How to make a mini-recipe album with coaster books. Culinary art.

Coaster books are great to make mini-albums but they also make lovely mini-recipe albums ideal to give as gifts! This is an easy project to gather decorative paper scraps and embellishments you might have left from other projects. Combine them in fun backgrounds. Let's make it!

MATERIALS:

Craft Glue Dots®
Ultra-Thin Glue Dots®

Large Square Coaster Book from Maya Road {six pages on a chain}

Scrapbooking papers from Basic Grey

Old book sheets

Printed recipes, drawings, photos.

Craft brush

Cloth

Martha Stewart Edger Punch

Craft Scissors

Millinery flowers

Chipboard initial

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Remove the chain and separate your coaster book pages. Mine has six.
2. Choose and gather your favorite scrapbooking papers and scraps.
3. Layout backgrounds for your pages combining contrasting colours and textures.
4. Mix paper scrap sizes to create an interesting composition.
5. Glue paper scraps to coaster book pages using Ultra-Thin Glue Dots®.
6. Turn it around and using your craft scissors neatly cut out paper scrap excess on the edges.
7. Repeat step 5 and glue scrapbooking paper sheets to all your coaster book pages.
8. Glue your smaller scrapbooking paper scraps to your coaster book pages backgrounds using Ultra-Thin Glue Dots®.
9. Repeat step 6 on all your coaster book pages.
10. Once your backgrounds are ready to decorate choose your embellishments. 
11. Using the Martha Stewart Edger Punch make paper ribbon out of old book sheets.
12. Cut them out with your craft scissors and incorporate them into your coaster book pages.
13. Look for recipes you might want to share with family and friends.
14. Add your own food drawings and photos. 
15. Re-size them in your computer. Print them and cut them out.
16. Decorate your coaster book pages with them. This is entirely up to you.
17. Add a chipboard initial to the cover page of your coaster book using a few Craft Glue Dots®.
18. Add a delicate bouquet of millinery flowers to it as well using a few Craft Glue Dots®.
19. Once all your coaster book pages are decorated put the chain back to them.

It makes a lovely gift for family and friends! Share your favorite recipes with them.

DISCLOSURE: I wrote this blog post while participating on the Glue Dots® design team.

I am a 2012 - 2013 Dottess!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Gabriela Delworth is a Craft & Product Designer who designs and develops high-end products for leading arts and crafts. She is also a certified Instructor and teaches a variety of creative courses at various venues throughout the year.

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