Recipe Scrapbooks Make Great Gifts
I love the whole idea of a recipe scrapbook. I’m considering making a few to give as gifts for Christmas. Recipe scrapbooks have become so popular lately with scrapbookers that scrapbooking manufacturers are starting to make patterned paper, stickers, embellishments and even customized albums with a recipe and cooking theme.
When making a recipe scrapbook, you need to consider what recipes you want to include. Do you want to include your favorite recipes? Maybe you’d like to make an album of family favorites or kid favorites? You also can preserve recipes that have been passed down in your family by creating a heritage album full of recipes. Try including a picture of the family member who may have originated the recipe. Another option is to make a recipe album with just one type of recipe. For example, you could use only dessert recipes or only soup recipes. Don’t forget to gather recipes from friends and family to include in your recipe scrapbook.
You could use either traditional scrapbooking or digital scrapbooking for a recipe album. You can find lots of recipe and cooking fonts, papers and embellishments for digital scrapbooking albums as well as traditional scrapbooking albums. A unique advantage to using digital scrapbooking for your recipe scrapbook is that it is very easy and cost effective to make multiple copies of the same album to give to as gifts.
Recipe albums aren’t just great gifts for Christmas. You can give a recipe scrapbook to a friend or family member who loves to cook as a birthday gift. What about a recipe album for the host of this year’s Thanksgiving dinner? A recipe scrapbook for a bride makes a wonderful personlized wedding gift. You could even let each guest at the bridal shower bring a recipe and prepare their own page.
With some creativity and imagination, recipe scrapbook albums can be used in a variety of ways for unique, handmade gifts. Just start collecting your favorite recipes and get started making gifts for your next holiday occasion.
