help needed with a scrap booking type project

[battricia]

Hi! I need help with a project that I think is going to be similar to a scrap book. My sister and I used to live together in philly and I would cook her dinner quite often.. but she moved to arizona in september. she's not as cooking saavy as I am, so for christmas she asked me to make her a cook book of my own recipes so that she could cook some of her favorites that I made when we lived together.

I want to make it like a book that can open up and I can send her new recipes every once in a while, through out the years. I need lots of help and inspiration.

I don't need help with the recipes, but more help on things like which papers work the best, I'll most likely be printing recipes out from the computer, and I'll probably make a little template (i have a design background and will most likely be using illustrator to create them).

What size book/paper do you think would work best with a recipe book?

If anyone has actually made a recipe book, do you have pictures of it that I could check out?

Any other ideas anyone has would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.


tricia

 

[nicurn]

if you are going to want to send her recipes from time to time, maybe a 3 ring binder type thing would work best. I know when I got married, my mom put together all my favourite recipes in a 3 ring binder in the protective sleeves. (so I wouldn't get them messy ) If you are going for "fancy", you could print the recipes out on cardstock. maggie

ps: check out www.twopeasinabucket.com

every once in a while they have recipe books/pages posted in the gallery.

http://www.twopeasinabucket.com/pg.asp?cmd=display&layout_id=91695 (really cool storybook cookbook)

http://www.twopeasinabucket.com/pg.asp?gallery=1&cmd=display&layout_id=217305&show=3

 

[PigletsPal]

Michael's has a recipe scrapbook I think is costs around 38.00. It comes with a 3 ring binder, paper to print your recipes on. My friends has done 2 of these for christmas gifts for her sisters and I have to say it came out really nice.

Good luck

 

[JudithM]

My sister was in a sb A-Z recipe swap one time. The completed project was an 8.5" x 11" three ring binder. Each alphabet letter represented one recipe/one page. The page was decorated accordingly using various sb embellishments. Each page had a protective sleeve. since my sister sent in two recipes for each swap, she got two books. She gave her extra copies.

 

[mcnuss]

What a wonderful gift!

 

[wuv tigger]

I'm using the CM 7x7 album limited edition coming home album. I got the idea to make a recipe book from my Scraps Magazine (I'm a CM consultant). I can put 30 pages (60 sides) which should give me plenty of room for the receipes & photos of the chef's.

I spoke with dmil's 1st cousin & she is willing to put some of the Jewish family recipes in the book for me. I will send the book on to my stepmil, my best friend, then best friends' Mom. My Mom is going to give me her recipes then I will put them in the book. She WILL get overwhelmed w/ the process.

I am asking each 1 of them to contribute 5- 6 recipes. The pages will be predecorated & each person can chose which page they want to write their recipe on.

I'm using lined paper along with stickers from the Holiday Grandma's Kitchen Stickers

As soon as I finish I will have dh email some digital photos

Judy