Hello and welcome to Craft with Sarah. In this video, we're going to be making a layered
papercraft truck filled with beautiful flowers in the back for summer. This is part of a series I've
been working on before Christmas, where I'm making a different layered truck for every single holiday
and season. Best of all, all of the designs are free, so let's find out how to get them.
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. When you've downloaded and unzipped the folder, open up Cricut Design Space
and start a new project. Press upload on the left and then upload image. You can then either click
browse to find the file on your computer or you can drag and drop it in. Make sure you choose the
unzipped version of the folder and then the file you want is the one which starts SVG in the file
name. The other file types are for different types of machine and not a Cricut, so if you are using a
Cricut machine make sure you choose the one which starts SVG otherwise it won't load in properly.
I drag and drop that in and then it should appear like this with all of the layers one
on top of the other. If yours looks different and you can see the layers next to each other instead,
that means you've accidentally uploaded the wrong file, so if that's the case,
press cancel down on the bottom and then try again and make sure you choose the one which starts SVG.
When it looks like this, press upload and then the file will appear in your recent uploads,
so you can click on it to get a green border around it and then press add to
canvas. You can see all of the layers down the right hand side. Don't worry,
that there are quite a lot on this one, it's actually pretty simple to put together.
You could cut this out at the size it loads in it, but I like to resize it so that it will
better fit my frame. I'm using an A4 frame and I'm going to make my design 9 inches in width.
To resize, make sure the little padlock icon at the top of the width and the height boxes
is closed. If yours is open simply, click on it to close it and then you can choose
either the width or the height type in what you want, so I've put 9 inches.
Press enter on your keyboard and then the other dimension so in my case the height
will also change in proportion so everything stays looking beautiful.
This design has quite a lot of colours in it and if you want to,
you can simplify them. If you don't have maybe a lot of different shades of card. T
To do this, click colour sync on the top right and this changes the layers panel so now everything's
split out by colour. You can then drag and drop to change the colours so for example,
I just changed that dark green to be the same light green as that background which means now
I'd only need one piece of green card when I'm cutting this out. I could do the same with the
sunflower and make that all in one colour and now I only need one shade of yellow instead of two.
So if you want to, this is just a nice quick and easy way to simplify the different colours.
However, I'm going to do mine as it was originally designed, so I'll just undo that.
Press layers on the top so that I can see all those layers again and then press
make it. This splits everything out into those different colours
and if you want to, you can change the paper size in these drop downs.
You do need to do that for every colour,
so if you are changing the size just make sure you don't miss any
and then you can click and drag the shapes to move them about to take up less space on your card.
This is a good design for using your little scraps of paper because you can move things
around to fit any weird scrap shapes that you've got lying about in your craft room,
that you've been wondering what to use them for, but you couldn't quite bring yourself
to throw them away. I know you've got a whole pile of that somewhere because I definitely do
and this project is perfect for finally using them.
Once you're happy with how everything's looking,
click continue and then it will connect to your Cricut machine and you can
follow the on-screen instructions to get everything cut out from your cardstock.
Here are all of my layers cut out from cardstock and I've just led them one on top of the other
so I can check I'm happy with all the colours and to make sure I've got everything,
we're going to be sticking this together with a combination of 3d foam squares
and glue. Here are the foam squares I'm using. You see they're quite small,
but if yours are big then you can just use a pair of scissors to cut them smaller if you need to.
The glue I'm using is called Collall and I like this because it doesn't bend or wrinkle
the cardstock like some other glues can do and I put it into these needle tip applicator bottles
from Amazon. As the name suggests they have very, very teeny tiny tips on them
which means I'm going to be able to get my glue in all of these flowers really easily.
As with all my layered designs, we're going to start at the bottom and work upwards. So
we need to move these layers around, so that we just have the bottom two, and try and move
all of these flowers in one. I managed it, and then let’s move these out the way, this big piece,
and then our very two bottom layers are the grey of the very background,
and then the black of the truck to go on top.
Now this layer is optional you can glue it or you can use foam squares.
I've tried both with the various trucks that I've made in the past,
but ultimately I prefer to glue it, so that's what I'm going to do for this one.
In the assembly guide which is included in your download folder, you'll see that for this layer I
have put that it's optional so you can glue it or use your foam. If you're glueing it, make sure you
get your glue into all of those little leaves just to make sure that they're going to stick well and
that they won't accidentally be caught if they're not stuck down because we don't want to tear them.
Alright, let's line that up. Oh, not done a very good job there. The nice thing about
glue is you've got wiggle room to get it into position if you mess it up like I just did.
The next layer is this one which is going to be a foam square layer so turn it upside down and
bring in your foam squares and then add them all around the edge and also into the middle,
and the reason we add them into the middle is that it gives extra stability to the design
and means that that middle part isn't going to sag down under the weight of everything else.
Try and put some foam around the top of the truck cap too. If you need to just grab some scissors,
cut them smaller. They do cut really easily,
but whilst you're doing it, be careful that you don't put any of your foam squares
over the gaps in the cardstock, otherwise you'll see them when you turn it the other way around
and we don't want to be able to see our foam. We want it to be all nice and hidden.
Now that I've added all the pieces on, I can just peel the tops off
to reveal all of that stickiness underneath.
Now I'm going to line it up
using those leaves as a guide and then when I think I've got it right, I'm just going to
gently drop it down and the reason I've done that is that if I needed to I could just pick
it up again without damaging anything because I haven't actually stuck it yet, I've just put
it into position, but that's looking good to me so I'm going to push down to get it all stuck.
Next, I'm going to work on the front of the truck with this piece here and I'm going to
foam this piece too. So turn it upside down and again add some foam. There are little gaps on
this bit as well that you need to just make sure your foam doesn't accidentally cover and I think
I'm going to need some of my smaller bits that I've previously cut to go in that top section.
Alrighty, let's peel these tops off.
Now I can line this up.
Drop it down and then push to seal.
Let's do the little hubcaps on the tires next and these just need one tiny little foam square, and
then you can line them up however you want, but I just think it looks nicer if the holes in these
are pointing in the same direction, so whether you do them on the side. You can't really see
if I hold it that way. On the side or upwards, it doesn't matter as long as they're both the same.
Finally, for the front, we've got this piece here which I'm going to add foam to.
A few little bits on the back. There we go and stick it down.
Alright, now we move on to the back of the track and this is a lot of pieces. we're going to start
with the green and this is going to be glued down. We’ll start easy and then see what happens.
Again I'm just making sure my glue goes up into all of those petals
and the leaves, so I have a really good stick on it,
and glue that into position. It should fit nicely around the front of the truck,
but you might just need to tuck it in a little bit. Okay, so I'm going to move that off there
and then these front flowers, also going to move apart, and
the wooden bin and we can take a little look at what we've got, so got the sunflower. Then
we have some green, and then the white and red, which is making up the majority of the flowers.
For the sunflower, I'm going to glue these and the reason I'm glueing them instead of foaming
is because there are a lot of layers in the back of the truck compared to the front and I don't
want the back to be way further out than that front, otherwise it won't look very realistic.
So most of these are going to end up being glued,
but then the front flowers that kind of peek over the edge, we'll probably use some foam on.
This is the next sunflower layer which I've turned upside down and I'm going to glue this one too.
Stick that on there
and then for the middle, I'm going to use foam on the orangey bit and then glue on the brown bit,
so we can still have a little pop of dimension on there. And glue in the middle.
Next is the green layer and for this one, I'm going to glue it again.
I will need to just tuck it under the middle of that sunflower I think, but that's okay.
There, it is. Okay.
Next we have these flowers and once again,
I am going to glue them and I'll just tuck in under that sunflower as well.
Not sure if you can really see, but the depth of all of these layers that we're glueing,
is getting to the point where it's actually the same distance from that
base layer as the front of the truck, so we are gradually making it all even
due to the sheer amount of bits of card that we're playing on here and tuck that under.
This one will be glued too.
Of course, if you want to add more dimension, you absolutely can. If you're not fussed about
the back of the track matching the front, then add as many foam pads as you want.
Next is this flower and I'm going to glue it because it's got to have the brown of
the front of the truck over the top, so I don't want it to become too thick.
Alright, next is the brown and again this one is going to be glued but after that,
we'll start having some fun with the foam.
Put that one there and now we have these extra pieces and I am going to try and remember
where they will all go.
So these ones will be here because they're joined together. That one will be there
and I think actually that one was supposed to go on the front of the truck like that,
so I'm going to glue that onto to look like it was painted on the side of the truck.
There and we're going to add foam for this section, so that it matches this one which
is done with foam. I like it when these match evenly on both sides of the truck.
It just makes it look a little bit more balanced.
So that one on there and for our remaining little flowers
I’m going to add the foam. There was still a layer there and I've moved my brown.
There we go. Luckily, the glue is still a little bit wet. So how many layers have I got?
I'm going to make this up as I go along, can you tell?
Add my foam to the back of the big white piece.
Stick this on. I don't mind these bits being taller than the rest of the truck
because it looks like you know all the flowers are tumbling out of the front and that's okay.
It's just the actual truck itself, I like to kind of stay even. That's just my personal preference.
Then, that might be slightly too big on the foam tape there.
Foam on that one and I think it'll be easier just to put my glue on there
to add the petals. Then there's just one little flower left with two pieces to it.
Got this solid which I'm going to stick a little bit of foam on the back put that into place,
and then for the top bit, put my glue straight on there. I'm trying not to put any glue in the
middle, so that it doesn't show through the little hole in the center, but there's that and now my
beautiful summer truck filled with flowers is all finished and ready to go in a shadow
box on a greetings card or even just stuck on the wall, or propped up on a shelf exactly how it is.
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