The holidays are a wonderful time to bake your Christmas and Holiday cookies and share your baked treasures with family and friends.
This year try scrapping the recipe to go along with the goodies you deliver to your loved ones! Like the Peppermint Meringues with Chocolate Filling Cookies that are scrapped in the image to the left!
Here are the some things to keep in mind when you make this wonderful gift.
Tip 1: Plan ahead and Pick out the Cookie Recipe ahead. Use a family recipe or try an exciting new cookie recipe.
Here some fun recipes your might want to try:
Cookie Recipe 1: Peppermint Meringues with Chocolate Filling -Martha Stewart
Cookie Recipe 2: Buttery Pecan Rounds -Martha Stewart
Cookie Recipe 3: Gingerbread People – Everyday Food/ Martha Stewart
Cookie Recipe 4: Peppermint-Chocolate Sandwich Cookies -Food Network
Cookie Recipe 5: Sugar Cookie Star Cutout – Better Homes & Gardens
Cookie Recipe 6: Christmas Sugar Cookie – Christmas-Cookies.com
Frosting Recipes for your Sugar Cookie Recipes:
Royal Icing Frosting and Buttercream Frosting
Tip 2: Take lots of photos of your Cookies.
Get photos of baking, frosting, putting in baskets on holiday plates and even photos of your family helping or eating them too!
All the photos can be scrapped and added to your recipe scrapbooking page.
Tip 3: Pick out your digital scrapbooking pages. Do you want to make a more traditional 12×12” scrapbooking page? Do you want to print it out using your home printer and use the 8.5×11” sized pages? Do you want to just make one page or do you want to make a whole recipe book?
First if you want to make a scrapbooking page that is the traditional scrapbooking page 12×12” you have lots of choices for digital scrapbooking kits like “Let it Snow!” Scrapbooking Kit that was used to make this sugar cookie star cookies recipe scrap page.
The nice thing about this size is that you can have the page printed by a professional printing company or at home on a large scale printer and add it to your regular scrapbooking albums. A very nice way to combine traditional and digital scrapbooking! (Special Tip: You can have one 12×12” page printed at Shutterfly.com or even a whole album!)
Also check our special training – in the Getting Started Series in Digital Scrapbooking using Photoshop or Photoshop Elements that talks about ways you can make adjustments and then print your traditional (12×12”) sized scrap pages on regular home printers — check out the training for more information on this!
Scrapbooking Pages that are made at Regular Paper Size for Home Printers
Second, another solution for easy printing is to pick digital scrapbooking kits that have paper that works well with home printers like (8.5×11” or 11×8.5”) paper size. Using these digital papers makes it very easy to print out your recipe scrap page and include with your cookie plate very easy!
Like this Gingerbread People recipe scrapbooking page would be easy to print on my home printer, and I could put with the cookie gift plate. I used the Christmas Polka Dots Digital Scrapbooking Kit 2 because it has digital scrapbooking paper at 8.5×11” so I just put the photos a few embellishments and the recipe and I am ready to print out!
Now a good point to remember is that with some scrapbooking kits you can use the digital papers in either 8.5×11 direction, turn it and use it in 11×8.5” orientation for another great scrap page that is printable on a home printer. For example, this next scrapbooking cookie recipe page (Peppermint-Chocolate Sandwich Cookies) is from the same Christmas Polka Dots Digital Scrapbooking Kit 2 but the paper is turned in the landscape direction and then scrapped – both scrap recipe pages are easy to print out in a home printer and then you can quickly add the recipe page with your goodies when you give them to family and friends!
Third, another way to scrap your cookie 
recipe scrap pages is to use a Quick Page Kit that has a recipe card on it like the Christmas Polka Dots Quick Page Digital Scrapbooking Kit 3 which has 2 Quick Pages that have recipe cards on the Quick Pages scrap pages! The reason you might want to use Quick Pages is because they are pre-designed scrap pages that someone else has done all the work for you and all you have to do is add your photos and your recipe, and basically you are done!
Yes, it is that simple!
If you are in a hurry to get your holiday cookie treats out quickly to your friends and family then you might want to use Quick Pages to scrap your recipe quickly!! Like the Christmas Sugar Cookie (and Royal Icing Frosting) recipe scrap page that I made from the Christmas Polka Dots Quick Page Digital Scrapbooking Kit 3 that you can see below.
Using this Quick Page made it super fast for me to get my holiday cookie gift ready very fast!
So when you are getting ready to make holiday cookies this year for your family and friends try adding a scrapbooking recipe page as an extra special treat to your Holiday Basket or Plate!
Have a very nice holiday!
See the kits that were used in this blog article:
Digital Scrap Kit: Christmas Polka Dots Digital Scrapbooking Kit 2 is a fun holiday kit designed with adorable Christmas-flare! Mix and match papers, supplies, for wonderful Christmas Scrapbooking projects! With this kit is easy to make a recipe album or Holiday Journaling project – with this easy-to-print-at-home kit! (8.5×11″ paper size)
Decorate your digital scrapbooking projects with holly, adorable Christmas-themed buttons, or even a Christmas tree and Candy Cane! From sipping hot cocoa, making Christmas cookies for Santa, or opening presents Christmas morning, create digital masterpieces to cherish special holiday memories!
Digital Scrap Kit: “Let it Snow!” Scrapbooking Kit is a digital scrapbooking kit full of snowflakes for Winter Scrapbooking! Includes digital papers, frames, embellishments, and Alphas!
Celebrate this year’s winter festivities with the “Let it Snow” Digital Scrapbooking Kit! Turn your holiday photos and special memories into a digital Winter Wonderland! Whether you prefer to digitally scrap a romantic evening curled up next to the fire on a cold winter day, or the joy of building a snowman with the kids, this digital scrapbooking kit is filled with beautiful digital supplies to make all of your frostiest moments look fabulous!
Digital Quick Page Scrap Kit: Christmas Polka Dots Quick Page Digital Scrapbooking Kit 3 includes pre-designed holiday Quick Pages so you can create Christmas digital scrapbooking projects quickly! All you have to do to finish this scrap page is add your photos, and you’re basically finished! (11×8.5″ home printing paper size)
Quick Page kits allow you to spend more of your holiday having fun, making memories, and snapping special Christmas photos, instead of spending all that time on scrapping! The Christmas Polka Dots Quick Page Kit 3 has paper that is sized at 11×8.5″ – which is perfect for your printing your digital scrapbooking pages on a home printer or even creating calendar pages, mouse pads, aprons and scrapbooking albums!
