Creating Recipe Book with Bo Bunny's Misc. Me

 

I just love that there are some really beautiful inserts and designs to create a beautiful Recipes Collection book with Misc. Me!   My oldest daughter Chloe has become quite the little chef, she is almost daily experimenting with cooking and baking.  So I thought it would be a nice thing to make her up a special recipe book to keep all her recipes in.  Once I was done putting the book together (most of it blank for her to work in her choices), I thought I would pop in a few recipes she's tried and add a few photos of her and her sister, baking and cooking over the years. Just a little something to get her started.

 

The above photo was taken when Chloe and Meagan went to my sisters house to make Sprinkle cookies, one of their first baking adventures.  The recipe on the right is my dear husbands favourite salad that he's always asking Chloe to make for him.

 

Chloe and I made these Bass fillet's breaded in Japanese Panko (bread crumbs), I thought it would be fun to show the photo of Chloe holding the fresh Bass fish she and her dad caught on a fishing trip they took (the fish in the photo are the fish she caught).

 

A fun trend in scrapbooking lately is to use feathers to embellish pages.  I wanted to use some natural elements to decorate with so I thought it would be nice to use feathers to accent the page.

 

Designer Tip:  I thought it would be fun to try a fun little design trick on these feathers.  I've been seeing curled feathers lately online, but couldn't seem to find any in stores.  So I decided to try curling them myself.  Have you ever tried curling ribbons with the edge of a scissor or the dull side of a butter knife?  You do this the same way!  Just loosen the strands by running your fingers down along the stem.  Then just using the dull edge of a butter knife, start at the base of the strand and run it along the strand (between the knife edge and your thumb).  Easy Peasy!

 

When I gave my daughter this book, she was so delighted to have a book she can easily keep adding her recipes to.  One of her favourite things about the inserts was the conversion table insert that comes with the recipe cards.

 

Bo Bunny Supplies:

Misc. Me Binder/The Avenues

Misc. Me Recipe Contents/The Avenues

Misc. Me Note Paper/The Avenues

Misc. Me Contents/The Avenues

Misc. Me 8x10 Recipe Protectors Pack

Misc. Me 8x10 Page Protector(full page)

Patterned Paper: Antique, Trellis, Courtyard, Clocks, Shutters, Doors/The Avenues

Brads: The Avenues

Noteworthy: The Avenues

Layered Chipboard: The Avenues

Jewels: The Avenues

Blossoms: Denim, Natural Earth/Bouquet

 

I also included a bunch of the pocket style pages available in the Misc. Me collections so that my daughter can keep some of those 'vintage' handwritten recipies that have been passed down through the generations in their original form.

 

Thanks so much for stopping by today, to see more Misc. Me project ideas please take a moment to stop by the Bo Bunny Blog today!

New Bo Bunny Misc Me Life Journal!

There has been a lot of excitement lately over these fun 'Project Life' albums and Bo Bunny has come up with some quick and beautiful ways for everyone to enjoy this style of scrapping!  There is this fabulous new collection they've come up with called Misc. Me! A beautiful collection of 3 ring binders, plastic photo/page sleaves, gorgeous tab pages, phrase cards etc. to make putting together an album a super easy task!

 

The binders come already looking very beautiful in 3 different styles (the one above is the C'est La Vie Binder).....you can leave it as is an maybe just throw a title on it or you can doll it all up with some of the gorgeous coordinating goodies Bo Bunny makes to go with it!   

Here I've dressed my cover up with my favourite Bo Bunny Blossoms, Jewel Flourishes, dimensional stickers, Bo Bunny lace and trinkets and dimensional stickers.  Today our sweet design team coordinator Kris Sylvester did a cute li'l video clip on Youtube showing my binder and some of the tips to putting it together.  You can find it on the Bo Bunny blog HERE.  And even cooler, you can go to an amazing site called Crafts 'n Things to find a whole tutorial on how to put this album cover together!  This site has a new tutorial on crafting every day!

 

I have to tell you this book came in really handy the last couple of weeks!  My sister and I came up with the idea to do a special book up for my parents 55th anniversary party.  We thought it would be fun to put together a family recipe book that touched on the memories of our family as enjoyed at the table of my parents.  All the kids, our spouses, the grandchildren....all put in recipes and food memories of time spent at 'Oma & Opa's' table.  It turned out to be a touching book of photo's, recipies and most special of all, the memories associated with the foods eaten.  ....The problem was that we came up with the idea a little late, we had hoped to make it into a bound photo book until we realized that it would take a couple of weeks to get it back from the printers!  Well, same day as we realized this, my Bo Bunny packet showed up.....what a god-send!  It worked perfectly for our purposes!  It took a little quick work from both my sister and I but in the end we came up with a beautiful gift to my parents from the whole family! 

 

So what type of albums have you all been working on?  I'd love to hear some clever idea's for these project life style books!