Need a quick unique inexpensive small gift for someone?  Grab a few CDs and get some photos printed and you can make these beautiful custom photo books. You can put anything you like on them… quotes, photos, graphics etc. Make a special book for a couple that just got married, or someone who’s celebrating an anniversary. How about a photo book that highlights a special friendship.  The ideas are as endless as your imagination!   

Custom Photo Book Supplies

• Photos. These can be any size depending on the type of book you make. For ones that cover the full CD you’ll need 5x7s.
• CDs or DVDs
• Glue to affix photos and graphics. I used spray glue for the full size photos.
• Small ball chain
• Drill
• Decor beads etc.

Instructions

You can trace the CD onto your photos and then cut them out or you can also hold the CD onto a photo and carefully cut around it.  For one of my custom photo books I used my printer to print medium quality black and white photos of Roy and I onto normal printer paper. (Next time I’d use cardstock.) Then I cut the photos out along with some sayings and quotes I found.  I used spray glue to attach my photos but any glue will work. After attaching your photos you can now drill a hole large enough to fit your chain through into the CDs. You can do more than one at a time, just be careful!

 

Graphics Download

If you’d like to use some of the text graphics I used for my custom photo book on Roy and I you can download them below in pdf format.

 

 

I could have just used a chain to attach them but I found some heart beads I thought would work nice for this book. I had white ones but needed a black one. I stuck one onto a wood skewer and spray painted it. Then I colored another one with a black Sharpie marker. I actually liked the look of that one better and used it.

I also made a custom photo book using colorful scrapbook paper and gluing on smaller photos. I placed a paper butterfly I had cut out on top and bent it’s wings up for a CD look.

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