Mixing Brands - Teacher Mouse

I love a good clean and simple Copic-colored card. No scene, no special techniques, just some awesome markers, and a clean stamped image.  For this card, I pulled Mae Mouse from Honey Bee Stamps out of my stash, along with the Defined Words from Mama Elephant.  The cute little pencil is from the Waffle Flower Teacher set.  Mae comes with a number of cute accessories, but no pencil so I had to do a bit of searching to find the right one to pair with her.

Mae Mouse is stamped in my favorite Copic safe ink from Gina K.  I love Gina K's Amalgam ink.  I've tried a few others, but hers seems to be the blackest black in my opinion.  I also use this ink for watercoloring and colored pencils.  In order to put the pencil in Mae's hand, I had to do a bit of masking.  I created a partial mask that would cover just the area I needed.  When I create a partial mask for a small area like this I usually opt for a post-it note.  I make sure to stamp on the sticky part of the note and then fussy cut the image.  

Mae Mouse was colored with the Warm Greys from my Copic collection.  I like using warm greys to color critters.  It's a warmer ton that isn't quite brown.  After Mae and her bright green pencil were colored I stamped the teacher definition in VersaMark Ink.  

To complete the card I die-cut my panel with my trusty stitched rectangles and mounted it to a green card base.  I used a white gel pen to add the highlight back into the mouse eyes and that's it.

The red version was created in the same style with the swapping of warm greys for cool ones and green for red.  When I plan to Copic color it isn't unusual for me to stamp a few of the same card ideas and make multiples in different colors all at once.