How-To

Keepsake Recipe Cards

Copy a handful of your favorites -- a friend's strawberry pie, your sister's Sunday-night roast chicken -- onto these charming, artful recipe cards, and tie them with ribbon. Bundled with a few blank ones for the new mom to fill in, plus a pie plate, a pie server, and a pastry cutter, they make a delicious gift.
Martha Stewart Living, May 2004

 


Tools & Materials
Recipe card template
Heavy card stock
Scissors or a utility knife

Recipe Card How-To
Download and print our three-card template onto an 8 1/2-by-11-inch piece of heavy card stock. Cut out each of the sturdy 3-by-5-inch cards -- they're just the right size for a recipe box.

 

Reviews (13)

  • GoddessLori
    2 Mar, 2009

    Was anyone able to repair the plain white screen problem? When I click on he template download, just a plain screen opens up.

  • linnz821
    26 Nov, 2008

    I, too, am making a keepsake recipe book for my daughter. I will find these templates very useful! I am making mine in a scrapbook type book with pictures of the completed recipe. If you have any other ideas, please email me at lm821@aol.com.

  • will08
    8 Nov, 2008

    I'm making a cookbook of family favorites for my daughter, these templates are perfect!!

  • weepingwillow525
    29 Oct, 2008

    I just opened up the link for the templates, and it worked fine ! these are so cute... how great for homemade gifts for christmas!

  • Perla619
    12 Sep, 2008

    if the window opens up white there should be an adobe acrobat reader open before clicking on the link to open it. after opening an adobe window then click on the link. if it still doesnt then theres a problem with the reader and should be downloaded again.

  • TEALBLUE
    4 Sep, 2008

    I have the same problem, nothing but a white screen.

  • queen13
    3 Sep, 2008

    Every time I try to see the template for these, I get a blank white screen. I don't understand why.

  • culinaryguru
    7 Aug, 2008

    These are the cutest recipe cards! I love 'em! Thanks for the templates!

  • TeaLoverMom
    31 Jul, 2008

    I love these recipe cards. I have many pen-pals around the world

  • ltaylor2004
    9 Apr, 2008

    The template is so wonderful and a "good thing", thank you so very much, I can't wait to get started on my collection!

  • organist
    19 Mar, 2008

    I have templlates I've had and they never printed out the right size or weren't quit what I wanted. Thanks to you I can now have beautiful recipe cards to give to my daughter-in-laws at Christmas, plus making a cookbook for them. Thank you so much!!

  • hairpinandarrow
    14 Nov, 2007

    These are so handy to copy. And how nice the templates are free! They make sharing recipes with friends and family a snap! I'll be putting together a recipe box of my favorite family recipes for our family "Craft" pollyanna gift exchange this Christmas. I'm hoping my pollyanna will keep the recipe box and add her own favorites to mine. I like to include a memory on the back of each recipe (where I got it, when I served it that was memorable, and who especially liked it).

  • hairpinandarrow
    14 Nov, 2007

    These are so handy to copy. And how nice the templates are free! They make sharing recipes with friends and family a snap! I'll be putting together a recipe box of my favorite family recipes for our family "Craft" pollyanna gift exchange this Christmas. I'm hoping my pollyanna will keep the recipe box and add her own favorites to mine. I like to include a memory on the back of each recipe (where I got it, when I served it that was memorable, and who especially liked it).