Birthday Octopus - Birthday Card

These playful ‘Birthday Octopus’ birthday greeting cards have been hand illustrated using fine liner pens, digitally coloured, and printed in Melbourne by The Nonsense Maker. The highly detailed drawing portrays a friendly octopus wearing a colourful striped party hat and holding eight colourful candles in each of his eight tentacles. Inspired by a dreamlike world where little is what it seems, this birthday card has a bright colour palette, using mostly light blue, with details in bold blue, green, red, orange, purple and yellow.

The Nonsense Maker’s ‘Birthday Octopus’ birthday cards are sustainably hand made in Melbourne using all Australian suppliers.

Beginning with a pencil sketch before moving to pen, a method called crosshatching is used to create the depth and the tone you see in the final design. This fine line art is then scanned into a computer and coloured digitally. All our birthday cards are ethically printed on high quality recycled paper, and our envelopes are 100% recycled.

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We often have customers let us know they love our greeting cards but struggle to think of things to write in them, and they are certainly not alone there! Check out our blog page for our top tips on what to write in a birthday card.

The Nonsense Maker’s unique birthday card designs are imagined from a fun and whimsical world where dreaming meets reality. Sometimes silly and sometimes sad, inspired by etching techniques used by old time illustrators. While The Nonsense Maker’s art prints often have finer details, the birthday cards and quirky stationery are usually an easy cheerful expression designed to bring a smile to your face.

Take a look at our original artwork page to see how The Nonsense Maker’s birthday cards look before they are coloured!