Heffy Doodle Stamps and Chibitronics Collaboration Blog Hop

Hello crafty friends, 

today it is blog hop time again! And I'm so super excited, that this time Chibitronics is collaborating with Heffy Doodle Stamps. 
Lesley, the owner of Heffy Doodle is a long time team member from Chibitronics. She is always so fun and always comes up with great card ideas and tutorial. 
Now, let's check up the blog hop!

For today I've created this underwater scene using the fun Oceans of Love Stamp Set. I already had this card idea in my mind as I started creating. I don't know where it came from, but for me there were definitely no other option as to create the card like this. 

 So I started with coloring all the images and fuzzy cut them. I arranged them on the card panel, which I cut out using my Wonky Stitched dies from My Favorite Things. Then I ink blendet the background using my Distress Inks chipped sapphire, broken china and tumbled glass. The sun rays were created out of little strips of washi tape. I guess I need to buy a stencil with sun reys. They brought the scene to life. Then I sprinkled some water drops over the card panel so the distress inks could react. 
The sentiment fit perfectly in the middle of this circle. So I stamped the sentiment and the little hearts using Vermark ink and WOW Opaque Bright White embossing powder and heat set it. I cut out the heart images using a craft knife. 

Then I started to create my circuit: 

• draw in where the LEDs will be. In my case behind the hearts.
• draw in where the battery will be. In my case I used the middle of the card, behind the sentiment
• created a switch for the battery and connected the batterys positiv side with the LEDs positive side and connecting the negative to the negative side. This time I didn't create a tutorial. But this is a simple parallel circuit. You can find some instructions over at my YouTube Channel.
• now tape the LEDs and the battery on the card and the light up part is all finished.

To finish the card I taped some vellum behind the open heart spaces. The LEDs, even they are tiny, they shine really bright. On the back of the card panel I create a frame using three layers of foam tape, so I have enough space so the switch doesn't always touches the battery. Now I can tape all my under water images on the card. I also covered the images with my Sparkle Pen. Then the card is all finished. 

***Supplies are listed down below***

Please check out all the great tutorials and inspirations the team members from Chibitronics and Heffy Doodle created for you. They are amazing!

The full blog hop list can be find here: 

Heffy Doodle

Koren Wiskman

Kelly Griglione

Jessica McAfee

Wei Wei Wang

Francesca Vignoli

Yukiko Sugiyama

Isha Gupta

Eiko Uchida

Ali Farmer

Kelly Szafron

Cassie Tezak

-> Vanessa Reinheimer <-

Yukiko Inami

It wouldn't be a real blog hop without something to win, right? So Heffy Doodle will be giving away a £50 gift voucher to one commenter and Chibitronics will be giving away a starter kit to one commenter!

I hope you enjoyed my card inspiration for today and I hope to see you back soon!

Here are the links for supplies I've used. Some of the links are affiliate links. They provide a little commission in case you buy products using my links with no extra costs for you. Products marked with (*) I generously received from the companies to use.

Batterie	Batterie
Chibitronics	Cuppertape*
Chibitronics	LED white*
Chibitronics	Starter Kit*
Copic Marker	Copic Marker
EK Success	Powder Tool
Fiskars	Schneidebrett
Foam Tape	3M
Folia	Bastelskalpell*
Folia	Bonefolder*
Folia	Schere
Memento	Tuxedo Black
My Favorite Things	Wonky Stitched Rectangle
My Sweet Petunia	MISTI Tool
Ranger	Glossy Accents
Scotch 3M	Tape Glider
Sizzix	BigShot
Spectrum Noir Sparkles	Clear Overlay*
Tim Holtz	Broken China
Tim Holtz	Chipped Saphire
Tim Holtz	Ink Blending Tool
Tim Holtz	Tumbled Glass Ink
Tombow	Mono Multi
Versamark	Watermark Ink
WOW Embossing	Opaque White Embossing Powder
	Tonic Trimmer
Heffy Doodle	Oceans of Love*