Much Ado About Nothing: Secret Recipes- Special Family Project

Thursday, September 5, 2013

Hey there,

So I have a little story today if y'all will bear with me.

Most of you who follow along with my blog- well you know I add in

alot of my life and 100% of my heart always.

And if you know me you know a huge part of my life is cooking

for my 3 boys and hubby. I may not be perfect or thin but I try

to make sure we have natural foods and home cooked meals most

of the time. It is very important to me, and I definitely share my love

through my food. I am often told I am like an old Italian grandmother

minus the grandma part- but you will always find food in my kitchen.

So when I came across this Farmhouse kit from Creating Made Easy

and saw all the recipe cards from Farmhouse in it, I knew I wanted to

make a "Secret Recipe" book for my boys.

Now since I have 3 boys and NO girls, I knew I wanted it to be beautiful

but not all flowery and glittery, I just wanted it to be from the heart.

The Clear Scraps Recipe Stand Album was perfect and I was happy to make it.

Here is how I created this album:

To create acrylic cover: Trim out patterned paper to 4X6.
Punch off borders using Martha Stewart Border punch.
Run page through Xyron® 5" Creative Station™ w/ 5” Creative Station Permanent Refill.
Adhere to album cover page.
Run the album chipboard pages through Xyron® 5" Creative Station™ w/ 5” Creative Station Permanent Refill.
Cover with paper. (no muss no fuss!)
Trim off excess.
Flip chipboard page over and repeat.

For acrylic pages: Take recipe cards- run though Xyron® 5" Creative Station™ w/ 5” Creative Station Permanent Refill, adhere to acrylic pages (make sure to turn pages the right way I ruined 4 placing them upside down on the acrylic!)