Chibitronics ~ Graduation Celebration Rainbow Light Up Card

 

Hello everyone! Today I’m sharing how I made this fun light up customized graduation celebration card. Today I’m featuring the brand new Chibitronics Plumeria Animating Rainbow LED Light Stickers and a digital image, “Grad With Roses” digital stamp from Mo’s Digital Pencil by Mo Manning.

I always begin by printing out my card front panel twice for a card. I use only panel to color up my card front and the other as a light placement guide for my circuit.

Next I map out and build my circuit on my print out. 

I start with the negative side of the circuit below my battery area and lay down all of my Conductive Fabric Tape on that side of the circuit. Then I build a simple battery housing from 3D foam tape and laid down the Conductive Fabric Tape for the positive side of the circuit. 

Once my circuit is compete, I laid down each light sticker. In this case, I used the brand new Plumeria Animating Rainbow LED Light Stickers. When attached to the circuit and the circuit is switched on (or closed), these amazing lights transfer through the whole entire rainbow of colors!

This is what the card looks like all lit up…

Now since this is an ANIMATED Light Sticker, I suggest you take a quick peek at how it looks in real time. Check out this VIDEO SHORT for all the light up fun!

Have a wonderful weekend!

~ Ally ~

Chibitronics ~ Lemur Love

Howdy all! Today we're going to make an interactive anniversary card featuring our brand new Animated LED Light Stickers and our original LED Light Stickers.

One of my best friends is celebrating her and her husband's 18th wedding anniversary and we've been invited to celebrate with them this coming weekend. I thought I would make her a special, personalized anniversary card to celebrate this occasion.

I began today's card by printing out this sweet little "Lemur Love" digital image from Mo Manning, from "Mo's Digital Pencil" and making an additional copy paper version for the inside of the circuit. I colored up the entire image using Copic Markers.

I adhered the copy paper version of the image to the inner surface where my paper circuit is going to be created. This allows me to very easily create the circuit and align all the lights with the proper areas.

Next I took my Craft Stencil and traced all the locations of my lights. The orange dots are the placement of my Orange LED Light Stickers and the red heart is the location of the new Animated LED Light Stickers; in this case it's the Heart-shaped Heartbeat Red LED Light Sticker being used.

Next I planned out the location of my 2 batteries (I like to use 2 but you really only need 1) and the positive and negative lines of my circuit. The blue lines indicate the negative side of the circuit and the red lines are the positive side. 

Now I can lay down the Conductive Fabric Tape on the negative side of the circuit. This tape is very flexible and self adhesive. I always start on this part of the circuit first because I can start my tape under the battery housing before it's made. 

Next I created a little house for my 2 batteries. To create the battery housing, I used some 3D foam to build 4 walls to hold the batteries tightly.

Next I used a slender piece of cardstock to create a flap to go over the batteries. I wrapped this piece of cardstock with the Fabric Conductive Tape to ensure that the tape makes contact with the top of the batteries. Then I proceeded to follow the red pen line and finish off the remainder of the positive side of the circuit.

The final step is to place the Orange LED Light Stickers in their spots and the Heart-shaped Heartbeat Red LED Sticker in it's spot. Each sticker is clearly labelled which side of the sticker is the negative side (-) versus the positive side (+).

To finish off the interior of the card, I added 3D foam around the parameter of the card. When I give an interactive card I always leave the circuit available to be accessed so for this card, I added some small magnets for the closure.

And volia! Just press the name of the lovely wedded couple on the front and all the lemur eyes light up and the heart behind them has a heartbeat red light effect...

If you’d like to see exactly how I created the circuit was make, please check out my VIDEO TUTORIAL:

Thanks for joining me today! I hope I’ve inspired you to light up your next card!

~ Ally ~

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Wednesday everyone!  I’ve been super busy prepping for an up and coming new class over at StampNation for the past week and I finally got a breather and came up for air.  You guys are going to LOVE this class!  More details to come very soon!

Today is my day to share the latest card sketch over at Splitcoaststampers.  We’re already at sketch #510!  And here it is…

Since Thanksgiving was last weekend here in Canada, I decided to make a card for such occasion.  This card was actually made for my son’s teacher.  It features the digital image called “Prudence” by Mo Manning at Digital Pencil.  I just love Mo’s artwork and knew that Prudence would be perfect for a simple Thanksgiving card.

For my card, I used the “paper tole” technique.  It’s where you fussy cut layers of your image and use a 3D glue to raise all the layers that have been “sculpted” using a ball stylus.  You can see a quick video tutorial on this technique here at Splitcoast.  Here is a end view of my card layers (sorry, this is hard to take photos of!)

I hope you have a fabulous day!  Happy card making!

~ Ally ~

Supplies:
stamps: Digital Pencil (“Prudence” by Mo Manning), Flourishes (Autumn Blessings), Clearly Besotted (Background Builder)
cardstock: X-Press IT Cardstock, Recollections
patterned papers: BasicGrey (Hipster)
die cut shapes: Spellbinders
ink: Copic Markers
tools:  Copic Airbrush
pearls: KaiserCraft
other:  thread.

Time to Get Dirty Again!!!

Happy Tuesday everyone!  It's the 15th of the month... time to no only reveal two new creative faces over at Splitcoaststampers but also to reveal the newest theme for all of the Splitcoast Fan Club members!

Do my sneak peeks above give you any clues as to what the theme might be for this month!?  Well come on over to Splitcoast, become a Fan Club member and find out!!!  Happy creating everyone!

~ Ally ~

Yo Ho Ho and a Bottle of Cute!

Howdy fellow card creators! It's Wednesday and it's just in time to create another fun card using the newest Splitcoaststamper Card Sketch!

Last week I went supply shopping and I just couldn't resist the latest and most super cute patterned paper by Authentique called "Anchored". It is nautical themed and there is just something SO cute about this paper that I just had to have it!

So in order to honour the theme of the paper I was trying to think of what I had that was nautical in nature and then I remember that Mo Manning from Mo's Digital Pencil had some cute little sailor images!  I had already bought the whole collection of the little sailor cuties; "Sailor Boys" in my digital folder so I used the little boy with the sailboat as my main image.  I loved the way Mo coloured him in her example image so I used it as my guideline for colours and shading.  I used Copic Markers to colour in my little boy and my Copic airbrush to create the soft back ground behind him.

I didn't want my little sailor fella to be a flat image so I printed him out 3 times on my laser printer and coloured and layered each piece of him to get a more dimensional image.  I think he turned out adorable!!!   I'd have to say... one of my most favourite cards EVER! 

For my other nautical details, I used my Silhouette and a cut file entitled "Nautical Set" to cut, create and layer an anchor themed paper strip and a cute little boat captain's wheel for my tag element.  I cut everything out of the fabulous "Anchored" paper collection so it would match perfectly.

Come and play along with us over at Splitcoaststampers today and join in this week's Card Sketch!

I'm also sharing this card for this week's Mo's Digital Challenge this week: #224 - Anything Goes With a Mo Image!

Thanks for stopping by everyone!   Happy stamping!

~ Ally ~


Supplies:
stamps:  Mo Manning (Sailor Boys)
cardstock:  Flourishes Classic White Cardstock
patterned papers: Authentique (Anchored)
die cut shapes: Spellbinders, Silhouette Cut Files (Nautical Set)
ink:  Copic, Ranger Distress
tools:  Copic Airbrush
other: thread.

Thanks "Fur" Everything You Do!

I thought I'd have some fun with some cute Mo Manning images from Mo's Digital Pencil today.  I used all of the Fat Cat images on one card front.  It actually is quite glittery but you can't see any of it!

I love how each kitty turned out so different!  I think my favourite is the little Siamese one! Awwww.... don't ya just wanna scratch her belly???

I also thought I'd incorporate this into this week's DP2 Challenge, "Water, Water.. Everywhere!".  I only a little bit of water, in my gold fish bowl, but I figure it still counts!  LOL!

Have a great Friday everyone!

~ Ally ~

Supplies:
stamps: Digital Pencil by Mo Manning, Flourishes
cardstock: Flourishes
ink: Memento, Copic, Versamark
ribbon: unknown.

Witches, Cats, Dogs and Santa Claus!

Happy Halloween everyone!

I made this cute card using a digital stamp by Mo Manning of Digital Pencil Too! I just love Maurie's illustrations!

Witch's Walk

supplies: digital stamp, Mo Manning of Digital Pencil Too; cardstock, Bazzill; ink, Copic; fleur de lis die cut, Spellbinder's; glitter, Martha Stewart; gems, Kaisercraft; glitter paper, Petaloo; misc. thread, ribbon.

And for this week at Let's Capture These Sketches, Darlene drew a fabulous card sketch for us to use this week with our sponsor's, my Stamp BOX stamps! You can see Darlene's card sketch here. And here's what I did with it:

Ho ho ho!

supplies: Santa and sentiment stamp, myStamp BOX (Ho ho ho set); patterned paper, Cosmo Cricket; glitter paper, Doodlebug; cardstock, Bazzill; ink, Memento, Copic; glitter, Stickles by Ranger; edge punch, Martha Stewart; rectangle shapes & snowflake die cut, Spellbinder's; 3D Liquid Applique, Marvy; brad, Making Memories; other, thread.

My little Santa fellow, a stamp from myStamp BOX called "Ho ho ho", actually does cartwheels across the card! So cute! I'm actually going to teach this card at my local community center next month in a card class there. I know the girls are going to love it!

Caardvarks!

Here's my simple card using today's sketch from the Caardvarks sketches 2009 blog: *Sketch by Heidi Van Laar

Holly Fairy

I also created this for the "Letter F" challenge at the weScrap.com ABC Card Crop going on! Make sure you check it out!

supplies: digital stamp, Mo Manning of Digital Pencil Too; patterned papers, pearls & sticker, BasicGrey; cardstock, Micheal's Craft Store, Prism; ink, Copic; die cut shapes, Spellbinder's; edge punch, Martha Stewart; ribbon, Espirit.

Thanks Mo!

I got this sweet email from Mo Manning this evening. She is the illustrator of the images for the cards I showed on my blog yesterday. She had an opportunity to see my cards using her adorable images from her store, Digital Pencil Too, that I had posted here. She had asked me if she could share my cards with her blog readers... awwww..... I was so honoured! She had some wonderful comments for my cards and she just made my night! Thanks Mo! I'll be back to buy more images very soon!

Come and check out's Mo's blog, Mo's Digital Pencil Too! and see her post here with one of my cards on it. Goodness I love her work....

A New LOVE!

I love browsing blogs using my Google Reader.... especially scrapbooking and card markers blogs. I must have 150+ blogs I follow and a few days ago I came across a blog that was showcasing some ADORABLE digital stamped images... and needless to say.... I couldn't resist having a few of them to add to my ever expanding digital files.

So I went to visit the Digital Pencil Too; a blog and store created by Mo Manning and I was in LOVE! I loved ALL the adorable images she has drawn and shared and I wanted to take them all home with me. I did manage to buy a few of my favourites to use and create with. And of course... when I have something new, I just HAVE to find some way of using it right away.

So here are some of the cards I created using Mo Manning's wonderful digital stamps.....

Note: I printed all my images out on my Laser printer. This heat sets the ink and allows you to use your images with Copics.

Masquerade Kitty

supplies: digital stamp (Mo Manning of Mo's Digital Pencil "Bat Cat"); ink, Copic; patterned papers, My Mind's Eye; cardstock, Prism, Bazzill; die cut shapes, Spellbinder's; gems, Hero Arts; misc., black glitter pen, Sakura; thread, ribbon.

Peek-a-boo Patch

supplies: digital stamp (Mo Manning of Mo's Digital Pencil "Patrick in the Pumpkins"); ink, Copic, Clearsnap, Ranger; patterned papers, My Mind's Eye; cardstock, Prism, Bazzill; die cut shapes, Spellbinder's; gems, Hero Arts; misc., thread, ribbon.

Sledding Fun

supplies: digital stamp (Mo Manning of Mo's Digital Pencil "Toboggan"); ink, Copic, Clearsnap, Stampin' Up!, Ranger; patterned papers, My Mind's Eye; cardstock, Prism, Bazzill; die cut shapes, Spellbinder's; gems, Hero Arts; glitter, Ranger's Stickles; misc., thread, ribbon.

The BIG One
supplies: digital stamp (Mo Manning of Mo's Digital Pencil "The Big One"); ink, Copic; patterned papers, My Mind's Eye; cardstock, Prism, Bazzill; die cut shapes, Spellbinder's; gems, BasicGrey; edge punch, Martha Stewart; misc., thread, ribbon.

Hanging Stockings

supplies: digital stamp (Mo Manning of Mo's Digital Pencil "Hanging Stockings"); stamps, myStamp BOX, Gina K. Designs; ink, Copic; patterned papers, My Mind's Eye; cardstock, Prism, Bazzill; die cut shapes, Spellbinder's; gems, KAISERcraft; brad, Making Memories.

I hope that you like my creations! I had a ball colouring and creating them!