Recipe Book

of a piece of the autumn sweet papers. Once this is dry you can cut out the cover using a craft knife. Stick a piece of spotted ribbon across the cover overlapping it underneath.<br><br> Stick three of the vintage cutouts across the top left and stick your recipe chipboard diagonally across the cover so that it slightly overlaps the edges. To neaten the back, cut a piece of matching paper slightly smaller than the cover. This will cover the edges of the ribbon.<br><br> Supplies can be bought from www.bubblyfunk.co.uk To create the starter divider: Cover your first divider with striped autumn sweet paper. Again, trimming round the edges with a craft knife. Cut out the letters from the vintage sheet.<br><br> Stick them across where the tab is. Add 2 vintage pictures. Using a brad, loop the blue ribbon three times as shown.<br><br> Stick this in place. To decorate the main divider: Cover with striped autumn sweet paper. Add the lettering to the top right of the divider.<br><br> Stick two lengths of ribbon across the bottom 3 this time trimming at the edges so that they don't overlap underneath. Stick the 'Sam's diner' picture across the ribbons. To create the dessert divider: Cover the divider with the squares pattern autumn sweet paper.<br><br> Stick a length of brown stitched ribbon across the top, trimmed at the edge of the divider. Add three vintage pictures across the bottom and add the lettering where the tab is. The back cover: Cover the back with the same paper as your front cover.<br><br> To create the pages: Cut pieces of patterned paper to 13 x 8cm. To put your book together: Join your album together by punching two holes in each page, divider and cover on the left side and joining them all together using the copper book rings. To decorate your pages: You can paint onto your pages to create areas where you can add writing, stick pictures in, use paper clips to hold pieces of paper or pictures to your pages, add doodling to add extra touches, staple ribbon pieces to add tabs to your favourite recipes or write in white pen on dark papers.<br><br> Ideas: The page above has been painted in the centre to create a space to write on. A coloured paper clip has been used to hold a picture to the page. The page on the right has been painted down the left to write the name and ingredients list.<br><br> The instructions have been written on a piece of notepaper, then folded up and held to the page using a paper clip. You could add ideas for meal plans as well as recipes under another divider. Add in as many pages and dividers as is needed.<br><br> You could fill it with family recipes and then give it to a parent, grandparent or child as a gift. Created by Lisa Swift http://lisa.craftjournal.net for www.easycraftprojects.net Sponsored by www.bubblyfunk.co.uk © Easy Craft Projects 2008

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