Friday’s Recipe Scrapbook Page – Campin’ Critters
It’s friday so I thought I would post another recipe page that I’ve completed. This one I used one of my newer Cricut cartridges…”Campin Critters”. That cartridge had some really cute critters in it and what is one of the fun things to do when campin….cooking! I thought the bean pot would be perfect to highlight my mom’s Sausage Bean Chowder.
I’ve been under the weather for the last couple of weeks. Fighting a cold or sinus issues so I have not been motivated to do many things. I have a scrapbook retreat coming up in a little over a month and I have not printed out any pictures to scrap nor figured out why my new printer will not print with our wireless network. Makes it very frustrating when you are trying to print pictures or journals for your scrapbook pages. I did have a chance to play with the blog as you can see by the new blog header. I don’t like to read instructions so I just kinda wing it when figuring out that kind of stuff. As I play with it more I will be adding things to the blog to maybe jazz it up and make it more interesting.
Valentine’s Day Card
One of my favorite things to do is search for scrapbook bargains. Yes it’s good to buy the “good stuff” so you can get a good quality product ( and your scrapbooks last longer) but I don’t see anything wrong with hitting a few “dollar bins” especially for beginning card making. One of my favorite places to find this bargain paper is Target. Their dollar bins usually have some really cute paper etc especially holiday papers. I usually pick up a couple different packs every holiday. This month’s they are featuring Valentine’s and St. Patricks Day scrapbook supplies for $1.00 each. The paper packs usually have about 6 papers so that’s a pretty good deal when you are still learning new techniques.
Now let’s talk about the “good stuff”. This month I decided to join the Stamp of the Month Club on PeachkeenStamps.com. The subscription is for 6-months and my first stamp is Valentines Day. I love Peachy Keen Stamps and they are really good quality. My first stamps where for the cute little faces which I used on my EveryDay Paper Doll people I cut out with my Cricut. I’m now really liking their other stamps too.
This card is made using one of the Valentine’s Day cupid stamps and the rest is all Target bargain paper. It’s one of my first cards using stamps but I think with practice I will get better.
Outside:
Inside
Flowers Flowers Flowers
I must be ready for spring because the Cricut Mother’s Day Bouquet cartridge has been calling to me and although I have not been inspired yet I’ve been playing with the cartridge for the past day or so. But of course leave it to me to have hundreds of dollars worth of supplies and don’t have what I think I need….a tool to distress my work. Here’s what I was working on over the weekend:
I got inspired to make flowers after seeing the cover of the magazine Hobby Lobby puts out every few months. Then I saw a video on You Tube of a lady making Black Eyed Susan’s with the “Walking in My Garden” Cricut cartridge. I got the “Mother’s Day Bouquet” cartridge when it first came out in a cartridge bundle but didn’t think I’d use it. Then at one of my scrapbook retreats one of the gals tried it out and made some beautiful flowers for cards and I’ve loved this cartridge ever since. Like I said I’m not really inspired yet on what to do with the flowers so stay tuned to my little scrapbook blog and see what I can come up with. I bought this really nice big red watering can for my mom for mother’s day so my first thought if I can get it to look right is making a bouquet of Black Eyed Susan’s and arranging them in the watering can….oh well we’ll see.
Flowers are not the only thing I made this weekend. I actually was in and out of my scrapbook room a few times. Never could really decide what I wanted to work on. I kinda need to be by myself and well with a child at home with you who bless his heart wants to do crafts with you….it’s kinda hard to do that. The weather was beautiful over the holiday weekend but my little boy was a little snotty so he didn’t get to go outside and play much. He did however play in his room a lot which he doesn’t always do when he’s home. He usually drags everything to our room so he can be with us as he plays. But Friday I re-arranged his bedroom and bed and all of sudden he wanted to sleep in there and play in there. He’s been sleeping with us for well over a year but move his bed and he’s been sleeping in there since Friday night! Big step in our house and soon my shadows (the boy and the cat) will let me have some craft time!
Pink Toaster
I’ll admit I’m fairly new at the whole blog thing. I have read that when you first start out blogging about a specific topic…it can be slow starting out but to keep on posting new stuff and visiting blogs with similar interests. I love to visit other blogs and am inspired by all the ideas I see out there. One day I heard some ladies at work talking about Pinterest so thought I would check it out especially when I saw some of the pictures people were “pinning”. I signed up and got invited to join. I still have not figured it all out but have done some searches on scrapbooking and crafty projects and have found some really cute things. It’s funny that as soon as I joined..I started getting emails that people were “following me”. Kinda freaky but okay…..Like I said I am still trying to figure it out but there are some beautiful things out there “pinned” by people with similar interests as me.
You can type in the word “scrapbook” and there are thousands of sites with products, ideas, and blogs like this where people can talk about and post their projects and ideas. I’m still an amateur in scrapbooking and blogging about it but I hopefully one day I can share in my blog something that you might want to use. I do work full time and want to spent time with my family but I do enjoy this hobby..talking about it and creating crafty things.
Okay this brings me to today Recipe scrapbook page. Although it’s not hand written (because my hand writing is horrible) I used this cursive font and tried to make it look like a recipe card you might have in your recipe box. I used the “From My Kitchen” Cricut Cartridge to cut out the cute little retro toaster. The toaster I’ll admit was an after thought but really stands out on that page and was just what it needed. This was one of the first pages I did for the book.
Cricut’s “Freshly Picked” Parsley
“Freshly Picked” is the Cricut cartridge I used on this Beef Cheeseball recipe page. The recipe calls for parsley so I used some of the elements in the recipe to come up with the layout. I also used some of the font effects in Word to add something different to the recipe instead of just plain typing it out.
Chip Board Recipe Scrapbook
I currently have four recipe scrapbook volumes in the works. The “Sweets and Breads” is the closest to being finished. I used medium weight chipboard to make this 9×9 album and one of my new favorite tools, “The Cinch” to punch and holes and help bind the album. I know this look is different than a lot of the recipe scrapbooks I’ve seen out there and that’s probably why it is taking longer to complete since it’s being made from scratch. Here is what they look like.
The “From My Kitchen” and “Nifty Fifties” Cricut cartridges have some of the best cuts for these scrapbooks.
Recipe scrapbooking is a great way to highlight old recipes or family favorites. This “Orange Julius” recipe was one I got in a Home Economics class in 9th grade. 
Crunchy Slaw Recipe Scrapbook Page
I’ve been working on my recipe scrapbook for a couple of years now. Trying new things, styles, tools etc and of course trying new recipes and finding recipes from my childhood that my family always made to preserve in this scrapbook. Here is an example of one of the latest pages. I used one of the recipes from our bi-annual scrapbook retreat to make this recipe page. I made the cute little panda from “Create a Critter” Cricut cartridge and used my Sizzix Texture Boutique to add texture to the pages. It’s a simple page but turned out cute I think.
