Friday, August 19, 2016

MFT & Chibi Lights Collaboration

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Hi, everyone, welcome to another day of MFT/Chibitronics collaboration! MFT is stocking a super fun kit that has everything you need to create light-up projects and today several of the Design Team will be showing you what we did with the lights. Be sure to check out the MFT Blog for all the details.


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For my project I chose to make the stars shine by using LLD Count the Stars Stamp Set, LLD Stars & Wishes Die-namics, and LLD Lucky Stars Die-namics.



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I love this sentiment from LLD Count the Stars Stamp Set so I created my design around it.



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I started with a
Sweet Tooth card stock base. Next I cut some stars out of Ranger Watercolor Paper with Blueprints 8 Die-namics and Blueprints 13 Die-namics and created my background by stamping Tiny Stars Background with Versamark on Ranger Watercolor Paper and heat embossed with white detail embossing powder. Tip: do any die cutting first, because sometimes heat embossing can get damaged with the rollers during the die cutting process. Next I traced the star layout onto my card base so I could line up the lights perfectly—this is where the circuitry will be placed. I applied a watercolor wash with Peerless Watercolors and a waterbrush and set the background aside to dry.

 

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Here’s how I arranged the circuitry. You can see that I started with the bottom star point and worked in a clockwise pattern to complete it. I created a pressure switch so the lights can be turned on and off—that’s why there‘s a break in the copper tape. Full instructions for doing this and many other configurations are in the booklet that comes in the kit.



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Here you see the pressure switch in place along with Translucent Vellum covering the star openings and foam mounting tape to pop up the rest of the background. I found I needed two thicknesses of foam mounting tape to equal the height of the battery.



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I added the sentiment from LLD Count the Stars Stamp Set on the front along with LLD Stars & Wishes Die-namics. A LLD Lucky Stars Die-namics is the trigger point for activating the switch. I shot this view in some darkness to show how bright the stars shine :)

And that’s it! I hope you’ll give the Chibitronics lights a try and show us what you come up with. Thanks for stopping by today—see you soon!


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~Supplies~
Stamps:
LLD Count the Stars Stamp Set, Tiny Stars Background (MFT)
Ink:
Versamark (MFT)
Paper:
Sweet Tooth card stock, Black Licorice card stock, Ranger Watercolor Paper, Silver Shine card stock (MFT)
Accessories/tools: Vagabond;
LLD Stars & Wishes Die-namics, Lucky Stars Die-namics, Blueprints 12 Die-namics, Blueprints 13 Die-namics, Blueprints 8 Die-namics, Peerless Watercolors, waterbrush, white detail embossing powder, Embossing Magic, foam mounting tape, Chibitronics (MFT); heat tool 

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19 comments:

  1. Super cute card. Love the background and thank you for all the little tips. I would love to plsy eith these lights.

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  2. The starry background is absolutely gorgeous! And the it looks stunning with the lit LEDs!

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  3. Beautiful! You made the stars come to life!

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  4. I love this card and your directions for making it light up were perfect.

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  5. Absolutely love your card....so many pretty twinkling stars in the sky! Thanks for the opportunity to win a Chibi Lights Starter Kit!!

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  6. Amazing. Those lights are very clever, but I'm not sure that I am.

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  7. Barbara, I love the way you work with watercolors! This Chibi star card is so much fun!

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  8. So de-light-ful & fun. I love the fact you gave an on/off example for your card. Perfect for showing off the the stars.

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  9. I am in love with your card! Beautiful card! :)

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  10. Love it! These Chibi Lights are so cool!

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  11. Really fun! Anyone would love this card!

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  12. Awesome. Love the background on your light up card.

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  13. Wowza! How cool is that Barbara! I Love Your Card!

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  14. I love your card and how you used stars to light up. So much fun! I'd love to play with this product!

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  15. Amazing. Very creative and cute!

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  16. My favorite use of those little lights! I still love all your cards Barb and I'm still here every single day and I still wish you lived down the street. :) I missed the dragons!! I'm so bummed out!

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