Chibitronics ~ Light Up Birthday Frog Card

Happy Wednesday!   Today I'm sharing my latest Chibitronics creation that I made this week.

This card features cool paper circuit products including the Animating Rainbow Fade LED Light Stickers!  This particular light sticker rotates through the rainbow of colors!

I began today's card by printing off a front card panel using the adorable "Froggy Birthday Party" digital stamp from "Teaco's Custom Stamps".  I also printed off a lighter version for the inside of my circuit building surface.  I colored up my froggy image using Copic Markers and add the "push me" sentiment from the Lawn Fawn "Push Here" stamp set in the yellow balloon.

Next I began to plan out my light locations.

I used the lighter version of my front panel image to locate the spots for all of my lights; the frog's eyes, the large blue balloon, the frog's tongue, the 4 stars and finally the froggy's belly.  The belly will be the location of the Animating Rainbow Fade LED Light Sticker!  

The blue lines indicate the NEGATIVE side of the circuit and he red lines indicate the POSITIVE side of the circuit. 

I used my Craft Stencil to trace out the location of all my stickers. I also added my Battery Holder to my circuit.  They have a peel and stick backing so they're easy to add to your projects.

Next I began to lay down the Conductive Fabric Tape to connect up my circuit.

I started with adding Conductive Fabric Tape to the negative side of the circuit.  I started in the bottom of the Battery Holder and extended it out to cross over all of the blue pen lines.  Where I had branches of the circuit that I couldn't get with one continuous piece of tape, I just cut a piece of tape to fit and made sure to cross over the 2 pieces of tape for good circuit contact.

Once the negative side of the circuit was complete, I started on the positive side.  I began laying down my Conductive Fabric Tape on the inside lid of the Battery Holder.  I started on the inside, wrapped the tape around to the top of the Battery Holder and then laid the tape over all of the red lines.

I had TWO places where my tape was going to cross over the blue lines/negative lines of the circuit so create 2 paper BRIDGES over top of the tape.  This little paper barrier would allow me to pop these lines right over top as to not short circuit my circuit. 

The above dots are indicating the placement of my LED Light Stickers; yellow = yellow lights, orange = orange lights, blue = blue lights, red = red lights, black circles with the white centres = white lights and the circle with R in the middle = animating rainbow fade LED light sticker.

Next I added all of my light stickers.  I used the Animating Rainbow Fade LED Light Sticker for the frog's belly, two White LED Light Stickers for his eyes, 2 Blue LED Light Stickers for the large blue balloon, one Red LED Light Sticker for his tongue and 2 Orange and 2 Yellow LED Light Stickers for the stars surrounding the frog. Each sticker is as easy as a peel & stick motion.

To finish off the card, I placed a C-shaped 3D foam sticker inside the Battery Holder by peeling off the sticker backers.  I laid 2 3V batteries, one on top of the other into the foam void and closed the lid of the Battery Holder.

I also used 3D foam to wrap around the 4 sides of the circuit on the edges of the circuit building surface.  This allows for the depth of the foam around the battery to dealt with.

For the card to light up, just press the yellow balloon indicted with the "press here" sentiment and this closest the circuit and the card lights up.

Holding the button/switch allows for the  Animating Rainbow Fade LED Light Sticker to cycle through it's 6 different colors of light.  I just let my recipient know to press and hold the button to activate their card with a little note inside. 

Here's a little bit darker image of the card front in action... the Chibitronic light stickers are BRIGHT!!

Now, if you'd like to see build this card and it's circuit, please check out my YouTube video over on the Chibitronics YouTube channel.  Click HERE or click the image below to view the video.

Thanks for joining me today!  I hope this tutorial inspires your to make your very own light up card too!

Have a great week!

~ Ally ~

 

Chibitronics ~ Magical Light Up Fairy Tree

Happy Wednesday!   Today I'm sharing my latest Chibitronics creation that I made this week.

This card features cool paper circuit products including the Animating Red Fade LED Light Stickers!

I began by creating my card front.  I created a scene backer to my card front to block the light from passing through certain items like the tree truck and owl on the branch.  It can easily be seen in my video tutorial - click the image of the video below.

Next I adhered a lighter copy of my image to the inside of my circuit building surface.  This allows me to easily add my light sticker and switch in the correct locations for my image.

I chose to add 4 White LED Light Stickers to the moon, 3 White Stickers to each of the window and a single Animating Red Fade LED Light Sticker to the tiny heart above the fairy's hand.

To begin the circuit, I adhered the peel and stick Battery Holder to the bottom right hand corner of the circuit surface.  This is located under the word "Push" on the front of the card.
 

Then I drew the lines to represent the two sides of my circuit... the negative (blue) and the positive sides (red).  I took the negative line from the base of the Battery Holder and attached that line to all of the negative sides of the sticker locations (the pointy ends of the stickers).  Then I drew my red positive circuit lines beginning at the top of the lid of the Battery Holder.  I joined the red line to all of the "fat side" of the sticker locations.  The colors inside the sticker shapes just indicates what color of light I was going to use... yellow for "white" and "red" for red.

Next I peel and stuck down all 8 of my light stickers.  A total of one Animating Red Fade LED Light Sticker (heart shaped) and 7 White LED Light Stickers.

Then I began the process of adding my Conductive Fabric Tape to my circuit.

I began the negative side of my circuit by laying down my Conductive Fabric Tape inside the bottom of my Battery Holder.  This allows the 3V Coin Battery to make contact with the negative side of the circuit. I continued laying down my tape all across the blue lines of my diagram.

Once the negative side was done, I started added Conductive Fabric Tape to the positive side of the circuit.

I began laying down tape on the inside lid of the Battery Holder.  I wrapped it around to the front of the Battery Holder and out onto the circuit building surface.  I continued adding tape to the remainder of my circuit.  Any cut pieces of tape I made sure to overlap them and press them down to make good contact to the cut areas.

NOTE:  Conductive Fabric Tape can be substituted with our Copper Tape too!

Once all the tape was down I could add the C-shaped foam to the inside of my Battery Holder and pop my stacked 3V batteries (I used 2 in this case) inside the C-shape. 

And here is my card all lit up!!!  The moon is a-glow along with the 3 windows in the tree trunk and the little red heart fades in and out with red light.

Now if you would like to see the circuit built, you might wanna check out my video tutorial over on the Chibitronics YouTube channel!  Click the image below to take you to that video!

I hope you will check that out plus give our fun products a try!!

Have a great rest of the week!

~ Ally ~