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Custom Modern Wood Tray with Cricut

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At our squeaky clean bachelor party, I had the chance to personalize many of the party items with a little help from my Cricut machine. The crowd favorite from the shoot was this Custom Modern Wood Tray – the hands on time to make it is extremely minimal, which makes it a favorite of mine as well.

Clean bachelor party ideas - a man drink tray for serving ...whatever you choose!

I didn’t permanently adhere my mat to the tray for good reason. The mat is extremely personalized with “Man Drinks” for its wording. There are a few parties that come to mind that it would work well in, but I’m leaving the option open to change the tray liner for the next time. If you want your woodgrain liner to be permanent, brush a little glue to the bottom before you put the liner in.

The Easy Way to make a Custom Wood Tray

This is a ridiculously simple project. The steps are basically 1. buy stuff to make the tray 2. load Cricut with sheet of faux wood 3. press go from pre-designed project. 4. put cut out in tray. Couldn’t be easier, but I’m going to show you step by step how to make it anyway!

Materials

The easiest way is to use the project I’ve already set up. No design work on your part! First, click here to go to the project on Cricut Design Space. Once you’ve gotten that done…

Measure the INSIDE of your tray. Subtract 1/4 inch from the width and the height. Example: if the measurements of the tray are 8×10, your reduced measurement is 7.75inx9.75in

Here’s where you’re going to adjust the file to the size of your tray. Click on the layer with the image (there should only be one!). Go to “Edit” in the right hand column of Design Space. Type in the width (the longest side) and the height you reduced. The cut woodgrain should fit neatly into the inside of the tray.

Click “GO” in Design Space, and turn your Cricut Machine’s knob to “custom.” Choose the Faux Leather option from the custom menu before you start printing.

Load the faux woodgrain sheet onto a standard mat and into the machine. Press the blinking button and watch it go!

Taking the projects off the mat is my favorite part!

You’ll have to do a little bit of weeding to get all the cuts out.

After you’re done, simple place the mat in the bottom of your tray.

You can choose to stain the tray if you like. I thought they looked great either way!

Clean bachelor party ideas - drinks for manly men

And then you’ll have a pretty fabulous piece to serve up drinks at a bachelor party, father’s day, or any other sort of manly occasion!

Paula Biggs

Owner at Frog Prince Paperie
Paula Biggs is a party planner, DIY crafter, and owner of Frog Prince Paperie, where you can find hundreds of party, craft and lifestyle ideas.

mary

Wednesday 31st of May 2017

What a great idea! I have a tray I need to fix up and was planning on painting it, but I think I will make a leather inlay instead!

Paula Biggs

Monday 5th of June 2017

Ooh--would love to see what you do!

Debrashoppeno5

Tuesday 30th of May 2017

This looks so good. I really need to buy a Cricut, you can do so much with them.

Paula Biggs

Wednesday 31st of May 2017

They are amazing machines! :) :)

Sandra L Garth

Friday 26th of May 2017

Oh my gosh, I'm ready to use my Cricut right now! This is a great project with so many possibilities.

Lynnette

Wednesday 24th of May 2017

This is so creative!

Kim

Monday 22nd of May 2017

This is fantastic!