Chibitronics ~ Light 'em Up Goldie!

Today I’m sharing my latest light up card featuring products from Chibitronics.

Today we’re going we are going to light up card featuring the FADE "Craft Effects Circuit Sticker" and some fun Orange LED Light Stickers. We offer a variety of other Animating Sticker types like our Rainbow Fade and White Blink LED Light Stickers but in this case I wanted to use some orange lights so we needed our Fade Craft Effects Sticker to do the job.

I began today's card by stamping and coloring in the front panel of my card. This card features the adorable images of the "Goldie" stamp set by Sweet November Stamps. The panel is colored in using Distress Oxide inks and Copic Markers.

When stamping my front panel, I also stamped the location of the 3 goldfish to my circuit building panel. This will help me with the location of each LED sticker for my circuit.

Next I traced the paper Battery Holder and located it in the bottom right hand corner of the card. I used the handy Craft Stencil and mapped out the location of my Fade Craft Effects Sticker.

From there I drew the negative side of the circuit using a blue pen. The blue line crosses over all 3 of the negative sides of the 3 orange light stickers and into the bottom left hand corner of the Fade Craft Effects Sticker.

Then I drew a red line to indicate the positive side of the circuit. This side of the circuit will start on the inside of the paper battery holder or switch. I also passed this side of the circuit through the bottom right hand corner and out the top of the Fade Craft Effects Sticker.

Next I applied my self-adhesive Battery Holder to the circuit surface. I began to apply the Conductive Fabric Tape to the negative side of the circuit, beginning inside the Battery Holder.

I applied all of the Conductive Fabric Tape to the positive side of the circuit. I began my tape inside the Battery Holder lid. This will allow the tape to make contact with the battery when the lid is pressed down.

I stuck down all 3 of my Orange LED Light Stickers on to my circuit ensuring that all of the negative points of my triangles touched the negative side of the circuit and all the positive tops of the triangles touched the positive side of the circuit. I also adhered my Fade sticker to it's proper location too.

To finish off the inside, I adhered down the C-shaped foam adhesive inside the Battery Holder, added a battery in the center and closed up the battery holder. Don’t forget to test your creation before adhering this closed!

Then I added Foam Tape around the edges of the card, peeled off the backer paper and closed up my card.

Let’s see the finished card all lit up…

Now remember, these goldfish light up and then FADE in and out so you must see this card in action on my Instagram channel, right here!

PLUS you can check out my FULL coloring video over on my YouTube channel.. Click the image below to take you there!

Thanks for stopping by!

Hope you enjoyed today’s tutorial! See you again soon!

~ Ally ~

Sweet November Stamps ~ Newsletter FREEBIE!

As I mentioned yesterday, Sweet November Stamps offers a FREEBIE with each and everyone of their monthly newsletters!   Each month, a COUPON CODE is shared in the newsletter allowing subscribers to download a brand new digital image for FREE!

This month's code is for the adorable heart hiding, "Heartly".

I decided to pair this little girl with a previously released digital image, the "Cupid and the Dove" image.

I masked off my my little Heartly and her Cupid with masking paper which I printed on using my injet printer and hand cut out.

Once masked, I ink blended the background with Distress Oxide inks and splattered it with silver paint.

I removed the masks and colored in both images with Copic Markers. Once colored, I added another very quick layer of paint splatter.

Make sure to check out the Heartly image in the SNS Shop to check out all the fun examples my fellow designers have created using her kind image.

See you later and have a great rest of the weekend!

~ Ally ~

Sweet November Stamps Sneak Peeks!

More Sweet November Stamps cuties are coming down the pike!

Today all of our amazing designers are sharing little sneak peeks of the amazing Valentine's collection debuting next weekend!  

There are so many sweet clear stamp sets coming your way, including... some adorable mice, sweet little fairwees, some beautiful landscape & scene building images, some cute cafe friends and much, much more!

My little sneak peek above is for the brand new "Tiny Hearts" stamp set which is a limited edition stamp set so make sure to get your hands on it fast!  This set features 4 heart toting little mice and lots of fun conversation hearts additions.

Above is another quick video featuring the "Tiny Hearts" stamp set.

Make to check out the Sweet November stamps Facebook group for lots more sneaky peeks too!

If you haven't already signed up for the Sweet November stamps newsletter, well TODAY's the day to do it!  Every monthly newsletters a brand new digital stamp download for FREE!  Sign up here: just scroll to the bottom of the page and enter in your email!  Super, duper easy to subscribe!

Stay tuned tomorrow for a card featuring this month's newsletter FREEBIE!

Have a great weekend!

~ Ally ~

Catherine Pooler Designs Retirement SALE!

Starting TOMORROW, select products in the Catherine Pooler Designs shop will be on clearance with markdowns of up to 75% off! These products will not be restocked once the sale ends.

There will be select stamps, dies, slimline dies, patterned papers and sequins and MORE on sale for up to 75% off!

SHOP THE RETIREMENT SALE HERE!

Sale ends 1/29/24 @ 11:59pm eastern.

Some of the products on sale will include...

If a stamp set is on sale, then it's coordinating die set will also be on sale so make sure to grab both items! 

I hope you have a blast shopping and browsing the CP Shop!  I'd love it if you'd use one of my linked items to take you to the shop as I earn a small commission from each sale of CP products.  I didn't make a lot of sales last year and would like to make just one more sale so I can cash out my affiliate bank.  I need a minimum of $25 of commissions and I'm literally $0.05 away from that goal.

Sweet November Stamps ~ Sweet Lil' Cupids

Today over at Sweet November Stamps we have a new little digital release of three new sweet lil' cupids.

T chose to pair up the "Cupid's Arrow" and "Cupid's Heart" digital images.

The beauty of digital images is that you can very easily flip your images to face each other to create a scene.

Here;s a close up of the adorable "Cupid's Arrow" lil fella...

A super cute and simple Valentine's Day card.

Hope you have a great weekend!

~ Ally ~

Craft Roulette ~ Critter Sledding Fun!

Howdy!!  Hope you're having a great week!  Today's card is this past week's entry for Craft Roulette.  This will be my 56th submission.

The four parameters that the wheel gave us this week were:

• Project: Card with 2 Tags (birthday)
  
• Colors: Guest's Choice: Happy Colors (purples & pinks!)
  
• Element: Nail(s) (kitty has nails showing)
  
• Random: Outside the lines (I drew my trees so they are created outside the lines of a stamped image)
  

So this week's card features an adorable stamp set from Purple Onion Designs.  The stamp is called "Tofu, Flappy & Mousy Fun in the Snow" by Chilliezgraphy by Pei.

I colored everything on today's card using Copic Markers.  I also used a sentiment from Sweet November Stamps from the "Snowball Fight" stamp set with CP Flirty Fuchsia ink.

Make sure to check out Craft Roulette over on YouTube and join us every Friday at 6:30pm CT for a brand new episode! Hope you'll join us tonight!

Good luck!

~ Ally ~

Chibitonics ~ New Video for a Glowing Red Heart Balloon Card

Happy Monday!  I’m Allison Cope and today I’m sharing my latest light up card featuring products from Chibitronics. Make sure to check out the step-by-step video on our YouTube channel too!

Today we’re going we are going to light up a birthday balloon card with our fun Animating Red Fade LED Light Stickers.

I began making today's card by die cutting out 2 balloon shapes from the card front, inking them up and backing them with fun cardstock and adhering them back into there designated spaces. I transferred the location of the 3 heart shapes I want to light up using another balloon die cut to the inside of my circuit panel. This will help me with the location of each LED sticker.

I traced the paper Battery Holder and located it in the bottom left hand corner of the card. From there I drew the negative side of the circuit using a blue pen. The blue line crosses over all 3 of the negative sides of the light stickers.

Next I drew a red line to indicate the positive side of the circuit. This side of the circuit will start on the inside of the paper battery holder or switch.

Next I applied my self-adhesive Battery Holder to the circuit surface. I began to apply the Conductive Fabric Tape to the negative side of the circuit, beginning inside the Battery Holder.

Next I applied all of the Conductive Fabric Tape to the positive side of the circuit. I began my tape inside the Battery Holder lid. This will allow the tape to make contact with the battery when the lid is pressed down.

I stuck down all 3 of my Animating Red Fade LED Light Stickers on to my circuit ensuring that all of the negative points of my hearts touched the negative side of the circuit and all the positive tops of the hearts touched the positive side of the circuit. 

To finish off the inside, I adhered down the C-shaped foam adhesive inside the Battery Holder, added a battery in the center and closed up the battery holder. Don’t forget to test your creation before adhering this closed!

Then I added Foam Tape around the edges of the card, peeled off the backer paper and closed up my card.

Let’s see the finished card all lit up…

Super cute balloons!

Make sure to check out the step-by-step video over on our YouTube channel on all the card making details and the making of the circuit. You also get to see the card go through all of it’s fading red heart lights too! CLICK HERE for the video.

I hope you enjoyed today’s tutorial! See you again soon!

~ Ally ~

Sweet November Stamps ~ Birthday Gifts for You!

Howdy and Happy Saturday! Today I'm sharing another holiday stamp set from the clear stamps released in November from Sweet November Stamps!  

Today's card features the holiday release "SN Gal Gloria".  Yes... from the Christmas/winter release.

The minute I saw her, even thought she's made for Christmas, I saw her carrying in some presents for a birthday guy or girl!

I started by stamping Gloria and her balloons from the "Paisley" stamp set on my slimline card panel and then I masked her off and a portion of the edges of the card front.

I used my Copic air brush system to add a umbre of soft chartreuse green to the background.

I peeled off the masks and colored everything in Copic Markers.  I used a White Gel Pen to add some of the fun details to the ribbons and gift papers.  I added a die cut foil sentiment to finish it off.

I hope you have a fantastic weekend!  Go get creative!

~ Ally ~

Craft Roulette ~ Lots of Puppies!

Howdy!!  Hope you're having a great week!  Today's card is this past week's entry for Craft Roulette.  This will be my 55th submission.

The four parameters that the wheel gave us this week were:

• Project: Celebrate (birthday)
  
• Colors: Apple Farm (reds, greens, blues, browns)
  
• Element: Preserve(s) (jam jar behind present)
  
• Random: Add a Dog (lots of pups)
  

So this week's card features lots of My Favorite Things cuteness!

I started by die cutting out the Waffle Flower "Postage Collage Die" and using the corresponding stencil to then stamp on all the elements from the MFT " Presents and Pupcakes" stamp set.

 I used the MFT "Sending Sweet Celebration Wishes" stamp set for the sentiment and the cupcake images.

After coloring up each stamp with Copic Markers, I added some postage markings and stamp prices from the Waffle Flower "Postage Collage" stamp sets and Hoodie ink.

Make sure to check out Craft Roulette over on YouTube and join us every Friday at 6:30pm CT for a brand new episode! Hope you'll join us tonight!

Good luck!

~ Ally ~

StampNation ~ 13th Birthday Challenge & GIVEAWAY!

StampNation is having their 13th birthday this month and we're playin' BINGO to celebrate!

Come on over and sign up for StampNation and try it out!  You can choose from a one month trial to a quarterly trial to a whole year o' fun!

 

Come and check out our Bingo card and play along for a chance to WIN the ENTIRE up coming "I Want it All" bundle from the February release!!

Here's the card I used to create my Bingo card creation...

I started by inking up a panel of Be Mine and Pucker Up ink.  Then I die cut the "Woven Cover Plate Die" from that umbre panel.

I backed it with some glitter black cardstock for some subtle sparkle.

Then I ink blended a smaller piece of cardstock and stamped the floral heart from the "Yours Truly" stamp set.  I used some Copic Markers to color in more of the floral details.

Next I die cut a tag with a flag end from the "Hearts-n-tags Die" set and heat embossed a greeting from the same "Yours Truly" stamp set with some silver embossing powder.  I added in a few Tinseltown silver sequins to add that final bit of shine!

Don't forget the newest collection from Catherine Pooler Designs has been released this week!  Make sure to check it all out today!  SHOP NEW!

I hope you have a wonderful crafty rest of the week!

~ Ally ~

Catherine Pooler Designs ~ Cutest V'Day Ever Release!

It's RELEASE DAY for the new "Cutest V'Day Ever" collection will be available for sale from Catherine Pooler Designs at 9am ET.

There are lots of fantastic products being released today including new stamps, dies, foil plates, stencils and even some new detail brushes and a brush holder!

If you are a StampNation member you can even get the sweet "Heartthrob Die" for FREE!  Check out the code in your email or head over to StampNation for a post with the code.

Check it out...

Sweet November Stamps ~ Do You Have a Sweet Tooth?

New cookie digis are now in the shop over at Sweet November Stamps! These delicious treats are sure to tweak your sweet tooth!

So many fun cookies to choose from... heart filled envelopes to ladybugs and luscious lips to filigree hearts! There's one for everyone!

I chose to create a little shaped card today.  I started with the empty jar digi image and fill it with an envelope cookie, a filigree heart cookie, a gem heart cookie and finally a lips cookie.

Here's a little close up of today's cookie filled jar...

Make sure you come on over to the SNS Facebook group and check out all the delicious cookie cards being shared today!

Have a great weekend!

~ Ally ~