 Well, hi everybody. It's Sandy Olnok, artist and paper crafter here on YouTube, and I'm finally making a light-up card. After everybody else has been making them, I thought I have to get this kit and find out what it's all about. So I also bought some of the other replacement things so you can see what they are in case you get addicted to them and want to buy more stuff. But this is the basic kit that will get you started. It comes in a little box and it has a book in it as well as a pack of supplies. It tells you to go ahead and hack and light up the box, but I'm not going to waste all my supplies on that. I want to use them on cards. But the book gives you all kinds of basic information about how these chibi lights work, what the parts are, how to make circuits and all that kind of stuff, and it comes with a roll of the copper tape. It comes with two batteries. Of course, this is upside down. Turn it over, Sandy. And then there's two little clips, which I didn't really use, but you also get 12 lights, and I will take a closer look at that in a minute. But these are the other packs of things that I bought. Five batteries that your puppy can chew on. Don't let them chew on it very long. We don't want to make it into a battery. Got it away from him in just the right time. There's an effects pack that I'm not going to show you right now because I still have to practice and learn how to make those work. And then there's extra lights. These you might want to get because there's different lights. Red, blue, yellow, white ones, and pink, orange, green. I'm going to show you cards at the end with each one of those. This is what the batteries look like. So they're marked clearly with a positive on one side, and then these are the 12 lights you get. Six white, two blue, two yellow, and two red in the main kit. And each one of these is marked very carefully with the letter of what the color is and as well as a positive and negative because that's important when you're making these circuits. With the copper tape that's sticky back, it tells you to cut it along the vertical to make them last longer. It shows you how to go around corners, that sort of thing. And then it gives you all these sample circuits that you can follow along with to learn how a circuit works and then how you can apply it to a card. So you fold the corner down so it's ready and then chop the tape in half. I'm just going to cut it with a pair of scissors and then follow along with the pattern that they have drawn here in the book. Now what I did find is that you don't have to have these rectangular patterns. You can do all kinds of crazy lines and make them work. But they just show you the squared off boxes so that it makes logical sense. The tape can be torn very easily or you can cut it with scissors, either one. And this one has a piece going from the negative battery to the negative side of the light. And a positive going from the positive side of the battery to the positive side of the light. And then you'll need to get a bone folder or something to smooth it out nicely with. If you don't smooth it down, it will not conduct the electricity. And then the little sticky things, sometimes the little backings come off on them. Sometimes they don't, so you may have to peel that off. But then burnish that down as well so that the bottom side of it is touching that copper. And then when you press the positive to the positive and the negative to the negative with that battery, the light comes on. And here's what it looks like a little bit up close so you can see that very well. So that is a simple one. And then on the next page, they give you something where you can see through the page with little thin paper like this, you can see through it. But with cardstock, you may want to poke a hole in it. Kind of depends on what look you want. And now I want to look at doing a parallel circuit because that's what I'm going to need for my card. I want to do multiple lights so you have to have a parallel circuit to do that. So I'm going to follow the same directions. And as you can see, I'm still not any good at following along the lines. But that is OK. It still works. I'm going to glue my positives to the positive side and the negatives to the negative side. You can see they're pointing along the line that connects to the positive or negative side of the battery. And that's a really important thing. If they are backwards, then none of your lights will light because that will break the circuit. As far as I can tell, it doesn't explode anything, but it does break the circuit. Now, this one, one of the lights didn't quite work, so I just have to go back and burnish it a little bit better. Make sure I get it smushed down there really good. And then it does light up just fine. And in the book, they show you on the next page some little stars. So again, you can see through thin paper like this and you don't have to poke holes through it. Cardstock, you can choose which way you want to go with that. So that is all the practice ones I'm going to do in here because I want to move on to doing my card. And I'm going to start with the stamping and coloring real quickly on it. It's not a heavy duty one as far as fancy coloring, but I thought I'd show you how I did this. I wanted to do a little cartoon strip. So I'm taking one of the pretty pink posh dies that I have that has these three squares. You can just do them with a pencil and then trace it with a black pen if you want. And then I put it in my misty and I set up the little birdies from the love letters set from Lawn Fawn. And I'm stamping a birdie into each one. And I've got them got masks and stuff that I use for each one. But I thought I'd show you how I place the little phones. There's little cell phones that they're each holding. And I'm using a piece of acetate in between so that it kind of shows me where I'm going to place it and I can get it lined up right. And then around each side, I just put a sticky note and then I could stamp it over top of that mask on the birdie and then I have my three little birdies that have phones that they're going to be talking on. So, yes, silly as that is, birdies on phones. Maybe they're tweeting. So instead of texting, I made this card is the sentiment that I chose because I thought that was cute and stamped a little bird and the ink bottle down below. So I'm going to do some real quick coloring on this. And it's like I said, it's not fancy coloring. I just wanted to to get some nice strong color in here in the cartoon section so that so that I have some nice bright color on this. But I'm going to focus on what I'm going to do with the chibi lights because I want to put lights in each one of the buttons, the home buttons on the iPhones. And so you I'm going to show you how to color them without poking the holes in them. But I'm going to poke holes in those so that the light comes through really well. And you'll see how that works out in the long run. You can color something like this with any kind of medium you want. Of course, you can still do a chibi lights type of card using watercolor paper. If you poke holes through it, you just want to test and make sure and see whether or not the light is going to shine through the way that you want it to before you finish the card. Once you adhere it together, you won't have the opportunity to change that. But if you're going to make this card and not poke holes in those lights, what I did was take a little bit of the darker gray at the top of each one of those holes and then colored it in so it looks a little bit dimensional. So I did that just for those of you who aren't going to be making a light up card out of this. And after I got my coloring done, I waited because I didn't know what color I was going to stamp my texting sentiments in. And that's why I waited. I mean, I actually am using a memento ink, which is OK for this. But I wasn't sure if I was going to end up using a pigment ink. So you can stamp a pigment ink on top of Copic marker coloring. So if you want to get your coloring done first and then add things to it. So here is what it looks like all finished with the holes poked in the little phones. And now let's look at the electronics. I had stamped two of these while I was using my Misti to set it up. And what I have is a little piece of folded paper that and the thinner paper, the better, because you don't want to add more layers that you don't need to. A little full piece of paper to hold my battery. And I'll show you why that matters. And then these are just from some of my other leftover chibi lights so I can make sure that I kind of figure out what my plan is. So with this, I'm going to take the negative and positive side and figure out which direction I'm going to put them on this. So I'm going to draw a line. Like I said, you don't have to do it all squared off the way they do in the book. And I want this one to end up on the top side of the battery. So whatever side of the battery is facing up is going to be this side. And I'll just randomly make it the negative. You can do negative positive either way. It doesn't really matter. And then the other one, I want to go around the other side. I'm just going to connect on either side of where those circles are. Now, if you don't want to stamp a second piece, you can draw through your little hose holes that you've poked. And I'm just doing this so you can see clearly what I'm doing and kind of how this works out with the plan. So my negative went around that little line that I drew and then ended up on the top half of that piece of paper, that little housing for my battery. The other one is going to come around and end up on the bottom side of it. So I'll have a positive and negative. I'm going to still go through and do the same thing, burnish everything down really nicely. And then I'm going to stick all of my lights on here, making sure that everywhere where there's you can sort of see where those little holes are that I that I have stamped on there to make sure my lights line up in the same spots. And then when I put my battery in, this time I'm going to put it face down since the positive is down. And then when I close it, all my lights go on. How cute is that? So the next step is to start building up housing around your battery case because you need it to be thick enough that the top piece of paper doesn't always keep it pushed down or else you're going to wear the battery out immediately. So you want to make housing that's a little bit taller than the battery, which is about three thicknesses of this foam tape. And I'm making a little housing around the specific battery so that the battery doesn't slide out, but also around the rest of the card so that the whole thing is kind of evenly you know, kind of up in the air. And then I can place this on the very top and when people press the little birdie or in that area of the birdie, the lights come on. Isn't that cute? And here I filmed it also with the lights out so you can see exactly how the lights come on and off. Now, there's a couple other cards that I did that I just wanted to show you the finished one for and what the patterns looked like for the lights. So this one used a bunch of other lawn fawn products, all the products are listed in the doobly-doo down below to make sort of a wintry love card so it could be sent for Valentine's Day. And I made this one just kind of go up and around the hillside so that the lights all peeked through the second story windows in each one of the houses, as well as landed down there on the headlamp of the car. And then you'll be pressing on the RV in order to make everything light up. So that is how that one lights up. And that's what it looks like in the dark. There's this silly one, which I colored to look like a professor that I had in college because he was hilarious and he liked to blow things up. So I did this as an ode to him and I poked a bunch of holes randomly in the areas where the explosion is going on. And then I put the battery right underneath of like his bow tie. So in the card, I could say to the person, make sure you press on the bow tie so that they know to press the button and see the effect. And, you know, this is just one of those really fun, silly cards. You can't see a whole lot here the way that the lighting is. But here you can tell a little bit better. These are the tropical lights, that pink, green and orange lights. Now, this one I learned a little something on, which was that I put my little holes that I poked. I put them too close together. So those two that I have X's through, I did not put chibi lights on because I couldn't fit them in there. So your spots have to be far enough apart in order to be spaced out. So you have to have room for them. You can't turn them upside down, right side up. They have to be negative to negative and positive to positive. But it still lights them up very well. And even though there's the holes in there without lights under them, you still see five holes worth of lights. So that's my little exploration, an initial exploration of chibi lights. If you would like to see another video, please click on one of those. You can hit that subscribe button if you'd like to. And I will talk to you guys later on and have a really fantastic day. Bye bye.