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Valentine eCards – Paper Cut Heart and Red Typewriter

We are happy to announce two new ecards just in time for Valentine’s Day that can also be used for many other general greetings such as birthdays, anniversaries or just to let someone know you are thinking of them.

Paper Cut Heart is a clean modern card with hearts cut out of paper that flutter and pull just the right amount at your heart strings. If you have been looking for a Valentine’s card that doesn’t feel sappy or mushy, this is the card for you. The card has the feel and look of real paper with texture and heft that will almost make your forget this is not actually a paper card.


Paper Cut Heart
Red Typewriter

Many of you had asked for the popular “Telegram” ecard to be able to have any greeting choice like most of our cards. Initially this was not possible, since we carefully animated the exact greeting that was typed in the card. For our updated version Red Typewriter we have given the typewriter a hot new makeover, and now you can write whatever greeting you would like. The little coal tits deliver a delicate arrangement of spring blooms, perfect for all spring occasions, including valentines, birthdays, congrats, get well wishes and many more.

Here are all our Valentine eCards.

Spring and Valentine e-Cards

Valentine’s Day is just a few days away and we recently added two new cards to the site. Both are great for sending to just about anyone on Valentine’s Day, as well as anytime in general.

“Fortune Cookie” features an encore of the extremely popular rats that made their debut in our Christmas card a few months ago. This time they are whipping up some fun in the kitchen, making fortune cookies so you can include your very own fortune cookie message!

Fortune Cookie

Growing up we used to look forward to the first little snowdrops announcing that spring was finally closer; we would pick them, dry them in a book and when Valentine’s Day came around we would include them in traditional delicate paper cut greetings for friends and classmates. “Messengers of Spring” takes this tradition and brings it to you as an ecard – so now you don’t have to wait for the snowdrops to appear or fiddle with delicate paper cuts, unless of course this card inspires you to!

Messengers of Spring

Here are our other Valentine ecards.

Happy Valentine’s Day

With many parts of the United States, Europe and the rest of the northern hemisphere receiving an unusual amount of snow, I hope you will enjoy the three new cards we have added to our site. Although it may not feel like it, spring is not far off, and so I wanted this year’s Valentine cards to be full of the positive and hopeful feeling that spring symbolizes to me.

The first card, “Flutter”, features apple blossoms, songbirds and a full bouquet of butterflies. The birds and many of the butterflies in this card were conjured up from my own imagination, so no need to ask what kind they are 🙂

Flutter

“Al Fresco” opens with a fresh green beech bud opening to reveal a perfect setting for a picnic for two. Love and spring are in the air – enough said.

Al Fresco

“Sidewalk Cafe” is more urban, set at a sidewalk cafe and to “La Vie en Rose” performed by real French street musicians.

Sidewalk Cafe

All three cards were created with Valentine Day in mind, but are also well suited for many other occasions. We wanted the cards to be both suitable for sending to friends and relatives but also for that special someone in your life.

Best wishes for a Happy Valentine Day!

Valentine Day eCards

Like most women I confess I love flowers – so much so I would have a hard time picking a favorite flower. When I was about six I ‘surprised’ my grandmother with a sand cake I had decorated with loads and loads of flowers I picked from her garden. It is clear from the photograph taken on that occasion that she had to try really hard to smile although I couldn’t tell then. So it is no surprise that the flowers steal the show in my two newest cards both intended for Valentine’s Day, although they are suitable for many other occasions as well.

The first card, “Enchanted”, is a mixed media project featuring hand painted tulips set against a collage background. It can be used for anyone to send a Valentines greeting but also for all other general occasions.

Enchanted

Mandarin Ducks share the stage with the colorful display of wisteria in full bloom in the second card, which has a slightly humorous twist to it. Although it is intended for Valentines it is also suitable for many other occasions.

Mandarin Ducks

A Joke For the Valentine’s Day


A guy walks into a post office one day to see a middle-aged, balding man standing at the counter methodically placing “Love” stamps on bright pink envelopes with hearts all over them.

He then takes out a perfume bottle and starts spraying scent all over them.

His curiosity getting the better of him, he goes up to the balding man and asks him what he is doing. The man says “I’m sending out 1,000 Valentine cards signed, ‘Guess who?'”

“But why?” asks the man.

“I’m a divorce lawyer,” the man replies.

Politically correct Valentine card

Created by Jon Gledstone, 26, of Hertford, Herts, here is a PC version of a Valentine card message that should not offend anyone, except those without a sense of humor:-)

“Please accept with no obligation my nonsexually harassing, potentially platonic Valentine’s regards as a token of my/our love, lust or friendship within a relationship that we may or may not choose to be monogamous, whilst understanding that the romantic sentiment that it signifies does in no way guarantee the success or progression of the said relationship over any length of time. The sender reserves the right to remain anonymous.”

A Box To Hold Valentines

With the Valentine’s Day coming up, Kathy Antoniotti from Beacon Journal wrote an article on how to create a container to hold valentines from your well-wishers in Sweetheart of a box for cards.

Creating a box to hold your valentines can be as easy or difficult as you choose. To make one like this, cover a cardboard box with scrapbook paper and decorate it with stickers. My decorations might not appeal to all children, but the instructions can be used with any design you prefer…

Paper cards vs ecards

According to An e-card for Valentine’s Day? Honestly, you shouldn’t have, ecards and paper cards are not the same.

Cedric Chin-Yick won’t soon forget the year he sent his wife an e-card for her
birthday. She made her disapproval quite clear.

“She prefers the hard copy. It’s substantial. It’s a material thing,” Mr. Chin-Yick, 44, said Tuesday as he fought the crowds shopping for Valentine’s Day at a Carlton Cards store in downtown Toronto. But he noted that he’ll back up the paper card with an electronic one.

Despite dire predictions a decade ago that e-cards would lead to the demise of the traditional card business, the two have found a happy co-existence. While Valentine’s Day is the busiest day of the year for electronic cards, many shoppers wouldn’t think of sending their sweetheart an online greeting.

“It certainly has not ended the card business,” said Sally Babcock, general manager of americangreetings.com, whose parent company also operates Carlton Cards stores. “What we see is that people send e-cards to different people than they’re sending paper cards to. They also supplement their card-sending with an e-card.”

However, there are many reasons to use ecards.

  • Artistic, animated ecards can express your sentiments that may be difficult to do through words only. Sometimes a picture, a video or an animation is worth more than a thousand words.

    “Of the many, many ways to express loving feelings, the Japanese red crowned cranes’ dance and the graceful movements of trumpeter swans are among the most beautiful.” – About.com”

  • Ecards are environment friendly.
  • For the friends, coworkers, and business contacts that you don’t generally send paper cards, you can send ecards to keep in touch.
  • In the countries where the post mail is not reliable, the ecards get there on time.
  • You can save time and money on the paper cards and postage. No more trips to the store to pick out cards and waiting in line at the post office.

    • Are men afraid of greeting cards?

    According to Lisa Earle McLeod of www.forgetperfect.com in her Greeting card paralysis reaches all time high, the answer is a definitely yes!

    It’s no coincidence that as the more verbose half of the species, women buy and send more cards than men do. According to Hallmark’s research, 82 percent of all greeting cards are purchased by women.

    …..

    Women believe that if a guy really loves you, he’ll choose a card that expresses the subtle nuances of his innermost thoughts and yearnings, creatively set to rhyme and emblazoned with meaningful graphics.

    And woe unto the man who thinks that a simple “Happy Valentine’s Day” is enough. Unless it’s scribbled on the bottom of first-class plane tickets to Paris or etched on the key ring of a Lexus, most women think that it takes more than three words to express true love.

    But there are hopes.

    If you’re a man, the card aisle often feels like a paper minefield of potentially hazardous female emotions. But don’t let fear or insecurity stand in the way of slaying the Valentine dragon. All most women really want is for you to tell her that you love her with your heart and soul.

    And if you’re a woman and the words on his card aren’t quite right, remember they were written by a hired hack in a cube at Hallmark. But the act of braving a store and buying it for you were courageously undertaken by the nervous man clutching the paper heart.