Artful Angel Design Team - Newton's Nook - Rainy Day Trio - It's Raining!

 Hi crafty friends!  I am over on the Artful Angel Blog today sharing this ridiculously fun card that I made with the adorable Newton’s Nook Rainy Day Trio stampset.   When I saw these stamps, I knew that I had to create a card that rains!   I am not going to lie, this card was a bit frightening to take on, and it was a labor of love, but it was honestly pretty easy!  This is a fairly long post, but if you hang with me, you will find a fun animated clip at the end, showing the motion of this card! 

I colored the main image using Copics and I ink-blended my background pieces using Distress Oxides (all colors listed below).  I die-cut several cloud layers using the Lawn Fawn Puffy Cloud Borders Dies and I also inked them up with Distress Oxides.  I colored a strip of card stock and heat embossed the sentiment and music notes in black.  I set all of these elements to the side and got to work creating the rain.

I cut 9 lengths of fishing line and I tied knots in one end of each piece.  I then strung some glass seed beads on each piece and tied a knot at the opposite end.  I used 15 beads on each piece, but this will depend on the size of the beads that you use.  It equaled about 1” of beads.

I adhered my ink-blended background panel to my card base and I laid foam tape across the top and the bottom.  To determine placement, I marked where the bottom of my clouds and the top of where my bottom border would be with a pencil.  For the top of the card, the foam tape should be above the pencil line, and for the bottom, the foam tape should be below the pencil line.  I peeled the backing off of the foam tape and I stretched one strand of the beads across the center of the card, top to bottom.  As long as the knots are above and below the tape lines, they don’t matter, as you will be cutting them off. I added the rest of the strands of beads, working from the center out to the sides.  Once the beads were in place, I added another strip of foam tape over the foam tape already laid down.  This will hold the beads in place.  I then trimmed any excess line away.  It's ok if you cut the knot off, as the line is sandwiched between the layers of foam tape and the beads will not be able to slide off.

I placed a sheet of acetate over the card front and then I adhered the clouds to the top, the hill to the bottom and the colored image to the front using liquid glue. To finish the card, I trimmed the sentiment strip and fussy cut the musical notes and placed them on the card front.

Colors Used:

Copics:

Greens – G07, YG25, YG11, YG00

Purples – BV08, BV04, BV02, BV00

Pinks – RV09, RV06, RV04, RV02

Tan Cat – E25, E33, E53, E50

Orange Cat – YR24, YR23, YR21

Grey Cat – C6, C5, C4, C2

All cats – RV00, RV000

Distress Oxides:

Background - Twisted Citron, Peacock Feathers, Faded Jeans, Chipped Sapphire

Clouds – Weathered Wood, Speckled Egg, Broken China

Thanks so much for hanging with me!  I hope that you love this card as much as I do!  

Make sure to head on over to Artful Angel to pick up this cute stamp set and use coupon code: KIMSIMPSON to save 10%! 

Have a great day!  Xoxo, Kim