A natural birthday card for Tom

My friend regularly commissions me to make her families birthday cards (she has 5 children!)
Anyway her eldest son, Tom is a fab lad! 17 and has a very mature and wise head on his shoulders. He loves the outdoors and is currently at college learning all about game management and conservation. So, when asked to do a card, I knew it had to be masculine and natural.

I used a retired dsp which has trees on, cut two ovals from whisper white and olive and then was able to use a fantastic technique we covered at our inspirin inkin training recently called thumping! - basically you use a light ink to mark up the tree image and then using a variety of green markers as if they were drumsticks - you thump the stamp with the wide edge randomly. Color in the trunk and press and.you have a very realistic multicoloured tree image.
Tiny tags T and hello provide some personalisation tied on with twine and the happy birthday (retired) added to the ovals adds to the occasion.
Hope you liked!

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