A Mother's Day page with a flower that blooms

Most Mother's Day presents are something you hand over. This one is something she opens, and what she opens is a page that is only about her.

The designs

There are three, and each comes in three palettes and three fonts.

Bouquet is a watercolour bouquet. Family album is an old album page with black photo corners, which suits a page full of photos. Jasmine garland is a white garland on calm green, and it is the quietest of the three.

If you plan to add many photos, the album is the natural choice, because the page already looks like somewhere photos belong.

In colours, Bouquet comes in Rose, Blush champagne and Plum; Family album comes in Kraft, Ivory and Sand; Jasmine garland comes in Sage, Royal emerald and Ivory. The fonts are your choice too: Bouquet has Ruqaa, Amiri and Cormorant, and the other designs have three of their own. You can also set the text size to smaller, normal or larger.

How she opens it

Three openers are on offer, and the first is the default.

• Flower bloom. She presses a bud until it opens.
• Hold to open. She presses and holds a circle until the ring fills.
• Greeting card. She opens a card with a tap or a drag.

The flower bloom is the obvious pick. Hold to open is a good choice for someone who is not in a hurry, because the waiting is the point.

What to write

The main content is one letter to her, with space for about 1,500 characters. That is a lot more than a card allows. Write it the way you would say it, in your own dialect, with the specific thing: the lunch she kept warm, the call she always picked up.

Next to the letter there are two more places. You can add up to eight short notes from other people, each signed, and up to twelve photos with captions. If your family is spread across countries, this is an easy way to put everyone on one page without a group chat.

The date on the form is the day of Mother's Day. If you want, say which day you will actually give her the page.

Stock lines are there if you need a start: "You are the safety of the whole home" and "Everything good in us comes from you". They are fine as a first draft. They are better replaced.

Before you send it

Read the letter aloud once before you publish. If a sentence sounds like a greeting card, change it to the sentence you would say at her kitchen table. Also check the photos: a photo where she is laughing beats a posed one. If a photo shows someone who passed away, think about whether today is the day she wants to see it.

The link goes out on WhatsApp like any other. Whoever taps it sees the page open in the phone browser, with nothing to install and no account to make.

Making one

Look at the Mother's Day pages, try the designs, and start with the one that matches the photos you have. You can build and preview the page before you pay anything. Once you publish it, it is open to anyone with the link for 24 hours free. Then it needs a one-time payment by Instapay or a mobile wallet, and the price is on the occasion page.

You can edit for 72 hours after you first publish, or until the day you will give it if that is sooner. Then the page keeps running and closes to changes. If you need to fix a typo after that, write to us and the platform can reopen it.

The page comes in Arabic and in English. For a mother who reads Arabic and a sister who reads English, you can send the same page to both.