About us
It started with an apple cake.
I was looking for a gift for my mother-in-law when I noticed a box of recipe cards on her table. Her apple cake was in there, in her own handwriting. I asked if I could borrow it. I'm a designer by trade, so I photographed the card, took away the background and had it printed. When she opened it, she couldn't believe it. She cried. Then all her friends wanted one.
01 Why we do it
Some handwriting you'd know anywhere.
That was the start of Tastefully Studio. We're a husband-and-wife team, and the reason we do this hasn't changed. For a lot of families, a recipe card is the last place someone's handwriting is still in daily use. It lived by the stove. It has butter on it. The margin says "double this" in a hand you'd know anywhere.
Too good to keep in a drawer.
A recipe card by the stove, framed at eye level.
02 What we do
One photo. Every stain stays.
Send us one phone photo of the card. We prepare it for print and keep every stain and crease, right down to the crossed-out quantities. You see your framed preview free before you pay. Then we print it on fine art paper, frame it and ship it ready to hang. The original card never leaves your hands.
03 The collection
Then we kept finding more.
Once you start looking, recipe cards turn up everywhere: estate sales, auction lots, the back of vintage shops. We've gathered close to 3,000 so far, each one somebody's favorite, written in somebody's hand. We share them on Instagram and wonder about the people who wrote them. Your cards are different. We never post, share or keep a customer's card for anything except making your order.
See the collection on Instagram
04 Who it's for
For whoever has the recipe box now.
Maybe it's you. Maybe it's your mom, your aunt or your grandmother. People frame these for Christmas, for Mother's Day, for a first kitchen, or to remember someone. Most of all, they frame the recipe everyone still asks for.
