Recipe Scrapbooking

A Recipe Scrapbook is a decorative book of quotes, sayings, pictures, and recipes.

 These make great gifts.  I have done them as  Wedding and Christmas Gifts. They are a great way to  keep a history of your family recipes. You can put in pictures of who you got the recipe from, Maybe it was an aunt or grandparent. Along with their picture (if you have one available) tell something about them.  Then put in the recipe, is it one they developed or how did the recipe come about. Put in a picture of the finished product if possible.  Comments about the recipe. How did it taste, what did it remind you of.

When I did the wedding gift ones it was for co-workers and I got recipes from other co-workers and brides family and future husbands family.  I had pictures of the co-workers taken at work and decorated it with food stickers, die cuts, pictures of food from magazines etc. The brides loved them. It got them started with a recipe book from both families and they can add their own recipes to it.  Plus they are fun to do. Something I just thought of is creating a book for a teacher with children's recipes. How fun would that be.

This is not a complete list of all you can do but it gives you ideas and is a good sampling of what you can do.  Let your imagination run away and see what you can come up with.

Journal Scrapbooking

Journal Scrapbooks or Art Scrapbooks - for some people journals are where they collect and put memorabilia not just words.
For these scrapbooks you will probably use some pockets to keep small items in such as pins, a piece of material from a homemade dress for a special occasion.  For this I would put a picture of the dress or me wearing the dress and small piece of the dress material in the pocket so I could see the design of the material.
If your child plays basketball and got a piece of the cord from the basket for winning the big game,  I would put a picture of your child cutting off a piece of the basket and put the cord (or a piece of it) in a pocket.  My daughter played basketball in second grade and I made the end of the year certificates with a picture of the team and I created a basket and cut out little orange balls and had it look like the ball was (slow mow) going into the basket. Then I had the season dates and my daughters' picture on it.
For a trip to the beach you could put  a sea shell or a tiny pill bag of sand in the pocket. The ideas are endless.
I hope this gets your mind thinking of  ideas that you can run with. If you do one share with me a picture and what you did. I would love to see it and share it on my blog. That goes for any of my blogs.
That's it for this time. My next blog will be on a Recipe Scrapbook. They make great wedding or Christmas gifts.

Till then HAPPY SCRAPPING!!!

I'm Back

Hey there everyone!  Sorry it has been so long since my last post. I have had a lot of changes in my life. My daughter and I have moved (separated from my husband) and I have spent some time in the hospital (a couple of times).
I hope you all have had a good year.  I am going to try to keep up on my blog now.  I am even thinking of starting a new blog about recipes
My next scrapbook blog to come very soon. I am working on it now.

Storing Scrapbooking Supplies

Hey everyone hope you had a great 4th  of July.  We spent a quiet one at home.  BBQ'd Steaks and had Baked Potatoes,Corn on the Cob and then we had Ice Cream  for dessert.    Watched the Seafair Summer 4th of July Fireworks Display on TV and watched the neighborhood Fireworks out our living room window that over looks the lake. It was a nice quiet 4th for us. even the neighbors stopped their fireworks around 10:30 pm to 11 pm.

 I have a small place and no room for being able to scrap and leave everything out. I live in a small 980sq.ft. home and no .  So I am looking for ideas from you to be able to store my scrap booking supplies. Right now they are at my Mother's so that we can work on a scrapbook for her with all her pictures. Before that they were in my garage.  I would love to get one of those Scrap boxes from Scrapbox.com. but can't afford it.
Let me know how you store your scrap booking supplies.
I will be happy to share your ideas with others. Just give me permission to post your ideas.
Thank you!
Sheryl

Types of Scrapbooking-"Heritage Books"

We have talked about the different types of scrapbooks but lets take a closer look at each of them.
Let's start with "Heritage Books".
Heritage Books are your traditional albums. They can be an interesting way of showing your family tree, documents and family history. They can also be educational for furture generations teaching geneology.
For instance a friend of mine did a family tree/geneology for my parents. How cool was it to find out that we were related to Miles Standish that came over on the Mayflower, and that we were related to 5 past presidents.  This information could be incorporated in your Heritage Scrapbook.   I  would probably start with a copy of the family tree and go from there. You could include a coat of arms if you have one and you know what it is. You could find a picture on the internet of it or have a family member draw one for you. Do you have pictures of famous people from your family?  If you do you could put them in and if you don't have much info on them look them up on the internet and  find out what you need. You could put in copies of birth and death certificates.  You could also put in copies of wedding certificates. What about military service?  When did they enlist and when were they discharged. Family bibles are good places to look for birth, death, and wedding dates.  If you have a grandfather like I had he kept little black books that had everything in them. Every time my parents bought a new car,  each grandchilds birthday, every wedding announcement, my parents first date.  Any documents you have in regards to family members could be used in this book.  Was your family from a different country? When did they come and settle in your country.