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How to make light up wedding card with animating LED.

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Hi, crafty friends!

This is Eiko. Around the summer of 2023, Chibitronics will release three new animating LEDs. Gem-shaped blink type, Heart-shaped fade type, and Flower-shaped rainbow fade type. So today I make light up wedding card using Chibitronics new animating LED and Waffle flower crafts stamps and dies.

When you pull the tab, the Gem blinks.

I will make the parts referring to the picture below.

  • Cut speckled eggshell cardstock to 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches.
  • Cut three white cardstocks to 4 x 5 1/4 inches and die cut with notch making die.
  • Die cut one of the white cardstocks with secret garden window die.
  • Cut light blue pattern paper to 3 x 3 1/2 inches.
  • Cut light green pattern paper to 3 x 2 inches and die cut with stitched hillside borders die.
  • Stamp bride, groom, church, horse and carriage and doves on white cardstock and color with Copic markers. Then die cut with the coordinating dies.
  • Stamp the sentiment on the light blue cardstock and heat emboss with platinum embossing powder. And die cut the sentiment banner die.
  • Die cut white cardstock with pull tab, tab topper and sleeve dies.
  • Die cut gold cardstock with ring die.
  • One small pieces of foam sheet 3mm thick.
  • Assemble the cover panel.
  • Put the die cut parts on the white cardstock and make a pentagon hole on the ring.

Make a slit by referring to the picture.

  • Put the cover panel on white cardstock and mark the pentagonal hole with a pencil.
  • Mark the position of the battery.
  • Draw the circuit with a pencil.
  • I colored the positive side red and the negative side blue.
  • Apply the double-sided tape on the battery place and pentagonal hole.
  • Apply a small piece of foam sheet to the pentagonal hole area.
  • Peel off the release paper, stick the foam piece on the double-sided tape.
  • Put the one more double-sided tape on the foam piece.
  • Peel off the release paper on the foam piece.
  • Stick the conductive fabric tape on the pre-drawn path.
  • At the battery place, peel off the release paper, stick the negative side fabric tape, fold it back and cut it.
  • Stick the positive side fabric tape.
  • At the position of the battery leave the positive side fabric tape about 1 inch and cut it.
  • Place the battery on the fabric tape with positive side facing up and stick the positive side fabric tape on the battery.
  • For the foam piece, apply fabric tape on the foam piece.

Here’s an enlarged view of the foam piece.

Make the pull tab. Fold the pull tab along the crease.

  • Insert the flap into the slit and place the switch at the left end of the slit.
  • Mark the position of the fabric tape.
  • Remove the switch part from the slit and stick the fabric tape on the mark.
  • Fold the flap along the crease.
  • Put the wrap part on the pull tab part.
  • Put the foam tape around the entire edge of the circuit card base.

Stick the cover panel on the circuit card base.

Here’s an enlarged view of the foam piece.

  • Stick the finished parts on the speckled eggshell cardstock.
  • Stick the animating LED on the foam piece.

I finished it!

When you pull the tab, the Gem blinks.

Thank you for stopping by!

Eiko Uchida

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How to make light up wedding card with animating LED.
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