Hello and welcome to Craft with Sarah. In this video I'm going to show you
how to make this layered papercraft truck. It's a free SVG available from my website I'll
drop the link in the description of this video. Now I actually have already done quite a few
of these layered trucks for various different holidays and occasions, for example Christmas,
Fall, Halloween, Summer, Valentine's Day, S Patrick's Day, Easter - and I think that's it,
there may have been a couple more - but what I've never done which is something that actually has
been requested a few times is a truck with nothing in the back. So that's what we're doing today.
You can download the free cutting file for this project at craftwithsarah.com/free-svgs
or follow the link in the description of this video to go straight to the download page.
The download comes in a zip folder and you need to unzip this before you can upload
the files into Cricut Design Space. Once you've downloaded and unzipped the folder it's time to
get the SVG into Cricut Design Space. Open up Design Space and start a new
project and then go into upload over on the left and then upload image.
You can then either click browse to find the file on your computer or drag and drop it in.
Make sure you choose the unzipped version of the folder and then the file to select is the
one which starts SVG in the file name so I'll click and drag that in and it should look like
this with all of the layers one on top of the other. If yours looks different and you see the
layers next to each other on the screen instead that means you've accidentally uploaded the wrong
file so if that's the case click cancel down here on the bottom right and then try again and make
sure you choose the one which starts SVG. When it looks like this go ahead and press
upload and then when it's uploaded the file will appear in your recent uploads
click on it to get a green border around the edge and then press add to canvas.
Here's my red truck and you can see all of the layers down here on the right hand side.
I want to resize this one to make it a little bit bigger to cut out so to do that I'm going
to first close this padlock icon by clicking it and it's a bit buggy at the moment you've
probably got to click it twice and then the icon will change so that it is closed.
Another way you can do it is if I just delete that one and bring it in again.
Another way you can do it is just to click away from the design to deselect it and then select
it again and that should close the padlock. When the padlock's closed it means the layer
is resized in proportion so if I change the width to 9.5 inches and press return on my keyboard (or
enter), the height would change automatically. So let's give that a go,
there you are, you see the height changed too which means everything remains in proportion
and my design still looks perfect and that's all I'm actually gonna do on this one. There's nothing
else to change so I'm going to go straight ahead and click make it over on the top.
This separates out all of the colors into the individual mats. You can change the paper size
in the drop downs here so let's go for A4 and then you can also click and drag to move things
about so that they take up less space on your cardstock. Just be careful when you're moving
things that you don't accidentally overlap like this otherwise it's not going to cut out properly.
So make sure all your cut lines remain nice and separate so go ahead get all of your paper
sizes set and move things about if you want to and then when you're ready click continue
down on the bottom right of the screen. That will connect to your Cricut machine and then
you can follow the on-screen instructions to get everything cut out from cardstock.
Here is my layered truck all cut out and I've put everything one on top of the other to
check that I'm happy with all of the colors and I haven't accidentally missed anything.
I'll be sticking this together using a combination of glue and 3D foam squares.
The glue I use is called Collall. I really like it because it doesn't bend or wrinkle the cardstock
like some glues can do and I put it into these needle tip applicator bottles. Other great glues
to use are Bearly Art Glue or Art Glitter Glue. The foam squares that I'm using are from Dot and
Dab. These are quite small ones so they'll be nice and easy to get into all the gaps
but if you've got larger ones you can just cut them smaller with a pair of scissors.
Okay, so as with all my layered designs you want to start at the bottom and work upwards
I'll move these layers apart. I'm going to try and keep some of them kind of vaguely
in position seeing as I've gone to all that hard work of getting them in the right order.
We'll start with the very bottom one which is the solid gray and then the black goes on top.
I'll add my foam squares for this one so let's turn that black layer
upside down and get my foam squares. I'll start by putting these around the edge
but you do also want to put some in the middle and that's because this is quite a big piece
of card so if there was nothing in these middle sections you might find that it bends downwards
under the weight of the other layers on top of it. If you only put your foam around the edge, but by
putting some in the middle it means you're giving everything that goes on top of it a nice level
kind of setting for it to sit on so you're not going to get that kind of doming downwards effect.
So here we go, just a few little bits in the middle section as well
and let's not forget the top of the truck, a couple of bits in there. Alrighty,
now to peel the tops off of this to reveal all of the stickiness underneath.
I think that's all of them so let's bring the truck back and then align this up.
Let's use that top of the truck as a guide and then gently drop it down.
And the reason for gently dropping it is that if it wasn't quite lined up like mine
isn't then you can gently pick it up and move it around without damaging anything but I'm happy
with that now so let's push down to seal. Our next layer is this one which is going
to make up the main bulk of the front of the truck and this will be another foam layer.
There we go, now let's bring this back in and line up the next bit.
Gently drop it down again and push to seal. When you're happy, the next layer
for the front is the dark red to make up the details and this is going to be a glue layer.
Be careful with your glue because some of these bits are quite narrow especially the
frame around the window. If you can get some glue in this little bit up here, it is recommended as
it'll give you a much more secure stick, but if you can't then don't worry - just leave that back
and it should still be okay as long as the rest of the piece has a fair bit of glue on it.
That goes there - a little bit of dust or something in there
just get rid of that, it's uh being stubborn - come on, okay. Oh dear.
All right, there's that one and then for the back of the truck is the wood to go on there and
for this one I'm also going to glue it because I want it to be level with that front of the truck.
That lines up there and then you might just need to tuck it behind
the edge of the front but there we go, there's that one. Next, I'll add these on the wheels.
I've got a little string of glue stuck on my fingers and it's causing me problems.
Okay. These will be foamed and it doesn't matter which way round you put them with
the little semi-circle cut out but it does look better if you put them both the same way. So I've
put my one at the top on the back so I'll also want to make sure the other one is on the top
because if you did something like that and had it completely different it just doesn't quite match.
There, nearly done now we've just got these
to go and I will foam the solid parts which is my light red and then glue the darker red on top,
giving one more extra layer of detail. I didn't do that very well, let's try again. One…
And make sure you get these the right way around because they are different sizes.
The front one is the longer one.
And two. Oh, I'm not very good at this today!
Okay that's better and then the last two pieces I'm going to glue.
There we go, my empty retro or vintage red truck is now all finished!
If you like this truck and you'd like to make some for different holidays
throughout the year then I have lots of other versions available for free
on my website too and I thought before we finish we could take a little look at those.
This is the empty truck which you could use for any different occasion and then we've also got
this whole pile. The very one that started it all off I believe was… actually it wasn't this one,
but this is the second one, so this is a Christmas one with a little Christmas tree in the back.
The one that started the whole thing was actually this one for Fall with the pumpkins.
So there's that one. There's also a summer truck with flowers in the back,
a St Patrick's Day truck, there is an Easter truck with all of those pretty eggs in the back,
a Valentine's Day truck (Valentine's Day is coming up soon) with all of those
hearts and then finally a New Year's Eve truck with fireworks which if you
cut it from red white and blue would also be a great Fourth of July truck.
Now those ones are all free from craftwithsarah.com/free-svgs
There is one truck which is a paid one in my shop and that's this Halloween one
and there we go, that is the collection! You can see it completely fills up my table,
but I am working on at least one more which is going to be a birthday themed truck and that
one will be out in a few weeks time. So keep an eye out for that one and
that'll be a free one too. I'm just going to move all these
back out the way and bring the truck back. When I was working on this truck I thought
it'd be really nice to actually do some other vehicles in the same sort of style so that's
what my team and I have been working on and I'm pleased to announce that the first 10 of our new
layered vehicles are now available. Let's take a little look at them.
First up is this articulated lorry design. Let's put him all the way up there.
We've also got a delivery van or a work van or - you know - just a van, van van!
There is a tractor, another style of pickup truck that's a little bit more modern,
we've got a motorbike. I think I'm gonna run out of room again. A convertible car, a caravan,
a regular car, a camper van and finally a 4x4 with a little off-road going through all of that mud.
If you'd like to get any of these layered svgs they are available in my shop which is
craftwithsarah.com/shop or if you are a member of my SVG club which is called Craft Clubhouse
you get all of these designs for free as well as new designs every single month at no extra cost.
There are hundreds of layered svgs already inside Craft Clubhouse,
so when you sign up you get instant access to all of them immediately and as I said new
designs every month including 15 layered svgs. This is only 10 that were out in January,
there were additional ones too. So you get those every month at no extra cost. It's
a one-time membership. To find out more about Craft Clubhouse and to get all of these in one
go as well as all the hundreds of other files that are in there, visit craftwithsarah.com/clubhouse
We will be working on more vehicles throughout the year. We've got a very long list to get through,
but if there's anything that you would especially like to see that it's not already here then drop
me an email or leave a comment on this video and we'll see what we can do. Don't forget,
this one here this little truck is 100% completely free and I hope you enjoyed seeing how to make it.
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