I saw this tutorial for bookends and I immediately thought of scrapbook paper. The colors in this kit were so gorgeous, so I decided to give it a try. This project is so simple you won’t believe it.

Supplies:
2 Concrete Bricks (Home Depot has these for 35 cents.)
Kraft Wrapping Paper
Patterned Paper
Sewing Machine (optional)
Adhesive

1. Wrap the bricks with the kraft much like you would a present. Make sharp creases on all of the edges. See…

2. Cut 14 1 inch x 12 inch strips or enough to cover the height of the brick with a little room left over. I then sewed mine together with a zig zag stitch on my machine – that’s optional.

3. Adhere strips around wrapped brick (they will most likely not meet in the back.) Make sharp creases at the corners.

4. At this point you could embellish the front with words, alphabets or other embellishments. I’m a simple gal so I left them plain.

Install on a shelf – beautiful! If you make them, please link me up I’d love to see!

photo detail : cd muckosky

i just wanted to remind everyone that our august gallery challenge ends this evening at midnight pst. make sure you check out or original post {here} for more details and get your images loaded into our flickr gallery {here}. you could be our august winner and receive a september add-on of your choice.

and even if you didn’t have the time or can’t upload a project make sure you check out the current kenner road gallery anyways, there is so much amazing work being uploaded this month. i have been adoring seeing it all.

happy weekend :)
xo

hey there!

this month’s theme of summer reminded me that i have a few summer getaways coming up and every year i try to remember to either make or buy a little notebook to keep with me when i travel. next week we are heading to a wedding in florida, after i’ll be heading to cha, and then later in the summer is our annual trip to cape cod. i use little notebooks to keep track of everything from items i saw that i liked, grocery lists, books i want to read, phone numbers/emails of friends i met, to memory joggers for journaling on my pages later.

this year I decided to make a little vacation jotter using the july kit.

you’ll need:

• your july kit and add-ons
• chipboard (you can use cereal boxes for this)
• 3×5 index cards – you can purchase these blank and lined in either direction
• larger index cards to cut if you plan on making the bingo cover
• a cropodile or standard hole punch
• binder rings (you can get these at an office supply store)
• large eyelets
• gel medium (or other adhesive such as mod podge)
• the corner chomper or a standard corner rounder
• brayer or bone folder

Directions

1. using your cutter or scissors cut two 3×5 inch chipboard pieces.
2. cut a piece of patterned paper to 3×5 inches. apply gel medium to the chipboard and adhere the paper. use a clean brayer or a bone folder to get rid of any wrinkles. do the same to the other piece of chipboard. let dry then cover the back sides of the chipboard as well. let dry overnight.
3. round all four corners of 30 index cards. i used my we r memory keepers corner chomper which allowed me to do a lot at once. you can use a standard corner rounder it will just take a little longer.
4. round all four corners of the two pieces of chipboard. if your standard corner rounder won’t cut through, trace the corners using one of your index cards as a template and use a craft knife or scissors to round the corner.
5. decide which piece of the covered chipboard will be the front and which side will face the back.
6. using your cropadile, punch one or two holes in the top edge of the chipboard pieces. the location of the holes will be determined by the lines on your index cards. (for one hole I’d punch the top left.) be sure to line up the holes on both pieces. i added large eyelets to mine so the ring would slide through easily.
7. using the cover as a template mark a small stack of index cards and punch through using the cropadile – continue until all of the index cards are punched.
8. add rings through the punched holes and add embellishments to the front cover as desired.

you can vary the size of these jotters, use fabric to cover them, use graph paper or other paper for the sheets, and really make them your own. if you make one of these, be sure to link me up!  have fun!

lisa truesdell

every month i feel like i am completely overwhelmed by the work that our guest designer and the creative team turn in. every. single. month. and this month, with the fabulous lisa joining us i was giddy as the pictures started flooding in last week. absolutely giddy!

as always, here’s my personal favorites. make sure you check out each and every gallery as all of the work is phenomenal. and make sure you check the end of this post for our reveal night giveaway winners… there are 5 extremely lucky winners!!

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dina

gigi

jessi

katie

lisa

our 5 reveal night donna downey canvas kit winners are :

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164. AllyW Says:
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73. Cathy B Says:
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68. tina Says:
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send me your contact information {info@kennerroad.com} and we’ll get these out to you asap!

happy tuesday!

Leave a comment in this post to enter to win one of five donna downey for prima fabric albums and fabric house embellishment kits. Contest ends monday, June 15th at midnight Pacific. International entries are always welcomed of course ;). Lucky winner will be announced on Tuesday, May 16th.

for those of you who missed out on our june newsletter make sure you check it out {{here}}. we’ve got some special news about our june gift with purchase {they’re fuzzy and oh so cute} as well as our new reveal night chat party beginning on sunday night, june 14th at 8pm pacific because, we may not have a live forum, but we still like to gab.

and please don’t miss lisa’s post below. she’s got the cutest friendship challenge for you that includes a mini embellishment stash giveaway that would make anyone swoon. ;)

yep. we love our customers ;)

xoxo