Personalised gifts for Mum that aren't another candle

Mum has enough candles and enough bath sets. A personalised print does a different job: it uses her own kids, her own photos or her own name for herself, instead of something she'll use once and forget.

We make every one of these by hand in our studio in Hessle, working from the names or photos you send us. You get a proof by email before anything goes to print, so a spelling mistake or a badly cropped photo gets caught before it's too late. Here are six ideas, with the real prices from the shop, and every design works as a simple print on its own or framed in black, white or grey.

1. A fist bump from every child

The Mother's Fist Bump Print puts Mum's hand together with up to five children's hands in one fist bump, with a skin tone option from A to D or greyscale, so it actually looks like your family. There's a pet paw option too, so the dog or cat can join in. It starts at £8 as an email PDF and goes up to £31 framed on A3 with a grey mount. Tell us how many hands you need, the skin tones, and your title and names when you order.

2. Her own photo, her own name for it

The Mum Photo Print keeps things simple: you upload a photo, choose whether she goes by Mum or Mummy, and we do the rest. It starts at £14 as an A4 print and goes up to £31 framed on A3 with a grey mount. It suits a mum who'd rather see one photo done well than a busy collage.

3. Three photos, kept simple

The World's Best Mum Photo Print asks for three photos and lays them out cleanly under the title, no extra wording needed. It starts at £10 as an A5 print, up to £31 framed on A3 with a grey mount. If you've got three favourites and can't choose between them, this is the easy option.

4. Six photos, and a mood you choose

The Mother's Love Photo Print takes six photos and lets you choose black and white or full colour, so you can decide whether it reads as a warm keepsake or a bright family gallery. It starts at £10 as an A5 print and goes up to £31 framed on A3 with a grey mount. It's the one to pick if you want the wider family story on the wall, rather than a single moment.

5. For the mum who blended two families

The World's Best Step-Mum Photo Print takes seven photos, which gives a blended family enough room to actually fit everyone in, rather than squeezing a step-mum's photo in as an afterthought. It starts at £10 as an A5 print, up to £31 framed on A3 with a grey mount. Upload the photos, and we'll lay them out for you.

6. For someone else's mum

The Mother-in-Law Photo Collage Print is easy to overlook when you're gift shopping for your own side of the family, but it's worth the five minutes. Upload six photos and we'll collage them together under the title, from £10 as an A5 print up to £31 framed on A3 with a grey mount. It's a small way to say the effort wasn't just for your own mum this year.

How we make them

Every print here is made to order in our studio in Hessle (HU13), by the two of us, Lee and Sam. You send us the names or photos, and we send back a proof by email before anything is printed, so you can check a spelling or swap a photo before it's too late to change. The frames are solid wood, made in the UK, in black, white or grey, and the front is 1.2mm acrylic rather than glass, so a frame knocked off a shelf or hung above a bed won't shatter. Because each one is personalised, they can't be returned for a change of mind, which is exactly why the proof matters.

Where to start

Start with the photos you have and let that decide the design. One favourite photo suits the Mum Photo Print, a handful of little hands suits the Fist Bump Print, and a bigger set of photos suits the Mother's Love Photo Print or the Step-Mum Photo Print. You'll find all of these, plus frame and size options, in our Mother's Day collection, and the wider family prints collection.

If it's Dad's turn next, our guide to personalised gifts for Dad covers the same idea from his side, and if you'd rather browse the full range of framed photo options first, personalised photo prints walks through those too.

• A fist bump from up to five kids: Mother's Fist Bump Print, plus a pet paw option, from £8.

• One photo, her choice of Mum or Mummy: Mum Photo Print, from £14.

• Three photos, laid out cleanly: World's Best Mum Photo Print, from £10.

• Six photos, black and white or colour: Mother's Love Photo Print, from £10.

• Seven photos, for a blended family: World's Best Step-Mum Photo Print, from £10.

• Six photos, for a mother-in-law: Mother-in-Law Photo Collage Print, from £10.