Slot & Joint Video Tutorial: Introduction: In this video tutorial for #PopUpTober, I’ll show you two different methods for building a light-up pop-up mechanism called a Slot and Joint. A Slot and Joint mechanism is useful for creating pop-ups that appear to jut out from a parallelogram adhered to a base card. This type of […]
PopUpTober: Light-Up Floating Plane Pop-Up Mechanism Featuring Chibitronics
Video Tutorial Introduction: In this video tutorial for #PopUpTober, I’ll show you two different methods for building a light-up pop-up structure called a Floating Plane. A Floating Plane is useful for creating large pop-up shapes that appear to float upon a flat plane that rests upon three parallel supports. A Floating Plane may be folded […]
Chibitronics Lights Up #PopUpTober!
Find #PopUpTober Information & Inspiration For a quick reference, please visit our #LightUpPopUpTober resource page, which we’ll be updating throughout the months of September and October. There, you’ll find the daily prompts, tutorials, templates, and plenty of light-up pop-up inspiration to help you get started with our own creations! What is #PopUpTober? This fall, Chibitronics […]
Light-up a Pop-Up Bird with Chibitronics Sticker LEDs
Light Takes Flight This project takes inspiration from a bird model featured in Duncan Birmingham’s book, Pop-Up Design and Paper Mechanics: How to Make Folding Paper Sculpture, which is a fabulous resource! In this tutorial, I’ll show you a way to light up the wings of a pop-up bird using Chibitronics sticker LEDs. My bird […]
Dissolve Card: Light-up Picture Switcher
Dazzling Dissolve In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to make a light-up version of a Victorian Era mechanism known as a dissolve, or dissolve card. This paper mechanics project combines a trick of the eye (and pictures that flip) with a little electronic trickery of our own — Circuit Sticker LEDs and a sliding […]
Light Up a Dissolve Card with Chibitronics LED Stickers
In my latest tutorial, Dissolve Card: Light Up Picture Switcher, I’ll show you how to make a light-up version of a Victorian Era mechanism known as a dissolve, or dissolve card. This paper mechanics project combines a trick of the eye (and pictures that flip) with a little electronic trickery of our own — Circuit […]
Susan Lowdermilk, Book Artist
<Art, Craft, and Telling Stories with Pop-up> CHIBI: We met on the Hack Your Notebook project, for what turned into Booklet #2, Engineer Your Materials, Working with Pop-up. By that time, you’d discovered Chibitronics co-founder Jie Qi’s circuit stickers and had begun exploring possibilities for book arts, pop-up and electronics. Can you share some detail […]
Double side light up card
Hello there everyone and happy Monday! It’s Wei Wei here. Today I’ll be sharing how to make double side light up card. There’s a video of the process at the end of this post if you want to watch that instead of reading. In the front of the card, when I press the button, the […]
pop up + light up card
Hello everyone ! It’s Wei Wei here again. Today I’ll be sharing how to create a heart pop up card along with Chibitronics LED light. There’s a video of the process at the end of this post if you want to watch that instead of reading.
light up December traveler’s notebook cover
Hello everyone! Merry Christmas! It’s Wei Wei here and today I’d like to share with you a traveler’s notebook cover I created with the Chibitronics LED stickers and beautiful embellishments from Felicity Jane, Altenew and Crate Paper. It is no secret, I’m a traveler’s notebook addict, I love to document my daily life story in my […]
light up scrapbooking layout
Hi friends, It’s Wei Wei here to show this super fun scrapbook layout made with Chibitronics LED sticker, Felicity Jane kit and Echo Park stickers, as well as Citrus Twist stamps. I love the loving and cozy vibes living room on my layout!
Hidden Message Lights Up!
Hi Folks! Kelly G. here to share a fun card that has a hidden message … until you pull the tab! Once the tab is pulled, it completes the circuit, turns the lights on, and illuminates the embossed sentiment that is layered behind the top layer of vellum. I honestly still can’t get over making […]