Football and Travelling

A new customer asked me to make a birthday card for her husband. He loves football and supports Manchester United, she told me. He also likes cats, travelling and 80s music, his favourite singer being Morrissey. She sent me some pictures of her husband and told me that wearing a bandanna is "his Israel look". He, quite sensibly I must add, always wears the headscarf here. I also received photos of their cats so that I could try and match the colour and pattern of their fur. I am not sure I got their look quite as accurately as I did Ian's though!

I have shown Ian wearing a black Morrissey T-shirt and a matching black bandanna. He is holding a football and the badge of his favourite team is behind him. I added an aeroplane and a globe, to represent his love of travel, and of course the cats made an appearance too.

Ian's wife posted the card on Facebook and wrote "Thank you so much for Ian’s birthday card. Was a huge hit!". He replied "Love it... My life on a card!" "The likeness is amazing".

Mizzie and her husband have just been on a fabulous holiday to Brazil. Her husband sent me a photo of his wife at the Iguaçu Falls on the border between Brazil and Argentina, and asked me to recreate the picture out of paper.

It was a relatively easy request and he was happy with the result. "Looks great!" he wrote to me.

Sometimes less is more.

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