You are my Sunshine

I was looking forward to making one of these cards when I first saw the YouTube Magical Rain Shaker Card Video by Laura Dovalo. I thought this was such a fun idea, but I had no idea who I was going to make it for, well I showed a friend of mine and she REALLY wanted me to make one for her to give to someone who brightens her days, soooo that was they only thing I needed, and away I went. The hardest part about making the card was beading on the really thin line that I had, as the beads were too small for needle to go through and my eyes had a hard time seeing the itty bitty holes in the beads, but I got it done.

To see a video of this card in motion please check out my Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/groups/MyMessyCraftroom/ feel free to join if you would like to share your crafty creations.

All the cardstock and inks used in this card are from Stampin Up, colours are listed in the directions below.

The house is from the House and Fence Pop-Up die set from Karen Burniston

The green cardstock for the bottom border is Pear Pizzazz, I inked up the cardstock with Pear Pizzazz ink to give it some texture. I used a cloud edge die to cut the borders for the top and the bottom.

When it came to beading the card I wanted to do it a little differently than Laura did, I didn’t trust that my adhesive would hold the way hers did, and I had more fishing line than patience, my worry was that if I stringed the lines in individual lines like she did, trimming the edges when done that it would be possible for the very thin line that I was using to slip through the foam adhesive and I would lose my beads, also I knew it would take me forever to make this card if I did each line individually as I was making the card so I strung the beads on the line ahead of time off and on for a week (while having morning tea, hanging with hubby….) The beads are clear seed beads, and the line is extremely thin fishing line I got from my Father-in-law. 😀

In case I didn’t explain well enough, I added the beads to my very thin fishing line, I did not cut the line, I gave myself about a foot of line which I slid all the beads to, keepin the rest of the spool still attached, as I was wrapping the line around the card I would slide over the beads I needed, give myself some more line, then wrapped the next row and slid the beads I needed…….. I did this until I was done, then I cut the line off from the spool.