Recipe card research

I have been looking at recipe cards since my decision to consider making cards rather than a full recipe book. This is partly due to the time restrictions - I wanted to get my book printed professionally though a one off publishing company such as Blurb. I thought that this would be a really nice professional piece for my portfolio, however shipping can take up to 21 days, and including photographing the product for my boards, I just don't want to risk not making the time limit. Also, I think that the volume of work required for this would have been more than I could afford. I think that recipe cards allow me to play more with interesting formats such as these....
  I like very much the more hand rendered aesthetic to these cards - which suits the style that I have been working to so far on this brief. I like the combination of illustration and text in these examples - illustrations complementing the text where appropriate. I think this will be a good excersise in using illustration in the correct context.