MUST TRY Christmas in July Dollar Tree DIY Craft ideas

Next time you're in Dollar Tree around the holiday season, head on over and grab some of these large wood ornament blanks. We're going to use these to create some amazing wall decor accents and I'm going to be using not one, not two, but three of these for that. I'm picking Admiral Blue for my color scheme for these beautiful ornaments, by all means use whatever color best fits your decor style this season. I only put one coat on these and then I allowed them to completely dry. If you want to do more than one coat, by all means, you can write ahead. I was happy with these just as they were. Next I'm grabbing some large stencils I had in my stash that I picked up from Amazon quite some time ago. I love to mask and ornate things and I felt like these would be perfect right on the front of these. You can paint your stencil in if you want. I'm just going to take some of my homemade texture paste. This is just a mixture of calcium carbonate, baking soda, and glue. Usually I'm able to mix up a batch and it stays for about three to five days. And people don't even try to ask me about the ratios, okay, because I mix with love. Listen, just mix some stuff in a bowl and, you know, cross your fingers and start spreading it on your ornament. Look how pretty. I used one stencil design on one of the ornaments and then the same on two. And I made sure, you know, obviously that they matched. You could color your texture paste if you want, or if you're painting, you can use obviously whatever color paint you would like for this. Whenever I'm doing this, I like to let this sit several hours, at least three to four. And a good way that I can tell if it's done is I will take my fingernail and I will scratch over the surface. If there's no nail indents, then it's done and you can either leave it as it is or put whatever kind of sealer you would like over it. You can leave your ornaments as is, but we're going to jazz ours up just a smidge and add some of this floral metal ribbon that you can pick up from Dollar Tree. If you don't see this at Dollar Tree and you have a Hobby Lobby local to you, they also sell metal lace or metal ribbon. You can pick it up from there as well. I use this to put around where our hangers kind of go because I'm not adding a hanger on the top of it. This is just going to be our added accent on here. And I just push them around and squeeze them tight around the back. And then it was time to bring on in the stapler. I'm going to take this and just pop a staple in to each side just to ensure that this doesn't come off. I personally want these to be kind of flat up against the wall. So I'm just using a little bit of glue, a little piece of cardboard with twine for the hanger on the back. If you wanted to use the holes that were in the top, you go right ahead and do that. I love the way they look just like this. Now for you LED candle lovers like me, we're going to grab some more TDS decoupage tissue paper and pop a little decorative design right on the front of this Dollar Tree LED candle. Napkins to me are a perfect decoupage piece if you want to be able to burn your candle. But if you're anything like me and you want to get creative and pop glue or glitter or whatever, LED candles are amazing for that. Especially if you want to use decoupage tissue paper because most of the time you're using Mod Podge. But one thing I hate doing and I always seek help is whenever I've got to cut down a piece. Hey Ma, how much do you love me? You don't. Would you mind cutting this down for me? Absolutely disrespectful, right? She cut it down anyway. She did a good job. We're going to use some Mod Podge to attach this right onto our LED candle. You never need a whole lot to be able to get a good attachment. And I always love how the LED candles look once they're lit up and all decorated. The large wood blanks of Dollar Tree aren't just good for single piece decor. I'm going to grab four of these snowflake pieces and we're going to stack them on top of each other to create a snowflake riser. To attach all of them, I'm just going to use my quick and thick Titebond and some clamps. And then I noticed that my Titebond was kind of clogged up. So I got my little crooked tool here and grabbed my needle nose pliers and just unclogged it. For those of you who love oddly satisfying things like me, you're welcome. And for anybody else that was disturbed, my bad, my bad. Listen, we do weird stuff around here. Welcome. There are several different ways you can create risers or get that thicker effect. I decided to just cut out using all the beads and the tumbling blocks and popsicle sticks and whatever else I've used in the past and just pile these suckers right on top of each other. I've also noticed that when I'm doing stuff like this, if I use hot glue, even though it's helping to attach things quicker, it will leave gaps. So I just went ahead and used the Titebond quick and thick and the clamps. And I really love how close the adhesion was when these pieces, along with the thickness of the overall riser itself. I grabbed some of my spackling and shoved a little bit in that hole we had here. So this way it didn't look like a bunch of ornaments. Use whatever legs you would like for your riser. For this one, especially since it's the holiday season, we're just going to use the little snowman pieces from Dollar Tree. I usually always have these in my stash and pop right on the bottom. For our main color, I'm just going to use some white paint and I'm going to use a little bit of black paint to give some accents, mostly just around the edges. And for the stencil, we're going to put on the top. Yes, my stencil was not rinsed off. Okay, I can't even remember the last time I used this stencil, but it was in my stash and I was like, it'd be good for putting more black paint right on top of it. And it was just fine. What a great way to use those large Dollar Tree wood blanks. Did you know that Dollar Tree's pumpkins make perfect backgrounds for palette decor? Especially if you want to decoupage something. We're going to use some TDS decoupage tissue paper with little snowman design, but first we're going to need to disassemble this pumpkin. And the best part about disassembling these pumpkins is it's super easy to do. Everything just kind of comes right on off. For our base coat, I'm going to just use some Waverly Snow White chalk paint and put a nice layer over top of this pumpkin, covering up that orange and the letters. For our medium, I'm just using some Mod Podge and putting a nice coat all over the entire piece. I'm using my mister here just to spritz a little spritzy spritz of water right over top of the decoupage tissue paper. You do not have to do this. You can absolutely just apply the paper without any spraying. But I find that sometimes when there's little grooves on stuff, it just helps me be able to manipulate it and get a really nice bond. Once the piece was dry, I wanted to make it a little rustic, so I grabbed my finger sander and just sanded down where the palette grooves were and all around the edges. To add a little something something around the edge, I grabbed my Dollar Tree metal lace and I just pulled enough out to wrap around our tabletop decor here. I'm going to bring on in the stapler so we can use this to attach onto the palette. I have definitely glued this stuff, but I find that if I'm going to use it to attach it, especially to wood, that stapler works the best. I wanted to make sure that decoupage paper melted in with the background, so I grabbed some more of that Waverly White paint and drybrushed around all the edges and where I sanded everything down. Once that was completely dry, I then grabbed my Mod Podge and put a very nice thin layer of sealer on it. Over in Dollar Tree's non-seasonal section, there's always some goodies to pick up to kind of get you in the mood to create seasonal decor, especially these new ceramic pieces. I absolutely love these things. And yarn, well, they got tons of colors, so I'm just going to grab a green one. We're going to take all these pieces and create a tabletop decor set, starting off by taking this yarn and wrapping it around just the top of the stars. You can cover your stars completely if you would like to. I decided to wrap mine and leave just a little bit of that wood hanging off right of the tips. Whenever I'm attaching fabric of any kind to wood, I really like to use tacky glue. And in this case, as always do, I just grabbed it and started squeezing. However, to my surprise, I didn't attach the lid the last time I used it. I think I saved it. Let it dry. Now you can paint these ceramic beauties on up if you would like to, but I wanted to go with a little modern feel, kept them just as they were, and grabbed some black ribbon and just attached them right to the center. You can absolutely leave these blank if you would like, but I had these little ornaments that I collect throughout the season and I thought they would look just perfect right in the center. Next, I grabbed some floral foam and just shoved it right down into those ceramic pieces. And just like I hoped, that tacky glue dried clear and you could not tell that I dropped it all over this thing. So I just shoved it right on down into our little ceramic piece, grabbed a napkin, used that instead of messy moss, and then added some greenery. I'm not sure if you see the little wood 3D craft kits that they have at Dollar Tree, but I always thought it would be a really cute idea to use them in floral foam and add them into your arrangements. So I just put a couple pieces in here for a little something something and I absolutely adore how these turned out. This quick and easy wall decor piece, I grabbed one of Dollar Tree's large DIY star signs. In one of these little nesting boxes, I'm going to just take some black paints and give both of them a nice coat. You can absolutely use whatever color you would like for yours. Once they were both completely dry, I grabbed a large stencil and placed it right over top of the whole star. You can use paint if you would like, but I'm going to take some of my handmade texture paste and give this a nice coat. You can also mix in acrylic paint whenever you're doing texture, give it a nice color. I happen to like it just the way that it is for this project. When you're all done with that, peel it right on off and then allow this to dry for a few hours. I'm using Titebond Quick and Thick to put a nice little layer on the back of our box that we're attaching to the star, and then it was time to bring on in the stapler. I attached the box and this flipped it upside down and, you know, was mindful, making sure that I was putting the staples in the right spot. For the shelf portion, I wanted to just use one of Dollar Tree's LED candles. Lately, I have been in love with adding TDS Drive rub-on transfers onto candles. I've been adding them onto the LED ones, adding them onto the regular ones. I've just been really loving popping different things onto candles. Now, keep in mind, transfers are not meant to go on wax, so it does take a little bit of elbow grease. But with some patience, usually the LED candles I find are the easiest to plop them onto, and I love how they just add a little something extra into your decor. Absolutely love how this whole piece turned out. First, we're going to start off with this wood giant tree slice. I call it a wood giant tree slice, even though it says it's a wood sign, but it's more like a very thin slice of wood. And we're going to use two of these crates. Now, we're first going to just take our antique waverly wax and we are going to stain everything. Using a baby wipe is probably the best method to apply this quickly and easily. I am actually out of baby wipes, so I'm just using a paper towel here. Now, while that's drying, we're going to create a raised stencil. I'm using some DAP spackling here. My favorite is joint compound, but I can't get to it, and this was right over my head, so it's a little dry. Okay, I was struggling to get its crustiness out of here, but we're going to make it work by adding some white paint to this and some water. And just use a little bit of elbow grease until you have the consistency of smooth butter. And then pick out your stencil. I thought this one would go just perfect with the way that it just kind of lays when I turn it, you know, like a triangle and at the top of the tree. And then we're just going to patch it in as we go down. I did take a minute to kind of center our little crate and make sure that it wasn't going to overlap where we're going to put our spackling. And once I had that all marked up, I started applying our little mixture here. Now, I have this little spatula thing because I get most of my craft supplies at Ross, and this just happens to come in one of the little paintbrush bundle things that I purchase. But don't hesitate to use a spoon. You got a plastic spoon laying around. Use that joint. It will do the job just the same. I've been doing this for years at this point, and I tell you, it doesn't matter if you have crafty special tools. It is going to look like this no matter what, as long as you keep your stencil in place. And a little tip, if you want an extremely professional finish, make sure you're washing your stencil in between applications. As you can see here, there is a little bit of smudging. I'm going to show you how to fix that, though. For crafter's sake, I like to call it just to save some time, I may cut a corner or two. Okay, please don't hate me. If I'm not reselling a piece, and I'm keeping it, and I'm just kind of showing you guys inspiration, I have no problem doing that. But I like to be real with y'all and let you know, like, hey, I'm not washing this stencil every time. This is why it's bleeding, or this is why there's extra. And in case you guys do that, guess what? I'm going to show you how to fix it, like right here. Wait until this is dry, and then you're going to take a tiny paintbrush with a little bit of your antique waverly wax, and you are just going to go over it. And boom, it is completely fixed, and it looks really, really nice. That is a good reason why you paint first, or stain, before you do a raised stencil like this, in the event that there is some bleed through. And even though you try to do as much as you can to prevent that, you can go back over it, and these little details will help fix those problems and give you that high-end looking finish. Here, we are just addressing the dangly, crusty bits that are hanging off the side of our tree slide. After this dries, it's pretty hard. So being able to kind of flicking one off there, scraping one off, is super easy. Next, we're going to glue on our crates. Make sure you're using some wood glue for a long hold, and some hot glue for the quick hold. And if you want some extra protection, don't be afraid to use a drill bit to put some screws in there, and some little pieces in the back, so it really, really stays on for a long time. And these are just some little snowflake laser cutouts that I had, and I am putting different ones on the top of these trees. For staging purposes, I'm just using some stickies on the back for them to hang on the wall, but you could easily put some twine or some ribbon to add your hanger accents. These are absolutely my favorite Christmas DIY that I have made so far this year. For these little stocking holders, we're going to need two of Dollar Tree's wood pen holders. And for our hooks, you can use whatever you want. I have these little knob pulls that I purchased for like a dollar on clearance at either Home Depot or Lowe's. If you want these to last a long time, I highly recommend putting a hole through here and using the screws that come with the piece. For crafter's sake, I am just going to glue these on here to give you guys the idea. I'm also keeping the boxes neutral. Feel free to paint these and or decoupage them, whatever floats your boat. If you're going to use this for larger stockings, because you can, weigh this down with some rocks. I'm just decorating it with some of the little wood bits, and put whatever florals you want in the top. And I have these little decorative stockings that are just darling and thought it was super cute put on these pieces. I hated like hell that I was going to paint over this just because the design in the center is gorgeous, but I did it anyway. It took three coats. I was a little ticked off that it took me that many coats to get a nice coverage on this little plastic silver plate piece. And I just wanted to keep this really simple. So I'm taking this reindeer ornament piece I picked up in a pack from Walmart, and then adding some of Dixie Belle's black gilding wax right to the edges. If you do not have gilding wax, you can use black paint on your finger. It will also do the trick. Or a permanent magic marker. That will also do the same. Just be gentle with the brushing of it, and it just brings out all the etchings. It's absolutely gorgeous. We are going to grab some dollar trees, hanging snowflakes, and a wood plank to create our own unique wall decor. Take this idea and remix it using whatever colors work best for your home and your decor. I'm going to just take some black and paint a nice coat all over just the plank section and allow that to dry. While it's drying, I'm going to take the snowflakes and cut them all off the twine and then grab some white paint and paint them all white. When they were done drying, I grabbed some more twine and then cut little pieces to attach to the top of each one of the little snowflakes. Did not reattach the snowflakes themselves. I put them to the side and then went and grabbed one of my stencils that were in my stash. I did order this off Amazon for anybody that was wondering, and I put it in the spot just to kind of measure where that was going to end up. Then I grabbed some metal lace. You could use ribbon for this if you would like, and I cut a couple sections and applied it right to the end and made sure to also cover over those holes that we don't want anybody to see. I cut up some greenery and stuck them into the metal lace. You can absolutely glue them down, but I knew I was going to be putting berries over the top of them, and I waited to add the glue. I then flipped it over and added the snowflakes onto the back with a little bit of hot glue and a little piece of cardboard. Then when that dried, I flipped it back over and added on those berries. If you want to use paint, you go right ahead. I'm just taking a little bit of my homemade texture paste and going to smear it right on the believe section of the stencil. I cut the little Santa's sleigh section out and put it right on the top and then added more of that texture paste. Believe it or not, this only took a couple minutes to make, and it absolutely looks like something you would purchase in a store. If you're looking for more Dollar Tree DIY Christmas inspiration, check out this video right here. And as always, people, thank you all so much for hanging out with me today, and until next time, bye!