Do you find yourself returning to the same holiday recipes year after year or do you like to experiment and try new ones? While Christmas dinner is pretty much set in stone, I do find that I like to do a mix of new and old when it comes to holiday baking. As much as I love my grandma's old family recipe for Sour Cream Cookies, I'm also loving the Rapsberry Gingersnaps that I decided to try this year. And Christmas morning breakfast is always a chance to try out something a little different than the previous years.
There are so many different places to find recipes - magazines, books, blogs, friends and family. And as a result, we each seem to acquire quite a collection of handwritten cards, ripped out pages, and printed pieces of paper just waiting to be tried or used again. If you're anything like me, most things in that collection don't seem to ever make it past that waiting stage because I either forget about them or can't find the recipe when the time comes.
For this year's Christmas Printables Tour hosted by my friend Kristen from Ella Claire Inspired, I first decided to organize my own stash of saved ideas and create some pretty printable Christmas recipe cards to record what I plan on making this year. (Links to everyone else's printables appear at the end of this post.)
It is so nice to have everything stored together in one place on matching cards for the holiday. And it becomes very easy to sort through the cards making a list of ingredients that need to be purchased before all the baking begins.
This seemed like the perfect thing to then share with you so that you too could get things prepared for the upcoming season filled with dinners, parties, baking, and more.
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These cards could also be printed and cut out to wrap up and give as a thoughtful gift to friends and family who enjoy spending time in the kitchen. It seems as though there are always people who pop up on your shopping list that you want to remember with a gift without having to spend a great deal of money. A small stack of these cards tied together with a new dish towel is all you need to let someone know you appreciate them around the holiday.
The cards have been designed to be double sided. You can either use your printer's two sided printing option if it is available, or do it it manually by printing one side of the card and sticking the paper back in face-up before printing side two.
To make durable, long lasting recipe cards, you'll want to be sure to use a heavier white card stock over average printing paper.
Once your cards are printed out, just cut along the lines printed on the page. Because it is hard to sometimes get things to line up perfectly coming out of the printer every time, I have designed these cards to only have a cutting line around the fronts of the recipe cards. That way, if the paper didn't come out exactly in line on the second side, you'll never be able to tell once they are trimmed.
Although you can use ordinary paper scissors to cut the recipe cards out, using an inexpensive paper trimmer makes cutting them out fast and straight really easy. (What is pictured is actually a vintage cutter from Kodak that was originally used to slice photos!)
I hope you enjoy creating some of these cards and organizing your holiday recipes as much as I have! It seems so festive to be making your favorite Christmas cookies while using a card designed for the season.
Hand Painted Santa Gift Tag Ornament
FREE CHRISTMAS PRINTABLES
Christmas Botanicals by Ella Claire | Little House Advent Calendar by Zevy Joy | Christmas Gift Tags by So Much Better with Age | Home for the Holidays by On Sutton Place
Plaid Gift Tags by Inspired by Charm | Letter to Santa Postcard by Nina Hendrick | All is Calm by Lolly Jane | Twas the Night Before Christmas Book Page Art by Home Made Lovely
Christmas Greens Recipe Card by anderson + grant | Farm Animal Gift Tags by Boxwood Avenue | Black and White All Is Calm Christmas Art by Taryn Whiteaker | Christmas Watercolor Place Cards by Clean and Scentsible
Merry and Bright Holiday Gift Tags by Happy Happy Nester | DIY White Christmas Wall Hanging by Finding Silver Pennies | O Christmas Tree by My Someday in May | Reindeer Print by The Chronicles of Home
Peppermint Hot Cocoa Gift Jar Labels by My Uncommon Slice of Suburbia | Reindeer Antlers Cake by Nest of Posies | Vintage Inspired Christmas Postcards by Live Laugh Rowe | Advent Calendar Candle Label by Blesser House
Nutcracker Set by Making Home Base | Stovetop Potpourri Tags by Tidbits | 5 Vintage Christmas Truck Printables by Happy Housie | Sparkly Blush Christmas Printable Set by Maison de Pax
Christmas Canvas Prints by Town and Country Living | Sugar & Spice are Making the Holidays Nice by My Sweet Savannah
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