Good morning! Today I have a fun collaboration to share with you featuring one of my favorite stamp companies, My Favorite Things and Chibitronics LED light stickers! You can find the design team projects from My Favorite Things here. And make sure to enter their giveaway for a chance to win a Chibitronics Starter Kit!
Usually my interactive light-up cards are cheerful, bright cards…so I wanted to go in a slightly different, darker direction. And these new adorable Halloween stamps from My Favorite Things were perfect!
And this is what the card looks like when it’s lit up!
Aren’t those bats adorable? Ha, I know they’re supposed to be creepy…but they just look cute to me!
So to start I wet a piece of Tim Holtz watercolor paper liberally with water and then painted on distress inks in seedless preserves, mustard seed, and chipped sapphire. I let it dry and then rewet the paper and added a second layer of black soot distress ink. Once it dried it created a spooky night sky.
Then I stamped the two bats and tree from Spooky Sweets onto the background with Memento tuxedo black ink. I let it dry a few seconds and then went over them with spectrum noir clear sparkle so they’d be sparkly. I also die-cut a stitched hill from black cardstock, added a sentiment that I heat-embossed in silver embossing powder, and mounted it to the background panel.
Then it was time to build my circuit. To start I used a needle to poke holes in the bats’ eyes. Then I placed a scrap piece of paper behind my background panel and marked the holes for the bats’ eyes with a pencil so I’d know where to place my lights.
Once the circuit was created I added a double layer of foam mounting tape all around the circuit and then adhered my background panel over top. When you press the base of the tree the bats’ eyes light up.
So that’s my card! Make sure you head over to the MFT blog to see all the rest of the collaboration projects. Thanks so much for stopping by and have a wonderful day!
I love this! You do great backgrounds. And, you’re right, the bats do look cute!
LOVE this background and I jyst adore these bats-super cute. TY for sharing.
Wow, they are always coming up with the cutest ideas! I love it! Thanks for sharing!
*Love* your spooky night sky and the bats! The light-up eyes are fantastic! Great detail! What a treat to receive this fun card!
SERIOUSLY AWESOME card!!!
LOVE your SPOOKY sky and your EERILY EXCITING eyes GLOWING from the darkness – WOW – these lights are SO COOL!!!
THANK YOU for sharing your FUN & FABULOUS card and tutorial 🙂
Such a fun card!
this looks magical!
Jessica, your card flies off the page! This is fantastic. Thank you for sharing.
This is gorgeous! Very spooky with the light-up eyes!
So cool. So do cool.
Saw your card on Instagram first. Its cute n spooky. Love it.
This is a very cool and spooky design! The lights are awesome!
How cool!
So cool, and I love your night sky. It’s perfect. But isn’t it bad luck to stick a needle in a bat’s eye? 😉
Really fun Halloween card!
Wow! Simply amazing! i love so much the Chibitronics kit!!!
Love those eyes that light up. Such a cute card!
Love this spooky card!
Yes, it’s spooky but, you’re right, it is also freaking adorable. Brilliany idea. These little lights are so perfect for Halloween cards.
What a cool card! The light up bat eyes are so fun 🙂
Absolutely spookaliscious!!! I have wanted to try your lights since I first saw them and would love to be one of the lucky winners!! Thanks for the generous chance to be one of 4 winners!! 🙂 Fingers crossed really tight!
Awesome card. Sky is magnificent and those eyes are awesome!
I loooove this Jess, the background is awesome. Halloween is my fav holiday for crafts and decorating. I so want this kit, it’s been on my wish list after seeing all the cards you used these lights on. Thanks for sharing and inspiring.
Darn. I just finished my Halloween cards. Your bats’ eyes lighting up are so perfect! These chibitronics lights are fantastic! I can’t wait to come up with an idea or two to start using them! And I have confidence from your photos that I will be able to successfully use them! Thanks!