How to make light up pop-up sphere card.

Hi, crafty friends!

This is Eiko and I make light up pop-up sphere card.

When you open the card, the sphere pops up and when you pull the pull tab, the rabbits glow.

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~Make the parts~

I will make the parts referring to the picture below.

• Two pink cardstock (5.5 x 4.25 inch)
• Folded white cardstock (5.25 x 8.25 inch)
• White cardstock (5.25 x 4 inch)
• Two pull tab parts (0.25 x 2 inch)
• Two switch parts (0.25 x 0.25 inch)
• Vellum paper for the window

• Color the rabbits with Copic markers. (W0, W2, C0, R000)
• Draw a heart on the stomach of the left rabbit and cut out with a craft knife.
• Cut along the outline with scissors.

• Put the colored rabbit on white rabbit and mark the center of the heart with a pencil.
• Mark the Chibitronics with a pencil.
• Adhere the copper tape from the electrode of Chibitronics to the center of the motif.
• Adhere the pink Chibitronics on the mark.
• Sew over the copper tape on the center line with a conductive thread.
• Sew the threads from the front to the back and tie them.
• Adhere the conductive thread with the copper tape along the center line.

Make the parts of a sphere.

• Die cut two pink cardstocks using 3 inch and 2 1/4 inch dies.
• Die cut acetate sheet using the same dies.
• Die cut four acetate sheets using 2 3/4 inch and 2 inch dies.

Make a notch refer to the picture below.

• Draw three lines at 5/8 inch intervals on copy paper.
• Mark the 1 mm width notch along the line of copy paper.
• Draw a line from the outside of the ring to half the width of the pink ring.
• Draw a line from the inside of the ring to half the width of the large acetate ring.
• Mark notches on small acetate sheet parts.
• Mark the two from inside, the other two from the outside.

Adhere the rabbit parts on the pink ring.

• Apply the tape glue on the pink ring.
• Adhere the positive side thread to the bottom right notch.
• Adhere the negative side thread to the bottom left notch.
• Paste two rings together.

Color the rings with StazOn Opaque fava green ink.

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~Assemble the sphere~

• Combine the central notch of pink ring and large acetate ring.
• Combine the central notch of small ring and the side notch of large ring.
• Combine the side notch of two small rings.
• All rings combine in a grid pattern.

• Pull out the thread diagonally.
• Adhere the thread to the edge of the ring with small copper tape.

• Adhere vellum paper on the back of the colored rabbit part.
• Adhere the colored rabbit parts on the center part of the sphere.

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~Make the card base~

• Put two pink cardstock 1.5 mm apart with washi tape.
• Draw three lines at 1/4 inch intervals from 3/4 inch from the bottom.
• Draw a line of 1 inch length from the 3/8 inch from the right end of the center line and cut the slit with 1 mm width with a craft knife.
• Draw a line 1 inch from the left end.
• Draw a line 1/2 inch from the right end.
• Mark the battery on the left line.
• Adhere the copper tape on the drawing path.
• Place the battery on the copper tape with the positive side up and adhere the positive side copper tape on the battery.

Make the switch parts.

• Fold square parts in half.
• Insert the switch part into the slit.
• Place the switch part on the right end of the slit and adhere the copper tape.
• Pull the switch part out of the slit and adhere copper tape around it.

• Adhere the double-sided tape on the switch part.
• Adhere the pull tab parts from the front and back.
• Adhere two parts together with thin foam tape.
• Attach the conductive fabric tape for reinforcement on the copper foil tape on the fold line of the card.

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~Attach the sphere to the card~

Mark the position to attach the sphere to the card base.

• Mark at 7/8 inch from the center of the card and make a hole at the mark.
• Put white cardstock on pink cardstock and mark the position of the copper tape on the pink cardstock.
• Adhere the copper tape on the drawing path on the white cardstock.
• At the center of the card leave about 1/2 inch copper tape and cut it.

Pass the thread through the hole.

• Pull the left and right thread evenly to raise the sphere.
• Temporarily fix the thread with washi tape.

• Pass the thread from hole to copper tape and adhere copper tape on the thread.
• At the copper tape, place the thread on the copper tape and adhere another copper tape on the thread.

• Adhere a thin foam tape on the lower half of the white card base.
• Adhere a double-sided tape on the upper half of the white card base.
• Put the white cardstock on the pink cardstock and adhere the white card’s copper tape on the pink card’s copper tape.
• Reinforce the folding line with the conductive fabric tape.
• Adhere the white cardstock on the pink cardstock.

Adhere the die cut parts on the card base.

Make the cover panel.

• Adhere the die cut parts on the white cardstock.
• Adhere the chick part using foam tape.
• Stamp the sentiment with black ink.
• Adhere the cover panel on the folded pink cardstock.

I finished it!

Be sure to check out the whole video tutorial for more details.

And please see my blog for detailed tutorial.

>>>How to make light up pop-up sphere card.

Thank you for stopping by!

Eiko Uchida

~Supplies list~

• Chibitronics Pink, Orange, and Green LED Sticker Pack
• 3V coin cell battery (CR2016)
• 5mm wide Copper tape
• Conductive fabric tape patches
• Conductive thread
• Clearly besotted stamps Happy Hugs
• Hero arts Nesting Circle Infinity Dies
• Waffle flower crafts Egg Hunt Stamp Set
• Waffle flower crafts Chunky Grass Die
• Lawn Fawn Chirpy Chirp Chirp
• Hot off the press heat resistant acetate