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'Thankful Recipes' Recipe Book

Use Thanksgiving or Fall themed scrapbooking papers and stickers to create a beautiful recipe book to gift or save favorite Thanksgiving recipes.

What you will need:

1. Thanksgiving or Fall themed papers
2. Plain cardstock for front cover, back cover and recipe pages
3. Stamps, Stickers, Ink Pads, Die cuts etc to embellish each page.
4. Recipe printouts if you plan to gift your personal recipes or cutout recipes if you are making this book to save your favorite recipes for your own use.
4. Punch and binder rings or glue to hold pages together.

Ideas for Pages:

The cover of the recipe book is formed by gluing Thanksgiving themed paper onto plain cardstock. Cardstock stickers (delicious, caramel apples and 'on the menu') are used to enhance the page and are glued on after inking their edges with brown stamp ink. A cream colored tag is also adhered to the cover after inking its edges. The tag was first prepared by using stickers to form the phrase 'Thankful Recipes' and then mounted using foam circles to give it a raised look.

Following are samples from the inside of the book to inspire your own pages. The remainder of the page after gluing on the recipe has been decorated with co-ordinating Thanksgiving patterned paper and stickers.

The background in the following two pages has been created using the stamp pads onto the card stock.

The recipe on this page has been 'framed' by fall leaf cutouts purchased on eBay.

The last page in the book is turned into a 'pocket page' using patterned paper to create the pocket and a strip of solid co-ordinating paper which was trimmed on one side using decorative-edged scissors to create the look of a folded top. This pocket can be used for storing more recipes, notes, kitchen labels etc.

And finally, the back cover.

Bind the book by either gluing together the pages or by punching holes in all the pages and inserting ribbon or binder rings in them.