How to Create a Cookbook Scrapbook

Combining your favorite recipes with your favorite pictures makes for a fun craft project.

Creating a cookbook scrapbook is a fabulous craft for an avid cook and photographer. You can bring life to recipes by combining them with pictures, whether the pictures are of the food or memories or family members. A cookbook scrapbook would also make a thoughtful wedding, birthday or Mother's Day present. It is a creative way to vary from typical cookbooks and make something much more personalized, homemade and special.

Things You'll Need

• Scrapbook
• Recipe cards
• Printed pictures, 4-by-6 inches
• Scrapbook embellishment materials
• Colored card stock
• Glue stick

Instructions

1. Using 4-by-6 inch recipe cards, write out some of your favorite recipes. Write only one recipe per card and write neatly since they will be going into a scrapbook.

2. Print some favorite pictures, either of the foods that you have cooked, people enjoying the recipes, cooking in general or some of your favorite memorable photos.

3. Using the blank scrapbook, decorate the pages using a combination of photos and recipes. Frame the pictures and recipe cards using colored card stock. Glue the picture or recipe card to the paper and cut out around the picture to create a card stock frame.

4. Personalize your pages by adding various embellishments, such as glitter, stickers or cut outs, generally sold in scrapbook stores.

Tips & Warnings

• Write on recipe cards very neatly since they will be displayed in the scrapbook. Have an equal amount of cards and pictures (or close) so that they are varied.

References

• Family Memories: Cookbook
• Joy for Scrapbooking: Scrapbooking a Cookbook