My first Doodlebug Design Team Post – You Bake Me Happy Recipe Book!

Helllloooooo! Yes! It's me again this week! SO MUCH going on! And it's all good! Today is my first project for the Doodlebug Design Team and the Doodlebug Blog! I had so much fun making this project to share with you. I hope you love it too! Something different than a card, but still so much paper goodness! I am featuring the newest collection from Doodlebug called Made With Love. It's a baking theme with the most adorable images and the prettiest color palette. Everything you love about Doodlebug. Pink and aqua and yellow…perfect for Spring. And smiling whisks and chocolate kisses…. It's a baking dream. So I thought how can I best use this theme?? I know – I'll make a recipe book! One of the items in the collection is a booklet of recipe cards. That got the project rolling and it went uphill from there! Be sure to pop over and visit the Doodlebug blog and leave some love there – and check out all the other amazing projects from the rest of the team. 

Here is my finished book – bound at home with my Cinch machine. The finished size is 6.5" by 4.5". It would make the BEST gift for a friend who loves to bake. You could fill in your own recipes or give it to the person blank and they can add their recipes. So fun. I have lots of pictures to show you all the details.

 

 

 

Here's a close up of the cover! So many little details – a heart, a tiny clip, a banner, a doily….Love layering all these things together. That's probably the best thing about using Doodlebug collections. EVERYTHING matches perfectly. It's a dream. I get emails from people that want tips about matching colors. That's difficult for a lot of people. Well…here you can't go wrong! And crafting is less stress.

 

Here are some of my supplies all rounded up for inspiration! There are the recipe cards – you get 36 cards in a pack. In order to bind them into my book, I added a small border of white cardstock on the left side and punched that white paper instead of the cards. 

 

 

Here you can see how they fit into the book! I mixed in recipe cards along with some decorative pages throughout the book. 

 

 

 

The covers are made from chipboard and then covered in lovely papers and embellishments! 

 

Here is the finished cover!

 

 

 

 

This is the inside of the back cover….love those polka dots! And those cuuuuuuuute stickers!

 

This is one of the inside pages. Patterned papers, stickers, banners and tabs….

 

And this chocolate page! I am OBSESSED with those teeny tiny chocolate drops!!! EEP. And smiling cookies??? Hello. 

 

 

This is the back cover! I used my Cinch Machine to bind everything. This is an awesome tool! I've had mine for years. I use it to make books and calendars and whatever else you want to bind together. So easy and quick, too.

The finishing touch – some little handmade charms!! I used some pink chunky twine to tie a big bow onto the coils of the book. Then I die cut a couple of small scalloped circles and affixed some little images. I used jump rings and tied them on with more twine. 

 

Thanks for stopping by today (and every day this week LOL)…. I am delighted to be making Doodlebug projects to share my love of this company with you. What do you think? Want more books and such? Or cards? Lemme know! Have a blessed day and I'll see you soon! XOXO