Monday, June 30, 2014

T.A.R.D.I.S.

Since I got my Cricut Explore, I have been a member of a fab Facebook group dedicated to helping each other out with any issues or good ideas we find. It's called 'let's learn cricut explore' and is well worth a look if you haven't found it.

A while ago, someone posted a photo of a brilliant doctor who card they had made using some svg's bought from a website I hadn't heard of before. The site is called Pretty Paper Pretty Ribbons and has a wide range of svg's available at great prices. I got 2 sets (the doctors and the doctors enemies) for less than £4 when converted via PayPal. They are quite complicated designs but the Cricut made it so easy.

The first thing I've made is this TARDIS shaped card. I have made one of these in the past but it took ages to work put all the sizes and cut everything by hand. This way was much quicker and neater.


I started by sizing the layered TARDIS to fit onto an A5 piece of card. I then copied the image, deleting all layers except the white base. I flipped this and then welded it to the base of the first image to make a shaped card base that would fit onto an A4 piece of card. I cut the other pieces from 3 different shades of blue as shown on both the image and the Cricut. I used double sided tape to layer up the different pieces.

The white windows are part of the design but the sign is not so I used one of the cut out sections as a template and drew onto some white card, cutting it slightly smaller to fit the aperture. I have left this blank as it would be perfect for a message. I also had to add the POLICE BOX label at the top by hand but I was lucky enough to win a Graph'It white marker a while ago and it was brilliant for this finishing touch.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:-
Paper Shelter 'travel the world' 1/7 (I can't think of any other way to travel the world than in the TARDIS but please delete if it does not match your theme enough!)
Daring Cardmakers 'no scissors' 4/7 (everything done on my die cutting machine)

8 comments:

  1. what a fab creation...looks brill, thanks for sharing with CRAFTY CATZ this week x carol

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  2. LOVE your creation! I am a big DR. Who fan. Thanks for joining us at The Paper Shelter.

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  3. This is so, so, soooooo cool! I love your Tardis :-))) (and I'm definitely going to steal the idea) Thank you so much for playing along with the Daring Cardmakers this week!

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  4. That's a cool card. It's great what these fabulous machines can do =).
    Thanks for taking part in the Daring Cardmakers challenge.

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  5. Cool card, (I am a Whovian) but sadly our challenge at Polkadoodles is Red, White & Blue so you don't qualify to win the prizes.
    Anjie (DT)

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  6. This is super for someone who loves the Doctor, our challenge is Red, White and Blue so this won't qualify but thanks for joining us at Polkadoodles Challenge this time
    Jenny

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  7. Fab card thanks for sharing at Digi Choosday and good luck in our challenge xx

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  8. Great project, thanks for joining in with our challenge of 'Anything but a sqaure' over at Digi Choosday Challenge. Yvonne (DT)

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