If your favourite recipes are floating around on bits of paper – printed off the internet or torn from Better Homes and Gardens mag – it’s time to round ’em up.
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Dress an A4 binder with wood sheets and create a stencil for the front, and you have a cookbook that’s also a family keepsake.
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Gather your supplies:
- Cricut smart cutting machine
- Cricut smart stencil
- Cricut transfer tape
- Cricut weeding tool and scraper
- Two A4 wood pieces
- FolkArt One Decor Paint classic black
- Sponge roller brush
- Feast Watson hard wax natural
- Microfibre polishing cloth
- Selleys All Fix Big Jobs adhesive
- A4 two ring binder
- Cutting mat
Instructions
Step. 1
This stencil design can be found on Cricut Design Space by searching Better Homes and Gardens TV. To customise the font or resize the design to suit – just click Customise. Alternatively, upload your own design or download another option from Design Space.
Step. 2
Follow the prompts to load your smart stencil into cutting machine. Press Make it and your machine will cut the stencil with the fine point blade (included with the machine).
Step. 3
Using the weeding tool, remove the negative vinyl (in this case the letters/utensils) from your design to reveal the stencil.
Step. 4
Cut transfer tape to size and place it onto the stencil. Using the scraper as a burnishing tool and working from the back, slowly and carefully work your way across the stencil to adhere it to the transfer tape. Carefully pull back transfer tape at a 45° angle, ensuring design has stuck to it.
Step. 5
With the stencil now on the transfer sheet, press the stencil onto an A4 piece of wood. Use scraper again to transfer the stencil onto the wood, as before.
Step. 6
Slowly peel back the transfer tape to reveal the stencil on the wood.
Step. 7
Use the sponge roller to apply paint over the stencil.
Step. 8
When dry, carefully peel away the stencil, using the weeding tool as necessary.
Step. 9
Wax the front of both wood pieces.
Step. 10
Adhere waxed timber pieces to the front and back covers of the A4 binder. Weight the recipe book with heavy books until the glue has set.
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