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I hope your Thanksgiving was wonderful.

I am now officially in Christmas mode. Okay, so I was kind of in part Christmas mode working on Christmas gifts, but now I am in 100% Christmas music, tree trimming, present wrapping, cocoa sipping Christmas mode.

I am so happy about it. 

One of the gifts I am putting together is a Cookie Photo Recipe Card Book. I used photos I had taken of all my favorite cookie/bar recipes to make recipe cards. Once they are all created and printed off, they will go on a ring for easy access.

Making Photo Recipe cards is really easy to make using PicMonkey.

1. Open up your photo.

2. Change the size to 2100x1500

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3. Add a geometric overlay. A rectangle.

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4. Change the hex code, to make the rectangle white. True white is ffffff.

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5. Click and drag the rectangle and make it larger.  Large enough to create a text box for your recipe, but not so large that it will cover you lovely photo.

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6. Fade the text box to be about 25%. This way more of your photo will show more.

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7. Start with the title. I used the font Geo Sans Light. Stretch it to fit across the top.

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8. To make the line underneath, use a geometric overlay. Stretch the rectangle until it is a line.

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9. Using the same font, start the first column of ingredients. The font size will be smaller than in the title. 

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10. Split the ingredients up, by making a second column. Once all the ingredients are listed, line up the columns.

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11. Start a column beneath the ingredient list. Stretch the text box to go almost the entire width of the text box. Write the instructions in this text box. Move or stretch the box to fit in the white box.

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12. Save.

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Now that you made one recipe card, you can make a few more.

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These are just a few more recipe cards for me to make up. I can't wait to show you the finished Cookie Photo Recipe Card Book.

I also think it would be fun to give one of these Photo Recipe Cards along with a plate of the goodies from the recipe.

Go to PicMonkey, play around and make your own photo recipe cards.