I love the beginning of a New Year. I love the opportunity it gives us to renew our commitments and rethink our priorities!
We understand that so much of our time is spent in the kitchen. Each and every week we are planning meals, building our shopping lists and hoping that those things we create are liked by our family! :-)
It is because of our understanding and feeling that same way, that they ETM Recipe Kit Club was formed. Several years ago, we decided to form this club and it has been a HUGE success ever since.
Since the start of this club, we have designed 10 different binders that are used to organize the monthly recipe kits that you receive. The above binder is our current design with a NEW design being released this month. We typically design 2 binders a year.
Each binder kit includes the binder, all pattern paper and supplies needed to duplicate our design, step by step instructions and color copies of the kit. They are very easy to assemble!
Our binders are organized with 6 tabs. Tabs includes breads, soups/salads, main dishes, desserts, appetizers/beverages and side dishes. As you receive your recipes each month, they will coordinate with one of the tabs.
Each month, we design four NEW recipe pages. These pages are 5x7 in size and fit your binder kit. Our designs are quick and easy to assemble. Each kit includes instructions and a reminder to view the color image of the kit on our website.
Our designs vary between a landscape and portrait orientation so you have a variety in your binder as well. I always suggest to my customers that once they complete our design each month, they create a second design from their own recipes and paper scraps to slide in the back side of the sheet protector. That way you are also organizing your own recipes too! We all have that binder or folder filled with misc recipes we have received from family, friends, church members or even printed from the internet. Our binder kits are a great way to organize those recipes and have them visible and quick to reference.
Our recipes are tried and true. We are never going to send you something that we have not made our selves and personally love. I like to keep things simple and find recipes that are not going to take a lot of time to prepare. Remember... the idea is to simplify!
ANOTHER great idea with these kits is to give them as a gift! We have had customers that have created the pages each month then at the end of the year give a completed album as a Christmas gift. Or maybe give as a wedding gift or to your daughter leaving for college. There are so many possibilites with this concept. I promise you will love each kit!
Each month, you receive 4 new kits and the cost is only $12 per month. IF you live locally, you can pick your kits up OR if you need shipping we offer a reduced flate rate.
IF you personally email and request to join by the end of this month, I will include an additional kit from our 2011 kits of your choice!
IF you are interested in our current binder kit CLICK HERE Only a few are left in stock before our new design is released!
This month's Expressions card-making kit is just too unique to pass up. The fun combination of Authentique papers and coordinating embellishments are really great to work with for making fun family-oriented projects. The autumn colors are really beautiful to work with and there are some fun punches inside too!
Time can be short this time of year - there is a lot of holiday planning and decorating to do. . . so here are a few really simple cards that can be made with the kit. You can click on each card to see them bigger if you like.
Another fun project you can make with this kit is place cards for your holiday dinner table... the small sheet of Authentique elements have some fun words like "Gather," "Family," and "Happy!" Just use one, and some word stickers, on each card. (4x3 paper, folded in half) Add the letter stickers to spell out the name of each dinner guest and they get a special message and a keepsake too.
One of my favorite things about the kit is the full sheet of word stickers. They remind me of magnets that you used to be able to buy in book stores for putting on your refrigerator - you could make poetry or sayings out of random words... how fun to be able to use these to make cards! You can make your cards say lots of different things.
If you happen to have a little MORE time for card making this month, here is a project that you might enjoy practicing. It's a tri-shutter card, and they are really pretty for making big, beautiful greetings that can double as a decoration. I made this video last year, for making tri-shutter Christmas cards. The instructions are pretty easy to follow. The card bases are not as difficult to make as they appear. To make the patterned paper mats, simply cut each piece 1/4 inch smaller than the section that you want to place them in. For instance, the long pannels at each end measure 2 x 6 inches, so your mats should be 1.75 x 5.75 inches. Here is the card sample, and the video, if you want to give it a try.