Free SVG! šŸŽˆ Make a Retro Truck Cricut Birthday Project

Make a Retro Truck Cricut Birthday Project

Make a fun Cricut birthday craft with this free retro birthday truck SVG, complete with brightly coloured gifts and balloons in the back.

I see trucks in craft projects quite often and I love the retro feel to them. Over the past year I’ve made quite a few different truck free cutting files for different occasions, so of course I had to make a birthday version too!

Birthday truck craft

This layered cutting file is perfect for birthdays with the huge gifts and balloons in the trunk.

It’s also a great project for using up some of your card scraps as only needs small pieces of many of the colours.

See how to stick all the layers together (and the order they go in!) in this tutorial.

Video tutorial for birthday truck SVG

Watch the video below to see how to make this craft project for birthdays. Keep scrolling for a written tutorial.

Layered birthday truck shadow box materials

Here is a list of the materials that I used to make this project.

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Layered birthday truck SVG assembly instructions

Here’s how to make your very own birthday truck using a Cricut machine!

Step 1) Download the free file & unzip the downloaded folder

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Before you upload the SVG to Design Space, you need to unzip the download folder that it comes in.

Step 2) Upload the SVG file into Design Space

Open up Cricut Design Space and upload the file called svg-birthday-truck-craftwithsarah.svg

Make sure you upload the file which starts svg- in the filename!!

This is how it should look after you have uploaded the file:

After uploading, the truck design will show in your “Recently Uploaded Images”. Click on it and then press “Add to Canvas” to put it onto your Project.

Click the truck on your canvas and use the width/height boxes near the top of the screen to make it the size that you want to cut it.

I made mine 9 inches wide to fit inside a A4 photo frame. I definitely wouldn’t recommend going much smaller than about 6.5 inches in width as some of the pieces are quite little and delicate, so if you make the design much smaller it may be difficult to cut.

If you want, you can change the colours of the layers in Design Space by clicking the layers individually in the layers panel and using the colour switcher box.

Here’s how it could look with the truck in red instead.

When you’re happy how the truck SVG is looking in Design Space, click “Make It” and follow the instructions on-screen to cut out all the layers.

Change the paper size with the dropdowns on the left of the screen. You need to change it for every colour.

You can drag-and-drop the pieces on the screen to move them about to take up less space on your cardstock.

Step 3) Stick the layered truck together

Use 3D foam pads and glue to stick the layers together.

Use this guide to see the order to stick the layers together in. A high quality printable version of this assembly guide is included in the folder when you download this SVG.

My favourite glue to use on papercraft projects is Collall All Purpose Glue.

It’s SO good because it doesn’t “warp” or bend the cardstock like some glues do. You can use as much of it as you want and the card stays perfect – and it dries perfectly clear too!

To make it even easier to apply glue to layered card projects, I highly recommend getting some of these needle tip applicator bottles to put the glue into.

The nozzles are REALLY tiny which makes them perfect for putting glue in the pieces of cardstock that make up this truck.

When adding the foam pads to the relevant layers, make sure you add some in the middle of the pieces of card so it give stability to the middles. If you don’t add any foam pads in the middles then it can “sag” under the weight of the other layers which doesn’t look as good.

Step 4) Frame your layered birthday truck papercraft project

The final step is to frame your birthday truck!

If you like this design, you may want to check out the matching truck designs for other seasons and Holidays:

Love layered SVGs? Check out my other free layered SVG files

Happy crafting,
Sarah x