Recipe Book

I had the idea to make a recipe book several months ago and have been collecting some stamps and elements that I could use for the book. I found the 'From the Kitchen' set of stamps by Darkroom Door which I thought would fit my theme perfectly.

My Mum has a box full of scrappy pieces of paper with recipes written on them which I am planning on putting into this book one day. I need to get my hands on them first and choose my favourite 10 to put in here.

I think the book has a vintage feel to it and I have created 10 unique pages in which recipes can be added.

The cover features a glittered kitchen themed topper which has been mounted onto brown glitter paper. The 'recipes' wording has been heat embossed in Pomegranate WOW embossing powder on cream card. The heart was die cut out of chipboard and then embossed with the same powder and hung from under the circle using some pink glittery DMC thread.

The contents page looks a bit bare at the moment but I'm not sure what is needed to make it more exciting. Perhaps it will look better when it's full of lovely recipes.

Each recipe has 2 pages allocated to it - one to write down all the ingredients and the other to write down the directions. Each set of pages has been covered in co-ordinating papers and embellished with kitchen themed elements. There is plenty of space to add more elements if required.

Each page is slightly different and all are a different colour. Here are a selection of the pages in the book:

And then I had a page left over at the back which I wasn't sure what to do with so I used it as a notes page where you can scribble down anything that you might not have had room for, or need to remember about a recipe from that scrappy piece of paper!

I hope Mum will like it when it's full of recipes. I think it looks too nice to write in - must remember to use my best handwriting!

Notebook Wall Hangings

I came up with the idea for the notebook wall hangings when I came across a project in a magazine. I also used to own one when I was much younger and I think it's always handy to have a notebook on hand. They are also very decorative (and perhaps a little too nice to use?) but they would make great presents.

The first one I made was this 'To do List':

The main notebook is made out of A6 card blanks and scored and taped together. I then covered the front with patterned paper and wrapped some coordinating paper around the top to hide the joins in the layers.

The backing was made from a chipboard album page and covered with patterned paper with the edges inked. I cut out a lace effect border for the bottom strip and used some adhesive white letters for the words. To emphasise them I outlined each letter with a brown fine liner pen.

The roses are made from embossing powder, heated up with some mica powders thrown in, and poured into a mould.

The next one I made was this flowery plain one:

I wanted to make it as girly as possible and I added some vellum heat embossed butterflies.

The notebook on the next one was made using a lacy die. It was quite time consuming as I had to cut each page individually, and then poke the holes out from the decorative edge as they didn't all come out when I took it out the die cutter:

I really like the Wellington Bear range that Papermania have recently brought out and this image was so cute. The letters on this one are chipboard letters which I them heat embossed in blue.

I made another Wellington Bear hanging also in blue but this time I decided it was easier to make the notebooks using the card blanks

And finally another girly one:

I have lots more ideas and things to put on the notebooks so there will be more shortly. I (might) also try and make some more using the die cutter because even though they are quite fiddly I think they look very effective!

Claire