A special mother's day card
A client came to me about a week before mother’s day with a couple of old photo albums under her arm and a look in her eye that told me I was about to get a really fun challenge. The oldest photo’s were nearly 80 years old (some very old black and whites of her mother as a baby). She’d chosen a couple of images of herself as a child that without giving her age away too much were probably over 40 years old. Obviously they were in grainy black and white, but there was also quite a bit of fading and in the one we chose, there was some staining that made it look as though the young girl had spilt her dinner!
My client had also seen the sample cards I’d created a couple of weeks previously and loved the idea of adding a couple of flowers to her original picture. So, I got to work enhancing the original image, cleaning up her white dress, removing the dark background and adding a couple of pretty pink tulips into the little girls hand. The biggest problem was the tulips. I had to alter the image ever so slightly so that the hand was at the right angle to be able to hold flowers. The result of all this hard work you can see above. I love the contrast between the bright pink tulips and the original black and white photography.
I presented the card to my client the following day, and she was really happy with the results. But the person that really counted of course was her mother. How would she react to receiving such a personal card? The verdict came in yesterday:
“She [the mother] was absolutely blown away by it!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thinks you’re a total genius and will never ever ever throw it away!! In fact thinking of framing it!!!!”
It’s her mother’s 80th birthday coming soon, and I’m really looking forward to working with my client again and having a good look through those old photo albums to find just the right photo to create some unique birthday invitations, and maybe even a canvas or watercolour as a present as well.
A card like this one including image enhancement and superimposing tulips on top, costs £3.50. Contact me through my website, my blog or facebook for more information.
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