Hello! Welcome to the Club Scrap Orchard Blog Hop! If you've just come from Tricia's blog then you're hopping along just fine. Wow fall in Upstate NY this year has been amazing! It's 87 degrees today and has been for like a week!! With temperatures like this it's been hard to get into the typical Autumn spirit, BUT the
Club Scrap September collection Orchard will help for sure! Fall colors, apples and pumpkins! Yay Fall! :)
I was looking through all my stuff the other day and came across a huge wooden clothespin I got at a craft store a couple of years ago. I always thought it would make a great recipe card holder. So that's what I did! I decorated the clothespin and made a recipe book to go with it.
The finished recipe book measures 5 1/2" x 6".
There are 12 folders that hold recipe cards.
The book has an accordion folded spine.
Inspired by this month's kit I included only recipes made with apples, pumpkin and cherries.
I decorated the folders with papers and
embellishment cut-aparts from the
Orchard collection.
To make this cut 2 pieces of card stock for the front and back cover 6" x 12." Score it @ 5 1/2", 6 1/2", 7 1/2", 8 1/2", 9 1/2", 10 1/2" and 11 1/2". Fold in an accordion pattern.
Adhere them together overlapping one of the 1" accordion ends.
For the recipe folders cut 12 pieces of card stock 4 1/2" x 6 3/4". Score at 1/2" and 3 5/8". Put tape on the edges as shown and fold over into tube open on one edge. 3"x 5" recipe cards fit perfectly!
Adhere each of the folders onto the accordion folds of the book. I adhered 2 to each accordion-one on one side and then one to the other side-staggered so they are next to each other.
I adhered a ribbon across the back to hold the book together.
Your next stop on the hop is
Hetty!
Have a great day!
Pam