Two Junk Chix

Sunday, February 14, 2010

A Valentine for you.....

Happy Valentine's Day from Two Junk Chix!!!

Owl Stamps from Hampton Arts and Copic Markers.....How do I love thee??????

Oh my gosh!!! I love this stamp set because all of the cute owls that it has in it. I added the heart to the owl to use it in this Valentines Card.

In case you didn't know...Copic markers are FANTASTIC!!!!! I just started using them and they are the BEST markers that I have ever used. The colors ares so vibrant and they blend so well.

A few place that carry them are Hobby Lobby, Achievers and Copicmarkers.com.

Happy Valentine's Day!!!!

XOXO

Andrea & Tia

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Hugs & Kisses.....oh, and cupcakes!

Some of my favorite things.....hugs and kisses and cupcakes! Who wouldn't love that, right? We just had craft night #2 and wanted to share with you some of our yummy creations. Here is the cupcake liner garland that we made to coordinate with our coffee filter garland. I love the layered look. Kind of reminds me of wearing layered jewelry.

Just wanted to throw this picture in because I was thrilled to find pink hot chocolate! Yes.....PINK! How great is that? And the tin is so old school and fabulous! Reminds me of when I was a little girl.

Here is Vicki's cupcake garland and I love how she strung it on her hanging pot rack light above her kitchen island. It looks so cute!

Vicki also did the cutest cupcake wands and I just love how she placed them in a clear glass pitcher filled with flour! Such a cute idea! They look great in her entryway.

I was able to find these adorable leopard print {cause y'all know it's my fav} and pink zebra print cupcake liners. These were so much fun and once incorporated with vintage paper.....so cute!

We all 4 did different heart banners and since I'm all about the hugs and kisses this year, XOXO seemed so appropriate! I hung this one in my kitchen window from jute twine and fun clips.

Vicki made some cute chipboard cupcakes and I had to keep this one for myself and thought it was perfect in one of my vintage floral frogs. Just so ya know....she did these by candlelight cause we had a blackout that day. Great job, Vicki!

I got busy with Photoshop and printed out this cute cupcake on pink leopard print paper and framed it for my display. With the addition of some heart lollipops, it looks good enough to eat.

A vintage inspired XOXO flashcard in a vintage floral frog

Denise and Deanne getting busy on their cupcake garlands and heart banners. I never thought I would be able to have 4 adults and some of my kids in my studio to craft, but it was perfect and so much fun! We can't wait for our St. Patty's Day projects!! Love you girls!

Vicki and me gettin' our craft on!
Love you girl!

xoxo,

tia & andrea

Monday, February 8, 2010

Happy Birthday Scouts!!!!!

Today is the Anniversary for the Boys Scouts of America and is celebrating 100 years!!!!

We are a scouting family and it is a big part of our lives. Scouting is a wonderful organization that teaches boys about citizenship, responsibility, and builds character for life long values all while having fun. My husband and I are Den Leaders and our son is a First Year WEBELO He is in his 4th year of scouting. Michael is the 3rd generation scout in our family. Roman (my Husband) was in boys scouts and I was in girl scouts. Roman and Tia's dad was in scouting as well.

We are proud of of our scout and all of his achievements in scouting.

Support your local scouts!!!!

Andrea & Tia

Crimson Clover Trunk Show & New Burlap Badge

Hi y'all! Crimson Clover is doing a jewelry trunk show this Thursday Feb. 11th from 12-7 at Occasions in Naperville. I hope you all can make it! I'll be launching some of my new pieces.

Here is a cute burlap badge that I just made for myself to wear at my shows. I used a light burlap, vintage paper from the 1800's, vintage seam binding ribbon, and of course a big blingy crown. Hope you all love it as much as I do!

New "cuff" bracelets

Valentine Shadowboxes

New pewter hand stamped wax seal initial charms

More bling shadowboxes

xoxo,

tia & andrea

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Bouquet of Love

I made this little arrangement for my kitchen table. I love all the bright colors and it just makes me smile when I see it.

I used a fiesta vase to hold the arrangement. It is one of my favorite fiesta pieces that I have...love lime green!!!

I put a Styrofoam ball down in the face to hold it together. The sequence sprays were reused from Christmas. I had them on top of my barbie tree. I made the flowers from ribbon.

The flowers were a technique that I learned 2 weeks ago from my friend Amy Moore. Check out the tutorial below on how to make the flowers. I attached the flowers using hot glue to wooded skewers that I had already on hand. I added some chipboard die cuts from Basic Grey to the centers of the flowers and plan on reusing them on scrapbook pages after Valentines. I tied some ribbon in bow and added a tag with the saying "love is everything" (i love that)!!! I added the heart plate that I picked up from Target.

Happy Valentine's Day and Crafting!!!!

Enjoy!!!!
Andrea & Tia

Ribbon Flowers

My friend Amy Moore taught me how to make these 2 weeks ago at a Stamping up Party that she was demonstrating. I loved them and have made many since!!!! Thanks girl!!!! :) They look harder to make than they really are. I made an arrangement for Valentine's Day and used lots of the ribbon flowers in it. They are super cute on a t-shirt as well.

Supplies

Ribbon

Button thread or other heavy duty thread

Needle

White glue (optional)

Button or other embellishment for flower center

Scissors

You need to cut a wide width ribbon 10-12 inches long. Thread the needle and knot the thread in one end and double knot it. Start weaving the needle through the ribbon close to the edge on one side of the ribbon keeping the ribbon gathered up on the needle.

When you get to the end of the needle pull the rest of the string through the ribbon and pull together tightly forming your flower. Knot the two ends of the thread together. The flower will look like this.

An optional step that I take is to add a little white glue on the ends of the ribbon so that they don't fray. You can you no fray on the ends but I found that the white glue worked fine.
I spread it on using my finger.

Add an embellishment to the center and your flower is complete. I sewed a pearl button on this flower. I think the pearls are pretty touch to them. I also pinned one on a t-shirt using a safety pin so that I could still throw the t-shirt in the washer after I wore it.

Enjoy!!!!

Andrea & Tia

Monday, February 1, 2010

Touches of Saint Valentine...

...here and there is all you really need. My girlfriend stopped by today and was baffled about trying to decorate for Valentine's Day. I showed her a few things that I had done that anyone can do. I took my cue from Christmas decor and just changed up a few things.

Below is my girl, Mabel. She usually wears a pretty vintage lace dress, but for Valentine's Day, I thought I would spice this little vixen up with one of my favorite leopard print jackets. I think she looks marvelous. My dear friend, Sita at Silver Spoon Scraps made this custom hat for her.

I love how she incorporated the leopard print that I love and one of my favorite words....je t'aime

I changed out my winter reindeer under the large glass cloche and added a vintage inspired Dee Foust "My sweet valentine" figure.

Simple glitter hearts in a vintage silver compote is classy without being fussy

I took out the Christmas candles from the vase and changed them to pink, white, and red

It's still so wintery here in Chicago and my silver tinsel tree still fits in but to make it look less Christmas-y, I just added some red heart ornaments and changed the skirt to a fun zebra print.