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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