One of the presents I made this year was a Birthday Book. I thought it would come in handy for my Mum, Aunty and Sister to keep track of the ever-increasing birthdays that we need to remember each year. Of course it could just as easily double as a calendar if you so desired.

I downloaded page templates from Nichole Heady, cut them all out and glued them onto some lovely patterned heavier guage scrapbooking paper. Although not quite cardboard, this stuff was rigid enough to be a good, sturdy page (I’m not sure what the gsm was). I went to Big W looking for a couple of metal curtain loops to thread through all the pages as a fastener and a hook but they didn’t have any. Instead I found a couple of cheap keyrings, took the rings off, and used those. For the other book I just used a patterned bulldog clip.

I made a label for each book, inspired by the lovely work of Amy Moss of eatdrinkchic.com. Amy offers wonderful, free, templates, labels, envelopes and other cool things. I nabbed an image from her and put it on a round label, cut them out and stuck them to the front.

This project involved me cutting 75 pages – it took a while and by the end of it I was very happy for it to be over. But I think they turned out quite nicely.

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