I cropped the image, preferring a narrow vertical format. I used the rubber stamp feature to eliminate a busy background and wound up with me and the dark background. I preferred to bleed the top and bottom of the photo. Registration with the card stock was chancy, but this ain t missile science. Just the facts.
Simplification is the key.
As I am a watercolourist and I sign my paintings a certain way, I chose my art signature as the logotype of my card. I loaded up my No. 2 watercolour brush with paint and painted my signature about nine times. I selected what I considered the best of the lot. I scanned the logo and placed it with my photo.