Brighten Up Your Handmade Greeting Cards With A Light Up Skyline!
Make a light up skyline greeting card. via instructables
Step 1: Materials Needed
1/2 sheet white card stock
1/4 sheet black card stock
Conductive copper tape
LED stickers (shown in this project are Chibitronics)
Small binder clip
3V battery
Step 2: Prepare Your Card
Fold your 1/2 sheet of white card stock in half to create a card.
Cut skyline out of black card stock. You can draw a simple skyline, print one from online and trace it, or go all-out like we did and design one to be cut on a Silhouette Cameo cutter. The important part of these instructions is the inside of the card, so I’m trusting you to make a killer skyline on your own.
Glue your skyline to the front of your card.
Our battery/switch is going to be in the lower-left corner, so fold about 1.5 inches of that corner diagonally.
To get the placement right, place a pencil in the middle of the folded dog-ear to make a mark on each side.
Also mark where you would like your lights to go. Use as many or as few as you wish. I went for a single star in my sky.
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