So I decided I wanted to start using Photoshop again, but I had no
idea what I wanted to use it for. I looked around Pinterest some
(obviously) and decided to make some recipe cards (pinsperation).
So, Sunday night I naturally stayed up until two in the morning trying
to design these cards... They turned out a little suspicious in the
morning, to say the least. Perhaps I was half asleep... I then dedicated all Monday to perfecting
these cards. Did they end up perfect? No, but I still like them. I think
I ended up making about 8 different categories (bake me, cook me, drink
me, etc...), but here's a photo of how one of them turned out.
If anybody (if anybody even is reading this...) wants the
print outs of the recipe cards, you can just e-mail me and I can e-mail
you the files. They're 5x7, which is actually super big (it looked
tiny on my computer, I swear!), and I printed them on cardstock. I individually hole-punched each card and stuck them in the binder. I would have rather ordered 5x7 protective covers, which they have on Amazon, but I was just too excited to finish and couldn't wait. The card's actually front and back, but I printed it super old school. I printed first
the front and then stuck the paper back in the printer the opposite way, and
printed the back on the back of the paper. If you're gonna do this, do a test run first on
just regular paper. It'll pay off, trust me!
So as I finished doing my recipe cards, I figured I would probably need
something to put the cards in. I searched around Pinterest some more,
and found this tutorial
from Flamingo Toes (whose blog is super amazing and inspirational!) and
made my own knock-off of her knock-off from Anthropologie (shocking).
Here is my finished product and the materials I used (plus a pen,
needle, and glue gun).
Some things
that I did differently than Beverly - I had to (well, my dad had to) use
a sledgehammer to flatten out my spoon. I glue gunned my spoon to my
binder, rather than threaded it. I couldn't get it to work, I would have
rather had it embroidered in. I obviously tried to make my font
more like the original instead of making my own. I used a basic font on
word. Once I printed, cut, and hole punched all my cards, I stuck the
dividers in and voilà! I had a recipe book filled with cards. The inside
of my binder looks a little weird (you can kind of see it in the first
pictures), so I may just use it as a decoration on a kitchen shelf. Who
knows, maybe it'll grow on me!
Happy crafting!
Randell
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