Book ends diy8/30/2023 Now, they look great just like this, but I wanted to add a little personalization, and test out a new craft product. Once my book covers were dry, I wrapped them around my brick and secured them with glue from my glue gun. While my covers were drying, I drew lines along the side and top and bottom using a ruler and a Sharpie. Don’t be afraid to get your hands messy to smooth out the fabric and create your neat corners. Decoupage will clean up easily with soap and water. Yes the decoupage part is messy, and because of that I made sure to decoupage on a surface that I could easily clean up and that my book cover wouldn’t adhere to. Then it was a matter of making nice corners and securing with more decoupage. I decoupaged the pieces on front and back. I decoupaged those onto the either side of the center spine, folding over one side to create a finished edge on my fake book cover. Then for the front and back covers, I cut two pieces of patterned fabric (about 6″ x 11″ each). This meant that I had to leave about a 1/4″ gap in-between each piece. I decoupaged it onto my cardboard pieces, making sure that the cardboard pieces would wrap around and fit nicely around my brick to look like a book cover. I cut a piece of pretty navy blue fabric (about 5″ x 11″) for the spine of my “book”. Then I got to work covering my makeshift book cover with fabric. One for the spine (about 2.5″ x 8″) and two for the front and back cover (about 4″ x 7.75″). My brick was going to be the “pages” in my book, so I needed to create a pretty book cover. To make my concrete brick bookends I used: I just needed to dress them up so they didn’t look like concrete bricks. These concrete bricks are the perfect weight for bookends. I had a few extra that I didn’t turn into jack-o-lanterns, and decided to turn them into books instead. I recently bought some single bricks before the Halloween holiday to make these cute concrete pumpkins. Today’s DIY craft idea is part upcycling, part home decor and 100% cool and functional.these custom bookends started as simple concrete bricks that I bought at my local Home Depot hardware store.
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