How to make light up pop-up sphere card.

Hi crafty friend!

Today I make light up pop-up sphere card using Chibitronics.

When you open the card, the sphere pops up. And when you pull the pull tab, the rabbits glow.

I'm using these stamps and dies.

"Clearly besotted stamps Happy Hugs"

"Lawn Fawn Chirpy Chirp Chirp"

"Hero arts Nesting Circle Infinity Dies"

"Waffle flower crafts Egg Hunt Stamp Set"
"Waffle flower crafts Chunky Grass Die"

What you need to make a light up card is like this.

"Chibitronics Pink, Orange, and Green LED Sticker Pack"
"3V coin cell battery (CR2016)"
"5mm wide Copper tape"
"Conductive fabric tape patches"

"Conductive thread"

I'm using these papers and acetate sheet.

I'm using white, pink, light green cardstock and vellum paper.
"Hot off the press heat resistant acetate"

I'm using this ink.
"StazOn Opaque fava green"

~Make the parts~

I will make the parts referring to the picture below.

Two pink cardstock (5.5 x 4.25 inch)
Folded white cardstock (5.25 x 8.25 inch)
White cardstock (5.25 x 4 inch)
Two pull tab parts (0.25 x 2 inch)
Two switch parts (0.25 x 0.25 inch)
Vellum paper for the window

Color the rabbits with Copic markers.

（using W0, W2, C0, R000）

Draw a heart on the stomach of the left rabbit and cut out with a craft knife.

Put the colored rabbit on white rabbit and mark the center of the heart with a pencil.

Adhere pink Chibitronics refer to the figure below.

Sew over the copper tape on the center line with a conductive thread and tie them.

Adhere the copper tape on the tie.

Adhere the conductive thread with the copper tape along the center line.

Color the chicks and the eggs with Copic markers.

Bunny ears（W0, W2, R000）
Chick（Y02, Y06, YR04）
Egg（B00, YG41, V12, R20, Y02）
Paint cans, Brush, Basket（E31, E33, C0, C2, B00, R20）

Die cut light green cardstock with chunky grass die.

Make the parts of a sphere.

Die cut two pink cardstocks using 3 inch and 2 1/4 inch dies.
Die cut acetate sheet using the same dies.
Die cut four acetate sheets using 2 3/4 inch and 2 inch dies.

~How to make the notch~

Draw three lines at 5/8 inch intervals on copy paper.

Adhere the ring parts on the copy paper with masking tape and mark the notches.

Mark the 1mm width notch along the line of copy paper.
Draw a line from the outside of the ring to half the width of the ring.

Draw a line from the inside of the ring to half the width of the large acetate ring.

Mark notches on small acetate sheet parts.
Mark the two from inside, the other two from the outside.
Cut by scissors along the mark.
Cut between the notches with a craft knife.

Adhere the rabbit parts on the pink ring.

Apply the tape glue on the pink ring.
Adhere the conductive thread on the center line of the ring.
Adhere the positive side thread to the bottom right notch.
Adhere the negative side thread to the bottom left notch.
Paste two rings together.

Color the rings with StazOn Opaque fava green ink.

Color the lower half of the rings using a sponge.

Adhere vellum paper on the back of the rabbit part.

Adhere the colored rabbit parts on the center part of the sphere.

~Assemble the sphere~

Combine the central notch of pink ring and large acetate ring.
Combine the central notch of small ring and the side notch of large ring.
All rings combine in a grid pattern.

Combining everything correctly makes it possible to fold flatly.

Adhere the thread to the edge of the ring with small copper tape.

Pull out the thread diagonally.

~Make the card base~

Put two pink cardstock 1.5 mm apart with washi tape and draw the circuit with a pencil.

Draw three lines at 1/4 inch intervals from 3/4 inch from the bottom.
Draw a line of 1 inch length from the 3/8 inch from the right end of the center line.
Draw a line 1 inch from the left end.
Draw a line 1/2 inch from the right end.
Mark the battery on the left line.

Cut the slit with 1 mm width with a craft knife.

Adhere the double-sided tape on the position of the battery.

Adhere the copper tape on the drawing path.

At the position of the battery, peel off the release paper, adhere the negative side copper tape, turn it back and cut it.
At the position of the battery leave about 1 inch of positive side copper tape and cut it.

Make the switch parts.

Fold square parts in half.
Insert the switch part into the slit.
Place the switch part on the right end of the slit and adhere the copper tape.
Pull the switch part out of the slit and adhere copper tape around it.

Apply the double-sided tape on the switch part and adhere the pull tab parts from the front and back.

Adhere two parts together with thin foam tape.
Place the battery on the copper tape with the positive side up and adhere the positive side copper tape on the battery.
Attach the conductive fabric tape for reinforcement on the copper foil tape on the fold line of the card.

~Attach the sphere to the card~

Mark the position to attach the sphere to the card base.

Mark at 7/8 inch from the center of the card and make a hole at the mark.

Put white cardstock on pink cardstock and mark the position of the copper tape on the pink cardstock.

Adhere the copper tape on the drawing path on the white cardstock.

At the center of the card leave about 1/2 inch copper tape and cut it.

Pass the thread through the hole.

Pull the left and right thread evenly to raise the sphere.

Pass the thread from hole to copper tape and adhere copper tape on the thread.
At the copper tape, place the thread on the copper tape and adhere another copper tape on the thread.

Adhere a thin foam tape on the lower half of the card.