How to Create a Mothers Day Poster

How to Create a Mother’s Day Poster

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Last Updated Jul 22, 2024

Mother’s Day is around the corner. Making Mother’s Day cards is a sweet gesture of acknowledging all the mother figures’ unconditional love and efforts in your life. But what if you’re planning a grand celebration to express your love, respect, and gratitude toward mothers? A poster is an unbeatable way to spread your heart-warming wishes to all the mothers and invite your neighbors and friends to the celebration. If you’re an online or offline business owner, you can leverage this cost-effective marketing tool to market your Mother’s Day special offers. Designing a Mother’s Day Poster from scratch is overwhelming, especially if you haven’t tried it before. But DocHipo has your back.

How to Create a Mother’s Day Poster

  • Choose a Mother’s Day poster template: Speed up and fail-proof your design
  • Replace text: Customize the default text with your heart-felt wish and message full of love, admiration, and gratitude for all mothers.
  • Edit text: Changing the font family, size, color, alignment, text-shadow, border, etc
  • Replace the picture: Add your most adorable photo of the mother-child duo and resize and reposition it if needed.
  • Customize the color: Customize the color of the background and design elements, such as shapes, etc.
  • Download Mother’s Day poster design: Download it in a high-quality PDF file for printing.

In this blog post, you’ll learn how to create a Mother’s Day Poster in three super simple steps, even without expertise in graphic design. You’ll also get twelve heart-melting Mother’s Day Poster ideas for your inspiration.

Mother’s Day Poster Ideas and Examples

This section will explore twelve Mother’s Day Poster ideas and templates from our DocHipo library. Excited?

Design Idea 1: Photo-centric Mother’s Day Poster Design

The first and most apparent Mother’s Day Poster design idea is to make the picture with your mother the focal point. Here, the image covers most of the design, along with a heartfelt Mother’s Day wish.

For example, check out the photo-centric Mother’s Day Poster Template, which has simple but appealing borders on its sides.

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Design Idea 2: Use a Simple yet Nice Layout

A design layout doesn’t have to be complex to be stunning. A simple layout can also make an overall design look beautiful and classy.

For example, in the Mother’s Day Poster Template below, the simple layout lets the happy mother-daughter duo picture cover most of the design and make the design look elegant. The beautiful fonts wishing ‘Mother’s Day’ and the additional flowery design elements add to the beauty.

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Similarly, below is another simple and appealing Mother’s Day Poster design.

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Design Idea 3: Use Adorable Illustrations in Your Mother’s Day Poster Design

Illustrations are graphic elements that convey your message and elevate a design’s complete look, feel, and mood.

For example, the Mother’s Day Poster Template looks adorable, comforting, and aesthetically pleasing. 

Mother's Day Poster Template

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Similarly, the template below looks playful and reflects a happy vibe.

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Watch the video below on using illustrations in DocHipo.

Design Idea 4: Make a Collage for Your Mother’s Day Poster

Can’t decide on a single photo since you’ve got a lot of adorable ones to add to your poster for Mother’s Day? 

I can understand!

The Mother’s Day Poster Template below lets you add five lovely pictures to your design. Its enticing design elements enhance the overall look.

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Design Idea 5: Create a Never-seen-before Frame around the Picture

You can use unconventional shapes rather than the usual squares or rectangles for framing a picture. Furthermore, you can create frames with beautiful graphic elements to make them unique and memorable.

For instance, look at this Mother’s Day Poster template, which features a gorgeous floral picture frame embracing an adorable mother-daughter photo.

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Design Idea 6: Design with Stunning Borders

Borders in design play an essential role in creating a visual structure, enhancing its overall aesthetic, and giving meaning to it. Experiment with different border designs to amp up your poster on Mother’s Day.

For example, look at the Mother’s Day poster template below. Black and white is a classic color combination, and the elegant border design elevates the poster to a whole new level.

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Design Idea 7: Mother’s Day Poster Design with Subtle and Beautiful Floral Patterns in the Background

Floral patterns are visually appealing and soothing to the eyes. You can make your mother-child duo picture the focal point of your Mother’s Day poster design, but adding floral patterns subtly makes it visually more appealing and soothing to the eyes.

For example, in the template below, the subtle blue floral patterns in the background add to the beauty. Also, the floral picture frame looks so graceful. I’m sure all the mother figures will appreciate this out-of-the-frame design!

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Design Idea 8: Design Your Mother’s Day Poster with Icons

Icons are impactful visual elements to communicate your message and make a design exceptional. Use icons only when you feel they enhance the beauty of your design; otherwise, it looks like unwanted visual clutter.

For example, the purple butterfly icons in the Mother’s Day Poster Template make it stand apart gracefully.

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Design Idea 9: Use Mockups in Your Mother’s Day Designs

Mockups give you ready-made beautiful backgrounds and scenarios for your design. All you need to do is add a picture in the blank space, and you’re sorted.

Check out these Mother’s Day Poster Templates below.

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Mother's Day Poster Template

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Design Idea 10: Use Black and White Picture in Your Mother’s Day Poster Design

Black and white is a timeless combination that adds a touch of nostalgia to any artwork. Using colored floral patterns on the borders is brilliant color coordination that makes a design effortlessly unique.

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Design Idea 11: Design with Appealing Typography

Typography is the art of placing letters and words to express a design’s meaning, mood, and tone in a visually attractive way. It can change a design’s whole look and feel.

For example, the letter ‘O’ in the Mother’s Day Poster Template below looks captivating.

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Design Idea 12: Out of the Box Mother’s Day Poster Design

When I say “out of the box,” I mean it! Frames are meant to contain your cherished moments captured in photographs. But you’re free to break the rules and can make your picture pop out of the frame!

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Loved these Mother’s Day designs? Customize them by following the graphic design tips.

How to Design a Mother’s Day Poster with DocHipo

In this section, you’ll learn how to create a Mother’s Day Poster in a simple three-step process. If you’re trying DocHipo for the first time, enter your email address and a password to sign up. Otherwise, log in with your credentials, and you’ll be on the ‘All Templates’ page.

STEP 1: Choose a Mother’s Day Poster Template

You can either click on the ‘Business Essentials’ category on the left sidebar and select ‘Poster’ or start typing ‘Poster’ and click on the result.

Search for Poster

The poster templates in DocHipo are categorized into various industries and occasions, such as music, new year, sale, school, conference, business, gym, car sales, etc. Let’s select Mother’s Day category.

Poster Templates

If you wish to make a Mother’s Day Poster from scratch, select the ‘Blank Template.’ But the best way is to explore all the Mother’s Day Poster Templates and hover over the one you love the most to preview or select it.

Preview Poster Templates
Select Poster Templates

Now, provide a readily accessible document name and a brief description.

Add Document Information

STEP 2: Customize Your Chosen Mother’s Day Poster Template

You can customize each design aspect of your chosen template utilizing our online poster maker. In the DocHipo editor, you’ll drag and drop the design widgets you need for your poster making on Mother’s Day. Let’s explore them one by one.

Edit the Text

To edit any existing text in the template, select it and replace it with a Mother’s Day wish straight from your heart. If you need to add additional text, select the text widget from the left sidebar and proceed.

Text Widget

Once you’ve added the text, you’ll see multiple editing options in the above panel, such as changing the font family, size, color, alignment, text-shadow, border, etc. Here, we’re editing the font family and size.

Text Editing Options

Click on the three horizontal dots for more text editing options, such as changing the opacity, adding lists, clickable links, etc.

Text Editing Options

Watch our quick tutorial on adding, editing, or deleting text in DocHipo.

Replace the Picture

Select the ‘Uploads’ widget under the ‘Graphics and Media’ section on the left sidebar to add your most cherished photograph with your mother. 

Uploads Widget

The acceptable image file formats are JPG, PNG, GIF, and SVG, and the maximum file size should be 5 MB.

Upload Picture

After uploading the picture from your device, drag and drop it into the editor.

Replace Existing Picture

You can reposition and resize the picture with the drag-and-drop tool if needed.

Reposition and Resize the Picture

Now the design looks like the following:

Mother's Day Poster after Repositioning and Resizing the Picture

Refer to this video while uploading images in DocHipo.

You can enhance images to make them more stunning and reflect your desired emotion.

Alternatively, watch our quick video on enhancing your picture with DocHipo filters.

Customize the Color

You can customize the color of the background and design elements, such as shapes, etc., used in the template. To change the background color, go to the ‘Background’ widget under the ‘Graphics and Media’ section. 

Background Widget

As you can see below, it is categorized into color, gradient, and pattern. 

Background

You can put the color hex code in the space provided or click the color icon to explore the theme colors.

Change Background Color

Click the above color palette icon to further experiment with custom colors.

Custom Colors

You may experiment with background color and the opacity of the picture to reflect different vibes.

Change the Picture Opacity

To change the color of other design elements, like the rectangular shape, select it and click on the color icon in the editing panel.

You may check out How to Create Stunning Background for a detailed guide.

Change Shape Color
Change Shape Color

Similarly, let’s change the text color that best fits its background shape color.

Change Text Color

If you want to add icons, shapes, lines, etc., you’ll find everything under the ‘Graphics and Media’ section.

Here’s a quick guide on using icons in DocHipo.

Refer to the video below while decorating your design with lines from DocHipo’s library.

STEP 3: Download Your Mother’s Day Poster Design

Once you are happy with your Mother’s Day Poster design, click on the horizontal dots to preview it to ensure everything is okay. Next, download it as a high-quality PDF file for printing.

Download Mother's Day Poster Design
Download Mother's Day Poster Design

Mother’s Day Poster Design before Customization:

Mother’s Day Poster Design before Customization

Mother’s Day Poster Design after Customization:

Mother’s Day Poster Design after Customization:

Final Words

Hopefully, you loved the Mother’s Day poster ideas shared above. And now that you know how to make a Mother’s Day Poster easily, sign up to DocHipo and explore all the templates. Choose a template where you can best showcase your memories with your mother for a family cel. Make this Mother’s Day more special and memorable for all the mother figures in your life.