Dollar Store Tray Becomes Holiday Wall Hanging

Like many of you, I'm sure, I like to roam the aisles of hardware stores, office supply stores, and dollar stores to find interesting and affordable items to alter or work into my art. I recently found these great decorative tin serving trays in my local Dollar Tree and grabbed up about a dozen for an idea yet to be born for my All Things Tim Group.

I decided on a wall hanging and things started to fall into place. Here's what I came up with.



It may not be the perfect artist's composition, but I am happy with it and can't wait to take down all my fall decorations and hang this baby up!




Like I said, it started with this rectangular serving tray. Add some holiday paper from Tim Holtz's Seasonal Paper Stash and it's starting to feel festive.




I scuffed up the back of the tray where I was adhering this plaid flannel ribbon just to make sure the surface wasn't too slick. This looks pretty nasty, so I cut a piece of felt and glued it over everything.




From the craft store, I snatched up some inexpensive mini ornaments. I liked these because I don't have any vintage ones of my own and these sort of have the look I was after. The pine and berry stem came from the craft store too. Is it a stem? A spray? A pick? I don't know.




I cut a snowman out of grungeboard from Tim's Sizzix Alteration's die "Winter Wonder." I painted the hat and the nose and the arms of a second snowman and layered them over the top, but not until I painted the base snowman white, inked the edges then applied Rock Candy Distress Crackle Paint generously and let it dry. So cool!




I just got this new "Holiday Lamppost" die (Sizzix Alterations) and LOVE it! Here I cut it from grungeboard, painted it black then crackled it too. I wanted an icy look and I think it worked nicely. The "glass" in the lamp is a piece of clear plastic packaging cut to fit behind the die opening. I colored it with Sunshine Yellow alcohol ink with a felt blending tool and let it dry before adhering it behind the lamp.




After antiquing some lace with Antique Linen, I hot-glued it across the bottom of the tray, then adorned the lower corner with some Tim Holtz buttons and a glittery snowflake.




Also from Tim's Seasonal Paper Stash, I cut this sheet music page, crumpled it and inked it. The number 25 came from the stash as well. I glued it behind a Idea-ology fragment and hung it with a trinket pin.




In the upper left corner I attached this cluster. The paper is from the seasonal stash again and is mounted on a piece of Kraft Core (Nostalgic Collection) Core-dinations cardstock. Love this stuff! A swivel clasp attaches to a Christmas muse token (both Idea-ology goodness) and the whole thing is hung from a hinge clip at the top.




Here's another look at the whole thing put together. It makes me want to pull out all the Christmas decorations today!

Comments

  1. Your tray made me smile. Thanks for sharing. Festively beautiful!

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  2. Beautiful!!! What a great imagination you have to be able to pull this all together!

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  3. I so love this wall hanging! I am getting a tray and going to make some of these! Awesome job!
    Sandy N in Mo

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  4. wow ... gorgeous! beautiful! i know i need to try this.

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  5. Amazing conversion! All the details are beautiful.

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  6. You never fail to impress!!! This is so cool and gorgeous!!!

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  7. This is gorgeous!!!! What a great project!!!

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  8. yup...luv it! great work! puttin me in the mood too! xo cher

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  9. What a pretty holiday hanging you have made! Love it.

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  10. Gorgeous tray hanging! Love all the details, like the lamppost "glass". You could make these for GIFTS!

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  11. you are very creative and imaginative. Looks awesome

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  12. What a wonderful and creative idea. I love what you did.

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  13. This is so beautiful! Love how you've lit the lantern with the yellow AI and the way you've treated the snowman. Great wall hanging!

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  14. love it, love it, love it....can't wait to make it !!

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  15. Awesome, makes me want to head to my craft room!

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