...Flower Themed Mother's Day Card Tutorial...

...I had an idea for a Mother's Day card for my Mom...who loves her flowers...

...so the first thing I did was search the internet for a free photo of some flowers...if you have your own flowers (or your Mom's) it would be even more special to take your own photo...I found just what I wanted...right clicked and did a save as...

...then when I had my original image...

...I opened it with a free photo editor...but if you have a fancy-schmancy photo editor...feel free to use that...

...the first thing I did was change it to sepia...

...then I added the Happy Mother's Day text...

...then I cropped just the portion of the image that I wanted on the card...

...I periodically save my changes...Picassa has an undo option if you don't like something you've changed you can go back...

...then because I'm using a free and somewhat limited photo editor...I wanted to shade the bottom of the image...but I couldn't find an option to do that...so I rotated the image and shaded the top...

...then I turned the image back right side up...and started playing with the text I wanted at the bottom in the now shaded portion of the card...

...added the text and removed the border...

...just play with it until you have it like you want it...

...I centered it and added a little ascii heart...

...now we're ready to print...I insert the image into Word...and I added a little image that says made 4 you to what will be the back of the card...so it needs to be upside down...

...here's the final print on card stock...

...then just fold it and trim it...

...and then I filled the inside with a pretty pop up bouquet of flowers using the awesome directions over at Martha Stewart...

...this was such a fun and easy little project...I hope you make your Mom a card...

~Have a lovely day!