Chibitronics ~ A New Craft Kit is HERE! **GIVEAWAY**

Hey crafty friends!  We have an Instagram Hop going on today featuring the brand new Craft with Light Kits from Chibitronics.

Each crafty participant is giving a Craft with Light kit of your choice!

Here are the hop participants:

Chibitronics - @chibitronics

Allison - @i_card_so_hard <-- that's me

Bri - @brifirthcreates

Channin - @channinpelletier

Eiko - @eiken_laboratory

Jess - @jessicafrostballas

Laura - @lady_laura_crafts

Melissa - @melissagoodman75

Mindy - @mindyeggendesign

Rachel - @theunpamperedstamper

Rana - @rana.crafts

Wei Wei - @weiweiwang_12

Yukiko - @nicorin173

What's in a Craft with Lights Kit you ask?  Good question!!

Each kit contains:

• 6 LED Light Stickers (either 6 White or a Color Kit has 1 of each LED Light Sticker color; red/blue/yellow/orange/pink/green sticker)
• a complete roll of our Fabric Conductive Tape with a red tape tag
• 2 Coin Batteries (3V)
  

Each kit can make one to two cards or projects!

For today's card I first trimmed down a piece of fun rainbow patterned paper and die cut 5 heart shapes from a few of the color corresponding stripes of the paper.

I stamped and fussy cut out the little puffins and colored them using Copic Markers.

I die cut a few cloud edges and applied them to the bottom of the card and then added in all my puffins.

Before I adhered the panel to the front of my card, I traced each of the heart shapes on the inside of my circuit panel.  I labelled each heart with the color of stripe the heart was passing through.

 

Next I took those hearts and mapped out my entire circuit including the location of my battery pack (under my sentiment!).

 

The red lines are the NEGATIVE side of my circuit and the green lines are the POSITIVE side of my circuit.

 

 

Next I begin adding our Conductive Fabric Tape to the circuit lines.  I always start with the negative side of my circuit because it runs UNDER my batteries.

 

Next I create my battery housing.  I use foam tape to "trap" my batteries within the walls of the 3 dimensional adhesive strips.

I decided at the last minute to STACK my 2 batteries on top of one another instead of laying them side by side.  I decided to do this because my foam was too high to reach my batteries on the top so my circuit would be harder to activate.

Next I started laying down my POSITIVE side of the circuit.  I always start my conductive tape under the flap on top of my batteries.  You can kind of see the layer of tape through my piece of acetate - this is where the circuit touches the batteries.  Next I wrapped that tape around the flap and laid it down the side of that little foam housing to the paper layer of my card.

Then I added all of my LED Light Stickers.  In this case, I used the orange, pink, blue, green and yellow stickers from the Craft with Light Kit.

Next I checked to see if my circuit worked... VOILA!  We have light!!!

Here is the final card all lit up!  Isn't it adore and SO EASY to create!!!

Make sure you check out the Instagram Hop.  Winners will be announced on the Chibitronics Instagram account on Tuesday September 6th.

 

Good luck and happy hopping!!!

 

~ Ally ~