DollarTree Mystery Box Swap Christmas Crafts With a Free Tree Pattern and a Craft Challenge For You!

Hello my crafty tribe, this is artsy Maddie, and this is my youngest son Nathan. Hey there, I'm Nathan I am artsy Maddie's son. You may have noticed I comment on her videos. Yes. Yeah, I'm a very loving son Yeah, you're the best. So I've recruited some help. We're doing a super fun thing today It's called the mystery box challenge And I've had this parcel for a couple weeks, and it is just we're dying to know what's in here So this is from my wonderful friend Robin from Robin's buys and DIYs She's such a sweetie, and then I sent a parcel to aunt from Antoinette's Decorating and there's a whole bunch of us, so this is coordinated by Leah from Junker Necker DIY and my bestie my YouTube friend Fabi from arrows DIY, so they're the ones that organize it and it's done every couple months So be sure to check out the playlist be sure to see what I sent ant and be sure to check out what Robin got from Ant so there'll be lots of fun surprises, so they're in this box. There is supposed to be three craft items and then two Wildcard items, and we have to create the least amount of DIYs that we can so It's gonna be a challenge Hopefully not too challenging. I'm a little bit scared, but what's in here so Nathan you can help me brainstorm, right? Yeah Happy holidays Hi, Maddie so nice to participate in this awesome challenge with you here are your mystery items They are located under the doily all all of the Rest is a bonus. Oh That's so sweet Message me on Instagram for the two items that are from another aisle if you don't know which one is But the doily, and I think you can guess the other take care Robin's buys and DIYs Awesome, that's a cute card. Thank you Robin Okay, here. We go. I think this is a bonus. Oh my god. That's so cute I think it's gonna be backwards on this, but that is so cute. I love it. I absolutely love it. Oh wow Look at that. Oh, she sent me a whole bunch of stuff. Oh my god, it's spoiled It really is Christmas Look at all this awesome stuff We got some candy cane stickers. What else is in here buddy? Well you got some extra Christmas stuff some silver stuff that really goes Silver um oh you got a picket fence interesting And oh you got some Cool stickers some some cat stickers. It looks like You got foam letter stickers or green You got some white mesh All right exactly So I always decorate with white and silver and a little bit of teal for Christmas So hopefully we can work this in. You got some tape with some ring on it. Oh I love washi tape. Thank you Robin I love to do planners and scrapbooking This is so sweet. Thank you Dream plan do oh I love it. This is awesome. I wonder okay, so oh she just spoiled me rotten You got some oh monkey stickers Look at all this stuff Robin you're too sweet. Oh my goodness I'm so lucky wow I love stickers This is like you Coin wrappers Coin wrappers, okay, we can do something with this. I don't know what but we can do something Okay, you've got a color your own ornament I didn't see those at my dollar tree perfect. Oh, you've got a little tube of glitter glitter We're gonna have to make sure to save some of those for our tray, yeah Some unicorn Balloon things And then finally you have this nice Stencil All right, that seems to be everything oh, I'm not totally Sure I'm pretty sure you've got the doily right did you get the doily? Okay, so two items that are from another aisle if you don't know which one But one is the doily and I think you can guess the other So the doily and these coin wrappers, they're dime wrappers Okay, so I'm gonna have to think on this do you have any ideas off the top of your head uh? Well, you could do a little truck thing make these the wheels I'm just thinking off the top of my head. I I'm not the one with the craft channel But I'm sure we can come up with something So I just dove right into this hardest challenge item I decided I came up with an idea and I just decided to go for it So I am gluing together the flat ends of the coin wrappers so the part that doesn't have the hard rolled edge to it and I decided to use white glue just so that they wouldn't get any thicker and that they would still be a little bit malleable once they had dried and Then I am taking 11 of the dime wrappers and gluing them. So hot glue high temperature Halfway on to the one beside it. So you'll see here. I just put down the glue and Slide the other one halfway over top of the coin wrapper underneath So once I had the 11 of them all attached you just have to be patient and wait for the hot glue to dry Because they will want to pull apart a little bit on you So once I knew that 11, so I'm actually wrapping them around a 5 inch styrofoam cone, too This is from Dollar Tree as well So once I knew that 11 would fit well around the bottom of this cone Then I just wrapped it right around in a circle and just held it until the hot glue dried So you do you just have to be really patient and just actually wait for it to dry So then I just did a dry fit to make sure that it would fit exactly how I wanted it to onto the cone They didn't work out quite as nicely as I hoped they would I mean it is just paper and it did get a little bit Wrinkly and stuff, but you'll have to let me know This is the idea I've come up with so I did have a few more ideas since then I actually got really inspired by these coin rolls. But Anyway, you'll have to let me know what you think. So the next row I did seven and Same thing just glued them halfway on to each other waited for the glue to dry Did another dry fit on top? So I'm gonna slide this one down on top We're actually going to do three layers of coin wrappers on here So you just have to spread them out a little bit just to get them to slide down on top of the other set of rolls So I'm just dry fitting everything at this point. I'm not gluing it to the cone yet and There's a reason for that too. So right now I'm working with the high Temperature on my hot glue gun and then we're gonna have to change to the low temperature To actually attach it to the styrofoam because the the high temperature on the hot glue is just too hot It just melts the styrofoam away too much So then for the top layer, this is five so five coin rollers and this is for the five inch cone Dollar Tree does sell a smaller one and a larger one So this is what I used for the five inch cone just if you wanted to try and remake this So here we're gonna turn the temperature down to low wait for it to cool down a bit and Then I'm gonna glue it into place onto the cone. So just a tiny bit of glue It doesn't take much and then just actually gluing them down to the cone. So you guys will have to let me know like if you Coin wrappers to craft with what ideas come into your head and like do you think this is fun enough? I would love to challenge you guys to do this as well to do something with coin wrappers I just thought it was so fun. Anyway, so to protect the styrofoam from spray paint I gave it some of that acrylic sealer spray Just so that it wouldn't eat the styrofoam too much because I just wanted to get a primer on there just to block all the printing that's on the paper and Then once I had the primer on then I just went and did a base coat of this light green So I just mixed some greens that I had here to kind of get a pale shade of green as my base coat So I just went in and got into all the little crevices and stuff tried to get a good coat on there Then for the top coat, I'm just gonna kind of get like a fun Brighter green it's gonna go with this illustrated gift bag that we use later on here. So kind of a fun Happy green not your regular Christmas green. This all has a little bit of a Illustrated cartoony feel to it just to go with the gift bag that I was inspired by as well So for the top I decided to actually go with the medium size Styrofoam star these are also from Dollar Tree as well And then I just measured it out to notch into the star just so that it would sit down on top of that tree Just because there was no way I could get it into a finer point than that At the top of the tree. So this will just help camouflage that and make it look a little funner and nicer So I just took my time made the little notch just kind of a little square type notch out of it for For the star to sit down onto the tree so then again just using the low temperature on the hot glue because this is styrofoam as well and Then once I had that glued down I wanted to use some snowy paint So I've done this in the past just using some shaving cream That's actually Dollar Tree shaving cream and then a little bit of white paint and just a little bit of glue Just to make sure that it's all bonding together Well stir it up really well and you get kind of a fluffy snow paint. This is great for lots of things around Christmas time So then I just want it to look like the snow is sitting on Like as if these little coin rolls are kind of the funny branches of the tree So just trying to think like snow and where it would fall on all the edges And just kind of settle into those little crevices and stuff You'll notice with that base coat to like showing through a little bit I kind of watered down that green and did kind of a streaky effect on it just to kind of make it look illustrated Just like as if it were a kind of a watercolor Creation sort of thing and then for the top just did some fun glue With a little bit of glitter just to give it some fun kind of sparkle So I just got a whole bunch of glue sitting on top of the star and then just shook some little white sparklies on there And then here is our final result So I've come up with more ideas I would love to actually do a video I think of just coin wrapper ideas Do you guys think that would be fun? I would love it. If you guys make anything with coin wrappers if you would tag me on Instagram, I think that would be so fun So here for the next project, I'm just gonna stain two dowels. So I have one square dowel I it was about 16 inches long and I'm just staining the middle of it So I don't need to worry about the bottom or the top and then I did a round dowel That's just a little bit shorter about 13 inches So then I am using the doily from Robin and I just folded it in half and then I designed a little tree stencil That would fit perfectly on this doily. So if you guys are wanting to recreate these I've created a printable pattern and I'll share it on my Google Drives with you guys So there'll be a link for that in the description box So just getting it all pinned down to this doily, it's not quite straight It wants to pull a little bit. So the pins just kind of help keep that all in place when you're cutting it if you guys don't have spring-loaded scissors, I Highly recommend spring-loaded scissors for fabric or your best friend and then just keep them good Keep them for your fabrics whenever you're working with fabrics. So this was a little remnant of quilt batting So if you have any friends that are quilters Just ask them for their scraps. That's exactly what this is It was just like a little remnant at the thrift store Obviously just a bit extra that somebody didn't use from their quilts and I just thought it was the prettiest like that natural cotton color Just so pretty. So then I'm gonna tack the doilies to the quilt batting So I'm not gonna sew for this project. Although I think this would look very beautiful sewn as well But just because I know most of you just like to hot glue and craft we'll just stick with the hot glue and crafting so I'm just gonna work slowly. So with each point of the tree, I'll just stop and do this stuffing part So we're just gonna take our time and work carefully and just kind of go for the best results So I just used some cotton batting like the little cotton balls to stuff it with Just you know because I'm I know most of you guys are just shopping at Dollar Tree and stuff and not Like for batting at at a fabric store or whatever. So this works too. This is great So just some cotton balls here stuffing it. So just work slowly and if you glue each Peak of the little tree here separately, then you'll be able to stuff it a little bit easier and get more of a fuller Stuffing and just get into those little corners and stuff a little bit easier so then like once I got about halfway just getting that dowel up to the top of the tree and Just nice and secured in there with batting on the front of the dowel as well as the back of the dowel Just so that there's not that stick showing through the fabric like the shape of it So just taking your time will give you kind of the best results with this I figure For the gluing that doily down to the quilt batting I used that clear tacky glue just because I had it But I feel like you could use the regular tacky glue to it. It actually dries pretty clear as well So then once I had that all tacked in place, I needed a base for it. So my kids have kind of this random Old toy bucket and I just had a look in there and there was these two little Magic cups like from a little magic set that they had But just look for like anything with a nice shape to it Like I I like kind of that bell shape that these had to them or if you have any old pieces of like a candlestick Bottom anything like that would make a great base for for this or even just pieces of wood, too So I'm just using some E6000 and a little bit of hot glue to hold it in place while it dries and then I'm just putting it down onto this pickle jar lid So while I was doing this project, I actually liked it so much that and then I had the two cups So I decided to pick up another doily and just make two of them to make a pair So then I didn't really like how shiny this is, but I do love decorating with silver for Christmas so I thought I would just tone it down a little bit with this gunmetal folk art paint and Just a toothbrush. So I'm kind of Mimicking like a brushed nickel sort of look Just a really rough finish. I forgot that I didn't take the stamp off of this one as well So just a little bit of acetone gets that printed expiration date off the pickle jar lid So just working horizontal trying to get all your lines as best as you can. It's impossible to get them perfect, but just Working in the one direction with the toothbrush just to kind of get those brushed Nickel kind of look to it and I just thought it kind of toned down the shine a little bit But not dull like you still get that nice sheen to it, but just not the bright shiny plastic look So here's the finished result for these. I'm super happy with them. I really really love them I think they would look beautiful stitched as well so if I make any more in the future, I might do some stitched ones, too, and then we're gonna move on to the Picture so I was inspired I thought this little bag at Dollar Tree was so cute with the little Santa on his little bicycle delivering his presents I just thought it was so sweet. So I cut off the front of this bag. So just taking it apart Just take your time I wish I had cut the bottom just a little bit neater because it didn't quite Line up. I was trying to maximize the picture on this piece of wood that I have here So, you know like always you just want to take your time and do it as neatly as possible So I knew that this bare wood and it's just particle board. I knew it was gonna soak up a lot of Glue, so instead of my Mod Podge. I just used white glue Just because I knew I would need so much of it and it worked out fine it looks a little bit wrinkly, of course when it's wet, but then because this was just plain paper like it didn't have a Shiny finish or anything on it. It dried and just shrunk right back flat and and really good in the end, so Like if you do end up working with just the paper bags, they are great for for gluing down a Mod Podging So then to frame it out. I just have these 3 quarter inch by 3 quarter inch this is actually for stripping that I cut in half and Used to be really cheap at Home Depot, of course now all wood is expensive But I think even these would still be affordable. It's a great option for framing if not just use your Tumbling tower blocks or just however you like to frame out your signs. I just love this method I just find it really easy and cheap and affordable. So Then just add a little bit more Dimension and and kind of textures and stuff to this picture. I just thought I would use those sweet little Cardboard fences that Robin sent me as well. So I just wanted them to look a little bit Textured and rough like they've been outside for a while. So I went in with some off-white paint to start with and Just did like a rough coat. I just love these children's brushes from Dollar Tree They're so great for getting that nice streaky finish on things And then I just dry brush some white on top of the off-white and I thought it gave it a lot of texture and dimension So then I'm gonna use some of that snowy paint that fluffy snowy paint that we made Just to look like snow is sitting on this fence I tried using this iridescent snow that I had just in a bag kicking around and it was crazy I couldn't control it at all. That's what that other fence is there So originally I was planning to use like a whole fence right across the bottom of the picture But I ended up just using this one and then once the snow Once I had it all on there that snowy paint. I just sprinkled a little bit of that white Sparkly glitter just to kind of give it that glistening snow look and then we'll get that glued down to the bottom of the picture So the bottom of this bag This is what I meant by I didn't cut it quite as neatly as I should have and it didn't quite line up at the bottom So to camouflage that I'm just gonna put in some more of that white Sparkly glitter to kind of hide my little mistake there Gotta love glitter right and it hides all our little mistakes Especially at Christmas, I love glitter at Christmas so then I'm gonna use some of those foam sticker letters that Robin sent me as well and They're super sticky. I have old ones and they've lost all their stickiness So the glue on these is much better and I stuck them down to some old sticker sheets that I had just so it'd be nice and Slippery like to peel them off again. And then because they're all funky colors I just gave them a coat of this primer and paint all-in-one and it actually took two coats still even though this has pretty good coverage So two coats of that got a nice base coat on there and then I decided to give it kind of a frosted look So I'm just using a baby wipe and some white paint and just kind of padding some white Models kind of looking paint onto it and it just kind of gives it this frosty look And then I also wanted to give these the little snowy Kind of texture looking like snow is sitting on them So anywhere where the snow would fall on the tops of the letters I just went in with some glue and then again just some of that white sparkly glitter Now for taking these off of this paper. I wish I had to let them dry so long If you kind of do this like all in one day, then they peel off a lot easier But I let them dry for a couple days and the paint got a little bit crunchy on me But just as a tip if you do that whole project just in the one day then they will come off easier So then I just have some of this pink scrapbook paper just from my stash. I Think it it was from quite a while ago. So I don't know if you'd find this exact one, but just something like similar anything Pink and pretty I thought it looked nice. So I'm just gonna go through and put this little saying on here. My husband helped me come up with this little saying I was trying to think of something cute to write with the Santa on his bike And so he helped me think of oh what fun it is to ride and then just getting these all stuck down So this is what I was talking about. Just the paint got a little bit too dry Normally, it will pull off of these letters a little bit easier I've painted lots of these foam letters in the past So just know that if you kind of do it all in one day, you'll have better luck getting the paint to detach from sticker paper So then just splitting them all up and then I'm gonna use these letters Like one just because I thought it would look pretty and then two they'll cover the little holes that are in the bag So where the handle of the bag was and then I thought as a little added detail I would use these little tiny mini clothes pins that's what you call them right clothes pins to Just make it look like they're all kind of hanging on the little clothesline So same thing with those I just used a little bit of burnt umber and a little I don't know if I used to touch a black in that one But just the burnt umber gives a nice stain to that dries super quick So just watered down burnt umber acrylic paint. So then for the letters, I just got them spaced out as nicely as I could Just did a little dab of hot glue on the bottom of each of the letters Just so that I could still lift the top up to put the little clothes pin on it and Then just pull the strings tight and I actually just used the little The little groove of where the frame is meeting the picture to wedge the little twine in that I used So you'll see here in just a moment so I just cut them off left a little bit of extra and Put some little a little dab of tacky glue down there and then use that little Faux Cricut spatula thing to just kind of tuck them down into that groove Just to kind of give it a nice finished look And so here's the picture all done you guys I had so much fun with this mystery box challenge It was such fun to be a part of and it just brought me so much joy So just thank you so much to Aaliyah from Junker Necker DIY and to my best buddy Fabi from arrows DIY for organizing this and to Robin again for sending me that wonderful Package that was so fun. So just as a last added detail. I Had found this funky little tree last year at the end of Christmas like when they clear out all the stuff from the thrift store and Like everything was like 75% off So I think I paid like a dollar or something for this tree And I just thought I could kind of give this that snowy effect to you and just make it look a little bit cuter so just going in with the rest of that snowy paint and getting the Branches all frosted and snowy and then I thought this would be cute to put those little Those sweet little truck lights that she sent me on So I just thought that was nice and fun and kind of brought everything together So I really hope you guys will check out all my friends and their videos I know they've probably worked super hard on their projects too and had a lot of fun. So Be sure to check out the playlist. I'll link it in the comments as well and the description box for any of the the Details of this video and also for that free pattern of the little Doily trees too if you're wanting to make those be sure to tag me on Instagram as well If you guys are inspired by any of these crafts, I love to connect with you there as well If you like this video, please give it a like and I hope you'll consider subscribing if you're not already and for my crafty tribe You guys know I love you. Thank you for always coming back and always being patient with me to release videos and Just do all these super fun challenges that I love. So thank you guys so much for watching and have a great week We'll talk to you soon