Hi everyone! I hope you are all well and staying safe! Today I am back to share with you a SUPER EASY way to create light up cards! I have always been a little intimidated by this type of cards, but I have had the chance to test the EZ-Lights by Pear Blossom Press and they make the process really easy!
Don’t miss the video at the end of this post for a step by step tutorial! The video is also part of a hop with giveaways, even more of a reason to check it out! 😉
background
To create my galaxy background this time I used Nuvo Shimmer Powders. The make the whole process super quick and easy and add a beautiful shimmer to the project!
I started from some watercolor cardstock, cut to 4×5.25″. I sprinkled my Shimmer Powders in the colors Violet Brocade, Cherry Bomb, Solar Flare and Blue Blitz and I activated them with water.
Next, I blended Distress Inks in Black Soot and Blueprint Sketch on the panel, in order to darken it up a little. I completed the galaxy background with some stars, that I created with white acrylic paint and Gansai Tambi Starry Colors.
Images
For my images today I used the Heffy Doodle You’re Weird and Spaced Out stamp sets. I stamped them with Scrapbook.com Premium Black Dye ink and I colored them with my Illustrator markers. Here is a list of the markers I used:
Pink Alien: BP1, BP3, BP5, BP7. LV3, HB1
Teal Alien: BT1, BT3, BT5, BT9. BP1, BP5
Space Ship, Glass: BT1, BT3, BT5
Space Ship, Base: JG1, JG3, JG5, JG7. CG1, AG1, AG3, AG5
Space Ship, Lights: LY1, BO2
Large Planet: EB4, MB4, MB3, MB2, MB1
Pink Planets: BP1, BP3, BP5, BP7. LV3, HB1
Green Planets
Green Planet, Ring: JG1, JG3, JG5
Once I was done coloring, I die cut everything with the coordinating dies. One of the dies in the You’re Weird set also cuts out some tiny holes on the lights of the space ship – the perfect place for our LED’s!
Light-Up Card Assembly
At this point I could go ahead and put my light up card together. I die cut some black cardstock to an A2 size using the largest die in the Heffy Doodle Imperial Stitched Rectangles. This will be the base where I will mount my EZ-Lights.
I cut a slit in my galaxy background, where I wanted the lights to shine behind the spaceship. I adhered the EZ lights to the black panel and added some foil behind them to reflect the light and get an even brighter result!
I mounted the galaxy background to the card base with two layers of foam tape and I adhered the rest of the images to create this fun scene!
sentiment and finishing touches
The greetings I used are part of the You’re Weird and interactively yours stamp set by Heffy Doodle. I stamped them on black cardstock using LDRS Snowy White ink and adhered them to my card front. I added a bit of shimmer with a glitter brush pen by Scrapbook.com and that finished off my card.
Don’t forget to check out the video for an in depth tutorial on how to make this super easy light up card featuring EZ-lights by Pear Blossom Press! And remember that this video and card are part of a hop and that you can enter to win a 5 pack of EZ-lights by Pear Blossom Press!
Thank you all for stopping by and have a great day!
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