Fall Fluted Galvanized Catchall Tray

Decorate your home this autumn season with a fluted galvanized catchall footed tray that's decoupaged with a colorful fall leaves napkin!

Welcome to this months' "Do It Over Designers" Blog Hop! The "Do It Over Designers" is a group of creative bloggers who love to recycle/upcycle/ DIY, hosted by Anne @The Apple Street Cottage. It happens the 4th Saturday of every other month and it's all about taking something old and/or unused and 'doing it over' into something new. Thanks Anne for hosting this wonderful blog hop!

I picked up the tray at a local Goodwill store. The tray has a galvanized metal base with fluted edges with a faint fluted gold trim rim!

I couldn't resist the price at $2.50 or the styling. Plus, it has rubber discs on the bottom to help prevent scratching or banging on other surfaces. 

 Materials used to update tray include:

• Fall leaves napkin
• Pencil/scissors
• Paintbrush
• Mod Podge Matte
• Ziplock plastic
• Silver knobs (4)
• Quick Dry Super Glue

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To decoupage the metal tray, start by washing tray with a liquid detergent like Dawn Platinum in warm water to remove any dirt and grime then dry.

Open the napkin and place pattern faced down in the tray. Use a pencil to mark around the inner rim napkin pattern and .  .  .

 cut out the napkin tray design. 

Once the napkin tray design is cut out, separate the printed layer of the paper napkin from the plain layers by dipping your forefinger in Mod Podge and tapping your thumb and forefinger together until sticky. Then tap the corner of the napkin with your thumb and forefinger until the edge of the layers loosen to separate them.

Then using a paintbrush, apply a light layer of Matte Mod Podge to the bottom of the galvanized tray. Lay the pattern napkin on top. Use a piece of a ziplock plastic bag or plastic wrap on top to smooth the napkin out over the tray to remove any wrinkles. Let dry and then add a layer of Mod Podge to seal. 

I'm loving how the fall leaves napkin looks on the tray! Perfect for the fall season!

Then I remembered that I had some left over silver knobs that would give the tray a "footed" look. The knobs are perfect for "feet" to attach since they have a flat surface! So I .  .  .

glued them on top of the rubber discs .  .  .

for a fabulous footed tray look!

Full of color and texture!

Adding a warm, fall style and design to your home! 

Perfect for displaying your seasonal decorative pieces!

Be sure to visit all of this month's creative projects by the  "Do It Over Designers"  listed below:

Exquisitely Unremarkable

Little Vintage Cottage

Modern on Monticello

Pandora’s Box

Purple Hues & Me

Southern Sunflowers

Unique Creations by Anita

Sum of Their Stories

Color Me Thrifty

Vintage Style Gal

The Apple Street Cottage

Birdz of a Feather