Tray Makeover With Spray Paint and Doily

3 Materials
$3
2 Hours
Easy

I love giving things spray paint love, and it's easy to give any tray a completely new look with a little spray paint and a doily.

For this project I'm using a silver plate tray, but I think almost any tray would work. Everything I'm using I already had here at home in my stashes.


This tray came with a silver plate tea set that I found years ago, and it doesn't match the set. So it's a perfect candidate for a makeover.


In order to use all three colors on my tray I'm creating a cardboard cutout of the center roses area of the doily by tracing around it with a pencil.


Here's what I have after cutting out the cardboard. It covers the roses section perfectly.


I took my 20" wide silver plate tray out to our portable garage and spray painted it with two light coats of pink.


This acts as the base coat and will be the color of the roses.


Then I put my roses cardboard cutout in place in the center of the tray, and used a rock to keep it in place.


I used the doily as a guide for this so I had my cutout spaced properly.


Then I spray painted over the entire tray with two light coats of a lovely pistachio green.


Here you can see the pink roses section of the doily.


Next I placed the doily on the tray, matching the doily roses with the pink section on the tray.


The doily acts like a stencil, and I while I did the next step I kept my fingers crossed.


With a light coat of white paint I spray painted over the whole thing. I forgot to take a pic outside of this so I took this pic inside after the paint had dried so I could show you what it looked like.


The doily should be lifted off the tray immediately so it doesn't stick in place anywhere.


And magically the flowers and leaves appear because the white spray paint fills in the areas all around them.


This process is never going to get a perfect image, but that's not what you're going for anyway. It has a lovely faded and aged look that I love.


The pink looks much darker inside than it does outside, but I still love the way it looks. It's funny how light can change colors.


So I think my process worked pretty well, but I do have a simpler variation that you can see in my Spray Painted Silverware Tray Makeover post here.


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