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May 2, 2014 By Brandy 9 Comments

Home » Craft Tutorials

Personalized ABC Book: Make Your Own With Photos!

Filed Under: Craft Tutorials, Kids Crafts Tagged With: Kids Paper Crafts

Create a personalized ABC book full of photos of family and your child’s favorite things! I’ll even show you how to bind it yourself!

If you like this project you’ll love this DIY photo collage canvas!

personalized abc book

This little gal loves photo albums. She found her baby book and was just giddy, sitting on my lap, going through the pages. I don’t mind her looking at her scrapbook, but I wanted something that was durable and that she could carry around with her. And so I made her a Personalized ABC Book filled with photos of the people and things she loves!  It was so fun and she was a great helper with the photos.

Personalized ABC Book

How To Make a Personalized ABC Book

little girl holding alphabet book

  • card stock (12″ x 12″)
  • photos
  • photo adhesive
  • glue stick
  • letter stickers or die cuts
  • laminating sheets
  1. Save one photo for each letter of the alphabet onto your computer.

  2. Save each photo by the letter it represents to keep things simple. (A-photo of apple, B-photo of brother, etc.)

  3. Use a photo editor (Picmonkey is free!)to add text below each photo. Crop and style your photos, fonts, and colors however you’d like!

    alphabet book pages

  4. Print on card stock. For simplicity, print 4 to a page (3.5″ x 5″)

    stack of alphabet book pages

  5. Cut each cardstock sheet into 4 (6×6″) squares.

    colorful scrapbook paper pages with photos

  6. Attach photos and laminate each page.

    pages being laminated

  7. Bind the alphabet book using a hole punch and rings or a binding tool (see notes)

    book being bound

I used my binding tool, The Cinch, that I absolutely love. If you don’t have a binding tool, that’s totally fine! Just hole punch your pages and use a ring to hold them together! 2 rings (one on the top and one on the bottom) would hold it nice and secure.

 

bound alphabet book

(You can check out the binding tool that  I have by clicking here.)

Ruby was right there as I finished the book and squealed, “It’s me!”

Personalized ABC Book

This page is her favorite. When she finished looking at her book, she took it to Daddy to read to her again and she said, “It’s my favorite book!”

little girl reading Personalized ABC Book

I love going through it too. I made one online at Christmas time for my 5 year old and formatting it was a nightmare. Maybe it was the company I used, but it just wasn’t fun to make at all! Then I misplaced it in the house and can’t find it. I was so disappointed on Christmas morning to not have the book to give to her so I am going to make her one like I did for Ruby.

I made one just like this (except with the rings binding it) for my oldest son 7 years ago and we still like looking through it!

little girl holding personalized abc book

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About Brandy

Welcome! I'm Brandy, mother to 5 darling kiddos and a cute black lab named Toby. My husband is in the Coast Guard so we've lived all over the place, turning each house into a home. I love baking, sewing, making cute things with my kids, and sharing what I've learned with all of you!

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  1. abbeycron says

    May 2, 2014 at 6:56 am

    I love this! Adorable! I don’t have a lamination machine or your cute little binding machine, but I am a teacher so I’m sure I can try to use these at the school. I can’t wait to make this for my daughter!

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    • Brandy says

      May 2, 2014 at 8:42 am

      Awesome! I would love to have access to a better laminator, the school ones are much better than mine and wouldn’t take near as long to make. Have a wonderful weekend!

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  2. Jackie says

    May 2, 2014 at 1:03 pm

    That is to adorable! Books for them (especially educational and fun) that they can drag around are so expensive, it’s almost ridiculous. Love this idea!!!!

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  3. Sarah Hendricks says

    May 3, 2014 at 6:52 am

    Adorable! I made one like it for my mother when her Alzheimer’s started taking her memories away. It seemed to make her more comfortable being able to look at pictures of people whose names she didn’t always remember and photos of special memories…reminding her, at least temporarily, that she DID have a life before Alzheimers!

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    • Brandy says

      May 3, 2014 at 1:49 pm

      What a thoughtful gift! I absolutely love that and will keep it in mind as my husband’s father is approaching this stage as well. Thank you, Sarah!

      Reply
  4. Brenda says

    May 3, 2014 at 10:00 am

    This is an awful cute ABC book Brandi! I love my Cinch too, just don’t use it enough!! But maybe now I will and make these ABC books for my grandchildren. Thanks for a fabulous idea!

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  5. carol says

    May 6, 2014 at 9:32 am

    adorable!!and if you include pictures of family members, it is a good way to recognize them too. i use transparent contact paper as we don’t have access to laminators here in Venezuela…

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  6. Michelle says

    August 4, 2014 at 8:56 pm

    I am not very experienced with photo editing. I tried using Picture Monkey and cannot figure out how you resized/formatted your photos so that you put the writing below them. I figured out how to put the text on the picture, but like your way better.

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    • Brandy says

      August 5, 2014 at 8:14 am

      Hi Michelle! I used the “collage” feature to add a space on the bottom for text! To do this, make a collage with two photos. Use the “square deal” layout. Add a photo to the top left and bottom left squares. Delete the right squares. Then delete the bottom left photo. You will end up with one photo on the top and a large blank area on the bottom. Resize that area until it is a nice space for text. Then click “edit”. That will save your collage and make a white area on the bottom of your photo where the second photo used to be. Then it will take you to the editing area where you can add text! I hope that makes sense! Let me know if you have any more questions! 🙂

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