Fairy Wishes | Collab: Chibitronics + Lawn Fawn

Hello everyone!

I has been a long time since I've posted cards... but rest assured there are many cards (and videos) coming your way shortly.  Today, I'm posting another fun design team collabortation card.  The Chibitronics design team paired up with Lawn Fawn once again to bring you some festive holiday cards.  I used the Frosty Fairy Friends stamps and dies to make this card.

Materials:

• Chibitronics: Chibi Lights LED Circuit Stickers starter kit*
• Lawn Fawn: Frosty Fairy Friends stamps and dies*
• Lawn Fawn: Cross Stitched Squares dies (large and small)
• Lawn Fawn: Stitched Hillside borders dies
• Distress Ink: Salty Ocean, Chipped Sapphire, Seedless Preserves
• Copic Markers
• Foam Adhesive
• Adhesive Tape Runner
• White card stock
• 4"x4" square for the sky background
• 4"x8" card base
• extra card stock for frame and hills

Directions:

• Stamp all the images, color with copic markers, cut out using coordinating dies
• Die cut stitched hillside borders to make two hills
• Die cut the cross-stitched frame
• Use distress inks to blend the sky
• Place all elements on the card to find the spot where the light sticker should go.
• Punch a hole in the treehouse window and mark the spot on the sky card with a pencil
• Punch a hole in the sky card.
• Place sky card over the card base and mark the spot with a pencil.  This is where the light sticker goes.
• Using copper tape, lay down a positive and negative lead to the battery holder and place sticker on top of the copper tape right over your pencil mark.  Place battery in battery holder.
• Add foam adhesive in two layers around the entire card base and three sides of the battery holder to keep the battery from slipping out. 
• Attach the sky background.
• Layer the scene on top using foam adhesive and adhesive tape runner.
• To turn off the battery, insert a scrap piece of card stock in between the battery and the copper tape.  When the recipient pulls the tab, the card will light up.

Note: the products noted with an asterisk (*) were generously provided by the sponsors.  All other products I purchased on my own.  All opinions expressed are my own. 

A Haunted Light-Up Card | Collab: Avery Elle + Chibitronics

Hi everyone,

I'm so excited to be participating in another fun Chibitronics collaboration.  Today we have teamed up with the Avery Elle design team to bring you some super fun projects.

I took the new Avery Elle chalet stamp set which features some really fun "build your own" Christmas-themed chalet, but I turned it into a spooky haunted house card for Halloween.  You can watch my YouTube video to see how I masked out parts of the stamp set to make it more Halloween-themed.  I also used the Avery Elle Merriest stamps for my sentiments.  I love these sentiments and I am pretty sure you'll be seeing a lot more of these in future projects.  I finished it off with their Wonky Stitches dies.

To make the card light-up, I started with the Chibitronics LED circuit sticker starter kit and made a parallel circuit, but instead of the starter kit lights (red, yellow, blue), I used the Tropical Lights add-ons to add more color.  I love the pinkish purple, green and orange lights.  They fit perfectly with any Halloween (or Mardi Gras) themed projects!

Here is the finished card:

A haunted light-up card featuring Avery Elle and Chibitronics products.

Watch those light glow - how spooky!

Materials:

• Avery Elle: Chalet stamps and dies*
• Avery Elle: Merriest stamps*
• Avery Elle: Wonky stitches dies
• Chibitronics: LED Circuit Stickers Starter Kit
• Chibitronics: Tropical Lights add-on MegaPack
• Memento Tuxedo Black Ink
• Versafine Onyx Black Ink
• Copic Markers:
• House and Roof: C3, C5, C7
• Tombstone: C1, C3, C5
• Greens: G40, YG07, YG13
• Purples: V12, V15, V17
• Oranges: YR21, YR15, YR16
• Yellow: YG21
• Foam Adhesive
• Adhesive Tape Runner
• Purple and white card stock.

Directions:

• Please watch my video on YouTube to see how this came together.

Click the image above to see how I made this card on YouTube.

For other design team projects visit their blogs here:

• Chibitronics: Patricia, Jessica, Nancy
• Avery Elle Design Team Blog

About Avery Elle:

• Avery Elle is a small corporation located in Southern California.  They launched their first set of whimsical stamps in June 2012 and have now expanded into stamps, dies, and color coordinating pigment ink pads, patterned paper pads, twine and A2 top folding note cards. Avery Elle stamps, dies and paper are all proudly made right here in the USA.  
• Don't forget to check out their shop and design blog, or you can also follow them on social media: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube.

About Chibitronics:

• Learn more about Chibitronics and check out more tutorials on their website. You can find the products used here in their shop.  You can also follow them on social media: Facebook and Twitter.

Note: the products noted with an asterisk (*) were generously provided by the sponsors.  All other products I purchased on my own.  All opinions expressed are my own.

Collab: Chibitronics + My Favorite Things

Hi everyone,

I am so excited to participate in another fun collaboration.  Today the Chibitronics and My Favorite Things have teamed up to bring you some fun projects.  Today I'm sharing my project with all of you! I wanted to make a super interactive card.  My Favorite Things has these awesome stitched interactive windows.  Basically, you die cut the three windows and you let the recipient lift them up to see what's inside.  I already lifted them up in this card in order to take a picture to share with all of you.  It's kind of like an advent calendar.  Ooooh!  That's an idea I'm going to have to save for my Christmas card series... note to self!

In addition to the interactive windows, I incorporated the Chibitronics LED circuit stickers underneath each of the panels.  So the flowers and balloons light up.  Here's what the card looks like:

Materials:

• Chibitronics: LED Circuit Stitckers Starter Kit
• My Favorite Things: Somebunny Stamps and Somebunny Die-namics
• My Favorite Things: Inside and Out Stitched Oval Die-namics
• My Favorite Things: Interactive Stitched Window Trio Die-namics
• My Favorite Things: Tropical Teal Ink Pad 
• Doodlebug Design Inc: Flower Brads
• Distress Ink: Spun Sugar, Tumbled Glass
• Copic Markers
• Teal Ribbon
• Foam Adhesive
• Adhesive Tape Runner

Directions:

• Please watch my YouTube video here to see me make this card from start-to-finish.  You can also click on the image below.

Click the image to watch me make this card on YouTube

More My Favorite Things and Chibitronics Creative Projects:

If you want to see more projects featuring My Favorite Things + Chibitronics, check out the posts on the Chibitronics blog here and the My Favorite Things blog for each day of the collaboration here: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3 and Day 4.

About Chibitronics:

• To learn more about Chibitronics, you can visit their website and see even more ways to use these exciting LED lights.  Some of my older card projects are posted on their craft page.  You can try out their tutorials and more advance techniques. Interested in trying it out for yourself?  Check out their shop too!

About My Favorite Things:

• To learn more about My Favorite Things, you can check out their website or visit their blog to see some amazing creative projects.  You can also find them all over the social media universe on Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter, YouTube. Flickr and even Periscope!  

More Chibitronics Inspiration from Bubblegum Paper:

• You can check out some of my other Chibitronics blog posts here. You can also watch some of my videos listed below:
• Light Up Goodie Bags
• A Light Up Mother's Day Card
• Scrap N Art Tutorial: Chibitronics

Have an awesome day!

Christina

A note about the products used: Both the Chibitronics starter kit and the My Favorite Things products were sent to me from both companies free of charge. I was given a gift certificate to select which products to showcase, so I definitely like everything I used in this project and would definitely use it again.  Thank you again for checking out this card.  

Another Birthday | Another Year | Happy Birthday to Me | Lawn Fawn

Hi everyone,

I love celebrating birthdays, and celebrating my own is no different. Yippee!  I know some people worry about getting older every year and I must say that my body has definitely challenged me this past year... but all in all, I still feel young, sound young and try to stay young at heart.  It's all a mindset, right?

When I reflect back on this past year, although it was filled with new challenges, it was also filled with some extremely happy and special moments.  I am grateful to the many friends who have called, checked in, spent time, visited and helped me through each stage. I'm grateful for my boyfriend and his family for their care and support. I'm also extremely lucky to have the most supportive, cohesive, caring, loving family.  From my parents who call every day to check on me and keep me on the right track to my brother & cousins who help me prioritize and focus on getting stronger and healthier to my aunts and uncles who have visited and helped out pre and post-surgery -- I am one very lucky girl and extremely blessed to have all these amazing people in my life. Thank you all!

For my birthday, I typically head to Disneyland (fun for kids of all ages) or Hawaii (so tropical and relaxing).  However, this year I had to take it easy.  So... I made myself a snow globe card inspired by Disneyland and Hawaii.

Materials:

• Lawn Fawn: Life is Good
• Lawn Fawn: Ready, Set, Snow Add-on Shaker Dies and Sentiments
• Lawn Fawn: Stripey Backdrop Dies
• Pretty Pink Posh: Clear Sequins
• Copic Markers
• Distress Ink
• Versamark Ink
• Memento Tuxedo Black Ink
• Foam Adhesive
• Adhesive Tape Runner

Directions:

• Please head over to my YouTube channel to watch me make this card from start-to-finish.  You can click on the image below.

Click the image above to watch me make this card on YouTube

Looking forward to a happy, healthy, carefree, stress free, super fun year ahead and spending more time with my amazing family and friends and all of you, my Bubblegum Paper supporters!

Love,

Christina

Happy Birthday, Ge! | Mama Elephant & The Stamps of Life

Hi friends,

It's my older brother's birthday today! Happy Birthday, Ge! He doesn't enjoy celebrating his birthday as much as I do, but then again, I love celebrating ALL birthdays!  I made this card featuring the two of us on a rooftop with a pig balloon.  He was born in the year of the Pig.  When I was a kid, I wanted to adventure onto the top of our roof... and become the ultimate Fiddler on the Roof.  My brother helped me achieve that goal.  He figured out a way to climb out the bathroom window.  We had two levels of roofs... a shorter one and a taller one.  I asked him to give me a boost to the top roof... but I don't think it was very successful because I was laughing the whole time.  We ended up staying out there for 5-10 minutes and came back in.  So sneaky!

I didn't have a rooftop stamp or die cut that was wide enough for a card, so I decided to use a scallop border die from The Stamps of Life to make my own roof.  I paired this with the Carried Away and Lunar Animals stamps from Mama Elephant.  Here's the card:

Materials:

• Mama Elephant: Lunar Animals
• Mama Elephant: Carried Away
• Mama Elephant: Sew Fancy
• The Stamps of Life: Candles4Birthday Stamps
• The Stamps of Life: Scallop Border Dies
• Copic Markers
• Distress Ink:
• Weathered Wood
• Hickory Smoke
• Tumbled Glass
• Foam Adhesive
• Wink of Stella Brush Pen
• Tombow Mono Adhesive Tape Runner

Directions:

• Please watch my YouTube video here to see how I made this card from start-to-finish.

Click on this image to watch my video on YouTube

Enjoy and Happy Birthday, Ge!

Happy Birthday Jiu Ma | Embossing & Watercoloring | Concord & 9th

Hello everyone,

Today's card is a special birthday card for my Aunt Nancy.  I called her Jiu Ma.  She's extremely talented and very generous. I was looking at my old photos the other day and realized many of my favorite childhood outfits were gifts from Jiu Ma.  She was always giving us thoughtful gifts, even if I wasn't old enough to appreciate them.  I was born in the Year of the Rabbit.  I remember being 5 or 6 years old when she and my uncle drove up to New England to visit us. I was taking an afternoon nap and when I woke up there was a stuffed rabbit hand puppet next to me.  Jiu Ma had the puppet over her hand and gently said "Christina, wake up, wake up!"  I not only woke up, but I freaked out and cried!!  I thought there was a real rabbit in my bed.  That puppet scared me and I wasn't able to look at it for years!  I think the rabbit is still sitting in my closet somewhere, but I'd probably still be scared if I saw it today.  Luckily, my time spent with her in my later years are much happier and we're always laughing and smiling.  That why this stamp set from Concord & 9th is perfect for today's card.

I'm using the Barnwood Background and Love You. Mean It. stamp sets from Concord & 9th.  I combined heat embossing and watercoloring in this card.

Full Card

Close-Up Image

Materials:

• Concord & 9th: Love You. Mean It.
• Concord & 9th: Barnwood Background
• My Favorite Things: Die-namics Inside Out Stitched Oval Stax
• Ranger: Liquid Platinum Embossing Powder
• Versamark Ink
• Kuretake Gansai Tambi Watercolors
• Foam Adhesive
• Adhesive Tape Runner

Directions:

• Please visit my Bubblegum Paper YouTube channel to watch me make this card here or click on the image below:

Click here to watch me make this card from start-to-finish on YouTube

Happy Birthday, Jiu Ma!

Love,

Christina

Happy Birthday, Ming and Judy | Taylored Expressions and Mama Elephant

Hi everyone!

Today (well, it was supposed to be yesterday, so I'm a day late), I'm celebrating the birthdays of two of my closest friends.  I have a really close group of friends from college that are practically my sisters (in case you couldn't tell) and two of them share the same birthday: Ming and Judy.  I call Ming, Mingy (she calls me Chrissy, so that makes sense, right?).  When I first moved to LA years ago, Mingy and Judy came to visit me for a weekend.  I was still living in a corporate apartment (I think it was literally my first weekend in LA).  They explored the city with me, looked at apartments and they even endured an ant-infested kitchen.  A few years later, we all found our way to the Bay Area and our adventures continued, separate and together.  Some weekends, Judy ventured down to the South Bay where I lived and I'd put together weekend agendas.  She said as long as I incorporated nap time, she'd be open to anything.

 Mingy is super sporty and crazy creative. She's one of the most amazing travel buddies: we've gone to such exotic places like Alaska, Hawaii (and Detroit). Haha, she's actually a jet-setter and has traveled all over the world.  She always encourages me to try new things.  I learned to fish (once or twice) with her and she taught me how to snowboard! I grew up in New England, but ice and snow were not my cup of tea.  Ming, however, who grew up on the beaches of SoCal, can play hockey, snowboard and do tons of extreme sports.

Now, they're both moms of super cute kiddies and they're both still as fun as ever.  So grateful to have two amazing lifelong friends.  Here's the card I made for them (yes, you guys have to share it -- just kidding):

Materials:

• Mama Elephant: Girlfriends
• Taylored Expressions: Happy New Home
• Lawn Fawn: Stitched Hillside Borders
• Simon Says Stamp: Stitched Squares
• Copic Markers:
• Girls:
• Skin: E00, E11, E13
• Hair: C3, C5, C7
• Clothing: BG11, BG13, BG15, Y00, Y08, B91, B95, B87, RV21, RV23, C3, C5
• Houses
• Pink House: RV21, RV23, RV25
• Yellow House: Y000, Y00, Y09
• Aqua House: BG11, BG13, BG15
• Distress Inks
• Tumbled Glass
• Cracked Pistachio
• Pine Needles
• Adhesive Tape Runner
• Foam Adhesive

Directions:

• Watch me make this card from start-to-finish in this video on my Bubblegum Paper YouTube channel. 

Click the image above to watch me making this card on YouTube.

Here's a close-up of the card. 

Happy Birthday, Ming and Judy!