 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching my tutorial today. I'm going to be showing you how to make this really sweet rainfall card or rain shaker card. It's actually one that I saw on the My Favorite Things YouTube channel so this is my take on it. I think it's really really sweet, it's turned out much much better than I thought and it's really easy to do. All the only patience that's needed is to thread these beads so if you don't have the patience for that then it may not be the card for you but otherwise it's really really fun. Now you can also this would be great for a more Christmas themed card and you can have white beads and you could have a snowman or Father Christmas or any kind of you know Christmas related stamp and it would look like snow and I am I've just ordered some white beads so once the white beads come I will be sharing a different size and a different setup and I've got a really nice idea for how I'm going to do that one but it's just so much fun. It's using this lovely stamp set here which is one that I got free with the Creator Stamping Magazine probably about 18 months ago now and it's got this lovely girl here you can change the umbrella pattern then it's got all these sentiments here but this is now I say now it's available on Craftstache I've seen it on there so I thought great I'm going to get it out again at least then you guys can you know actually get it as well if you want to so it's really good value for money as have most of the stamps been that I've been sharing but like I said I'm just really really pleased with how it turned out I have added acetate onto the front of mine as well because I just thought you know you put all the effort into that if that was to catch on something I'd be really upset if they were to you know obviously come apart so I've just put a sheet of acetate over the front and it adds a shine to it as well and I've also added glossy accents here just the top of her Wellington boots and the puddle and it's on the umbrella and in her hair and it just again just looks like she's wet from the rain so let me show you how to make this fun card okay so I'm going to get straight into this because you can use any size card that you want so I'm working on a five by seven card base so I've got a piece of five by seven plain white cardstock here which I'm going to use as my background and I'm now going to distress this using not going to distress it I'm going to blend a background using my distressed oxide inks which is what I wanted to say so I've just got this silicon mat here and I've got my faded jeans, tumbled glass and chipped sapphire I'm not sure if I'm going to use all three but I'm certainly going to start with the tumbled glass now I want to create a dark background so it really does look like a thunderstorm kind of thing because my beads are clear and I want those to show up on my background so if I go too light with the background these clear beads you're not going to be able to see them so I'm going to start with the tumbled glass I've got a little bit of highlight now I have gone and already coloured all of this but I'm going to add in a little video afterwards really just to show you how I've put her together she looks really sweet but where she will be positioned I want a little bit of more of a the tumbled glass kind of highlight around her and then we'll go out into the darker colour so first of all take this one and I've just got one of my makeup blending brushes here dipped my finger right in it there get that nice thing so I'm going to kind of start around here so depending on what it is you're using and you don't even have to do your own background I have got some cardstocks from one of those paper packs from the works which has actual raindrops but it's just too light it's just not really going to work so but you can you know easily have a patterned paper background so I'm just going to have something like this more so there and I think from this I'm going to start kind of blending out and start to introduce more of the darker colour so if you imagine she is going to be kind of here with her umbrella that's going to be playing in the water I've already done this little puddle here as well which is really really sweet and you can see how the whole thing will hopefully yeah it's all going to work out well so I'm going to just add a little bit more just to make that a bit darker there okay so we'll just stick with that for the minute I'm going to keep my light brush there and then I'm just going to bring in another one and then I think I'm going to go no I'm going to use fade it I am going to end up using all three just because of the way I'm doing it but you don't have to and then I'm going to bring in the faded jeans and I'm going to go all around all of the sides now bringing this in so just start coming in all the way around bring in some paper here just to put down just so you don't get any finger marks the oxide inks do take a little bit longer to dry completely I'm just going to start pulling that into there and then as you start to work it with that tumbled glass in my case it will naturally start to blend itself oh sorry I've just looked up at my monitor and saw it had gone blurred hopefully that wasn't like that for too long but as you kind of bring it together you'll see you start to get a really nice kind of blend there so I'm just going to rotate around this side okay so I'm happy with that I'm going to go in with the darker in a minute but I'm just going to bring her in because like I said I do want her to be yeah you see it's just got this really nice little glow behind her so she's still kind of pops so I'm not going to interfere with that anymore and then I'm going to because I do want it to be a bit more of a angry looking background because once I add the water because this is water reactive inks I'm going to add some splatters I'm not sure I've got a stencil here I'm not sure if I'm going to use that yet we shall see so then I'm just going to kind of just just lightly kiss the sides now I have got this piece here which I'll talk you through in a moment but this is my cloud at the top so this is going to be here and those rain drops beads are going to fall down from behind that so this darker color I actually want to come down a little bit further because otherwise most of it's going to be covered so I'm just going to work this a little bit more and because that faded jeans underneath this you know this other blue here is still wet it just they just blend really really well and you can also dry them in between layers and then go back in so you get a more intense color but I'm just going to work this a little bit until I'm happy with the look okay so that's that let me just have a little look at this stencil so this stencil is an old stamping up one but it's like water droplets and I did think it doesn't fit over the whole five by seven that doesn't matter because you're not going to see the top or the bottom so I'm just showing you purely my process but what I don't want it to do is take away from the beads that are going to fall and obviously her as well I think what I'm going to do let's just go for it so I'm going to go in again with the same darker color but because this is dried a bit more now it should become a little bit more intense I can always do this again I'm not too worried so I'm going to ink this up you can tape it down if you want but I'm just going to hold this in place in fact I'll put this over the top as well roughly keep it straight like so and I'm going to go over again I'm still going to distress this with you know I'm still going to add my water to this I just want to just create quite a fun background really I don't want to shift this I want to keep this in place because I'm going to continue it okay let's do a reveal there that's actually really I'm really pleased with that that's better than I thought yeah no I like that a lot but what I am going to do is like I said I'm just going to go over this that's one side so I'm not going to touch anymore now with the dark that's done but I am going to go back in with the tumbled glass and I'm just going to lift this back again so just kind of fade out those droplets within that area because I just don't want her to get lost behind you know with all those droplets around hopefully that's still coming out well let's bring her back in again yeah I just wanted it to look a bit more yeah I think that's going to look good and once the beads are all on there I've just got a clean um just a little sponge piece there and then I've got my walled here now you can spray it directly or you can drip the droplets onto it I like both ways to be honest because I like with this particular this is just an inexpensive one I picked up from the shop but you get larger droplets then you know you get a nice mix of droplets this is what I'm trying to put across so you get a more realistic look so let's just put all this away so what I'm going to do is do it this way because for people that don't have a spray bottle this is how you can also achieve it and you're just going to drip so I just want that real yeah mess look and then put that over the top push it down so this is faux bleaching basically this is another technique that people use to create fun backgrounds there we go so you don't have to do that some of you might think now oh no you've ruined it but it's all going to tie in with my sentiment with the whole look of the card with the rain with the clouds and it will all come together really nicely so now what I would advise you to do is just give that a quick blast with your gun heat gun okay so that's my background so then I have this cloud now I got this from these cloud dies here now I actually purchased these from a destash from crafty aula when she was closing down her store and these were in a bundle of all kinds of different borders so that's what I've got for the top here okay so that's going to be the clouds from above now I need to ink these up a little bit make them a little bit gray not too gray but just a little bit gray and then I also went and cut a piece of five by one and a half for the bottom now I actually want to do this the same as this so I'm going to quickly go and prepare that piece and I'm also going to ink that piece up as well okay for the clouds I'm just using weathered wood and I'm just going to just kiss I like using that word I think it is a good one just literally just catching kissing the bottoms of the clouds there so now we just got a bit more of a gray rain cloud rather than a nice crisp white one okay so I've got all my pieces ready for the cards so whatever card size you're using you want a piece for the bottom I've also got some acetate here I think I might end up using it I'm not entirely sure but we'll get to that in a moment okay so now we need the main piece here and then I've got some of this this is the clear foam the dot and dab range and I'm going to pop my phone my way is see I think a foam is being white but this is classed as a clear foam so I'm going to run it just along the top there about about half an inch down and again I'm going to come up about half an inch now we will probably add some more of this in a bit but for the minute I'm just going to add that there okay so just sit that to one side then I've got all my beads so I have already done nine of these so basically I've got some nylon thread here you can use fishing line I imagine you want something that's strong and I've gone for something clear because I want the focus to be on the beads moving freely and you can see when it's against there you you don't really see that you know the the thread there you're just going to see the rain falling now I'm doing 10 so I'm going to do one quickly with you and on each of these I've got between 20 and 25 beads again I don't want them to all be the same height because when they do fall to the bottom I want them to all be a little bit staggered so I've just tied off for each thread here is about 17 inches it doesn't need to be that long again this card is 7 by 5 so my height is 7 once we stick it down you can see there where they're going to be and how much you need but I just knotted off giving myself lots of room to be able to then have enough excess overhanging each end so I've got nine now to achieve that it's very very simple so these are the sea beads this was one of the tubes that I got with that when I won that little giveaway it was a Friday giveaway and they're this mix here I also got the little beads and you get the glitter that came it was from stick to but you can use any beads and they can be big beads as well you just have to have more foam so you've got the depth for the beads to be able to move freely you could use sequins and like I said at the very beginning this will look great in a snow themed card so you would have white beads okay so plenty of options to you know really change it up so this is my craft nylon thread this is about a pound you get 50 meters that's the brand that is it it doesn't um it's that like crafted one that's always sold in the range so I'm just cutting off some there and I'm just going to knot the end okay and then I've got my little pickup tool here I'm just going to tip a few out I don't have well I did have a bead board but I think it's gone gone somewhere so I can't seem to find it okay so I'm just going to pick them up and then just literally I was really quick at this doing those it took me about I'd say half an hour to do those 10 and like I said I'm using between 20 and 25 beads per thread it's up to you how many threads you have I'm doing 10 so I think that's going to be enough to fill the width of that card but you might want to have it really really full you might not want to have as much you might just have it one side you might not even be doing a rain theme you might actually just want it just more as a decorative just a fun interactive element to your card so okay so I've got I'm going to got about 22 on that one so I'm just going to tie off the end okay so now you want to bring in whatever it is that you're going to have at the bottom and the top you're probably going to need some more foam yeah so I'm going to have another foam piece coming so it's just above my shortest point there so it's going to be about there okay and then this one I'm going to add another piece of foam quite higher up there because you don't want this piece dipping so where did I put my phone there we go so I'm just going to add another one up here as long as it's concealed behind whatever it is that you're using to cover you know the top and the bottom of your card this one here now if you want to add any more to your background you might want to have your stamped image you know your sentiment yours may well be on this you want to make sure you've done all that now because next we're going to start putting the our strips on nylon string onto here okay so I'm just going to take off my backing okay so just taking the release paper off now do be careful make sure if you're using the oxide and any water and stuff that is completely dry I must have had some slightly damp areas because my double-sided foam was actually lifting so just there because it's a bit lighter and also in the middle there it's a little bit lighter so I've just added some glue as well but it should be fine but now you want to start with your strings so I'm going to start from the middle and work my way out now because I'm using an even number I will come slightly off to one side okay so you want to keep your beads within the center and then as straight as possible and just lie it down because you're going to be sandwiching this with another piece of foam over the top there will be a bit of dimension on this and make sure you keep it nice and taut and you can test that one now already you can see that it moves really freely okay so yeah just work your way along so the next one always make sure that your beads are in the middle okay and then this one I'm going to pop about there okay I'm going to trim some off there now because once you add the foam on top your beads won't be able to slide off unless they're pulled out so there's there's just no way of them getting out okay so I'm going to continue that process and get everything else stuck down okay so they're now all stuck down I needed to add an extra one so I've got 11 in total because it just didn't look right I have in that space there so now what I'm going to do is I'm going to stick some more foam over the top of this to sandwich the thread between them you also need to make sure that whatever your width of your your thickness of your tape is is thicker or higher than the the beads otherwise the beads won't move freely they're kind of slide on the paper okay so you might need to stick two layers of foam down then the thread and then another layer okay so just have a little look at what you've got but I'm now going to just stick another piece right over the top of each of these okay now I'm just going to trim all of the ends if you would want to knot them as well then you can do but once this has got this the paper or the cardstock over the top people can't get into it and you know like I said the only way it's all going to come out now is if someone ripped it apart okay so if I bring that up now you can see how neat and I've cut all them back now don't worry if one bead sticks to each one because that just again makes your rain fall really freely so you'll see I've got one stuck on the bottom of each there and then one stuck on the top there that's fine you're not going to see that but look how nicely they all fall okay I've probably maybe even got too many again but it's fine that's then going to go there and that's going to stick there but this is now where I'm thinking about using this acetate now the reason my reason in behind it is to stop people touching it and then there'd be a risk of them catching it and things like that so I thought about sandwiching a piece of acetate there then putting these and because of the the reflection the reflection that you get off the acetate actually does work quite well with this style so if I just bring this up you've got to bear in mind this will be stronger once it's stuck to your card base but I quite like there you can see the acetate so I think I'm going to plus it allows me to have a better surface to be able to stick her because I think that if I just stick her without the acetate some of these beads are going to catch on her so it's it's entirely up to you the acetate is completely optional but I do for me I think I prefer it with the acetate just to protect the card you know postage in the envelope even if you're just keeping it for yourself which I may end up doing yeah I just think it's going to work a bit better I really like how this is coming together so I'm going to keep my acetate there so I'm going to reveal I'm going to release the backing off of this and then I'm going to stick that acetate down okay my acetate is slightly shorter so it's about six and three quarters but it's the same five inch width but I'm pleased with that then I'd already put double-sided tape on this side so I've taken that off and now I can just sit that perfectly like so and then this bottom piece like so and I've just realized what I've done and you've probably noticed as well but all the effort I went to to create that kind of lighter area there is now up in the sky and it should be behind her but I think we can still get away with it so see even me I make mistakes a lot actually so okay that is now all ready though so now I'm going to bring it up what we do is we'll get this stuck onto our hard base because I think that's going to help the whole thing work better because it's not going to dip because it's quite there's quite a bit of weight on this actually surprisingly with all the beads so I'm just going to pop some of my liquid glue on this make sure your card opens the right way and this is covering the whole of that card to the whole five by seven it works perfect they all fall it's like an abacus it's really really satisfying I love this okay so now I've got my lovely little girl here and her umbrella I will link in now a quick high-speed video of me coloring her I used my Arteza colored pencils so you get a nice it's really easy to kind of blend with these because you can just the more pressure you apply the deeper the color and then obviously the lighter you are you'll get those highlighted areas which I've got so I'll just link in that video now what I'm going to do is I want to actually cut around her little glove here because I want to hook the umbrella behind her so she's holding it so I'm just cutting around very carefully completely optional of course I just want that hand to come up so then the handle of the umbrella she's not going to put it above her head she's going to be playing in a puddle and she's going to be like that and I think it looks really really sweet so I'm going to add some glue to this piece here and just underneath her glove just to kind of get that piece fixed in place like so then I'm going to fix her to the puddle so I'm just going to again pop some glue on the bottom of her feet like so and some of the umbrella is touching there as well so I'm just going to pop another bit of glue there so it becomes one solid piece and then on the back of that I'm going to stick some red tape because I'm going to be sticking her the majority of her onto the acetate so I'm going to add it onto her body the umbrella and then the puddle I'm just going to add liquid glue because that's going to be on this piece here I like how they all kind of come down like slightly staggered as well like that I think it looks really really cool and once it's all up like that they're all yeah I just want you to be able to see them because I just think it's I think that brings in the curiosity to people then they think oh what does that do and you just automatically start moving it so now I have my sentiment which I didn't think I was going to put it up here but I'm wondering now whether to add another layer of cloud over the top of this quiz I do have the two dies so I could quite easily die cut a different one so that was that one so I could die cut this one so it's just a little bit kind of like that a little bit staggered so I think that's what I'm going to do there and just stick another one over the top and then I'm probably going to have my sentiment here and the one I'm going to choose is this one sorry to hear you're under the weather and that's the one that I'm going to have there so I'm going to stamp that on some separate cardstock and get that cut out because I don't think I want it up there but then you want to be able to see the rain but then I just think that's a bit of a plain space when it's um you know not being used and it's just on display so yeah I'm going to do that one anyway and then we can play around okay so I have stuck this down and I've just used a little bit of string and I've used a little brad just to have like a little sign hanging from the clouds it just felt it needed something up there I have also added some glossy accents so this here and this is a great thing to use if you want to create the look of something wet so it goes on cloudy but it dries completely clear so then that will just look like you know raindroplets little dew drops so I've done the whole puddle and some of it over her bottom of her wellington boots and then I've done all these dots and a few on her hair but once those dry clear it looked really good but I'm really pleased with how this comes together it moves really freely it's a bit time consuming you know you do have to thread all those beads but as I mentioned you can use sequins you can use thicker beads so it doesn't take as long but you have to make sure that you give the depth with that foam that's needed for whatever beads you're using so you can see here these ones all move really nicely so there it is so I hope you've enjoyed today's card I hope it's inspired you as always if it has please give me a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel so you get to see more thanks for watching bye