Tiered Tray #3: BEE | DIY Video (Dollar Tree & Dollar General)

Hello everyone, welcome to Crafty Beach, I'm Julie and I have a big project for you today. If you were new, if you could hit the subscribe button, give me a like. I would appreciate it very much, thank you. Okay, today we're leaving. to make a b tier

tray

, it's the big one, it's my big three tier

tray

and my first project is called a b skep, some people call it a hive, but I guess it's like a house built for the bees to live in and you'll see how . It looks like I'm going to use this rope from the

dollar

tree

to do the jump and just one of the little metal cubes from the

dollar

tree

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Turns out it's a spring one I had lying around, it could be anything. It could be an upside down flower pot. I'm just using it for the structure. I'm going to cut a little loop here. A lot of the steps I saw online actually have handles on the top, so I'm going to make just a little handle for the top with the rope and this dollar tree rope. There are two types that are very similar. This is the widest one. I actually had both and thought the wider one would look a little better, but honestly, you could even use it. thread, it would take much longer.

I thought the larger diameter of the rope would make this a little easier and actually make it a little more authentic, so upon reloading my hot glue gun, my bow was attached to the top or bottom of my little cube and I'm ready to start hot gluing so I'm a little bit outside the frame but all I'm doing is starting my rope there are little pieces of duct tape on the end I like to cut them off just because I don't really I don't want to mess with the tape and I could just stick it all the way to the bottom of the base and I'm going to stick it everywhere now normally when you know how to wrap things in twine and stuff like that, I just stick like that.

The first row of this project I really wanted to be wrapped tightly and not just glued to the cube, but also glued together because I don't want the floral print to show through, so I glued every part of this cube. just keep going around I could do about half the cube and then glue it before it hardens if you'll excuse me if you're wondering where I got this hot glue gun I bought it on Amazon and it's a ryobi hot glue gun um , it's cordless, it runs on ryobi batteries and I love it, but the glue gets really hot so definitely be careful and I hit the end of my rope so I cut that little ribbon off and I'm just making sure I got it right and glued, It is quite easy to start and stop a new packet from this string.

The transition is barely noticeable if you glue it nice and tight, and now I move on to my second bundle of rope. I got to the top, I don't really want it to have a flat roof, I want it to be more vaulted, so what I'm going to do here is just glue it to itself and go in a little bit. little every time I go around to give it a more domed top and I'm just going to go until it's closed the hole is closed there at the top with the handle sticking out and that should be enough rope there so I'm going to measure it , cut it out and glue the top.

These little pink things you see me wearing on my fingers are the little hot glue protectors you get at the dollar tree and they come in handy. This hot glue is very hot and you can still feel it. I'm being like a pyrotechnician here going over it with a lighter, basically that just burns all the extra fibers in there and cleans it up. Okay, I'm going to use my cricut to cut out some black vinyl here to make an opening. For the skep, I find that a lot of people when they make them make a small black circle and then put string around it, so that's my plan here and here I just made a two inch circle of black vinyl and put it on. there and I didn't like it, I didn't think it looked very good, so I went on Google and wondered what a b step actually looks like and instead of a circle, they actually have a slit for the bees to get in and out of, so I'm going to try it again and this time I'm going to make a rectangle here and it's about the same width as one of the ropes that it fits pretty well and then I'm just going to use my hot glue gun to melt that onto the rope because you know that the vinyl doesn't really want to stick to the hairy rope and just make sure it's nice and ready and there's my b scap okay so I thought.

I finished and then I thought where was it going to be and the only place my tear tray is actually going to fit is at the top, but the top of my tear tray actually has a post sticking out so I want to center it and put it there but it's not high enough so I thought I was done but I'm not. I need another at least two inches of height on my B jump, so I open a third bundle of rope from the dollar tree. Whenever I see these things, I grab three or four packs of each type because you'll usually need more than one for most projects and you want to be consistent and use the same type too, so now I don't have any structure. there at the bottom, so what you see me doing is I'm just gluing the string to itself.

I'm trying to be careful because I have to shape the structure. I'm working on getting out a little. a little bit the opposite of what I did at the top but not too much and I just stacked the rope until I got those extra two inches of height that I need and I'm glad I went and measured this because there was nowhere else on the tray tears that this big b skep is going to fit in you can always make it smaller by using those little dollar tree clay pots and flipping them over and getting a smaller pitch, but I really wanted a nice big b scale for my tear tray and I What I'm going to do is keep hot gluing until I go ahead and use the rest of the row and I'm just cutting the ribbon off the end and this gave me a good like another two and a half inches of height and it's holding up pretty well.

The rope glued to itself gave me enough structure even though there is no cube inside that part and it turned out pretty well, so I'm measuring and gluing the end and it's like it's malleable, I just shaped it how I like it and then I'll go with the lighter and burn all the extra strings. This step is totally optional, but I like the way it looks. Okay, I'm just shaping it a little more. I noticed the edge made it stick out a little, but we're all good. The next project is our gnome b so what you see is a mop head and a skirt b from the toy department in dollar tree the mop head was from the dollar tree a doll from the dollar tree a b headband from the section of toys on the dollar tree um white dollar tree socks men's socks and black dollar tree men's socks and some oxiclean from the dollar tree dollar tree so this is just a white tree man sock from the dollar and I'm just going to cut off the leg part because I know I won't need it and I just need some weight on the bottom for the gnome to stand on. above you can use it like rice or beans, whatever you have, make it heavy, this was the cheapest option for me, it was only a dollar and I didn't really want any food on my gnome.

I live in Florida, I really don't want anything. pests or bugs that you know are attracted to whatever I put in there and it smells nice, so this is just stuffing from an old pillow. I like to recycle them instead of just buying filler, you could do that too so I'm just stuffing the stocking to make my little gnome body measure the wings to see how high I want it. I don't want it too high because it's on a tear tray. I probably should have used it as a kid's stocking because this actually made him a little short and stocky, but that's okay, he's my chubby little gnome and I only have floral wire here and I'm just using it to tie my stocking.

It's a good, sturdy way to tie it, but you can use anything, rubber bands, twine, whatever you have. I'm just going to cut off the extra sock at the top and there's my little Nomi body, okay, so she needs a nose, so I'm going to use these dollar tree rubber bands and I'm just going to pinch a circle. of fluff and put the elastic band there to give my little gnome a nose. These elastic bands give you a million and one package but they are super cheap so I'm also going to go around the nose with the floral wire to make it a little more permanent in case the elastic band breaks, my nose stays like this, like this which like the top, I'll just wrap the floral wire around it and hide the wires on the side.

Well, next is the gnome makeover I'm using. a blush brush and a little bit of my bronzer and I'm giving the gnome a tan on the nose because I want that part to be visible, that's the only part of the white sock that will be visible and I want it to be light in color. for my gnome, blush, anything you can do to give it a little bit of color and then these are the dollar tree men's black socks and I'm going to use them for the body of the gnome and I'm just sliding them on from the bottom and I want them your nose sticks out, but my sock is a little big, so I've done this before with socks like ankle socks and I didn't really have all this excess fabric, but since this sock is a tall sock, I have to trim a little here, like this I want the sock to go up to her nose and then I'm just cutting off a little bit of extra fabric and I also want to cover where her eye area would be with the black sock and then what I'm going to do is just use some hot glue and stick the sock to the inside sock and I have a little bit of hot glue on the sock and I'm just trying to clean it up and the first time it didn't really stick so I'm trying again to get this nice and tight and when I made a sock gnome before for St.

Patrick's Day I used all the socks, this one is going to be a little different since I'm going to use that cute little b skirt from the Dollar Tree toy department to make the hat, so I glued it on the her eye area and then I have the leftover sock there on top, so I'm going to take the floral wire again and tie that as well. I like it. It's very easy to work with floral wire and it really holds the structure of the gnome well, so I just wrap it, tie it and glue on a piece that was a little loose and there's our gnome body, okay?

I want to start working on the hat, this dollar tree skirt. I had to go to more than one dollar tree to get the little headband and the skirt I definitely couldn't find them in the same store, oh no, first. I'm going to make the beard, so I bought this dollar tree microfiber mop and I'm going to cut a good amount for a beard, the gnome that I made before, I made it with the white dollar tree yarn and I just made tassels and the I glued it on and really liked how it looked but I had heard you could make gnome beards with these little mop heads so I thought I would give it a try and the only thing I hate here is seeing.

How much is it like the fibers are coming out like the gnome really sheds? You can see on the black sock the little white threads really want to come out so I'm just gluing that on one side and then hot gluing it on the other side and giving our gnome a nice big fluffy beard and watching the fall I think which I prefer the thread method, but this definitely gave it a different look, so I like it, it turned out really cute, well now the hat, so I have the skirt. Basically I'm going to use your fabric, so I'm going to cut it on one side and it has this yellow tool that I don't really need for anything, so I'm going to try to remove that toll just to get it out of my way and I'm going to leave the waistband of the skirt there.

It actually has elastic at the waist and I'm going to try using it to attach it to my gnome's head as well as wrapping it around where the waist would go. around where his eyes are and I have too much fabric so I just cut a little bit off and then I'm trying to find the elastic on the sides so I can wrap this around his head and I'm like To see if I have enough fabric for everyone and actually I lost this side, on the left, the elastic went in, so I'll have to trim it a little to try to get a grip on my elastic again.

So I'm just going to take the elastic, wrap it around the gnome's head, and give it a nice tie to hold it in place. Now normally I would wear a sock inside out and I would just put the sock over his head and so I'm doing that with this bee fabric. I liked the Speed ​​fabric. I thought it would be very cute for this project. I'm not going to go crazy or sew it or anything. I'm just going to hot glue this on. hat, so the first thing I'm going to do is glue it over his eyes.

His eyes, little gnome eyes, will be covered by the hat and I love this hot glue gun. The battery drains very quickly when you leave it. and then instead of sewing it into a hat shape, I'll do it all with hot glue, so I just glue it on the back and then I just fold the hat into a hat shape here and just tuck it in, you know, the fray and below forgive it a nice clean look and I sand it if it's a good length for a hat, it really is. I didn't have to cut anything so I'm using them again. little dollar tree elastic bands and just putting them at the end to shape it into a hat, now I'm going to go back in with the hot glue and I'm going to start gluing the seam of the hat and that's what you see me doing here and then I think I need some filling.

Oh, I love this new ladybug vacuum I bought for my workspace on Amazon. It works great for keeping things clean, so I have part of the hat still open, so what do I do? What I'm going to do is take a little bit more of that polyester stuffing from the pillow and stuff the hat and see if I like it so I'm probably going to go in with too much stuffing and see if I want my hat stuffed and then I think that's too much Julie and then he just wants to stay standing. up like a donkey hat, so I'm like no, no, still too much, so I pull it out more and I want it to, like you know, fall like a Santa hat and I'm just taping the hole and then it doesn't want to stay down , I just wanted to pop back into that weird shape, so I'm like, okay, I don't want to stuff this hat, so I just take the elastic band off the end and I'm just taking all the stuffing out, that was a bad idea and I'm just putting the elastic band back on the end to form the tip of the hat and it's really coming together.

I have this little pom pom left over from an Easter goal. craft, but you can use any type of pom pom or fluff or you can even make something cute for the end and I just tie it like this and then I'm just going to use hot glue to cover the end. the fabric so you won't see it and it will give it a finished look and this gnome is really coming together, isn't it cute? I think it needs a name, what can we call them? Maybe buzzes and I just Cut a little bit more off that microfiber mop head and I just want to fill in like the sides of his nose give him a little bit more fuzz on that mustache and beard so I'm just going to stick a little bit on each side just to fill it.

Get in and cover any socks that want to peek out. Well now I have this B headband that I bought at the dollar tree and I'm going to try to remove the antenna. They're very difficult. I ended up having to do it. cut them off, they were very attached I want to use the antennae for my benome and I also want to use the wings to decorate it. I have them. You might as well go ahead and use them, so here are the two little antennas. like yellow pipe cleaners so if you can't find this you can always make it with just a yellow pom pom at the end and you know they could actually be black too so the fabric is a little thin so I'm trying to just use the pipe cleaner wire to get through it, but I'm not having much luck so I grabbed my x-acto knife and cut a small slit in the hat so I can thread the antenna through the hat.

I just want it. poking out and then once I have it there, I'm going to get under the hat and I want to make it sturdy, so I don't want it like everything whether I want it or not, so I'm going to pull it out and then push it out. I put it into the body of the sock to give it some structure and then I'm just going to glue the hat on so that everything stays in place and it looks pretty good, so I'm going to do the same on the other side I'm going to make another slit in the hat and insert the second antenna and I love how this guy turned out.

He is so cute that he really has a lot of personality. Well, there are my antennas and my hat. Now I want. to use the wings, um, so I'm going to cut them out and hot glue them to the back of my gnome. I make the stripes as if they are facing forward, but I could have turned them around. You can't really see the gnome. on the tear tray from the back, but if you could, the stripes on the back would have looked cute too so you can see all that beard fuzz. I'm gluing that wing on with a little more hot glue and then I'm going to glue on the other side and this buzz guy is almost done.

I love making these sock gnomes. I think they are very funny. They take a lot of work, but you can definitely make them for any type of holiday or color scheme. lots of personality so I'm playing with the little guy's hat trying to figure out how I like it and how I want it to fit and I like it tucked back like that with the little antenna sticking out and I love it. to hold something so oh my god I'm glad this is cut here I'm being Sid, remember from Toy Story? Cutting off the arms of this poor doll like some kind of monster, these arms I thought would be perfect for the gnome.

I want him to hold something, not always, you know, give my gnomes arms, but this guy wanted me to hold that little honey dipper that I was able to pick up on Amazon. I bought a pack of three, they were pretty inexpensive. I will do that. I posted a link to those and I want it to hold so I just cut the arms off of that doll. It was a pretty big doll, but the arms were perfect, perfect size, perfect color, so I'm just hot gluing them on the side where the arms are. I'd be buzzing oh there's my head girl you need to like your roots okay so this arm wanted to fight me a little bit that's why my head is blocking the whole shot.

I'm trying to see what I'm doing and I want the arm to be securely attached and these little pink things protect my fingers, but that hot glue is hot, so sometimes when you use a lot of glue like that, it's better to use something else, like a pair of scissors or something like that. and he has really cute arms, so the next step is oh, I want to cover the area where I just attached his arms, so this gnome is going to be super furry and he's going to have a beard that covers his shoulders, so that is what I'm doing, I'm just covering that rough seam and glue with a little more beard when all else fails, give the gnome more beard, all mistakes can be forgiven, okay, so I like it, Now it's time to give him his little honey.

Dipper and I just want him to hold it, so you guessed it, hot glue. I'm just going to hot glue it to his little hand and it's small, it's light, I don't think he'll have any problems holding it and there it is. I'm just playing with this hat, I know where I like it, I don't know why I'm playing with them and trying to pick out all these little loose fibers that want to come off the super fuzzy beard on him. It really fits well, his hat is super shiny, so this is my idea. I'm just soaking it in just starch and I think that will make it dry as a more matte color.

I don't want it to be super bright so cheap. dollar tree satin fabric and that's all I did and I'm just going over that with a paper towel to make sure it's nice and wet with starch and I didn't really like how you could see the seams on the bottom of her hat , so I used the rest of the black sock that I had and I just cut the elastic band around the top of the hat and I just pulled it down like a stocking cap and I wanted to untangle a little bit and I'm just putting it down where I like it and then I'm going to glue it on and I decided that his beard is maybe a little bit too much so I'm just going to give it a quick barber treatment and trim it a little bit to give that beard a little more shape and you'll be able to see the beard and that won't , he actually has a body underneath under all that fluffy beard and I really don't want him to get lost so I'm just grooming that beard as much as I can and in the end I like how it turned out, it's definitely a cute little beard for him, I just glued that hat instead, I was a little afraid because of the fibers, but it turned. it came out pretty good and made it look a little more finished, you're done, here's Buzz the be gnome, okay, next I have this one, the dollar tree, it's one of those wax melt warmers and it has some bees on the side , it is perfect. color I want to use for my teardrop tray, so this is just a black paint pen from Target.

It just came in a package. I got them on clearance recently in their craft department and if you twist the tip you will get a finer brush. So that's what you saw me do and then this is like a raised bee pattern, although it's not very obvious, so I'm just going around and drawing its outlines, filling in the wings a little bit and then I'm just going to give it a couple of stripes and I don't have a very steady hand for this but it was actually pretty simple and pretty forgiving so I just went over it with my heat gun and dried it and there are two bees on this little wax melt and I love their color.

The color scheme I want to use for this teardrop tray is this color of yellow and then white and black, so this will give me the yellow and black when adding the little details. to the bee and it makes it really stand out that there's a bumblebee there when before you really had to look at it to notice the little bees on the side and it's not that bad so just give it that. a quick dry and that's all you have to do on that project, it's going to be super easy. Of course, I'm trying to touch up some areas I didn't like and it's good enough, Julie, so I'll just change that tip. again, put it back there.

Tweezers are great for that, so you won't get paint on your hand. I'm going to light a candle on that and it's ready to go. Well, these are toy bees. I got to the dollar tree and I don't want them to look so much like toys. I want them to look a little more realistic. The first step is to go in and paint these guys everywhere with this thing called the Waverly maze. chalk paint that I bought at Walmart and I just bought a little jar, but I'm going to use it for a lot of projects in this tray because I want them all to be the same shade. yellow and I like this color a little more than the orange color he was, so I just go all over his body and cover it with chalk paint.

I love chalk paint. Chalk paint sticks to anything and dries. very nice and quickly, so I'm just going over all the places that were yellow before and giving it a good coat, just holding it by the wings to try to keep the wings out of the yellow paint as best I can. I tried to remove them but they were kinda there so here I'm just trying to clean the paint to see if the streaks show but it actually wiped all the yellow paint off the tail so it didn't work so I just repainted what I just cleaned. off and number one is yellow so I'm going to go in and do the exact same thing here with number b two and just give it a quick look all over with a coat of this corn chalk paint and I'm like doing the same job. of paint you already know, the dollar treated in yellow with black stripes, but I want them to look more interesting for my teardrop tray.

I don't want it to be obvious that they are toys and I'm just giving them a quick dry. With my heat gun, the combination of chalk paint and the heat gun, like you can work pretty quickly because you don't have to wait for things to dry, so I think it needs black stripes, so I'm going to use that same one. black paint pen again that I just used on the wax warmer and I'm going to color their stripes again and you can see where they would be with the black paint pen and then this is where I'm like I don't know if that's really what it looks like a bee, so I had a conversation with my son, who actually shows me what a bee looks like.

We have some scientists in this family and they told me that the bee actually has brown fur on its body, on its head and on its legs, so I'm going to try to get that effect with this old wax from Walmart and there is a texture to the toybee that looks like fur, but you can't actually see it because, um, it was all one color, so I'm just going in with a dry brush and going over its body, its head, and all of its legs to give it that little fuzzy texture that I would actually have a bee and I think it turned out pretty good. the tail like part of the bee doesn't have that brown fuzz so I'm just doing the body, head and legs and I think they turned out really well and then I thought the black stripes would fit not just be on the top of the bee, but they would go all the way around, so of course we're being extra here and carrying those black stripes around their tail using that black paint pen and this definitely makes it look real. bee much more than the way the dollar tree had painted her before, so I'm going to go in and do the exact same thing on my second bee dry brush, that old wax on her body and her head and all of her legs and on the bottom there to make it look furry and it was a very simple step but it really gave him a lot of texture and depth and made him look a lot more sophisticated so I forgot to recolor his eyes so that's what I did.

What I'm doing there, I'm just using my black paint pen and coloring in the little eye spots again on the b and then I'm going to give b number two here back his stripes, he's got three stripes and then I'm going to color the bottom of its tail and then, likethan the other one, I'll go ahead and bring those stripes around his tail to make him more finished and I'll just touch up his eyes a little bit more and then decide the the wings are light and they really shouldn't be light, they should be more like a tan, like this that I'll use that same old wax and just go to the bottom of the wings to make them look more realistic, I guess it's not.

It's going to look super realistic because it's a little big for a b, right, but they already made two bs. Okay, this project is very simple and I lost some pictures, so what this is is just a pot, a yellow pot with this white with blue spots from the Dollar Tree and I'm just using this nail polish remover and a lot of Dollar Tree projects. You can use this to remove paint very easily and this project is really as simple as that. I'm going to remove the blue stains with nail polish remover. and that will leave me with a yellow and white pot, it's exactly the right color I wanted and I think that's really all it needs, so it can't be that simplicity, isn't it so cute?

Okay, so these are some bee nest boxes that I got to the dollar tree and I actually want to use this smaller box. I really liked its honeycomb shape, but I want it to be this maze yellow color, so I'm going to paint it with this chalk paint and I'm going to use this one. My tear tray will be on my kitchen table so I want it to be functional so I'm going to use this to hold my salt and pepper shakers and I think it will be the perfect size for that and I liked it. the lid, um, I didn't really have any use for the rest of those boxes on the rest of the tray, so the rest of it is probably going to go in my stash, so I gave it a nice pretty thin coat of chalk.

I painted everything around and inside and then dried it quickly with my heat gun and now I'm going to apply another coat, that pink color with the little bees actually had a lot of color. The inside seemed to color much better because it was solid on the inside so basically I'm trying to cover up any areas that I see that are pink and trying to shine and I'm going to give it a quick dry and I think it took three coats of chalk paint to cover the patterns. on the side and give it that uniform yellow color, so here's my third layer.

I'm going to apply and cover everything that I see sneaking in at the bottom, like it's already the same color, but I'm going to have this. sitting on my tear tray holding my salt and pepper shakers so I think everything will be fine and I'm just giving it a good coat on the inside and around the edges and I'm going to do a test run for you guys this is the black cricket vinyl from the dollar tree and it's my first time using it, it's only a dollar a roll so we're going to try this honeycomb holder so I'm just using my rotary cutter. cutting a couple inches off the black dollar tree vinyl and I'm going to cut out some words and images that I designed in canva to put on the little sides of my little what is a hexagon? and I'm also going to try the dollar tree transfer paper as well, it's a sticky transfer paper with the grid and I'm just cutting off a piece to use.

I'm at my checkout to make sure it's being received. dry and here we go let's see how the dollar tree vinyl reads that came off pretty good and here's my bee wants to stick a little bit so I'm just using my tool to make sure everything is stuck and weeding it out it felt like It's kind of a thicker, cheaper vinyl, but it weeded surprisingly well. See those Ray Den letters aren't the easiest weeds to stay down, so on this part I had a little detail inside the honeycomb that was actually removed with the internal parts, so it wasn't real. specific um and then I'm just removing my letters and my b and here's the dollar tree transfer paper and I'm going to put it on my vinyl and stick it upside down and scrape it off with my little cricket scraper so it sticks. to my transfer tape and then I'm going to cut it into the pieces that I need.

There are six sides, so I thought of three words and three pictures, so here goes test number one and it doesn't work well. This transfer tape does not work well. on the surface of the paper, it sure was fighting me and look, it peeled off like a bunch of paint, so I'm okay, well, I can't go back now. I already have the transfer paper adhered to all the vinyl, so let me try it. I didn't scrape it off and see if I can't do as much damage on this one, but it was still fighting me, it was too sticky, maybe if it was glass or a hard surface it could work, but I wasn't a fan of this transfer paper and I can't really say whether the vinyl is good or not because I'm having so much trouble with the transfer tape that I'm just trying to stick the vinyl on and remove the transfer paper and finally I had to tear it off.

I removed the bottom of my letter and am trying to go back and put it away. It was like the bottom of one of my e's that was so stuck to the transfer tape that it wouldn't come off and I'm trying to put it back here but I give up and take a black marker and say damn, here's the bottom , the e is okay so my third word now I'm scared because I know I don't like this transfer tape and this project is definitely not a good fit so I'm trying with my fingers to smooth out the words and remove them with the least amount of casualties possible.

Here's my b and it's so sticky like it's going around the side and trying to take off. one of my letters and here I'm just trying to get started. I'm trying to get it off the transfer tape. She's so stuck. If I had taken this transfer paper and put it on like a cotton t-shirt. a couple of times before applying it to the vinyl, I probably would have had much better luck. I didn't know how sticky it is so here's just a little jar of honey and a stick of honey and I'm attaching it and this one caused me the worst thing is that this honeycomb had a delicate pattern and was very stuck to the transfer tape and when I tried to separate it it was distorting the shape of the vinyl and oh this was not a good test and again I can't tell.

If it's the vinyl, I think it's mostly the transfer tape which just didn't work with this application, so I won't use that type of transfer tape again on a paper or cardboard project like this. I'm sure I finally removed it and then I'm just trying to repair my damage. I'm just trying to avoid having to cut it again and pretty well. I have my honeycomb there pretty good and that's it. That's for my salt and pepper shakers for my teardrop tray and the next stop is. I want to make a jar of honey. I bought this little jar at the Dollar Tree that had a lid.

I just took the lid off and I'm going to use that and my little honey dipper that I bought on Amazon to try to make a little honey jar, so I was trying to think of something that was the color of honey that wasn't sticky, something It smelled good and then I saw that my goo was gone and I thought, you know, Google it's like the color of honey. and that's what I'm going to use on my little honey jar and I probably should have used that to help me get that label off, uh, so I took the label off of my little honey jar and I'm just going to pull a little bit of the sticky god there for the color and make it look like it has honey and it smells like oranges, that's nice too and then I'm going to put my little honey dipper in there and there's my honey jar, easy, okay, next project.

It's one of those little dollar tree tile signs, it was a spring one, it could be anything and I'm wondering if you know about nail polish remover and paint, if I can get it off, so I give it a good try and no. luck so I'm fine I'm just going to use the back the back is like pure white so I'm trying to decide if I want the mosaic to be like on the front of the frame or on the back of the frame and I decide that I want the frame to be in the front so that it looks like an upside down canvas.

There was a little glue along the edges but that will be covered up when you put it back on the frame so I was just trying. to clean it up a little bit and then I'm going to paint the frame with this mace chalk paint again and this is a very light wood color and it took the yellow paint really well so I'm just going to go on the outside, the front and the inside of the frame with a coat of labyrinth chalk paint and that's good for that project. Look, I told you we're going to use that paint a lot and I'm just going to go in there with my heat gun and give it a good dry and there was like a little spot there on the inside where I didn't get any paint so I'm going to go in there and fix that little spot. , but one coat was definitely enough. coverage for that and the frame is ready and then I want to use the white tile for the inside and I'm going to make a cute little graphic to make a little sign for my teardrop tray so here I'm just measuring the tile so I can set that size of square in my Cricut design space and create something for the sign here and I think I don't really need to paint the surface of the sign.

I think it's pretty good as is. so test number two on the dollar tree cricut vinyl and we'll see if it was the transfer tape or if it was the vinyl so I'm going to put it on my cricut mat and give it a good braid and then put it on my cricut. bug 2 scan and cut I'm going to make it say "be nice" and instead of b it will have like a picture of the bee so here's the weeder and it actually weeded it like a champ and then I also have You'll see the word buzz that's going to be for a future project and as I went ahead and cut that vinyl I just wanted to go ahead and do it so now this transfer tape is the type of paper transfer tape I got this on Amazon and I I love it, it's very easy to work with and it's not very sticky and I won't have the problems that I hope I had with the last qriket project, so it transferred very well to my transfer paper and I'm just going to try to center it.

I'm going to tear off a little bit of that so I can center it on my tile and there we go, let's be nice and then all I'm going to do is take some hot glue here and put it back on. the sign tile like this isn't that pretty, I love how it turned out and I only have a little bit of hot glue on the inside so I'm just trying to get it off, it's a little hard to remove. hot glue when it's still hot, so it's best to wait until it cools and try to clean it up a little, but I really love how this simple sign turned out, then I realized that the back of the sign was actually going to be visible because my teardrop tray is round, so I'm just using a little white chalk paint to cover that design on the back.

If it wasn't visible I would have totally left it, it was a nice sign. and it could have been like a double sided sign, but since it was visible, I'll just give it a good coat of chalk paint and dry it with my heat gun. Well, the next project I bought at Dollar General, not Dollar Tree. for three dollars and I love the colors of its perfect colors, it has a little ceramic tag on there and that's where I'm going to use that buzzword that I cut out and the thin font um and I'm just going to attach it to the other side of the tag and that's all there is to this bee project, easy, very cute, okay, I also bought this for a dollar overall, it's a hanging bell, um, and I liked the little bee, I liked its colors better than the one that I bought at the dollar tree which was more of an orange color so I'm just using my pliers to remove the chain and the bell and I don't really like that it has a hole in its wing.

So I'm just going to use some Cricut vinyl and try to cover that hole. I didn't really want to use putty there because it's so thin I didn't think it would really work and then his wings are a little blue. so I'm going to go with that white chalk paint and repaint his wings white and I'm trying to cover that little patch that I made there on his wing and give him a nice coat here the smile was a little bit the paint chipped off so that I'm just going to go in and touch up his smile and I'm not really going to add a stand or anything, I'm just going to put it, just rest it on my tray, I think it's going to stand up, it's made of metal and then when you start painting this , you realize you know the overall dollar paint job isn't very good, so I'm going to apply the second coat there on the wings and try to hide that vinyl. there and giving them a good touch up and I really didn't like it, you can see the way it's painted, like his stripes don't go all the way, they go across most of his body, so I'm going to go in there. and give it a little makeover while I'm painting it, so here I'm just drying the wings really well.

I'm going to use that black paint pen again that I got on the target and I'm just going to go over. his stripes and make his stripes go all the way down his body and just clean up the paint job a little bit to make it look a little more special and he has two stripes and then he just has the bottom of his tail here and it's okay . The next step is functionality. I wanted something to hold my napkins and I bought this adorable little bee bucket at Dollar Tree, but it was super shiny so here I am tryingremove the shine.

I'm just using a matte acrylic. spray paint and it's totally an experiment I thought if I paint all over I can make it look less shiny and it's actually working to my surprise and I can see a little shiny part so I can see where I missed a little and I gave it Le I put another coat on there and it gave it a really nice finish, just made it look a little more sophisticated than before and there we go, easy, okay, so these are the little chunky wooden dollar tree rings and I. I'm only going to use them for the bands.

I have a metal finished tray so I'm just going to use this elephant chalk paint to match the metal tray and I'm thinking a couple of things like the ones on the second shelf will have to be a little taller so that you can appreciate them so I'm making a couple of risers for my teardrop tray and it was unfinished wood so one coat will do fine and I'm going to give it a quick dry here and that project is fine so I'm going to do that. I have this little pot on the dollar tree and I thought it looked like a honey pot, so I'm going to stick with that.

Same corn chalk paint and drawing between layers. It took many coats to give it the type of finish I was looking for. I wanted it to look more like a ceramic piece and the chalk paint gave it that nice texture, but it took me. I think I've lost count of how many layers of paint it took to cover this, but here we go and I really like the shape of it and I think painting it with that maze yellow color really brought it out, it reminded me a little bit of a honey pot. Winnie the Pooh and I'm going to use it as a little flower pot.

I bought some yellow dollar tree flowers and that's what's going to go inside so I had a wire on the top that I removed at the beginning of the project and these are just the dahlias and I'm going to go in and cut them off so I can fix them up. in my little pot and I'm just going to use my dollar tree floral scissors and I think I'll end up using all but one in this little pot. I thought it would be nice to bring some yellow flowers. It fits with my color scheme and it's going to go with the bee theme because bees like flowers and they pollinate, so when I painted that pot I didn't go all the way up, you can see I left it clear glass on the top and You see, I'm going to go in with a little finishing touch in a second, but I'm just trying to find a piece of floral foam that fits inside my little pot and I just break off a piece and put it in.

I love this dollar tree foam, it's great, it's very easy to work with and does a great job, so I'm going to go in and place my flowers. I'm going to put one in the four corners and another in the middle so that it is super full and it turns out very good, it is the right height that I need, I think for the second shelf in my tray, maybe the bottom part and it gives it just another element, so here's my final little detail. I'm going to go in with this dollar tree buffalo plaid ribbon and nothing special, I'm just going to tie a knot and cut the ribbon, give it little pointy edges and I don't think it really needs a bow, I think it just needs a little bit of color and that's my yellow, white and black theme for my teardrop tray.

Well, this project is easy. I bought this candle at the dollar tree and I don't have to do anything to it. It reminds me of honey. Well, the next project is this little white ceramic sign that I bought at the dollar tree. I really like the size and the simplicity, and you can do pretty much anything with it, but I thought I'd attach this cute little bee from this decal that I got to the dollar tree and that's exactly what I'm going to do here and you might like it, ya you know, draw on there with a pen, you could do like a cricut message, you could make a mess on it, like stickers, you could do that.

A lot with this little sign and the decal will make it very easy to reuse because I can take it off and reuse it for something else. Here I am thinking I want some of those little bee lines I want to be. like flying, so I just cut a piece of it off and I'm seeing how it will fit and I'll try it and I figure if I don't like it I can always take it off and so there are the little dotted lines and I put them there and then I think no, I don't think it was really necessary and you can see the two different pieces of decal, so I say, no. the bee is good enough, keep it simple, it wasn't tall enough, I don't think it can be seen from my teardrop tray, so here I am just gluing two of the dollar tree jenga blocks together to form a little stand. for the sign and then I'm going to hot glue it on.

Basically I just made a little riser just for this little sign and I don't really like how you can see the natural wood there that might be visible so I'm going to use a little bit of this Waverly and white chalk paint and just give it a quick coat of paint to match the sign but make it a little taller as long as you have a tray with sides you want. being able to see things like if the teardrop tray had no sides it probably would have been perfect without the lift. Okay, the next step is I'm going to make a bead, it would be a garland for my b teardrop tray and I'm using these long ones.

I guess they're like the hot dog spits, skewers from Dollar Tree and they're nice and wide for these beads, so I bought these wooden beads on Amazon. There are all different sizes and I will post a link to the ones below. Great, this is like my third garland, I think I made these and I still have a lot left, so I'm going to make five in this maze and chalk paint and I like this method better than the last method I tried. The last method I tried was a container with paint and water and I just mixed the balls in there, but what I noticed is that a lot of paint went inside the ball and then leaked out and was on the rest of the garland when I went. to put it together and I like how it turned out.

I think I like this method better with the little skewers, so now I'm going to paint these five a different color. I will only make them in black. I have some black acrylic paint. with the black you really have to cover everything or it will be very noticeable, so I'm thinking that with this it would be a garland, I'll have the yellow beads, the natural beads and the black beads and then one end. of that, I'm going to use that little honey dipper, I have three of them, and then on the other end, I'm going to use that little black graduation tassel that you see there that's like a little keychain, I thought that would be fun.

I have a black tassel on the end and I usually do it with jute twine, but that's going to save me a step and I think it'll be fine, so I'm going to grab some pliers and pull out the 2021 and this one. it came from the dollar tree and the little hook there and it's a chain so I'm going to open that up so I can remove the tassel and there's my tassel so this is just the jute twine from the dollar tree and I'm tying that to my little honey dipper and I don't really have my hot glue gun on right now so I'm wondering how can I put this in here and hang it?

So I'm just wrapping that jute twine around the stem and cutting a long piece of twine which is always longer, it can't be shorter and then I'm going to put my needle in there that I'm going to use for threading. It's just a giant needle that I have and I go under that thread and I pull it and I tighten it and it's attached, okay, it's time to string this garland. I'm just making my pattern as I go, so I'm thinking. like two natural ones, one black one, one yellow one and then I just repeat. I won't be doing any of the larger sizes.

I don't think about this and I love doing this part. I think this part is very fun. I just have to remember your pattern and string it and I'll go until I run out of colors. I usually paint too many, so this time I did it right, I just did five of each color and there's my garlic and now I just want to. To take off that keychain and put on the tassel and then I'm going to tie it up and I love making these wooden bead garlands. They are very fun and I think they give a great effect on a teardrop tray. and I'm just going to cut that off and push my extra little piece into that bead with my needle and then I didn't really like the gold on the tassel, I thought it looked really prom, so I'm just going to take a little bit. more of that twine and I'll wrap it around to cover that little gold clasp and make it look a little more intentional and then I'll just put my needle back in and do what I did on the other end for the honey dipper and just poke in with my needle and I pull it to tie it and then I cut it as close as I can and we have a bead garland, okay, everything is done, everything is ready to go, my tear tray is empty and let's do this, okay?

We're going to start at the top, so here's our bee step, it fits perfectly there now that we gave it a little boost and I'm just going to have it at the top and then I want to do what a girl would be. the top I always have trouble with how I want it, but then I wonder what if I like the honey dipper to go over the handle of the step and it can hang there and then you can see it go down the back. of the scalp, so that gives some interest to the back of the scalp, so I'm going to take one of our super realistic bees and I'm going to attach it to the top by just attaching one of its legs as a handle and it'll stay there. pretty good and then I just sat another one on the side and then here's the bee that we made that was from the bell and I'm going to rest it against the back just to give interest to the backs as well and that's for the top shelf, I think okay and we're ready to decorate the adjoining shelf of the teardrop tray and here's our little jar of honey, but don't tell anyone it's not actually honey and it's a little short so I'm going. use one of those risers we made and sit it on the riser so you can see the honeypot a little better.

I was thinking when I was turning this over it would be really nice to attach it like a lazy susan to the bottom of this, especially since it's like a functional piece on the table and then I'm going to put the little white sign with the b on it and here's our pot that we just removed the blue stains from and kind of fixes, this shelf is a little bit shorter, um, so I'm using some of my shorter things on this and trying to break up the yellows and the whites, and here there is the little wax warmer.

I just put a little candle inside and with some little bees that we painted on the side and then I'll do the drawing on a lift too, the little one be kind and that's all there is on shelf number two of the bee tears tray, It looks good, it's okay, now is the time. Scroll down to the bottom of this and you will have many of the functional products I want on the table, like the salt and pepper shakers I made, the napkin holder I made, and the larger items. The first thing we're going to add is the napkin holder okay so yeah as you can see it's not shiny that matte acrylic really worked and it's just going to hold a few napkins for the table and here's the little vase that was such an easy dollar

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and all we had to do was add the word buzz to the label and here is our little honeycomb salt and pepper shaker with a little paint damage due to a faulty transfer tape but it's fine and spinning to this baby over and over again.

On the back here we're going to make this candle which I didn't have to do anything on that side and here are our little honey flowers, they fit perfectly. I'm so glad we put the tape in and there's a buzzing sound. the star of the show he is our little bee gnome, he is super fluffy and I love how he turned out so cute, so what do you guys think? I think we've done it, we have a tray of tears b and here's the final product for everyone. the house was super excited to see it it's so cute it's good for spring it's good for summer who doesn't like a good bee decoration and I really like the color combination the yellow, the blacks and the white and when I'm making a tear tray, I try to make it look interesting from all four sides, especially when it's going to be placed on a table like this and you're going to be able to see all sides and again, I want this one to be functional, hence the napkins and the salt and pepper shakers so each side here has a different little detail it's all arranged I'm glad I made a little stand so it would stay nice and this really shows off the bead garland and then there's our little metal bee peeking out and I made the wooden garland at the top to fill the empty space and there's our honey jar and our vase and our salt and pepper shakers, so there's some honey, there's a little bee on either side, oh me.

I love it, what do you think? I think it turned out very nice. I used all the items from the dollar tree, ten dollars. Overall I think the wooden beads came from Amazon and the little honey dippers came for me from Amazon and this is the Final Product What do you guys think? Oh I love it.