Catherine Pooler Designs & Pear Blossom Press Collab Hop

Welcome to the Catherine Pooler Designs & Pear Blossom Press Collab Hop! Today we are sharing fun, interactive cards that will really brighten your day! They feature fun new stamps and dies from Catherine Pooler Designs, and with help from Pear Blossom Press, they all literally light up!  Be sure to hop along with us for loads of inspiration!

And there is of course a giveaway, so be sure to scroll all the way to the bottom to find out how you can win!

I have two card to share today!  Each features a different kind of light up kit!

I have to say...these lights are SO COOL! I know the concept has been around for a while but the simplicity of these are, well simple! Ingenuity over time has made these lights to be a no-brainer. I was intimidated with the lights on the market previously...the tape...the way you had to line everything up, but this takes much of the work out and makes it super easy to create a card that lights up!

For this card I used the Bright Days Stamp Set from Catherine Pooler Designs.  I embossed the bulbs on top and the sentiments with white embossing powder and the middle bulb was die cut with the coordinating Bright Days Dies.  To allow the bulb to really light up, I used a Circle Die to cut out a piece of the black cardstock under where the bulb was attached to the card front.  I used the My Favorite Things Interactive Labels Stamp for the "push".  I also added a strip of Sketchbook Patterned Paper to the bottom of the card.  The bulb was colored with Limoncello, Catching Rays, Pucker Up & Twilight Ink.  I took a glue pen and colored in the heart in the bulb after I had colored it with the ink & then embossed Halo Embossing Glitter on top for the glitter.  

Here's a look at how I wired up the card.  This set up uses the Ez-Light Kit.  Basically it is all one piece and I put the button where I had embossed "push" on the front and then taped down the wires (with three lights) where I wanted them. I added 3mm Deep Foam Tape around the rest of the card so that it was the same height as the button.  

Here are a couple of pictures of the card all lit up after I attached the top panel to the foam tape card front:

My second card features another light kit called Halo Lights which I'll explain a bit more after I show you the card.

I die cut the shape of this card using two awesome Slimline Dies.  The scalloped outside border was cut using the Essentials Slimline Die and the piece inside which cuts three circles is from the Post This Slimline Die.  They work very well together and love the versatility of getting to match these slimline dies together!  I used patterned paper from the Sketchbook Patterned Paper behind each circle and I used the sentiments and images from the Bright Days Stamp Set.  I colored these images with copics and the sentiment is stamped with Something Borrowed Ink.  The images were popped up with dimensional tape.  

Let me show you how I wired this one up.

This is the Halo Lights that I mentioned earlier. It is a round light, the PERFECT size for the circles in the slimline die and it has four lights around the inside of the circle (they are the little yellowish things you see on the metal part). You can see how I turned the Halo piece so that the button was in the middle of the top circle. I used a pencil to mark where that would need to be based on my card front. The foam tape that Pear Blossom sells is the perfect height for making each part of the card the correct height so the button works properly.

When it is turned on it looks like this in the daytime:

I know it's hard to see but if you look hard you can see where each light around the perimeter of the circle is.

In the dark it looks like this:

Isn't that so cool? My family loved these! :)

It's the other part you love...giveaway time! Catherine Pooler Designs and Pear Blossom Press are each giving away a $25 store credit! Comment on this post by June 25th to be entered to win. Winners will be announced on June 28th on the store blogs.

I hope that you'll visit all of the great stops on this hop!  Your next stop is over to Rachel Winn's blog!

And in case you didn't start at the beginning, here is the complete list of stops on this hop:

Catherine Pooler Designs
Cassie Trask
Ashlee McGregor
Laura Volpes
Chrissie Tobas
Marcia Caradinta 
Allison Cope
Jen Carter (you are here)
Rachel Winn (next stop here)
Ilina Crouse
Ali Farmer 
Karen Baker
Pear Blossom Press (Mona Toth)

Thank you so much for visiting today!  I'd love if you follow me on social media.  The links are at the very end of this post.

Bright Idea Bundle Shop at: CP	Bright Days Stamps Shop at: CP	Bright Days Dies Shop at: CP	Interactive Labels Shop at: PB	Post This Slimline Die Shop at: CP
Essentials Slimline Die Shop at: CP	Circle Dies Shop at: CP	Sketchbook Patterned Paper Shop at: CP	3 Pack EZ-Light Shop at: CP
2 Pack Halo Lights Shop at: CP	Pucker Up Shop at: CP	Something Borrowed Shop at: CP	Limoncello Shop at: CP
Catching Rays Shop at: CP	Twilight Ink Shop at: CP	CP Ink Collection Shop at: CP	Mini Inks ALL Shop at: CP
Spreading Rainbows Download Shop at: CP	Copic Markers Shop at: ACOT | SBP	Halo Embossing Glitter Shop at: CP	Premium White Cardstock Shop at: CP
Small Square Acrylic Grid Block Shop at: CP	Round Grid Block 2.75" Shop at: CP	Small Rectangle Acrylic Grid Block Shop at: CP	Acrylic Block 1 1/4 x 6 1/8 Shop at: CP
All Acrylic Grid Blocks Shop at: CP	Tweezers Shop at: CP | ACOT | SC | SBP	Cutter Bee Scissors Shop at: CP | ACOT | SC | SBP	Big Shot Die Cutting Machine Shop at: SC
Cutting Plates Big Shot Shop at: SC	Fiskars 12" Trimmer Shop at: ACOT | SC	Titanium Blades Shop at: ACOT | SC | SBP	Double Thick Foam Tape Narrow Shop at: PB
Foam Tape Large Roll Shop at: CP | ACOT	Foam Tape 75" Shop at: ACOT	Micro Glue Dots Shop at: ACOT | SC | SBP	Glue Dots Dispenser Shop at: ACOT | SC | SBP
ATG Gun Shop at: ACOT | SC	ATG Refill Shop at: ACOT | SC | SBP

Products I used on the card(s) on this post are linked above.  Some of the links may be affiliate links which you can shop at no additional cost to you. 

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