Rustic Farmhouse DIY -Spring Banner

Hi Friends,

This is last year egg banner I had some cream color felt in my crafting stash and cut out egg shape and spelled out "WELCOME SPRING" with a green sharpies to go with the green and white checked banner. It just kind of plain this year

Because, I'm really liking the black and white checks in my decor,  I added black and white checks to the cream eggs.........

I traced around my egg shape and added a quarter inch, then using tacky glue, placed the felt on top of the black and white gingham.

Using small safety pins I attached the letter to a piece of jute string and hung the Welcome Spring banner on the fireplace mantel.  I think adding the gingham helped to make the letters pop.  What do you think?

Here is the mantel for spring with the updated banner. I'm loving how it looks.

Thank you for stopping by!

Until next time, Vicki

DYI - Red Felt Heart Garland

This year I wanted to add more garland to my seasonal decor.  

So for February I added red felt hearts garlands to my old window in my entryway

First window is on top of the shelving unit in the living room

and the this small window is in my entry-way.

I always keep on hand as part of my crafting essentials jute string and a collection of felt, of many colors. I dug out the red felt and spent a couple of evening tracing and cutting out red felt hearts 

and hot gluing the hearts onto jute string.

This project  took a little of time cutting and tracing, but a very simple project to do.

Thank you for stopping by.

Until the next project, happy crafting.

Vicki

Seasonal DYI - Red and White Yarn Pom Pom Garland

One of my DYI for February were these red and white yarn pom poms.  I believe there 1" in diameter.  I tried each pom pom to a length of yarn to make a garland for my mantel and one of my old windows.

I really like this new addition to my seasonal decor, I may use these pom pom garlands in July.
Did you made a DYI for your February decor?

Thank you for stopping by and have a Great Day.  Vicki

Hello July

Hi Friends,

Time to add a little red, white and blue.....

 to get the patriotic décor vibe on.  

Please stay and decorate with me!

Dug out the Red, White and Blue tubs

Last year I purchased quite a bit of sparkly garland

 star picks, shiny beads and a few flags

more florals.

Flowers from "The Dollar Tree" are my go to for filling in the gaps in my vignettes.

This year I'm really lik'in the faux mercury glass pieces "The Dollar Tree", is putting out this year

metal stars are a must for my out door patriotic decor

Well it looks like I have my weekend planned. Until next time.

May God Bless You and Your Family,

I'm Vicki a Colorado Junkett

Have a Wonderful Day!

Show and Tell - February Themed Banners

I saw this banner on Pinterest from Little Maisie on www.esty.com and thought it would fit into my rustic farmhouse decor, so here is my version.

 I had made for the mantel in the den, but I measured wrong and the banner was to long to fit the mantel, so I hung it in my living room.  I think it looks great in the living room at the front window.

I had some sack cloth I bought on sale at my local Walmart, and of course you know I always have felt square and twine.  I choose to make my hearts 5" x 41/2, sorry I just kind of eye ball when I cut the template for the sack cloth/ red felt hearts.

I got the stencils out and traced the letters for, "Happy Valentine".  I used red and white acrylics paints to fill in the stencil letters.  Then I hot glued twine that I have on hand to transform the hearts into a banner.

This project was super easy and I was able to finish this banner in about four hours.

I found another Valentine garland project that looked fairly easy on Pinterest of course, saved from
www.redtedart.com, go check this site out she has a lot of wonderful paper craft ideas.

This project was a little more time consuming the cutting and taping took some time, but I really liked how it turned out.  I hung this garland  in my living room with my green-fir garland.

 Gives this project a try, for your Valentine Day decor.


Have a wonderful Day
Vicki the ColoJunkett

Heart Banner Tutorial

When I have some time on the weekend I love to work on some easy crafts for my rustic farmhouse look.  The last two Saturdays I've been working on a small heart banner that I saw on Pinterest saved from www.catchmyparty.com.  I always have felt squares around and I have seen crafters using burlap ribbon.

So here was my project..

I had the red, white, and pink felt squares and started cutting three sizes of hearts to layer all I saw was a lot of white.

I had bought a couple of rolls of burlap ribbon from the dollar tree.  I really didn't have a plan for the burlap when I bought it.   I tried to incorporate the burlap and thought the burlap gave the hearts a rustic feel.  Once I had all the heart cut and glued.  I decided to brush them with watered down Elmer's Glue.

What a mistake, it took several day for the glue to dry and the burlap separated and started to curl up.

I laid out the hearts on plastic wrap and put books on them for a couple of days to flatten out the hearts

that did the trick then I just used my glue gun and attached jute to the back to make the banner.

This is the finished project, I think it turned out okay and it gives a little bit of color to the front of my fireplace and mantel.

I hope this gives you some inspiration to add some color to your decor for February.

Have a Wonderful Day!

Vicki the ColoJunkett