Country Farmhouse Budget Friendly Wreath - DIY

Country Farmhouse Budget Friendly Wreath

Using a sign from Dollar Tree I painted it with Waverly white chalk paint

found this print from hen silhouette cut it out and glue the silhouette to the sign.

I added some doodle around the edge with a black sharpie.

attach the sign to the wreath form from Dollar Tree.

I made up three messy bows with black and white fabric and some rick-rack from my local fabric store, foliage pick, burlap ribbon, jute twine from Dollar Tree, topped the bow with natural raffia strands, also from Dollar Tree. 

I started to lay out the bows and foliage to get the right placement

I like how this wreath turned out.

Thank you for stopping by, so until next time.

God bless you, Vicki

Spring Mantel in March

Hi Friends,

Welcome to another how I decorated my mantel this year for Spring

I gathered some of my green bottles added a little yellow daffodils, white pip berries,  and a couple of diy's and voila' my spring mantel for 2020.

Green checked banner, adds a nice farmhouse feel to the old window frame on the mantel. 

I start with the the festive paper medallion banner I added a black and white check homespun garland I made last spring give a nice country feel, green moss garden balls I also made last spring 

 

A free St. Patrick's holiday print from

 Lucky to be in love

A few of my brass candle sticks, vintage postcard prints from 

A new diy wreath project this year

This year I brought into my décor a few felt  stemmed shamrocks I made a few years ago.

a cleaned up thrifted mirror and a few felt farmhouse shamrocks scattered around.

 

I am very pleased how adding a little moss and some of my DIY's came together. What do you think?

Thank you so much for stopping by to check out my Spring Mantel.

Take care and God Bless, Vicki a Colorado Junkett

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New Spring Farmhouse Wreath Using a Thrifted Wicker Paper Plate Holder

 

I painted the wooden letters with espresso brown acrylic paint from WalMart

using the I Love sign I painted the back with moss green acrylic paint 

I used Aleene's Tacky glue to attach the wooden letters.  Digging through my craft stash I found this galvanized Happy word I  of pulled off another sign purchased from Dollar Tree.

Using a chalk pen I outlined the letters in Spring and went around the edge of the moss green rectangle board.

The sign wasn't setting in place very well so using a glue gun and three jenga blocks

I did a simple bow with burlap ribbon and a little black rickrack

This project was very simple, but I think it turned out nice and I used items I already had in my craft stash.

Thank you for stopping by, come again to see what kind of project I'll be doing next.

God Bless You, Vicki a Colorado Junkett

A Rustic Vintage Heart Shape Keepsake Box

 Hi Friends,

I'm starting another project for my February home décor. 

I'm adding rustic vintage farmhouse touches to this cute heart shape box that I paid $0.50 from my local thrift store haul last month.  And needed a make over.

My inspiration came from Wendy at White Sparrow Living  she did a remake of a heart shape box similar to this cute box using fabric to cover the box. 

So I have this red stripe fabric, I purchased at a local quilt shop last year and thought this might go with my décor for February.

I traced the lid onto the fabric to cover the lid

Then I cut a stripe of fabric to go around bottom side of box and soaked it in coffee ground tea over night.

Liking how the coffee stain looked on the bottom stripe of the box

As an after thought, I also brushed the top of the box with some of the coffee liquid with a small paint. 

 Added some lace ribbon from Dollar Tree around the edge of the lid.  

For some embellishments, I made a few book page roses and added a little button to the center of the rose.  

I felt I needed to add a little more so I cut heart shaped from burlap and a book page added some raffia and twine.

Thank you for stopping by to see another item from my local thrift store that I have remade to fit my vintage farmhouse style.

Until the next project...

God Bless you and your Family,

I'm Vicki a Colorado Junkett

Rustic Farmhouse Valentine Wreath for the Front Door

Took a Dollar Tree tinsel, glittery wreath wrapped it with a roll of burlap ribbon also from Dollar Tree.

For the bows, I used 2" red burlap ribbon and 1.5" wired brown burlap ribbon from dollar tree.  I believe the 1.5" red & tan check and  7/8" black & white checked ribbon came from Craft Outlet. I cut 6" lengths of all the ribbon.

Then I layered red burlap add from my stash raffia and a couple of single strand of pip berries

wired burlap ribbon, red and tan ribbon and last the black and white ribbon

used some twine to tie up and attached to this finished bow to the wreath.

I always try and keep some light weight card stock/board that I get from cereal boxes for templates.

So I used the cereal box cardboard and cut out three hearts large medium, small for this fabric heart accent for the wreath. I used the black striped flat fold fabric that comes in this bundle from Wal-Mart, also red burlap ribbon and a aged book page.

 

I'm cutting out two heart from the fabric because, I'm making a little heart pillow. The first layer of the hear pillow is the black stripped fabric,

then the red burlap heart is a little smaller,

The third and last heart is cut from aged book paper.

 

Glue the three layer, I used Aleene's Tacky Glue and let it all dry completely.

I said I was making pillow hearts, so I added a cotton ball for batting.

With embroidery thread I used a blanket stitch around the edge to close up the heart pillow.

A finished little heart pillow.

I like how this project turned out.

Thank you for stopping by.......until the next project.

God Bless You, Vicki

Rustic Farmhouse Fabric Heart Bowl Fillers - DIY

DIY Fabric Heart Bowl Fillers

I've always love working with felt and many years ago I started sewing up Primitive red felt hearts for Valentine Decor.

I really like the fabric bundles from Wal-Mart so with, a red stripe fabric, black and white checked fabric I bought last year from a local quilter's shop,  I thought I would make up some new hearts this month. 

Dug out the sewing box

Using cotton balls for stuffing the hearts using a blanket stitch to close up the heart on all sides

I thought the hearts looked kind of plain, so I added embellishments of red felt hearts, buttons jute.

Wha-La....

cute heart ornies/bowl filler

The hand sewing was a bit time consuming, but I think they turned out pretty rustic farmhouse looking. 

 Let me know what you think of the fabric heart bowl fillers.

Thank you for stopping by

Vicki a Colorado Junkett

$1.50 Thrift Store Find for February - Vintage Pat and Pam Creative Charms kit

Hello Friends,

Today I'm sharing another project from a item I found at my local thrift store. 

Remember my thrift haul back in February I picked up a vintage three piece Pat and Pam Creative Charm kit for a $1.50. At the time I wasn't sure how to incorporate the charms into my February decor. Then realized I could add fabric and add the charm to a string of bead.

I had a tough time getting the fabric over the little teeth 

I finally got all three charms covered and the back snapped on.

Wrapping the jute twine around my fingers to forming a circle

Using another piece of twine to wrap around the end to make a hook, and cut the other end to make a fray.

Using red bead I thrift in February haul, I cut the twine the length I thought would need feed it threw the charm clasp and added the red beads about twenty and added tassel

I embellish the top of the charm with a small fabric heart and a button

This project turned out pretty nice.Thank you for stopping by to see what I have been up to.  So until the next project......

May God Bless you, Vicki

Homemade Vintage Valentines Cards Project

Hi Friends,

I have been wanting to do this project for a long time.

I actually have a day off today so I'm going to make Valentines free printable bottle label and cupcake toppers free Vintage Valentine prints

Using red construction paper I cut out heart shapes with my Fiskars paper edgers

cut out the vintage valentine prints and glued them to the hearts.

I decided to add glitter pipe cleaners/chenille stems from Dollar Tree gluing around the picture, I tea stained a roll of white crepe streamer and glued around edge of the construction paper heart

using markers I added some more writing and outline some of the hearts

more free prints from vintage kids valentines cards

I cut out the prints and glued them on some colored card stock I had.  Using a sharpie I went around the hearts to highlight.

I also tea stained a couple of pages from a paper back book I no longer need to cut out little hearts and to make little roses I saw this technique from Tracy at Country Charm by Tracy making roses from crepe paper. 

Here is the finished project

I think they turned out so adorable and I really had fun making these vintage print valentines to give to friends and family.  Let me know which were your favorite. 

Thanks for stopping by and until the next celebration.  

Have a Great Day!   

Vicki