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Tutorial on turning old desk calendars into treasures and making them into beautiful coil notebooks

Nowadays, many times when we buy things, the merchants will give us desk calendars for the new year. Last years desk calendar is no longer useful at the end of the year, but the desk calendar is often still very complete. Then we can use the thinking method of turning waste into treasure to reuse these desk calendars. Because the desk calendar has coils on it, we can transform an old desk calendar into a coil notebook. After all, we usually buy a new one. Coil notebooks are also relatively expensive, so transforming old desk calendars into coil notebooks is a very cost-effective way to turn waste into treasure.

Step 1:

Tutorial on turning old desk calendars into treasures and making them into beautiful coil notebooks

Since you are making a coil book, you need this kind of desk calendar with coils

Step 2 :

Tutorial on turning old desk calendars into treasures and making them into beautiful coil notebooks

If the coil does not fit the inner pages of the coil book or you do not need many pages, you can directly use the inner pages of the desk calendar and stick white paper on both sides with double-sided tape< /p>

Step 3:

Tutorial on turning old desk calendars into treasures and making them into beautiful coil notebooks

Remove the base of the front and rear covers

Step 4:

Tutorial on turning old desk calendars into treasures and making them into beautiful coil notebooks

Compare with the inner page size, cut off the excess cover

Step 5:

Tutorial on turning old desk calendars into treasures and making them into beautiful coil notebooks

Then there is the prototype of a coil notebook

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Then we need to wrap the front and back covers with beautiful wrapping paper

Step 7:

Tutorial on turning old desk calendars into treasures and making them into beautiful coil notebooks

You can stick a piece of white paper inside to make it more beautiful

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Step 8:

Tutorial on turning old desk calendars into treasures and making them into beautiful coil notebooks

After transforming this old desk calendar into a coil book, this coil book can also be given as a gift to our friends. When renovating old desk calendars, We can remove the inner pages of the desk calendar in the middle, leaving only two hard covers. Of course, the inner pages of the coil book made into a coil book still need to be purchased separately, but purchasing the inner pages of the coil book is relatively cost-effective There are more, and what we need to do next is just to wrap and decorate the patterns on the two covers of the old desk calendar with beautiful wrapping paper, and then we can complete this brand new coil book.