If you’ve been stampin’ as long as I have, you’ll remember when the only Stampin’ Rewards you earned were products exclusive to hosts. How much nicer to have product credits to “spend” on whatever you want! That’s right, free stuff!
However, I think it’s easy to overlook the host-only products that are at the very end of each catalog. (Check page 170 of the Annual Catalog and page 90 of the January-June 2022 Mini Catalog to see them.) Not to be missed from the mini is Mischievous Mice — this was a card from my January stamp camps:
The patterned paper background is from Pattern Party, a host-only product from the Annual Catalog. It’s a pack of paper with twice the number of sheets as other packs, with colored patterns that are very versatile and excellent black-and-white patterns on the reverse. It’s a challenging choice!
You probably know that Stampin’ Up! sells Stampin’ Blends markers only as combo packs — both light and dark variations of a color. But except for the eraser, we colored this image with only the light Blends. We used the Color Lifter to make tiny “hyphens” in the gray portions to simulate fur, and if the wooden tip of the pencil was too dark, we took off some of that color, also.
This mouse is so fun to color — or, it should be! If you’re having trouble enjoying the process, I recommend stamping four or five images on scraps of Basic White and practicing. It’s only paper; as we say, you’re not doing brain surgery! I think flowers are great images to use for practice, because you’re creating art, not necessarily imitating reality.
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