Magic Rain Shaker Reindeer Card

Hi! I have been trying out a new (to me) technique called the Magic Rain Shaker Card. I watched it demonstrated by Laura Dovalo and wanted to try it out but I had to tweak her technique just a little to suit my needs. The card that I am going to show you uses Unity Stamp Company's All is Calm all is bright Set and an old Kit of the Month from August 2012. This is a quick video of the card so you can hear the mesmerizing sound the beads make!

  

The first step to make this card is to stamp the reindeer in Memento Rich Cocoa ink and stamp it on watercolor paper. Then you need to mask the reindeer and spray Ranger Distress Resist Spray on the watercolor paper and let it dry.

This is where I will tweak the technique because I am using a frame for the rain. I have a love hate relationship with foam tape when shaker cards come into the picture. So to do this technique I used my MFT Rectangle Frame die and cut out 6 of them. Then I glued 5 together to give me the thickness I needed for the seed beads to be able to slide easily on the string. I saved the 6th frame for later. 

 Next I will pierce the top and the bottom of the frame at 1/4 inch intervals giving me 7 rows to string beads from. I have a foam mat under the cardstock so I can pierce the holes big enough for the needle and thread to go through.

This is what it looks like with all of the holes. For the beading I used transparent thread and a collapsable needle. (For two reasons, it is thin enough to slide the seed beads through and I can't see! I need the large collapsable eye especially with clear thread!)

 

The nest step is to put the thread through the first two holes and tie it off. I use double sided tape to help keep it in place because I will be pulling it taut and don't want it to come undone. This was done on the back of the frame.

This picture shows that I have fed the thread/needle through to the front of the frame in the first hole on the left and the beads are on the needle. I only want to use 5 beads each row because I want the effect of the 'Snow" not rain in this case but I do not want it taking over the image.

Once I slid the beads down I lined the threads up with the first hole on the top, put it through and fed it through the next hole. I am a little over cautious with it slipping or coming loose so I did run it through the first and then back through the second hole again. Then I added the beads and ran the thread through the matching hole at the bottom.

 

I will continue with this process until I am done with all 7 rows. Then I tied the thread off on the back side and to be safe, put double sided tape over all of the holes on the top and the bottom.

This is where that 6th frame comes in. I glued it to the top of the frame with the beads. I do this to keep the beads within the frame so they will not slide on top of the frame when I put the finished frame on the top. 

Now I am going finish the stamping part of the card and put all of the pieces together! I stamped the argyle background from the August 2012 Kit of the Month in VersaMark and on the Kraft cardstock. Next I splattered Picket Fence Distress ink on it with a toothbrush.

While it dries, I blended my night sky background over my reindeer (which is still masked). I used Faded Jeans, Wilted Violet, and Broken China Distress Oxides. I didn't want a dark night sky for this card so I left Black Soot out of the mix. 

You can see the Distress Resist Spray coming through the oxides. So pretty! Next I removed the mask from the reindeer and cut it down to the size of the frame. I also added Gold Wink of Stella to the reindeer to make it glisten with the beads. I added glue to the back of the frame and adhered it to the reindeer piece. 

Next I added the white stitched rectangle scallop frame from MFT.

Now it is time to put all of the pieces together. I stamped the sentiment that also came from the August Kit of the Month with Versafine Onyx Black. I layered that panel on a piece of black cardstock and then on a Kraft card. Last I glued my rain shaker onto the card. 

Here it is! I hope you liked the tutorial!!!

Here are two other cards that I made with this technique:

I used Unity Stamp Company's Rain or Shine Set for the image and Taylored Expressions You Make Me Happy set for the sentiment for this card.

I used Newton's Nook Newton's Summer Vacation set for this card. I made it for their current Inky Paws Challenge. You were to use the colors of the rainbow in your card.

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