We recently styled a tropical housewarming party using our brand-new, fabulous Cricut Explore Air 2!  Today, we are going to show you how we created this simple and chic pineapple inspired serving tray!   This project literally took less than 10 minutes and added a fun piece of decor not only to our party, but one that we are sure to use all summer long!

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Cricut Explore Air 2

Adhesive Gold Foil

Linen White Cricut Vinyl

Caribbean Blue Cricut Vinyl

Sunshine Yellow Cricut Vinyl

Standard Grip Cutting Mat

Cricut Mint Essential Tool Set

Serving Tray (We found ours at Target!)

1. We started by measuring the interior dimensions of our tray so we would know what size to make our letters and pineapple.

We  opened a blank canvas in Cricut Design Space and picked the Suburbia font to write “home”.  We then deleted the letter O because we wanted to use this space for our fun pineapple decal!

2.  Add a piece of white vinyl to your mat and simply load and press go on your Cricut Explore Air 2!  Using your Weeding Tool, remove the letters and the paper backing from the vinyl and then adhere them to the tray. Remember to leave enough space in between your h and m for the pineapple!

3.  Now for that cute little pineapple! We went back into  Cricut Design Space and searched for a pineapple image. This particular image is from the Summer Love Cartridge, which has plenty of fabulous summer inspired images!

Insert the image into your canvas and then adjust the sizing based off the dimensions of your surface.  We then ungrouped the image so we could cut all three layers of the pineapple on one mat at the same time!

4.  We decided to use Adhesive Gold Foil , Caribbean Blue Cricut Vinyl and Sunshine Yellow Cricut Vinyl for the pineapple layers. We lined each color vinyl or foil up on the mat so each layer would be cut on the coordinating color.

5.  Once the pineapple layers are cut, adhere them in the proper order so you have a bright and beautiful pineapple!

6.  Place the pineapple decal on the tray in the space between the h and the m.

Your tropical serving tray is now complete and ready to be displayed at your Tropical Housewarming Party!

We loved the way this looked on our beverage cart with our flamingo and gold leaf adorned beverage dispenser!

Thanks for stopping by and don’t forget to enter to WIN YOUR VERY OWN CRICUT EXPLORE AIR 2 HERE!