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Mother's Day Card (Minimalist Flat Illustration) Prompt

Upload a photo of your mom and this prompt turns her into a minimalist flat-illustration greeting card — simplified shapes, dot eyes, a few solid color blocks, lots of negative space — with deadpan, quietly absurd humor instead of the usual sappy 'mom' clichés. The example pairs her with a wry note about dinner; the style invites your own inside joke.

Prompt

Use the uploaded photo loosely as reference — preserve the mother's hair, skin tone, and main identifying features. Create a Mother's Day greeting card. Compose around the mother so she is unmistakably the main subject. Include only the person visible in the uploaded photo. Use a minimal, simple, flat-color alternative-comic illustration style with clean uniform hand-drawn linework. Simplify the figure to basic shapes; use minimal facial features (dot eyes, a simple nose, small mouth) with slightly clumsy proportions. Use a small number of solid color blocks for contrast. Centered composition with plenty of negative space; no background detail. Overall tone: straight-faced, emotionally neutral, with quiet absurdity. Humor should come from implied odd logic, awkward visual relationships, or treating small things too seriously — not slapstick. Add subtle situational humor based on pose, more observational than exaggerated. Include small simple text placed casually, with a deadpan matter-of-fact absurd tone. No shadows, no textures, no fine rendering, NO coffee-related elements. Avoid common cultural clichés or stereotypes about motherhood; do not rely on typical 'mom' tropes. Add 'Happy Mother's Day' in uneven handwritten lettering.

How to customize

Why it works: it preserves just enough identity (hair, skin tone, key features) while flattening everything else, and explicitly bans shadows, textures, and motherhood stereotypes — so the card feels personal and modern, not generic.
Tune it: keep the photo as loose reference, then write your own short, matter-of-fact caption; the drier and more specific the line, the funnier the card.
Variation: retarget it for Father's Day, a birthday, or a friend by changing the greeting text and the small situational prop.

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