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Ready Player One

Today's card is a fun virtual reality birthday card created in Cricut Design Space and features a vibrant title backed by an alcohol inked panel.


A couple of years ago, my son and I read the book Ready Player One, a science fiction book about humanity's use of virtual reality to escape the real world. Fast forward a few years and now he wants his own virtual reality headset for his birthday.  I created this card for him to celebrate our love for this book and to serve as a precursor of the birthday gift that was to come.

While creating this card, I wore the movie T-Shirt I bought last year so I could mimic the movie title font and colors.  I needed an easy way to make the title out of rainbow colors so I placed a few colors of alcohol ink on a felt pad and swiped it across Yupo Paper.  I downloaded and installed the font used for the movie title and cut the title out of a black A2 card panel using Cricut Design Space.  I backed the black card panel with the rainbow alcohol inked Yupo paper.  

For the headset, I used Cricut Design Space to alter an image of paintball goggles to make them look more like a virtual reality headset.  I also wanted to make the headset have lenses that could be looked through to see the image on the inside of the card.  I sliced circles out the headset and used acetate for the lenses. I cut the headset from silver cardstock and adhered it above the title on the black card panel.  I cut circles out of the black card panel and adhered a piece of acetate to the back of this panel.  I glued the black card panel to a black card base that also had circles cut out of it so you could see completely through the lenses of the headset. 

My son wanted to use the virtual reality headset to play Roblox in VR.  So I downloaded and printed an image of a Roblox VR game.  I centered this image on the inside of the card so that you could see it through the headset when the card was closed.
The card turned out exactly how I imagined.  My son called it "EPIC" so I knew he appreciated it.  This labor of love is definitely going into his scrapbook after he is done displaying it in his room to commemorate his birthday gift and our enjoyment of this science-fiction book.


Ready Player One
Supplies:
  • Tim Holtz Ranger 5x7 White Alcohol Ink Yupo Paper
  • Tim Holtz Ranger Alcohol Inks
  • Tim Holtz Ranger Alcohol Ink Applicator and Felt Pad
  • Font - Ready Player One (https://dafonttop.com/ready-player-one.font)
  • Cricut - Goggles (#MAC8B67C)
  • Cardstock - Black and Silver
  • Roblox VR Hands Image
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