Hello Crafty friends,
Sylvie @kaliscards with a light up card, featuring the Pear Blossom Press Twinkle lights which I paired with the cute bunnies from the Hoppy Easter stamp set.
I hope you’ll learn a few tips from below tutorial as I share how to create a flap at the back of the card to change the battery for the light and how I stretched the use of a couple Alex Syberia Designs dies to create this heart sky and rooftop.
To create this card, I started by cutting the card panel from white cardstock, 4″ large and 6″ long. I stamped the bunny couple at the bottom of the panel, leaving a bit of space below to create the roof later on.
I also stamped the bunnies on masking paper, fussy cut along the lines and adhered the mask to the panel. I then masked the bottom part, under the cute bunny butts, with masking tape.
I then used the Endless hearts die to create a stencil for the sky. I added a layer of plastic on both side, using a book cover adhesive film, but you could also use sellotape. The purpose is to protect the cardstock and facilitate ink blending and cleaning but also to make it harder to cut, so I can keep one big heart instead of cutting all the nested hearts of the die. Once I coated the cardstock on both sides, I ran it with the Endless hearts die through my die cutting machine. I then added more sellotape to make sure no ink would bleed through the nested hearts.
Using my Pear Blossom Press Cardmaker’s T-square, I made several marks at regular intervals on either sides of the panel to know where to move my home made stencil up to create the sky. I blended Ranger Distress oxides Squeezed lemonade, Mustard seed, Ripe persimmon, Crackling campfire and Wilted violet.
I then removed the bunny masks and masking tape. I trimmed both sides of the panel to 3.25″ and I die cut the little stars, using the Magic stars die.
I then created the roof and tiles, using the Nested scalloped frames dies which I used as a stencil to draw three horizontal lines of tiles. Then using a gain the Pear Blossom Press Cardmaker’s T-square, I drew the vertical lines between each tile.
I then colored the bunnies and roof with Copic markers. I also stamped the sentiment on white cardstock, using the Smile and wave stamp set and used the coordinating die.
I then prepared the cardbase. I also wanted to create a flap at the back of the card for easy battery replacement. I chose where I would place the light switch, at the back of the roof. I stamped the Press here sentiment on one of the tiles, using the Pear Blossom Press PBP-01 stamp set and I then temporarily placed the light up circuit card at the back and on top of the cardbase to measure the position of the flap on the cardbase. I used a rectangle die to cut the flap doing partial die-cutting to cut only the bottom long side and the two short sides and I then scored along the top long side to allow lifting the flap.
I glued the sentiment on the front panel and then decided where I would put the lights.
For the lights, I’m using the Pear Blossom Twinkle lights. It has 3 lights that twinkle each separately.
I then adhered the circuit card of the light, at the back of the front panel, with double-sided adhesive. I also adhered a piece of yellow vellum at the back, behind the stars, with liquid adhesive. I then taped the 3 lights behind 3 stars and then taped the wires between stars, so they wouldn’t be visible from the front.
I added Pear Blossom Press World’s best foam tape at the back, around the edges and strategic places, not too close to the lights. I removed the back papers and adhered the front panel to the cardbase.
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Thank you for stopping by and hope to see you next week.
Have a lovely crafty week!
Sylvie