Recipe Scrapbook

We did a Recipe Scrapbook for my sister and gave it to her at her Bachelorette Party. I had participated in one of these before for a friend and then I got one as part of my bachelorette party and I LOVE it! It is a wonderful special but low cost {thrifty} gift.

Here is how it can be organized if you are doing this as a group gift for a shower/party.

1. Contact the invitees and let them know you are planning a recipe scrapbook where everyone will decorate a page or 2 with recipe(s). If they don't participate a cooking curse will fall upon their house.

2. Send everyone a piece of cardstock, blank index cards, and specify if the page should be horizontal or vertical so they all match. They can decorate with photos, stickers, magazine clippings, whatever suits their fancy. I told everyone they didn't have to use the cardstock and index cards I sent if they had other paper they wanted to use.

3. Arrange a way to get the pages back from them or have everyone bring them to the event.

4. Buy a scrapbook with enough page protectors. I went with 8 1/2 x 11 size for the paper I sent and the scrapbook because that was the size of mine and it fits well on the shelf.

I wanted to show yall some example pages that I did for my sister and some from my recipe scrapbook.

I made the first/intro page with no recipes on it and made it bride centric since this was for a bachelorette party. The picture of her singing and sweeping is from a school play and it fit well with a marriage/domestic funny line above.

Here are 2 recipe pages I did for her. It's nice to use family favorite type recipes or some of your go-to recipes. One of the recipes I gave my sister is Pumpkin Crunch given to me by my SIL and it's a holiday favorite! The paper, stickers, words, and scrapbook (use a 40% coupon) came from Michael's.

Here are a few more examples from my spectacular recipe scrapbook. My girls did such a great job on mine :)

So as you can see, people can really get creative with it and add their own touches. You could even make one all by yourself for someone as a gift if you have a lot of fun recipes to share but I kinda like it as a group effort. Makes it more diverse :) I know it is something I will keep forever and cherish and hopefully my sister will too!

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