DeLiCiOuS Recipe Box or Photo Box

I put a new recipe box on Etsy today. This one has more of a French feeling, and is absolutement delicious. www.scrapbooklab.etsy.com

This gorgeous 4 x 6 recipe box will look amazing on your kitchen counter as a work of art, and a functional place to store your favorite recipes!

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If you’re not into cooking. Use this recipe box as a PHOTO BOX, storing your most delicious photos inside.

Also: The recipe box comes with 6 make ahead meal recipes from my upcoming book Lazy Day Gourmet, including: Moo Noodle Pie, Sunny Sarasota Chops, Heavenly Chicken and Dumplings, The Everything Tastes Better in a Puff Pastry Fish Biscuit Recipe, and Jive Turkey.

This is the perfect gift for the holidays, or as a way to pamper YOURSELF.

Frame Your Scrapbook!

As a Scrapbook Evangalist, one of my passions is finding new ways to present scrapbook layouts as valid works of art. And as I was decorating my new house, I decided to take that concept and create a scrapbook gallery in the circulation hall. I wanted to make the scrapbook layouts blend in architecturally with the rest of the elements in our rambler cottage style house.

So, I went to my local Michael’s, and found unfinished shadow box style memory frames, and got to work creating my gallery. I painted the inside panels black to create depth, and because Black is the New Black, as I have discussed before! And then I painted the frames white, using the same Super Hide white that all of the trim and baseboards are painted throughout the house.

Once the frames were dry and ready, I mounted a piece of store bought 12 x 12 scrapbook paper into each frame. I used the same background paper in each frame to give the gallery a consistent feel. And then I took some of my favorite digital scrapbook layouts, and had them printed at 11 x 11 at a local Kinko’s type print shop. If you have your digital layouts printed at your local print shop, ask them to use a cardstock, and to print it on a Fiery or better printer. I prefer non-glossy. But that’s a personal choice. The prints you’ll get will look darker than they do on your computer monitor, so choose layouts that naturally have high contrast to print at a local printer. If you want prints that look EXACTLY like your layouts on your screen, then order from a PHOTO printer, such as Printroom.com.

I cut the 11 x 11 layouts so that there were no white borders, and then mounted them into the memory frames on top of the 12 x 12 background paper. Then, I measured, and hung the frames on the wall, gallery style.

I think it looks great, and it was an easy and inexpensive way to instantly increase my art collection!

Cookie Recipe Box- Scrapbook Style!

This is further experimentation into creating fun and interesting recipe boxes of different shapes and sizes with a scrapbooking flair. You’ll notice that my ribbon concept EXPLODED. I kinda like it!  The recipe box comes with a set of cookie recipe cards, including different cookie recipes for holidays throughout the year.  Will be available on etsy in a few days.

Scrapbook Recipe Box & Recipe Cards

I love projects that can easily and successfully combine digital and paper scrapbook techniques. While my recipe cards are all being designed digitally, I have decided to package them in a nice paper scrapping medium, and am creating recipe boxes. It’s been challenging trying to work on them with a sick toddler in the house, but Beckett went back to school today, so I’m FREE… to create, that is.