The “visual person” inside me decided I needed a picture with every recipe card that I have in my ever-growing repertoire! Here is what I came up with:
I just uploaded the pictures I have to Picnik.com then copied the text of the recipe straight from my blog and put it on top of the picture. I saved each file as a jpg and printed them out on cardstock. I would actually love to eventually have them printed at WalMart as a 4×6 picture, but this just what I have done for now!
It was SUPER easy to do! Now I just need to do this to ALL my recipes! What have I gotten myself into?! lol…
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It's like you channel my thoughts sometimes, Steph! I was just yesterday scouring the web for ideas about how to give holiday gifts of favorite recipes (hoping to download a freeware recipe program that prints all my recipes nicely in the same format). Still, your format might be a little hard on older eyes and while I love how gorgeous they are, I'd worry about how functional they might be as gifts.
My suggestion on printing them … sign up with snapfish.com or kodakgallery.com or one of the other places that runs specials on internet photo printing. I just got an email from Snapfish yesterday on a 24-hour special of 100 free 4×6 prints with a $5 purchase, but couldn't use it! If you were ready for something like that you could have them all printed at once for free!
Love this idea! I'm with you and always gravitate to a recipe if I know what it's "Suppose" to look like in the end!
That is awesome. I have been wanting to do this and make a Christmas recipe file for my kids, but wasn't sure how to do it. Thanks for sharing. Your blog is great, thanks for sharing with us!
OMG! What a great idea!!! Thanks for sharing that. It would also make a wonderful gift!!!
I love it! Regarding the comment from Kalleigh… I think a way around that would be to make the recipe card in Photoshop Elements and then when you do the photo as the bottom layer make the photo like 75% opacity (to where you can see the picture, but the font will stand out more).
I think they are beautiful! LOVE THEM!!! Maybe we should have a recipe card swap and just send them to each other so that we have a collection of 4×6 photo recipe cards. Wouldn't that be fun?
We could do a Christmas Cookie one!
What a great idea! I love this. Yes, it will be time consuming, but think of what you could do with them!! a handful of these with some fun kitchen towels and maybe cooking stuff as a wedding/shower present. Even just a gift with a towel for a birthdya present for a friend. The ideas are endless. You are seriously so awesome Steph!!
Thanks for this idea! I need so much help with cooking and I am such visual learner so this should help me! I love your blog!
That will be a big job, but so cool! You could give those as wedding gifts…or just because you love your fellow blogger gift….hint hint. They really look great.
I love this – I actually did this last year with my Creative Memories Program and put pictures of my Grandmother, great Grandmother, or whomever I got the recipe from. I then had them printed at Walgreens in multiples and put them in a coffee table flip album for everyone for gifts! I put the picture off to the side for the most part or made them opaque so that the actual recipe was readable.
What a great idea and an ambitious project. One year I made recipe books with all our favorite recipes to give to our family members. They went over really well.
Those photo albums you make on line at "Photobook" and places like that are cool too. You can put all your photos and recipes in there and it will come back to you nicely printed and bound. Just a thought, there is something nice about searching through a recipe box too! Have fun!
Hi,
I really liked your blog. Thanks a lot for sharing this.
cute recipe cards