Fall Party Serving Tray

Artist:

Sandy Clements

Estimated Time:

1 Hours

Difficulty:

Intermediate

Step-by-Step Instructions

Paint the tray with red acrylic paint. Let thoroughly dry. Overnight if possible.
Paint over the red paint with watered down black Acrylic paint. Let thoroughly dry. Overnight if possible.
Place all cut sections through the Xyron 9" Creative Station with permanent adhesive. Adhere as shown.
Lightly sand the edges and random sections of the tray so some of the red shows through. NOTE: If you sand to deeply and you see the wood color showing through – lightly run a red ink pad over the area to color it red.
Open the Cut It Out Now “Fall Leaf” design templates in Xyron Create Cut out the Acorn with swirl and three more leaves from red and orange cardsock. Run leaves through the Xyron 900 with permanent adhesive.
Cut two 2” strips of the striped paper the length of the tray. Cut 9” x the length of the tray from the yellow printed cardstock. Adhere the leaves down the right side of the yellow cut printed paper with the acorn at the top.
Place the yellow and the striped cut sections through the Xyron 900 with laminate front / Permanent adhesive backing. Adhere a cut and laminated strip of the striped paper vertically on each side of the tray. Place the cut yellow laminated section centered and overlapping the striped sections.
Push in 5 square brown nail heads down each side of the cut yellow laminated section. Carefully hammer each one so it goes all the way into the wood part of the the tray.

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