Fall Rustic Handmade Tiered Tray Inspo

Step out of the traditional fall colored box with this colorful handmade Rustic Tiered Tray decor. There’s Sunflowers, pops of Teal, a hint of Leopard, and Pumpkins galore. If this 3 Tiered Tray doesn’t get you all the Fall feels and Autumn vibes, I don’t know what will!

How to decorate and style a Handmade rustic fall autumn tiered tray for inspiration, with lots of crafts and DIY decor with pops of teal and other fall vibes.

Over the summer I made a vow to decorate my Fall Rustic Tiered Tray with 100% handmade crafts and DIY’s. So, after I made the tray itself, I set out on a mission to do just that. It started with my love for all things mini, and then the obsession for the color Teal came in. The result is this absofreakinglutely stunning Fall Tiered Tray that you see here for inspiration!

Tiered Trays come in alllll sorts of shapes, sizes, colors, and styles. Same with peoples Fall colors for crafts and decor. You could go the more traditional route with Oranges and browns. You could go the neutral farmhouse route with whites and blacks and well…neutral. OR you could pull a Manda Panda Projects and add as much color as possible, more specifically lots of pops of Teal!

Some of my very favorite things in life are the color Teal, Sunflowers, and some good ‘ole rustic charm. This Fall Handmade Rustic Tiered Tray wraps my favorite things all up in to one big beautiful mess!

Birdseye view of the Handmade rustic fall autumn tiered tray with sunflowers, pumpkins, wood bead garland and pops of Teal.

If you’re following along on Facebook, you probably saw me make many of the pieces you see here live. If it’s handmade and on this tiered tray, then there is a tutorial for it. The only things I did NOT make are some of the little filler pumpkins and hay bales, the wood bead garland which was gifted to me by one of my amazing crafty friends, the mini mugs from Hobby Lobby because they were just too cute not to add, and the little Happy Harvest truck from Hobby Lobby as well, because it was only $1.99 and why not throw it on there (And many of those wouldn’t even be too hard to make).

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Rustic Handmade 3 Tiered Tray

Almost all of the little pieces that you see on this tray are handmade, including the Tiered Tray itself. I’ve linked below to the Facebook Live, and/or the blog post tutorial where we made each one so that you can easily find them if you want to make them yourself! I hope you find lots of Fall Inspo here and I can’t wait to see how your Fall Tiered Tray turns out.

Handmade Crafts for a Fall Tiered Tray

I decorated this beautiful Rustic Handmade Fall 3 Tiered Tray on a Facebook Live video, so you can WATCH me decorate it HERE or click on the picture right below.

Screenshot of the facebook live recording where amanda decorated the fall rustic handmade tiered tray.

Watch the Facebook Live here

I have no rhyme or reason to how I decorate my Fall Handmade Tiered Tray. I know there are some decorating “rules” you are supposed to follow, but honestly I’ve never been one to follow those rules! I’m a #CraftyRebel.

First things first, you need to start with clean slate and take EVERYTHING off of your tray. Then I get out everything that I plan to use, so that I have it all right there in front of me.

DIY Rustic wooden round 3 tiered tray with natural wood and stained wooden candlesticks.

Then, I just start putting things on and moving them around until I like how it looks. It takes a bit of tweaking and tinkering until you get it just right, but in the end you are left with something uh-maz-ing. One trick I have is to use little round wood discs to use as risers to create some height on things in the back. It makes a world of difference

Let’s start from the Top! Of course we want the Mixed Sunflower Bouquet to be front and center. This was a Dollar Tree project we made with the little prints on the back of the calendar. Same with the Farm Fresh Pumpkins mini frame. I threw the Salt and Pepper shakers on there as a way for the frame to stand up for now, but I do plan to mod podge a small sunflower napkin to the shakers to make them even more fabulous.

Top tier of the wooden tray with a mixed sunflower bouquet, mini mug that says "unbelievably blessed" with a pumpkin inside, and a mini wooden pumpkin frame.

The adorable little “Unbelievably Blessed” mini mug was a Fall Hobby Lobby find, isn’t it so stinkin’ cute! I did end up switching out the orange pumpkin in the mug for a teal one, so that there was a pop of color on the top level to balance it out with the rest.

Moving down to the second Tier (perhaps my fave tier). In the back we have two of the cutest darn handmade pumpkins, a twine one for a rustic feel, and a teal wood bead one to add some color. I like to mix up the pops of color with the more neutral tones to make it more eye catching. Of course I threw on a hay bale from DT to add some height for the teal pumpkin.

Teal wood bead pumpkin and a rustic twine pumpkin decor.

On the right we have yet another handmade piece, a Pumpkin Patch that we made with paint stick scraps! This is one of my faves because it saved the scraps from the garbage, and just hate to throw things out. The “Thankful and Blessed” block you see on the left is another Dollar Tree Calendar craft and I propped that inside of the mini mug to give it a fun and whimsy feel.

Middle tier of the tray with a "Happy Harvest" truck, mini pumpkin patch, mini mug that says "thankful for you" and a dollar tree block that says "thankful and blessed".

The last main piece on this tier is the cute Happy Harvest truck, also from the good ‘ole Hob Lob. After I arranged all of those pieces on the second tier I felt like it needed a little more to fill in the empty space. I then remembered one of my amazing followers sent me this white, teal, and mustard Wood Bead Garland! After adding the garland, a few mini hay bales and a fabric sunflower, it felt complete!

Close up of the Teal pumpkin and mini haybales with the wood bead garland.

Moving right along to the bottom tier we have one of my favorite DIYS, the Dollar Tree Patchwork Pumpkin towards the back.

Dollar Tree foam patchwork pumpkin with sunflower stem.

I wasn’t sure this was going to fit on my tray, so I was really happy that it did.

Towards the front we have 4 handmade pieces, all of which I love! Working our way from left to right we’ve got the adorable .10 cent Pumpkin Patch which was a total hit over on Instagram, the Mini Cutting Board Pumpkin, another Twine Pumpkin, and the “Hello Autumn” Pumpkin Crate.

Bottom tier of the tray with the mini 10 cent pumpkin patch, teal cutting board pumpkin, twine pumpkin, and "Hello Autumn" crate.

If you see any little empty spaces, use your filler pumpkins and hay bales to fill in the gaps. I even snuck in one last DIY that can barely see which is the Mini Pallet Board Burlap Pumpkin on the right behind the twine pumpkin. It fit, so why not. My motto is “Better to have too much on your tray than too little”. Some say I’m “Extra”, but I say ” Am I Extra? Or are you Basic?” (If you’re on TikTok than you know LOL).

Are you going to decorate a Tiered Tray for the Fall Season this year? Shoot…are you gonna decorate a Tiered Tray at all?! If you do, I’d love to see it! Pop on over to our free Craftspiration Facebook group, and join in on the fun by posting a pic of your Tiered Trays, DIY’s and crafts. I just love to see all your creative and crafty creations!

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