It's true that one of the best things about the hobby of scrapbooking is that you can "get your hands dirty" and work hard at creating your own pages; this kind of work is half the fun of the hobby.  So if it's so much fun to create pages on your own, why use a digital scrapbooking recipe template? 

There are a few good reasons why scrappers today are opting to use a digital scrapbooking recipe template rather than putting their own recipes in a book by hand.  For one thing, many programs that offer a digital scrapbooking recipe template have the entire page put together for you already, with placeholders for the recipe itself as well as pictures and so on.  This is great for those who perhaps are having a hard time coming up with a theme or set of decorations for their recipes.  These templates of course allow for some latitude so if you need to add additional photos or move some things around you can do that very easily.  But sometimes trying to add a recipe to a scrapbooking page can be uniquely difficult, as the scrapper tries to work all that wording into the page with just the right amount of embellishments.  By using a digital scrapbooking recipe template you know you're not going to have too much decoration or not enough decoration for your precious recipes.

Also, if you have an entire book with digital scrapbooking recipe templates you know that your recipes will all look as if they are coordinated.  If you look at any professional cookbook you'll notice there's a type of theme or decoration that runs through it, really bringing the pages together.  It might be a common font that's used on all the pages or how the book uses just one or two layouts for each recipe.  When you use a digital scrapbooking recipe template software program you can usually keep a common theme or design for all your pages so that it really resembles a professional cookbook and not just some pages that have been thrown together haphazardly.

And if you use digital scrapbooking recipe template and keep your cookbook in digital format you can share your recipes much easier with everyone that's interested.  They can be more easily emailed to several people this way, as opposed to trying to make a new scrapbook for every family member.