Interactive Time!!: At Little Bits

I thought I would try something different for this card.  It is a hard concept to write about, so I will give you the highlights.  There are many YouTube videos on this technique.  Lets start with the finished card.

I just love this style of card.  I rarely do a card any more with just Copic Coloring and when I saw this mason jar in this month's Club Scrap kit: Adirondacks, I knew just what I wanted it to be!!!

The bugs in the jar light up.  The one thing I love about the South is Fireflies.  This brought back fond memories of my childhood and road trip with my grandparents.  We headed to Missouri, Iowa and Kansas to visit relatives and I caught a jar full of Fireflies.  I left off the lid, and they lit up the camper.  It was a sight, but the fact that my grandmothers was not happy with all bugs in the camper is the part I remember best and the amazement of seeing what the little beings can do in a closed space.  So here is my tribute.

I started my planning.  With interactive cards it takes trial and error.  I did not photo most of the steps, as you will need to do your own experimenting.

First I stamped the jar and added dots with a pencil where I thought the "lights" would go.  I needed my bugs flying in different directions, so. . . . .  .

I cut my stamp with an "arrow" like point at the bottom.

Then I stamped and placed arrows in the direction of the "arrow" on the stamp.    And stamped my images in Copic Friendly Ink.    Colored the image and then added the ink embellishments.


Now I needed to create a circuit for the lights.  I punched a hole in the body of the 3 bugs in the jar.

And on my practice stamped image, drew the lines for  the copper tape.

What did I use:  I tried this product.

Chibitronics lights

This is a basic stater kit with the copper wire, battery and lights.  I have used other products to this process, but thought this might be an easier option.  I am not very happy with it.  The lights are not very bright and this caused issues with photographing.  In the near future I will show you how to do this without the kit.  But this one is popular and has videos on YouTube if you need some helps.

Any way.

Circuits are easy.  I used a parallel circuit as I needed to have more than one light.

Started by making a "house for my battery.  Look at the battery, it has a + and a - sign on the battery.  Run a copper tape from the positive side and one from the negative side.  This always gives me pause as one of the tape lines must fold over and connect with one side of the battery.  The other line runs to the underside of the battery, whew, I know this is confusing!!

The tape is flexible, so as long as they don't lay on top of each other no worries.

The battery is under the clip. The outside line moves onto the top of the battery and the inside line is under the battery.  Note if the + is on the top or bottom.  Then just lay the lights to coincide with the correct positivity.

Mine would not stick, so I cut additional tape to "glue it down.  In the left corner you can see it going under and around the battery.  I built up the edge with phone tape, so I had "room" to press the corner into the battery, thus my lights only show up when pressed.  Double click to get a better look.

On the front of the card, I placed the lid over the battery with a note to press here, Voila, the bugs light up.  I just wish I could have figured out how to get a photo of the lights.

Another look!!,, I added some rhinestones to the background. a tag that I made to look like it was tied to the lid and mounted it on a blue mat and A2 white card base.     I love this card and the magic when it lights up is worth it!!

Thank you for visiting,  to get your own Mason Jar stamp, Visit Club Scrap or here for adirondacks-art-nouveau-unmounted-stamps

Happy crafting, stop by next week for the Club Scrap Blog Hop!!
Josette

Interactive Card Tutorial: V-Fold

Hello,

Finally I am going to post the Interactive Card I made with the Succulent Kit from Club Scrap.  The mechanism we will be using is the V-Fold.  This is one of the most basic of mechanisms but is very impressive in its final form.  Adding to this we will be using the Parallelogram from a previous posting to build up our Bouquet. This is the link to the previous posting dragonfly-wings-interactive-card-pop-up, but don't panic this is a very simple step.  Basically as trip of paper with tabs.

Are you ready, this is really simple, just looks complicated.

This is the basic mechanism.  A folded piece of card, with notches formed to create tabs.  The center fold is placed in the Gutter, center fold of card.  How far apart or rather how much angle is created when the tabs are glued, determine how upright or how laid down the mechanism will be.

So with this concept I created this:

In this model, the tabs are folded under, center fold is aligned at about 90 degrees. On the final, I glued the tabs outwards.   I have placed some parallelograms to get an idea of where I was heading.    I determined that this card will be 5X7" and created the card base accordingly.  When I create a card base, I leave the center open, this gives more room for movement and makes the fold less bulky.

A different view.  The measurements are not important, this was for a different idea that I scrapped.

Next:

Found this paper in the kit.  I am going to cut my mechanism for the far left image and actually will fussy cut it out.

Used the paper that I had cut the model mechanism out (above white piece), and used it as a window to determine placement.  Traced a faint line around the opening, and using this as a guide fussy cut the mechanism.  

Ignore the white box and succulent, focus on the mechanism.  The leaves were cut around and the bottom was scored to create the tabs.  This was glued down with the center fold on the gutter and tabs out.  

This the back view.  See how that fold is right along the gutter.  

I cut several succulents from another paper and these will be used to create the bouquet.  I also created several "muscles".

This is the work horse of this project.  Strips of strong card stock was cut at about 3/4" to 1 1/4" wide.     

This was varied based on size of the piece to be glued.  The tabs were scored and folded based on how far I need it to be from the base and how tall the piece was.  

One tab butts up to the fold.  

And is then attached to what ever it will move with.  The front of the tab is where the item is attached.  

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and you just keep repeating this until you like it.

View of the side and finished opened.  The " Happy Birthday" sentiment was stamped and adhered to card base.  

Lets look at the flag:

Started out by cutting out the banner die on a piece of white card stock.

I arranged the stamp into the opening in the paper until I had a perfect fit.  One of the benefits to unmounted stamps is that they can be very easily manipulated in this manner. I use a glue by Club Scrap on the back of my stamps.  This gives me a great hold and the stamp will stay put until I peel it off my stamping device.  

My favorite mounting glue!!!  I even tear my mounted stamps apart and use this on them.  Saves space and I like it better!!

Back to my card:

Once the banner was stamped , mounted on a shadow mat, I glued it onto  a strip of paper.  My tag was mounted to one end, then I figured out where I could place it and attached it to the back of my mechanism.

The front where the tag is, is free and will move with the opening and closing of the card.  We are done.  Now for some additional pictures so you can get all the views (these are hard to photograph)

For the front:

I die cut the words, 3 times, glued them together and colored with wink of stella.  This gives a glimmer which isn't evident in the photo.  Then I arranged the left over succulents, cut a mat and added a bow.

Amazing that all those florals fit and fold inside this card.  It is relatively flat but bulky.  

Hope you enjoy,

Happy Crafting,

Josette