Christmas Candy Cart

 

I had so much fun building and decorating this little Christmas Candy Cart with all kinds of Tim Holtz Christmas Idea-ology. This was an idea I had last year and was ready to make it, but things took a different turn in my life and I didn't get back to it. So I decided to finish it this year when I saw that Tim had added Candy Canes to the Confections line.

I built the little cart out of Vignette Boxes, Match Boxes and Pulley Wheels.

I added a canopy with some Balsa Wood sticks and an Etcetera Trim canopy.

This cart style actually allows for some fun options like lights, shelves, lots of fun things if you let your imagination run.

 Here is the tutorial where I walk you through making this piece.

To make the cart you remove the side of one Vignette Box. Just pop it off, its only glued on. Then notice how I lined the box with different pieces of Balsa Wood to raise the Matchbox drawers and separate them so they work like drawers.

I also needed to build up the front frame around the matchboxes because the drawer needs to be as deep as another box of the same size. When I popped off the front of the box it became about 1/4" less deep. So I used Balsa Wood strips to do this. It is very light wood and trims to the size very easily with my Tonic Scissors.

 

Here you can see I built up the bottom and sides and now I need to build up the center between the boxes.

Next I adhered the outside part of the Match Boxes and held them in place with clips.

I also added some balsa wood to the inside bottom of the top box (as seen in the back) and then attached some thin Balsa Strips to hold the canopy later on.

Here you can see that the strips of Balsa Wood did the trick! It's all line up!

To make handles for the cart I bend some of the Silverware Adornments knives and added some Hardware Heads. I think they are cute!

 

I used an old wooden snow globe from the last two or three Christmas releases to make a candy dispenser.

These candy boxes were made with some of the Christmas Collage Tiles. I just love them! I decorated them with a little colored thread and Pine Twine.

The World Famous Candies was cut from the middle of the candy paper in the Christmas Back Drops and the bow was from a Collage Tile.

The corks on the Corked Vials were used but first I just trimmed the sharp edges with my scissors and then sanded them with a sanding block. Once they were shapped I painted the top of the jar with Brushed Pewter Distress Paint and the cork as well. I added Hitch Fasteners to some and Brads to others and painted those as well so it would look like metal tops.

The rock candy sticks are made by adding Glossy Accents to the end of toothpicks and then rolling them in Mica Flakes that had been colored with Alcohol Ink.

The Rock Candy and Confections were all stashed in some Thimbles in the Match Box Drawers.

Thank you for you interest in my Christmas Candy Cart. I hope you were inspired by something I made here. 

Have a festive, creative day!

Tami

I am an affiliate with Simon Says Stamp and Scrapbook.com so the links below send you to one of those stores depending on which logo you choose.  If you wish to purchase something from either store and use one of my links below, I get a small percentage of your order, at no additional cost to you. This helps me to defray the costs of this blog, the time, the ideas and tutorials I post here. 

Your help is greatly appreciated! Thank you!

 

Tim Holtz Christmas Ideaology Samples 2021

Another amazing Christmas Idea-ology release from Tim Holtz and his team! Wow! This release has something for everyone. Truly. Mixed Media, Scrapbookers, Planners, Journalers, December Dailiers, so many different types of crafters. I'm so grateful to have gotten the opportunity to make with this release and below are the three samples I made as well as links to my affiliates for easy ordering the products if you haven't already.

 This is my nod to Disneyland's Frontierland Christmas. It was so fun to grunge things up while still trying to give it a holiday feel. And that little lantern...so fun!

 I let my old scrapbooker side come out with this one. I really enjoyed using so many elements for documenting holiday memories. And the new base for the Christmas Trees is so stinking cute! 

This might be my favorite Chrismas Idea-ology make ever. Charles Dickens is one of my favorite authors and I love watching A Christmas Carol every year (George C Scott is my favorite Scrooge). So this year I felt like with the Halloween and Christmas releases that it was the year to tell the story through Idea-ology. I will have a tutorial on how to make the tray into a book. And I have a walk through video that I filmed showing all of the little details that I added to tell the story of Ebenezar Scrooge and Jacob Marley.

This side shows that you can put this piece on a coffee table as it has something an all sides to tell the whole story.

 Thank you for stopping by. Please be sure to follow me on Instagram and Youtube so you know when I post a new tutorial.. Also I often share sneak peeks and details on Instagram that I don't share other places. The links to my other accounts are in the column at the right.

It's been a crazy two months of releases and as you can probably imagine I am so behind on tutorials that there are a ton that will be coming at you soon. I thank you all so much for your patience as I work through making tutorials for all of the Tim Holtz brands Halloween and Christmas releases. 

Tami

I am an affiliate with Simon Says Stamp, Ranger Ink, and Scrapbook.com so the links below send you to one of those stores depending on which logo you choose.  If you wish to purchase something from either store and use one of my links below, I get a small percentage of your order, at no additional cost to you. This helps me to defray the costs of this blog, the time, the ideas and tutorials I post here. Your help is greatly appreciated! Thank you!  

Idea-ology Christmas Mini Tiered Tray

I have seen people decorating tiered trays for quite awhile now and I love the idea. I don't have one, but so many of Tim Holtz Idea-ology products would be perfect to fit in a tiered tray.  Decorative domes, Vignette Frames with some of the festive Christmas Layers in them, Woodland Trees, Vignette Boxes with the Christmas Vignette Box Tops on them.....once I got to planning a tiered tray, I couldn't stop with the ideas. 

One problem. I was designing samples for a Facebook Live reveal, and buying, decorating, and shipping a tiered tray that wouldn't show well on a live was out of the question, So I worked on other things, but just could not get the tiered tray idea out of my mind.  Then I thought, what about a mini tiered tray? It just sounded like so much fun to make and display a bunch of delightful little goodies, and you know I love miniatures, so I set to work making it happen.

The first step was to actually build the mini tray. I used two Vignette Panels, some Etcetera Trims, and a package of Vignette Finials. All of these things are linked below, so don't worry.

I've done this particular alteration before, and as I said then, if you or someone in your home has a little saw, this would be much safer and easier, but I tend to be creating when my husband is unavailable and I am too impatient to wait. Cut the large finial top off and sand it down to make it as flat as possible on top.

This step is here to tell you not to do this. I thought using my dremmel and Vignette Hardware to attach these pieces would be a fantastic idea, but it wasn't. It was an absolute mess! Just use Distress Collage Medium and attach things in sections, then let it dry several hours or over night. Work on the fun little filler bits while it's drying.

Here is how you want to build your mini tray. Vignette Base on the bottom, large Vignette Panel, large Vignette Final base attached to large Vignette Finial top (that you cut the top off), then a smaller Vignette Panel, and both small Vignette Finials.

It is important before you start, to find the center of the panels. Then you can attach the base and finials in the correct spot to keep the panels level.Once it is put together and dry, then attach the Etcetera Trims. I used my Tonic Scissors to cut them to the correct length.

As you can see, my finials are off a little bit, but don't worry, you will have so much stuff packed into this little cutie that no one will ever notice! I painted the entire piece with Picket Fence Distress Paint. I didn't worry about it being perfect because I wanted it to look old and shabby.

 

Then I covered the trims and parrs of the Finials in Distress Crackle Paste. I intentionally sanded off loose bits and the edges. Then I rubbed some Hickory Smoke Distress Crayon into the cracks and on the edges. Lastly, I rubbed some Picket Fence Distress Paint onto an Idea-ology Word Band and some Hardware Heads and attached them to the front with Distress Collage Medium.

Throughout the various drying processes it took to make the tray, I got to work making all the goodies to go inside it. I ordered these little mini mugs (I think they are shot glasses, but we have a glass one that my sister used for some of her medication and then later she gave it to her bird, so we inherited it with Peep. I couldn't bring myself to use that one so I ordered some online.) These are cheap plastic, so I painted them with Candied Apple Distress Paint and sprayed them twice with Distress Resist Spray to make them shine. Then I used the Christmas Remnant Rubs Tiny Text to decorate the top rim with the dots and sayings. I ended up only using one, so I attached a little tag from the Christmas Snippets pack to make it a little more festive.

There are some Christmas Baseboard Frames and the punch outs are included in the package. This cute shape is a punch out for one of the frames and a Christmas Bottle Cap perfectly fits on it with a bow tied out of the luscious Velvet Trims.

Don't forget to include some things from the everyday line in your Christmas makes! I used the 2 and 5 from the Number Blocks. I painted the letters in Candied Apple and then trimmed down some of the plaid Fabric Tape to cover the sides and make bows on top so they resembled little packages.

These are two of the Corked Vials. I didn't do anything really special to them other than add a sticker on each from the Christmas Sticker Book. I filled one with some Lollipop Sticks I had left over from the Idea-ology Candy Shop I made. I just cut them into little bits to mimic marshmallows, and I colored some Distress Glitter with brown Alcohol Ink to make it look like cocoa mix.

These were the kinds of things I was thinking would look super cute in a full size tiered tray, but using the larger Vignette Frames and the larger Christmas Layers. For these I used the two smallest Vignette Frames and one of the Christmas Layers in the Black Soot frame, and one of the Christmas Ephemera in the small Candied Apple frame. I decorated both with Adornments from the Snowflake and Festive packs.

I had this snowman painted from last year and he fit in perfectly. I painted him with Distress Paints and then rubbed some Mushroom Alcohol Ink over him. As I rubbed off the excess alcohol ink, some of the paint rubbed off, aging him to perfection.

I decorated a Woodland Tree with some Adornment Snowflakes and Festive Pinecones, as well as Mica Flakes.

I put the tree in a Grave Relic painted Candied Apple Red.

This was attached in the back of the top tier with a couple of Christmas Flair in front of it.

In the back top corner I added the smallest red Vignette Frame. To make sure it looked finished, I covered the outside edge of the frame with some Christmas Trim Tape.

To make sure it looked finished, I covered the outside edge of the frame with some Christmas Trim Tape, and I adhered some Christmas Paper on the back. To help the frame stay upright and to fill the gap, I put a tiny Woodland Tree in the corner behind it.

In the very front of the top tier I added the numbers.

I put the black Vignette frame in the bottom back corner. You can see I cut some of the Fabric Tape to edge the frame and give it a finished look. I added a little tree and the snowman in front of the frame.

Then I popped the cocoa and marshmallow vials in the front corner with a set of Silverware tied with the Velvet Trim.

It was a great place for another tiny Woodland Tree and one of the little mugs.

You can see I changed my mind on the mug with the candy in it. I pulled the candy out and suffed a styrofoam ball in it. Then I covere it with brown felt and glued some of the lollipo stick marshmallows on top. The candy couldn't go to waste, so I put it in a Thimble  with some Grit Paste and Mica Flakes and let them dry. 

To make the candy I adhered the plaid Trim Tape to some large floral wire with Distress Collage Medium. Once it was dry and securely adhered to the wire, I twisted it in on itself to make the lollopop shape. Then I used a tiny Dremmel drill and made a hole in the bottom to fit a tooth pick in. Before I tied a bow, I sprayed them with Distress Resist Spray to make them shiny.

You can see I left some spaces here and there so things could be seen. You can see I put the little Baseboard Frame pop out in the back corner.

I wanted to show the back of this project so you could see that I added another Woodland tree back behind the pop out, and I decorated the backs of all the frames and the pop out. I just thought it was important to do that incase this was displayed somewhere that any of the back was visible.

I know there is a LOT to this project, but seriously, once you start making cute little things to go in it, you can't stop!

I'm hoping to find a "regulation size" tiered tray soon to decorate too, but until then this little cutie does the trick!

Tami

I am an affiliate with Simon Says Stamp and Scrapbook.com so the links below send you to one of those stores depending on which logo you choose.  If you wish to purchase something from either store and use one of my links below, I get a small percentage of your order, at no additional cost to you. This helps me to defray the costs of this blog, the time, the ideas and tutorials I post here. Your help is greatly appreciated! Thank you!