Patriotic Rustic Tiered Tray Inspo

Put your American pride on display this 4th of July with this Patriotic Rustic Tiered Tray. With the red, white, and blue, plus flags and stars, this handmade 3 tiered tray is packed with DIY Americana Decor inspo from top to bottom! Every item on this tray is handmade with American pride!

Patriotic Rustic Tiered Tray decorated with handmade mini 4th of july americana crafts and DIY decor on all 3 tiers of the large wooden round tray. Red white and blue crafts and decor.

I absolutely LOVE to hand make everything for all my tiered trays. In fact, I even made the tray itself!

It has become a sort of tradition to have Tiered Tray Live extravaganzas on my Facebook page where I go on a 1, 2 or even 3 week long spree hand making everything for my tray.

I go live on my my lunch break and call them Lunchtime Live Tiered Tray Extravaganzas! These are all short, easy, fast, and cute little crafts and at the end of the series I go Live and decorate my tray with everything we made.

So 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 the mini mugs from Hobby Lobby because they were just too cute not to add.

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Rustic Patriotic 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 patriotic Inspo here and I can’t wait to see how your Americana Tiered Tray turns out.

Handmade Crafts for a Patriotic Tiered Tray

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

Amanda smiling on a facebook live thumbnail with 2 empty tiered trays in the background.

Watch the Facebook Live here

I have no rhyme or reason to how I decorated my Patriotic 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.

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

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

I usually start by putting my bigger staple pieces on, then adding some smaller pieces, and finishing it off with the mini mini things and filler pieces. Then move and tinker until I’m Happy!

Let’s start from the Top! You absolutely cannot miss that gorgeous Rusty Bedspring Star on the left. This one really isn’t a “tiered tray craft” because it’s actually pretty big, but since my tray is HUGE it works just fine. This was made in a set of 3, but I only use 2 of them on here.

Top tier of the tray with a rusty patriotic star, mini bookstack, wood bead garland, and USA patriotic jar.

I balanced this larger piece out with a small USA Rae Dunn inspired jar to the right. And it wouldn’t be a tiered tray without a Mini Jenga Block Book Stack (or two)!

To finish of the top tier I added a small Patriotic red, white, and blue Wood Bead Garland, and I think that was the perfect touch.

Moving on down to the second tier, we have my very favorite piece front and center, the Freedom Patriotic Ladder. To the right all the way in the back is a craft we made with a napkin from my Big Pack of Craftkins napkin subscription, the Patriotic Lobster Mason Jar. It’s a little hard to see here, but trust me he’s a cutie!

In front of the lobster is a mini Patriotic Stamp block, and you guessed it….another Jenga Block Mini Book stack, but an American Flag this time.

The tray wouldn’t be complete without the USA Star Mini Banner hanging across the middle tier.

Middle tier of the tray with a Patriotic Ladder, Uncle Sam hat, mini book stack, and Patriotic Lobster Mason Jar. USA star banner across the bottom of the wood round tier.

To the left is an adorable Jenga Block Uncle Sam Hat, and right behind that is another Stamp Block sitting on top of a mini mug from Hobby Lobby (one of the only non handmade items on the tray!)

I filled in some of the empty spaces with some cute Red, White, and Blue Kraft Paper Stars, and some mini laser cut stars.

Close up of the left side of the middle tier showing the Patriotic Uncle Sam jenga block hat, kraft paper stars, and patriotic ladder.

We’ve made it all the way down to the bottom tier, where the cuteness continues with another craft made with a Craftkin on the back left, the “Home Sweet Home” USA flag sitter with its fun crackle look. This tray is super big and needs some larger pieces for the bottom back spots, so to the right of that I put another one of the Rusty Patriotic Stars.

In front of the Rusty star on the right is another of my faves, the Vintage American Flag USA Chippy Block raised up just a tad with 2 small wood round risers. Another Mini Patriotic Stamp Block is filling in some space right in front of that, an adorable Mini Flag Pillow is front and center resting against the candlestick.

Bottom tier of the tray with a mini flag pillow, vintage chippy USA block, USA Scrabble Tiles, Mini Patriotic zFlip Flops, and USA Flag Crackle sitter.

Right in front of the pillow we have the USA Scrabble Tiles that are so darn cute! I am going to make these interchangeable with different tiles for each holiday so that I can just swap them out.

All the way to the left we have the Star Wand coming out of an old salt shaker, with adorable Mini Cardboard Patriotic Flip Flops propped up against it. And just off to the right of those we have the last piece on this tier, the Jenga Block Firecrackers.

The same picture as above showing the bottom of the tiered tray but at an angle that shows the full Patriotic Star Wand on the left.

And here she is in all her glory! A view from each side of the tray so you can get the full picture of some of the items that are hard to see in the individual tier pics.

Are you going to decorate a Tiered Tray for Memorial Day or 4th of July 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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