Prima The Home Baker Altered Kitchen Tray Tutorial for Home Decor Wonderful Wednesday
Hello, Friends! It’s Home Decor Wonderful Wednesday, and I have a darling Home Baker Altered Kitchen Tray Tutorial to share with you today. I picked this 10″ x 7″ x 1″ balsa wood tray up from a yard sale for practically free. It was not very attractive but it had great lines. It’s been tucked away in the Closet of Inspiration and Delight for quite some time, just waiting for a chance to be transformed.
The original tray was pretty “blah” with just a coat of off white paint and a Christmas card glued in the center. But I wanted to create a vintage looking, distressed, “chippy” base for these vintage style papers. I’ll show you the steps I followed in the video tutorial below.
I hope you’ll enjoy watching the process and be inspired to alter something from your own crafty stash.
Pretty and Practical
Since we live in a fairly small home, I like to create home decor items that have a practical use. As you can see in this photo, the simple addition of a small, chunky clothespin allowed me to turn this tray into a recipe card holder. It can “lean” on your countertop, hang on the wall, or be displayed on a shelf. But when you need to bake something yummy, simply clip your recipe to the front of the tray.
Of course, if you don’t want to use it for recipes, just leave off the clip! It’s still mighty cute.
Recipe Card Storage
How about a lovely little pocket on the bottom of the tray to hold some of your “go to” recipes? When this idea popped into my head, it made me very happy, indeed!
If you are fortunate enough to have The Home Baker recipe cards (boy, did they ever disappear quickly!) they look great tucked into the pocket. But you could always alter 4×6 index cards with patterned paper on one side and room for recipes on the other.
The Home Baker Altered Kitchen Tray Tutorial on YouTube
Would you like to watch the process involved in creating today’s home decor project? Then please grab a cuppa and a snack, put your feet up, get cozy, and enjoy!
Now we’ll all be scouring yard sales and thrift shops for cute little trays, right?
If you’d like to see the other Home Baker Projects I’ve shared this month, you can check them out HERE.
What’s Coming Up in February?
Several of you have asked me to share more tutorials with this Home Baker Collection. So I think I am going to go with that. We’ll use this collection for one more month, and we will also create our Graphic 45 Season to Celebrate card folio using the Spring Season papers. Sound like fun?
You can find a linked supply list below this post.
Thanks so much for stopping by!
Cheerio,
kathy
SUPPLY LIST
**Please note…Prima Marketing “The Home Baker” collection is sold out in many online shops. I will list the items I used in this project and link whenever possible. Thanks for understanding!
- Prima Marketing The Home Baker Collection
- 12×12 Paper Collection
- 4×6 Journal Cards (out of stock everywhere)
- Wooden Clothespins
- Prima Black Gesso
- Speckled Egg Distress Paint
- Bundled Sage Distress Paint
- Speckled Egg Distress Oxide Spray
- Tim Holtz Idea-Ology Flatware
- 49 and Market Celery Florets are a good option for flowers
- Linen Thread
Beautiful project Kathy!
Well here we go again, as I recently picked up a little plain unfinished timber tray at an op-shop (charity) that needs decorating. How amazing we are on the same page again! Love the distressed paint look, the colours are perfect for the papers. These paper designs just keep giving via your creativity, and I too am looking forward to seeing your next projects. Thanks for sharing Kathy.
Such a cute little tray! I did purchase most of this collection. I placed my order Jan 1 and just received it today from Scrapbook.com. I was so worried it had gotten lost. I did find the 4×6 journling cards at a shop called Scrappy Shak on 01/02 and purchased 2 sets of them. So glad I did because they are sold out. I will watch for the journling cards and if I find more I will send a shout out to you!! Kathy did you purchase the mould for this collection? ASC Craft Supplies has it in stock so I ordered it today. The little items are so adorable. Not sure about my painting ability but going to give it a try!!!! So glad you are making more projects with this collection. Can’t wait to see what you have in store for us in February! Thank you. Hugs!
Your kitchen tray is so adorable! Such a great idea making the bottom of the tray useable. I’m happy to hear that you’re continuing to use The Home Baker collection next month-can’t wait to see what you do next!! Thank you.