My project today uses some of the new December products I haven't gotten to use (or very much!) yet: Whimsical Wishes stamp set, Pierced Star STAX Die-namics, Emmitt Alphabet and Emmitt Nunbers & Symbols Die-namics, Wild Greenery Die-namics, Blueprints 21, Peek-a-Boo Circle Windows, Stitched Fishtail Flag STAX and the new Free w/$60-Stitched Scallop Edges.
The project I have today is a Christmas cookie recipe album! Here's a little background on why I chose the project: Our little town celebrates Christmas in its historic downtown with a weekend full of festivities December 13-14. Being new to the area last year, we discovered a wonderful tradition the town has -- an annual Cookie Walk! The town solicits the school kid's (and families!) help, by asking for voluntary donations of a couple of dozen homemade cookies per child (in exchange for free tickets to some of the weekend festivities!). Then all the cookies are displayed in the town community center and people can walk through the aisles and tables full of cookies, choosing which ones they would like to purchase (by the pound!).
So when I received an email last month from Food Network that they would be doing a 12 Days of Cookies event beginning December 1, emailing a different cookie recipe from its celebrity chefs each day, I thought it would be a great way to find some new cookie recipes to prepare for this year's Cookie Walk! Naturally, I had to print them out and pretty them up, so here are the first 5 days of recipes for you!
You can find Food Network's 12 Days of Cookies recipes HERE or HERE. I just copied and pasted them into a Word document and printed them so they would fit onto a quarter sheet of white cardstock. Then I used the large pierced rectangle from Blueprints 21 to die cut the recipe and then layer it onto a piece of 4x6 cardstock. This way, they fit into photo album 4x6 page protectors, creating a recipe album! The album I used is 8" x 8" and the inserts have slots for two photos/recipes.
The first insert I created for the "cover" was made with more elements from Blueprints 21. The Emmitt Alphabet and Emmitt Nunbers & Symbols Die-namics were used to create the title, die cut from Paver Red cardstock and layered onto the Blueprints 21 die cut Jellybean Green background ... since I'm using this month's new Color Palette Challenge colors:
Here's what the recipes look like in the album:
Here's a close-up of the Cover insert: It was also stamped with the circles from Whimsical Wishes in Versamark and some Wild Greenery die cuts added in Jellybean Green, for a tone-on-tone embossed look. The awesome new Pierced Star STAX were die cut out of gold metallic cardstock, as was the half circle from Blueprints 21:
December 1st card. I gold heat embossed the cool circle swirl from the Whimsical Wishes stamp set onto the card, then topped them with Paver Red cardstock white heat embossed with the smaller circle swirl stamp from the set. The edges of the Jellybean Green background were cut with the Free w/$60-Stitched Scallop Edges:
December 2nd and 3rd's recipes in the album:
Close-up of December 2 (my husband's favorite!): Gold metallic cardstock was die cut with the Wild Greenery Die-namics and "berries" created with the concentric circles from Blueprints 21:
When needed on a longer recipe, it is continued on the back side of the card:
Below, you will see that the photo page protectors allow the back side of the recipe card to be viewed while it is still in the album.
Close-up of December 3: I thought this was a wild and crazy name for a cookie, so I thought the "crazy" loopy circles and sticks (which I love!) from Whimsical Wishes would fit well here! They were gold heat embossed, to give them a bit of glitzy holiday glamour:
December 4 and 5 recipes in the album:
The lower left card in the photo above shows an additional insert for an extra-long recipe! I adhered the middle part of the recipe with Copic Double-Sided High Tack Tissue tape on the top, bottom and left side of the recipe, leaving the right side unglued. Then I die cut the last part of the recipe with the Stitched Fishtail Flag STAX and just slipped it behind the middle partially-adhered part. That part can just be pulled out to read it ... (I hope that makes sense!).
Close-up of December 4: I used the Pierced Star STAX Die-namics to sprinkle gold, Paver Red and Jellybean Green "confetti" all over the recipe. The background's gold cardstock was given stitched ends by using the long edge of the Stitched Fishtail Flag STAX:
December 5's close-up: Here, I used the Whimsical Wishes stamp set, gold heat embossed, and Wild Greenery:
I think I have a great start for choosing which cookies to make for this year's Cookie Walk and I'll be back throughout the rest of the cookie series, to show you the additional cards I make!
Thanks so much for joining me this last week ... I hope you've enjoyed the My Favorite Things December release!
Head on over to the MFT Blog for a complete list of the other designers who also have projects to share on today’s Release Rewind. I hope you have a fabulous weekend and THANK YOU again for your very sweet comments over the past week of release projects and posts – I always love hearing from you!
Other Supplies: Gold metallic cardstock, gold & white super fine embossing powders, heat embossing tool, glue dots
What a sweet recipe book! I love the color theme with gold carried througout. The recipe's look yummy as well! Wish I was your neighbor. ;-)
Posted by: Birgit | December 05, 2014 at 05:20 AM
What an clever and amazing gift idea for the holidays! And the recipes look amazing too!
Posted by: Celeste Goff | December 05, 2014 at 05:21 AM
This is just so wonderful! Pinned it, making a book of recipes for my 22 year old daughter! Thanks for the great inspiration!
Posted by: Julene | December 05, 2014 at 06:44 AM
Awesome! My family has been compiling recipe books (by passing them around each year) of our favorite childhood recipes - or current favorites. Several of them currently reside with me for my additions and this gave me some great ideas! Thanks so much!!
Posted by: TamiB | December 05, 2014 at 10:41 AM
Such an awesome idea and a great tradition for your town.
Posted by: Nadia Kendall | December 05, 2014 at 06:33 PM
Wow! This is wonderful and love the way you created this plus the design and details are fabulous.
Posted by: Elizabeth Sarkisyan | December 06, 2014 at 09:09 AM
Awesome idea!! Great way to show off the recipes, and the recipes themselves look delicious!
Posted by: paula DB | December 06, 2014 at 09:22 AM
That is SO CUTE! I love it. Great job!
Posted by: KathyC | December 08, 2014 at 07:48 AM