Create Decorated Vegan Recipe Cards (Round #2)

Hey crafty vegans and vegan-friendly people! The first swap is going well and about to draw to a close, so I thought I'd get round 2 on the go. Feel free to jump in!

So here's the thing: I'd like to take a photo album with those plastic sleeves that fit 4x6 inch photos, and turn it into a kickass vegan cookbook. Our goal for this swap is to make recipe cards to swap with each other. If you do these swaps a few times, you can have a kickass vegan mail-art cookbook too!

Here's how it works:

1.You will make and decorate two recipe cards for your partner.

2.The recipes will be vegan. The swapper doesn't necessarily have to be vegan, but the recipes absolutely can not contain animals or animal products. This is super important! A vegan recipe contains no meat, no egg, no milk, no butter, no gelatin, no fish, no fowl, and, for the heck of it, no honey. (Yeah, I know that honey is debated to death by vegans all over the place, but this is the place for super awesome recipes and crafts, not for internet shouting matches. Alternative liquid sweeteners include maple syrup, agave nectar, corn syrup, and brown rice syrup). This, of course, still leaves a ton of options, since vegans dine on all sorts of fruits, vegetables, grains, legumes, sea vegetables, nuts, seeds, beans, and probably a ton of other stuff.

3.The recipes must be ones that you've made before; ones that you personally know are delicious. They can be recipes you made up yourself, family recipes, or recipes you've found online or in a book, but they must be recipes that you know work.

4.The recipe card will be 4 inches by 6 inches (10.2 cm by 15.2 cm......ish). This is so that it can fit in those plastic photo sleeves, which serves two purposes: One is for handy storage or display, and the other is because the photo sleeves will protect the card if you happen to slop cake batter everywhere :)

5.The recipe will be transcribed on one side of the card only! That way, you can see the entire recipe without having to remove it from the album. If the recipe is really long and can't be fit on one side of one card, continue the recipe on an additional card.

6.Decorate the card somehow. There probably won't be a ton of space to do a ton of decorating, but you can surely make it look funky or pretty somehow, whether by writing the title in calligraphy or adding a pretty border, or using a pretty cardstock for the background. Be creative and have fun with it.

7.You can choose to send the cards in an envelope, or you can make them into postcards by addressing and stamping the back of the card. Important: If you choose the postcard option, the cards must be durable for mailing. Consider sealing the card with a podgecoat or tape if there is a question that glued bits might fall off. (Also, if you receive a postcard recipe card, do you mind giving me feedback on whether it arrived in a suitable condition? This will help me decide whether to include it as an option for future swaps)

8.Please comment here if you have a food allergy or absolutely abhor any ingredient. The recipes are sender's choice but I am expecting that senders will not give a peanut recipe to a peanut-allergic person, for example. Celiacs are welcome to participate in this swap. Here is a list of safe and unsafe foods for celiacs: http://www.celiac.ca/EnglishCCA/egfdiet.html . I'm not sure if anyone with celiac will participate in this swap, but if you find yourself sending to a celiac partner and are stuck for ideas, please pm me and I'll help you out!

9.Please double-check your transcription to be sure that ingredients and amounts are accurate.

Okay, I know that looks like a lot of specifications but this should actually be really fun and easy!

Newbies with filled-out profiles are allowed, oldies should have a decent rating (I dunno, let's say greater than 4.7). I'll check profiles to make sure that anyone who looks really sketchy doesn't get in. If anyone flakes, I'll angel the recipient and send a pack of possums after the flaker.