ALL NEW Dollar Tree Summer DIYs | Shop & Craft With Me!

Okay, guys. We are at the Dollar Tree and I came here last week and there was boxes out for summer, but they hadn't actually put their summer crafting and like all their official summer stuff out. So, we are going to go in the Dollar Tree. We're going to find a bunch of cutie summer DIYs. I'm thinking like outdoor activities, toddler things, maybe some cute like vacation. I saw this little zipper pouch that was already out. I don't know. We're going to go see what they have and then we are going to take it back to the studio and we're going to craft and I'm so excited. Okay, let's go. [Music] [Music] Okay, so we are back from the Dollar Tree and I got a bunch of stuff. Okay, so let's just go ahead and get right into it. Um, I have it in a trash can. Um, we needed a trash can for the office. Um, but let's just start off with this guy. Now, they have like a bunch of um good $3 to $5 items. And this one is a mirror. So, I don't want to hold it directly at you guys, but it's like a mirrored bottom. It has this like gold frame. Super cute. I have an idea for this because they have all of that contact paper. You know how they have like the section with the contact paper and stuff? So, I grabbed this because what? I'm obsessed. I'm obsessed with this. It's so pretty. It's got little blue flowers and when it hits the light, it has like metallic in it. Anyways, I love this. We're gonna add this to this like in the bottom. We'll see how that turns out. Um, I got this for uh like a teacher gift. I'm thinking you could put her name on it. Put like a cute little decal. We'll see what we can whip up for there. This is one of those waterproof. They're calling it a swimsuit sack. It's pretty big. It says 12 and 1/2 by 8 and 1/2. You can open it and it's waterproof on the inside, which I really like. And then you can put your phone in here. And it says that it is touchscreen compatible. So, you can like use your phone through the plastic. We're going to put some vinyl on it. I think maybe we'll do HTV. I don't know. I was just trying to get some info, you know. And then this is the one I'm most excited about. So, they have these frames. First of all, these are adorable. They're like little wooden frames and they have like the beading around them. They look like an like a bleached wood. I don't know. I'm really obsessed with that bleach wood. But I'm thinking like for a gift, you could do three three like this and then attach them with a ribbon. So I went to the ribbon section to see what they had. They didn't have a lot of options today, but normally they have more. They had this, it's called jelly ribbon, almost like that oranza or chiffon material, and then they had this like burgundy color. They're both really cute and classy. So, we'll use those. And then I got some like Fourth of July bunting. I was thinking we could either add in some words here like America or like USA. Or you could even add some cards stockck letters on top of the popsicles. Look how cute those are. Um, we're going to be doing a lot of camping this summer, so I thought that could be cute for like a little camping project. So, got those. These I've never seen these at the Dollar Tree, and they're adorable. They're like little hanging picture frames. Now, st Look, it's a 4x4 picture frame that just hangs on a circle. So, you could hang these on the wall like this. I got two of them cuz I thought it looks weird just to have one for fun. I'm obsessed. Are you getting the vision? I love it. Okay, so there's those. And then, oh no, did I forget my whiffle balls? I got these. I might have to go back and get wiffle balls. Have you guys seen them do I've seen this all over Tik Tok. They're calling it yard pong and you set these out in the yard and you throw whiffle balls into them and then it can be just like a fun yard game. Um, but you're going to need six of one color and then six of another color. I got the teal. They didn't have six of the red that I wanted. So, I may go back and get those. Um, but I'm think I'm going to put numbers on these maybe or like fun shapes or something. So, if you want to like call a cup, you can say I'm going to get it into cup two, then you get double. So, it's just like a fun yard game I've been seeing. Um, but yeah, that's all the stuff I got. Oh, wait. I've been holding on to this. Okay, this is like a little clear glass trinket box. We're going to do something with this. I'm thinking Mother's Day maybe. Um I've just had it for a while. I didn't get it today and I didn't see them today. So, I think that they're probably out. But also, these I'm obsessed with these. Okay, they're like little um vintage style mirrors. I think maybe we'll put like a cute saying on this or something. I don't know. We got to get busy. We got lots of work to do. Let's go ahead. We're going to head into the craft room and start designing and cutting. Hi. It is a different day, but we are going to continue making our crafts. So, we did everything in Design Space. Um, this craft is the one I'm most excited about, so I'm starting with it first. Um, I've just got a clipboard from Dollar Tree. This was 125. They had some solid color ones, but I thought I was just going to add a name to this. And then I started thinking and I was like, you know what? It'd be really cute to make this look like a pencil. So, I've got my colors. Let me show you guys what colors I got. I have pink. It's giving eraser, right? And then I have black for the tip, yellow for like, is that not the most true pencil yellow you've ever seen in your life? This is for also for the tip. And then this is for like the metal on it. And I'm going to cut them down to the size of the stripes on here. So, let me grab a paper cutter. Now, if you're going to ask me what paper trimmer I like the best, um, I don't have a great answer for you, but I use this WCOT one most of the time. WCOT scissors, WCOT paper trimmers. It's just the goat. What I'm going to do is measure this and then we're going to trim the big pieces of vinyl down. So, I think they're all the same height. 2 and 1/2. 2 and 1/2. Yeah, they're all 2 and 1/2. So, let me get y'all situated so you can see what I'm doing. Now, if you've never used a paper trimmer, you want to be looking at it so that you can read the numbers right side up. And then you're going to bring the edge of your vinyl or your paper to the length that you want your cut. So I need it two inches. So I'm bringing the edge of my vinyl to two inches. And you're just going to slice it and dice it. And I'm going to do that to every single one. So you can see I've got my silver strip. Honestly, that looks really thin. We're just going to do them one by one cuz I think if I assumed they're all 2 in. I'm going to be wrong. So, we're going to do two and a half here. This is for the very bottom piece. And keep them long cuz we're going to trim off the edges once we get all the pieces on. Okay. I'm going to speed this part up so you guys don't have to sit here and watch me do this. Okay, so this is kind of the layout. Are you guys picking up what I'm putting down? Also going to cut out a gold name. I'm going to put Mossina here, which is my daughter's teacher's name. Well, it's actually Christina, but she calls her Mossina. So, we're going to put that. Make sure you take off the plastic, obviously. Um, can't say. I haven't made that mistake before, though. So, I'm just taking that extra vinyl and kind of putting it on the edges. And I think I'm going to take like maybe a heat gun and go over all this once I'm done just to really seal it in there. [Music] Okay, guys. This is almost the finished product. We've got to add the name, maybe a bow, and she's good to go. Okay, this is so cute. Um, I think probably you could do a coat of resin over this if you're feeling real boug. I'm not feeling real boug, so I'm not going to do that. But I do think that it needs a bow. So, I'm going to go look at our ribbon stash and add some kind of bow because it just needs bow. I mean, it just needs something, but it's still really cute. So, let me go do that. Okay, this is what I came up with. I got this little measuring tape and then I did kind of like primaryish colors. I know green's not a primary color. Red, yellow, and blue cuz blue and yellow make green. Yeah. So, anyways, you get what I'm saying. So, I'm going to just cut little strips of these and do kind of like um like a rag ribbon. So, let's grab some scissors. And I know it's a mess here, but this is real life. This is Thank you, Holly. Um this is just what it looks like whenever we're crafting in here. Um it's always kind of a mess. We try to pick up, but y'all know how it is. So, I'm thinking like 12 in. And I'm going to cut all these at an angle so they look finished. Heavens to Betsy. Okay. So, when I do rag ribbons, I just kind of stack them all together like this. And then I'm going to take them all at once. And I'm just going to kind of tuck it up under this little guy and pull it to the side. And there you go. You got your cute little clipboard with your little bow. And you can get them like even school colors would be really cute on this. Like keep the pencil, do school colors on the bow. This is just kind of what we had to work with, so I just committed to it. But yeah, super cute. So, we cleaned our sticker residue up. And then we've got our words here. I'm doing it kind of like a stacked. Think Stony Clover vibes. Um, so we need to do the underneath layer first. So, the white layer is going to be going on here first. So, we need to put our masking tape on or transfer [Applause] tape. Cute. This is kind of an awkward blank to put vinyl on because it's not flush to the surface. Um, so you may end up with a few little bubbles. That's okay. We're going to the beach. And I'm going to recycle this transfer tape. Usually get like two to three uses out of it. And always apply your transfer tape on a good stable surface. Otherwise, it'll stick in places you don't want it to stick. Oh my gosh. So stinking cute. Okay, that's adorbs. Taking this one home, please. And thank you. Look how cute that is. Each girl. I want to see if I can do my phone through it. Let's see here. Now, if you put something on the front, you may not be able to use your phone as well, but you totally can hit the buttons on it. That's cool. Love it. 10 out of 10. Okay, for this next one, I got these cute little farmhouseesque frames. Super adorable. I got three. I'm thinking like this kind of situation. I also got some ribbon. I'm gonna connect them, tie a bow at the top, and put some print and cuts, which are already printed out. I was going to do my daughter George's initials with a gingham background behind it. These are all Makers going to learn files and fonts. I used the font varsity for the GLG. And then I just put an offset behind them. Um, and put a different colored gingham. So, this one has green and then we did pink and then we did yellow. And this is just on copy paper. So now if they're a little bit big, take your glass out and just put it over top of them and center it back up. And then take a true control knife and just trim around the [Music] edges. Look how cute. There's the first one. [Music] I just opened up my Etsy seller app and we just sold an embroidered hat. Our first embroidered hat in our print on demand shop. We've been trying to sell them. I'm so excited. Side note. Okay, here is the finished product. I feel like this turned out really cute as long as you don't look at the back. But that ain't nobody's business. And I think it's darling. So, let's go to the next one. I've got a Fourth of July banner, but I think we can it up. You know, I'm always looking to jush stuff up. So, it just comes like this. We're going to open it and we're going to add America to it because why not? So, we've got it cut out of card stock. I just need to attach these red pieces to the offset. And this is a new Makaker's Going to Learn font. I want to say it's called cruise. So, you're going to take off the first side and then you're going to take your add-on and we are just going to thread it through. And I did add a hole at the top and the I'm sorry, at the left and the right top to thread it through. I'm hoping it lays nicely cuz the holes are kind of big. I took off five popsicles cuz there was 10 all together. And then I'm just going to weed these popsicles back on. There she is in all her glory. So cute. Okay, we've got two crafts left. Um, first of all, these are the two blanks that we kind of collected. I didn't get them on our little haul the other day. Um, this is the antique frame that I have been obsessed with. We're doing a Mother's Day tea party, so I'm going to And it may be past Mother's Day when you guys see this. Um, but I do think that this is a really good little prop for signage at a party of any sort. You could do like a tea party themed a tea party themed party or I don't know, it's honestly just pretty general. This style is really in right now. And then we have this one also. This is just like a clear glass case. It's super nice. It's This is a $3 to $5 section. So, this was $5. But, I thought this would be really cute to put seashells in this summer. So, we cut out some yumi in the sea and a little seashell we're going to put on there. And then this one is going to have a cute little Mother's Day saying. And let's just see how they turn out. I think they're going to be really cute. Same piece of transfer tape is still going strong. And yes, you can clean your surface with alcohol if you so choose to. We like to live our life on the edge here. Oh, this one's cute. It just says, "Mama, you are magic." I mean, that is just darling. That is [Music] cute. Tada! So cute. My girls are going to love putting seashells in this whenever they find them. Probably going to end up with some pebbles, stones, flowers, who knows? Either way, super cute. Okay, so what did you guys think? We did five or six different crafts. I didn't really craft with everything that we got from the Dollar Tree, but we did most of it. I'm going to save the other stuff for later and then uh yeah, maybe we'll make something new then. Let me know what you guys have found at the Dollar Tree for this summer. I would love to see that in the comments. And until next time, I want you guys to check out this video because I think you're going to like it just as much. See y'all later.