favourites!

When you start making your collection, something else to think about is the colour of the food you are going to scrap about. Here I used my savoury red lentil recipe, so I chose a rich red brown cardstock, rich brown ribbon and brads, and found rub ons in the colours that matched the cardstock and even the ingredient labels I photographed.

I can just imagine how pretty doing recipe cards in pink and yellow and lilac would be for a little girl's birthday cake recipe! A picture of a birthday cake on the card would really make it wonderful.

Here's what I used:

• A set of 5" x 7" blank cardstock cards (about 12cm x 18cm)
  
• A healthy recipe and
  
• A picture of the ingredients I use in it. Typed instructions. I split the ingredients from the method so I could place the list of ingredients on one side of the card and put the method on the other side
  
• Cardstock, inks, embellishments of choice such as: Ribbon
  Deckle-edged scissors, double-sided tape
  A corner punch if you like
  Brads, buttons
  Rubber Stamps
  Sharp-nosed scissors
  Metallic pens
  Rub-Ons
  
• Clear Nail Polish or other sealant
  

Here's What I Did:

Next stamp the cards to decorate them. I also embossed the sentiment with clear embossing powder and inked the edges of the card and used the corner punch on the corners

Cut a piece of ribbon to form a tag on the top left hand corner and apply double-sided tape to both ends as shown. Remove the protective backing strips from one end of the adhesive at one end of the ribbon, also as shown, leaving the other end of the ribbon unattached as yet

Turn the card over, remove the other backing strips on the tape and adhere over the split pin of the brad

Attach the instructions/method to the back of the card, over the ribbon end

Continue to decorate as you would like - I used more rub-ons, buttons, metallic pens and other felt-tipped pens to embellish my cards

Once you have made one of these, it is likely you will want to have more. What a good excuse to make a decorative box or album to keep them all safe in!

Enjoy making your personalised recipe cards!

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