The Birthday Book

Today’s date is an interesting one—09/09/09; we won’t see such a repeating, single-digit date until 01/01/2101. Just a little trivia for you as it seems I’ve been awfully focused on calendars lately.

To add to my calendar obsession, I thought it would be nice to make perpetual birthday calendars for our family this year—something they can use year after year and even add to as needed. They’ll make nice stocking stuffers at Christmas.


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This is the cover of the first of the birthday books. I used pretty double-sided cardstock and layered the front and back covers with two different pieces. Each book will utilize different paper designs, but this cover gives you an example. The label is a free graphic offered by The Graphics Fairy to which I merely added the title.


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Inside is a page for each calendar month with recorded birthdays and room to add more—each page uses a different cardstock priint. I created the calendar pages on my computer using Microsoft Word. The edges were cut using my Creative Memories scallop paper cutter.


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This is the back of this birthday book. I used my Zutter Bind-it-all V2.0 machine to make the bindings.

Resources

While I opted just to create my own book by simply playing around until I had what I wanted, there are numerous tutorials, free printables, and other resources available for making such a project. Here are just a few.

• Mish Mash
• Birthday calendar download from Splitcoaststampers
• Birthday calendar tutorial
• Blank calendar templates (some are old, but you’ll find a monthly template you can use)
• JustRite Perpetual Special Occasions Calendar
• Perpetual Birthday Calendar from A Page At A Time blog
• The Graphics Fairy
• Zutter Bind-it-All