Sometimes its fun to take your cards to another level. Using MFT Stamps products and the
Chibi Tronics products create cards that are out of this world! These super fun cards take a little bit of planning, but after you make your first card, you will not want to stop!
When I first saw the Chibi Tronics LED light kits, I knew that Out of This World would be the perfect set! With the space theme, there would be a ton of ways to use the LED light stickers. But when your son is helping you and says, make the rocket light up, you oblige! :D
To start with, I designed my card front, did all the stamping ,coloring, and die cutting, then I went to work on creating the light set up. I created the light set up on a separate sheet of card stock, allowing me to play around and not worry about "ruining" the pretty top layer.
The Chibi Tronics light kit comes with everything you see here. Its a great kit! The instructions are well written, and the cool part is, you can actually cut out the directions in the booklet and lay everything out on their drawings! No need to worry about inventing the wheel, use what they have created!
Before adhering the rocket to the front of the card, I used my piercing tool to poke holes in the windows of the rocket. I knew I could not get an LED light in each window, but that the light from two lights would fill things out nicely.
Once the holes were pierced in the rocket, I adhered it to the panel, and pierced the holes again. The separate piece of card stock is my panel to work upon, so I traced the holes on it, to help me line the lights and copper tape up.
The battery included in the kit is meant to activate the lights by closing the circuit. To do this, I scored the corner of my working panel, giving a place to push the battery down and close the circuit. Hang with me, it will all make sense shortly. :D
I "placed" my battery as a guideline for placing the copper tape. Starting under the battery (I took the batter away while doing this), I laid the copper tape down. I recommend not cutting it, but simply bending the tape to follow the path you need. I passed the copper tape along the top of the dots drawn with pencil. Then, I created another line of copper tape, this time passing the other side of the pencil-drawn dots. I placed the LED light stickers over each side of the tape. Make sure the stickers are both facing the same direction.
Tip: flatten the copper tape with a bone folder, it will create a better current flow.
Each LED light sticker has a positive and negative side. Noting which end of the LED light sticker was touching which line of copper tape was CRITICAL. When you place the battery onto the copper tape, you MUST BE SURE TO TOUCH THE POSITIVE END OF THE BATTERY TO THE POSITIVE LINE. When you have it all lined up correctly, the LED lights will glow.
When the scored corner of the card is pushed down, it closes the circuit, making the LED lights glow. Keep this corner outside the adhesive, to allow the card recipient to close the circuit as they desire.
To the rest of the working panel, I added to layers of foam tape. Two layers gives the battery enough clearance.
How adorable are the LED lights? The LED light stickers come in 4 colors; white, yellow, red, and blue. So much fun!
Visit the MFT Stamps Blog to be linked up to some amazing cards that light up! The team will be sharing projects over several days and I cannot wait to see the all and be inspired!!
thanks for stopping by!
kimberly
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