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12 Free Printable Recipe Card Sets

A free, printable recipe card on a pile of towels

The Gracious Wife

These free printable recipe cards will bring back the nostalgia of your mom's recipe box that was the manual for all her wonderful homemade cooking.

There's something just so special about a recipe handwritten and these printable recipe cards will help you do it in style. These recipe cards make great gifts or you can put down some recipes and keep them for yourself.

These printable recipe cards work best when printed on card stock. Some can be filled out before printing while others are just meant to be handwritten on after printing so be sure to look for directions on each site. 

If you want to give these as a gift, they'd go perfect with a handmade apron, oven mitt, or potholder. If you like to can, here are some free sets of canning labels you'll want to check out.

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    Summer Recipe Cards

    Recipes cards with cactus

    Inspired by Charm

    These modern recipe cards will bring summer into your kitchen any time of year.

    It has a place from the title, the chef's name, prep time, servings, ingredients, and directions. 

    Be sure to check out Inspired by Charm's other free recipe cards that include one for each season and a few for various holidays. There are 8 different designs in all.

    Summer Recipe Cards from Inspired by Charm

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    Black and White Recipe Cards

    Black and white recipe cards with a cup of coffee

    Free Printables Online

    These black and white recipe cards will go in any kitchen with their classic design. There's room for the title, the number of servings, prep time, cook time, check's name, notes, ingredients, and directions.

    These will download two cards per page. You have the choice of printing them out and then filling them in or typing ​in them directly into the PDF and then printing them.

    Black and White Recipe Cards from Free Printables Online

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    Patterned Recipe Cards

    Recipe cards in a kitchen

    The Gracious Wife

    The Gracious Wife has designed 5 sets of free recipe cards in pink and gold, aqua and gold, black and gold, navy and lemon, and white and gold.

    You'll need to sign up for their free newsletter but then you'll get a direct link to the free PDF downloads.

    Patterened Recipe Cards from The Gracious Wife

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    Owl Recipe Cards

    A yellow and a green recipe cards decorated with owls

    My Owl Barn

    We love these free owl recipe cards! Cheerful owls decorate both sides of this recipe card.

    These printable recipe cards are two-sided and print 4x6. There's room for the name, cooking temperature and time, ingredients, directions, and meal category.​​​

    Owl Recipe Cards from My Owl Barn

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    Floral Pop Recipe Cards

    A red and white recipe card

    Messy Vegan Cook

    These free recipe cards are simple and sweet and are printed in blue, green, red, and yellow all with slightly different designs.

    What we really love about these printable recipe cards is that you can type your recipe in before printing if you want. So easy!

    Floral Pop Recipe Cards from Messy Vegan Cook

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    3 Sets of Free Recipe Cards

    Recipe cards on a table with an apple

    Kori Clark

    There are three sets of free printable recipe cards over at Kori Clark including this cute blue cards as well as a woodland themed one and one with apples.

    Just download these as a PDF file and print as many as you'd like.

    Free Printable Recipe Cards from Kori Clark

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    DIY Recipe Card Box and Template

    DIY Recipe card box

    A Beautiful Mess

    This is a simple recipe card that has a bit of style to it. There's room for the name, cook time, serving size, ingredients, and directions. There are actually two different designs of recipe cards, one has a splash of yellow on it. Besides having some gorgeous recipe cards, there's also a lovely box you can make to go along with them. The complete instructions are included on how to make this fabric-covered recipe card holder.

    DIY Recipe Card Box and Template from A Beautiful Mess

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    Retro Fleur Recipe Cards

    Green and orange retro style recipe cards

    Free Printables Online

    These fabulous printable recipe cards feature orange, teal, and green flowers. They would be so pretty for anyone's recipe collection.

    Print out the recipe cards as either 4x6 or 3x5.

    Retro Fleur Recipe Cards from Free Printables Online

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    Free Recipe Cards

    Printable recipe cards

    Design Eat Repeat

    Choose from "bake me," make me," or "share me" for the top of your recipe cards with this lovely set. Print these cards out on cardstock and then use your scissors to cut them out. If you'd like you can print these so the back of the recipe card is on printed paper.

    Free Recipe Cards from Design Eat Repeat

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    Printable Vintage Recipe Cards

    Vintage recipe cards

    The Graphics Fairy

    If you're looking to add a vintage vibe to your kitchen, this set of free recipe cards will help you do just that. There are four different designs, each with a unique graphic image. Print these out on cardstock to make them last.

    Printable Vintage Recipe Cards from The Graphics Fairy

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    Free Printable Mason Jar Recipe Cards

    Mason jar printable recipe cards

    I Should Be Mopping the Floor

    How adorable are these mason jar recipe cards? There's a gray and blue jar to choose from. These can be used as standard recipe cards or you can use them as tags for special items that you have made. There's room for you to write the name of the recipe, the chef's name, the ingredients, and then all of the directions.

    Free Printable Mason Jar Recipe Cards from I Should Be Mopping the Floor

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    Simple Recipe Cards

    Colorful printable recipe cards

    A Beautiful Mess

    A Beautiful Mess has designed a few recipe cards that are simple and easy to use. There's one with a green border and another with a pink border, making for a really cute color combination. No fluff here, there's a place for the name of the recipe, the ingredients, and the directions. These are perfect for short and simple recipes where you don't need a lot of writing space.

    In addition to the free, printable recipe cards there's also some printable dividers in the prettiest shade of pink. They have tabs in various placements at the top, so you can easily find the category of recipe that you're looking for.