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| Birthday Toy Train |
Hi crafters...sharing a huge birthday present I made for my little niece who is celebrating her 5th birthday this month. Her favourite colour is pink and so I went really overboard on the "pinkness" here!!
This project was made exclusively using Crealies dies. I used the Crealies train Cardzz die to make the cute train and lots of other dies from Crealies to add the fun elements
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| Birthday Toy Train |
Since I am going to be taking this all the way to Kerala my hometown where my niece resides I needed the whole ensemble to safely fit in my suitcase...so I came up with an idea to have the individual parts fit together with tiny magnets in the wheel bars.
So this is like a real toy which you can assemble and then take apart and store!
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| Birthday Toy Train |
The first wagon 2 wagons had balloons galore for the birthday girl and this one which is my favourite has floating glittery clouds and the birthday girl's name in matching letters .
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| Birthday Toy Train |
On the 4th wagon I added elements you may see in a typical little girl's birthday : lots of pink ...pink frocks, toy balls, cameras , pink bows and hearts!
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| Birthday Toy Train |
On the last wagon I added something yummy---strawberries!
And more balloons and buttons and a giant 5!!
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| Birthday Toy Train |
Don't you just love those strawberries.
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| Birthday Toy Train |
Ok ...here is how you can make a Toy Train Treat Box/ display for a special occasion.
Make a Shaker Number
The new Crealies number dies in the Cardzz category are really huge and are perfect to make banners and huge decorations. For my toy train I made 2 big number 5 's
Here is how you can easily make a shaker number.
Die cut your base using the largest shadow number.
Tape the inner 2 numbers together and die cut double sided adhesive foam.
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| Shaker Number Tutorial |
Stick the number frame cut with the adhesive foam onto your base.
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| Shaker Number Tutorial |
Die cut an acetate sheet using the middle number.
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| Shaker Number Tutorial |
Stick this onto your adhesive number frame.
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| Shaker Number Tutorial |
Press well to stick
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| Shaker Number Tutorial |
Add a frame made using the inner 2 numbers and add it over your shaker
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| Shaker Number Tutorial |
And you have a quick and easy Shaker number.
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| Birthday Toy Train |
Make Toy Train wagons
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| Toy Train Tutorial |
If you want to make a sturdy but lightweight toy train you can use foam to give strength your paper train.
For each train wagon/engine
Die cut 3 pieces [1 in pattern paper, 1 in card stock and 1 in foam- to be sandwiched between pattern paper and cardstock] for the front and 3 pieces for the back.
You can make the boxes from chipboard or make the wagons using cardstock like I did for this project
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| Toy Train Tutorial |
To make one wagon you need just one 18 x 12 cm paper.
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| Toy Train Tutorial |
Score it on all its edges [ by turning the paper as you go] at 4 cm from the edge[ = 1 3 /4 inches]
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| Toy Train Tutorial |
Once your paper is scored make 4 cuts as shown to enable you to fold your paper into a box.
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| Toy Train Tutorial |
Snip off a bit of paper to create gluing tabs
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| Toy Train Tutorial |
It will look like this:
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| Toy Train Tutorial |
Optionally snip off triangles from the outer end of your gluing tab as shown below...this is not compulsory...it just gives a neater finish to your gluing
Your paper will look like this now...all ready to fold and glue into a box
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| Toy Train Tutorial |
Fold all score lines and you will get a shape as shown below
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| Toy Train Tutorial |
Apply glue to your gluing tabs and glue.Use paper clips to help keep your parts together as your glue dries
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| Toy Train Tutorial |
My toy train has 5 wagons as the birthday girl is celebrating her 5th birthday!
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| Toy Train Tutorial |
Stick the boxes onto your wagons and your train boxes are ready to add little toys, candy etc
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| Toy Train Tutorial |
Since the toy train is very big with 5 parts I wanted a mechanism to take apart the pieces and put them back together like a real toy...I made magnetic parts to join the wheels of the train
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| Toy Train Tutorial |
Cut 3 strips [in cardstock, foam and silver paper] and 2 wheels using the dies in the Train Cardzz set.
Stick the foam in between the pink cardstock and silver paper...this makes your part sturdy and prevents it from buckling while keeping it lightweight
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| Toy Train Tutorial |
I made 8 strips to join 5 of my train wagons
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| Toy Train Tutorial |
You can simply glue the wheels on to your strips or if you want a really good adhesion use brads. Poke holes on either end of the strips and through the center of your wheel and join the wheel to your strip using the brads. I added magnets to the backside of the strips under the wheel and magnets onto the wagon wheels as you can see in the toy train individual pieces below
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| Birthday Toy Train |
As a final touch I will be adding photos of the birthday girl and her family
in each of the wagons and in the windows!
I hope you like some of the ideas I have shared in this post
Here are the supplies used
Crealies Dies:
