So, Bring Us Some Figgy Pudding

If you've been reading my blog for even a couple weeks, you know that I have a dear friend named Bonnie and that she is a fabulous cook. As I've mentioned before, she's won more than one cooking contest and her love of all things cooking/food related is evident in her offerings. My family and I have been on the receiving end of many of her gifts. She's just wonderful!
Last Saturday morning, she and I went out to breakfast to celebrate her birthday. A few weeks prior I had asked her to give me copies of all the recipes that she has won prizes for (cash and recognition). I made her a cute album with chipboard pages with all of her winning recipes handwritten inside. It turned out really sweet and she was very excited about it.

Here is a sampling:

The kit was purchased at Archivers using Bo Bunny line of paper called Raspberry Pie. I made this in just about two hours - handwriting all the recipes was done on my lunch hour at work.
I went back to Archiver's later and bought a couple more of the little 6x6 chipboard albums. I thought these would be fun to use when I make my holiday cooking album after Christmas. It would look so cute displayed on a small easel on my kitchen counter during the Christmas season.

Just wanted you to see what I've been up to. I didn't follow the directions exactly from the kit - put a lot of my own touches into it. The back page is done like a pocket for her to slip extra recipe cards into. I also added several extra embellishments of my own. Click on any of the photos for a closer look. I'm so glad Bonnie liked it. I had lots of fun creating it!

Comments

[Janelle]

What an adorable book! Now I want to track down one of those books and that yummy paper!

[Shell Mackay]

this is just gorgeous - your friend is very lucky!

Now if you want to RAK me one of those.. go right ahead *lol*

[Kerilou]

This is fabulous! The details are amazing! Kerilou

[iralamija]

beautiful!!

Bety.

[Chris]

what a great album. I love the chipboard binder album. I need to find some of those to create something similar for my family with all of our holiday recipes in it.

[Stamper Gail]

What a lovely gift. I'm sure she's going to enjoy it for many years to come.

[Lisa]

This is BEAUTIFUL, Denise! Oh my goodness - what PERFECT PP for a recipe book! LOL I love that line of paper as well. :) What a thoughtful gift. No doubt that she loved it! TFS

[Mary]

Oh, your book came out so pretty. Your friend is going to love it!

MAry

[Jolene George]

I can see why she loved it...it's so great! Nice job Denise!
Merry Christmas to you and your family! http://jolenegeorge.blogspot.com/

[Dawn]

I just found your blog Denise and I love it. You are so creative! I'm very jealous!

[paige]

Denise, thanks so much for sharing all you do! This was great!! Hope your Christmas was merry!!