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Days ‘Til Christmas Countdown Truck Makeover

November 24, 2022 By: Linda @ Mixed Kreations2 Comments

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Hi all! I was so excited the other day when I ran across this $5 Days ‘Til Christmas countdown truck at Walmart. It was so cute but it was grey. Why grey and not red, after all it’s for Christmas time. What were they thinking, no matter it’s an easy fix so I snatched one up, wishing now that I had grabbed a couple more. Let me show you what I did to turn this boring grey truck into this cute Days ‘Til Christmas red truck, and you can be the judge.

Christmas countdown truck makeover

Days ‘Til Christmas Countdown Truck

First thing I did was remove the wood tree and paint the whole truck red. I’m sorry I was in such a hurry to get the little truck finished that I missed out on taking some of the photos.

Christmas countdown truck makeover

Next, I painted the bumpers metallic silver, the wheel areas black and the windows white.
Then I floated around the wheel area with white, and around the windows with grey. Kind of hard to see but I used burnt sienna and floated around all edges of the truck, anything red.

Digging through my wood parts stash I came up with two round disk, a wood tree, and one wood star. The round disk were painted black for the tires, the centers metallic with a small black circle.

Painted tree

The Days ‘Til Christmas graphic was made on PicMonkey, versed then printed out from my laser printer and then transferred using Mod Podge.

Graphic transfer

That was set aside to dry for 24 hours while I worked on painting the wood tree to look like a Christmas tree and topping it off with the wood star that I painted yellow. Then splattered with with paint.

Painted Christmas tree

For the days ‘til Christmas number blocks I gave them a fresh coat of white chalk paint, and used a paint marker to add the numbers back on, and gave them a coat of Mod Podge.

Painted countdown blocks

24 hours later I used a damp paper towel to dampen the transfers and then rubbed gently to remove the paper leaving the wording in place.

Christmas countdown truck makeover

Next I did a little bit more detail work

Christmas countdown truck makeover

then splattered the days ‘til Christmas truck with an old toothbrush and black paint.

Christmas countdown truck makeover

Attached the wheels and the Christmas tree using wood glue.

Christmas countdown truck makeover

And gave the whole piece two coats of Mod Podge which will help hide the film from the transfer.

Christmas countdown truck makeover

That was it for this Days ‘Til Christmas truck makeover. Easy Peasy! Which do you like best the grey verse or the new bright red Christmassy verse?

Christmas countdown truck makeover

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Christmas countdown truck makeover

Christmas countdown truck makeover

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  1. Michelle Leslie says

    December 29, 2022 at 10:22 am

    Definitely the red Christmassy one. Grey is just so not festive 😉

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    • Linda @ Mixed Kreations says

      January 7, 2023 at 11:32 am

      That was my thought as well. What were they thinking when they made it grey!

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