Valentine cards! What can be better!!
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Here is comes - St. Valentine’s Day!!! It’s time for sweet gifts and little Valentine cards… time for romantic dinners by candle-light… time for pleasant surprises and unexpected acts… time for happy smiles and affectionate ogles… time to show your feelings… time to give and to receive… time for Him and Her…
Let’s celebrate it together with our sweethearts and dear ones. We all deserve to have the day fully dedicated to the Love and Feelings. We’ve been celebrating Valentine’s Day for ages, but where did the tradition come from? There are different legends we heard, we believe and do not believe. Someone thinks that it’s named after Valentine, a Christian priest who lived in Rome. Because of Emperor Claudius II, who thought that married soldiers were not performing as well as single men wedding ceremonies were forbidden for all potential recruits. It was Valentine who carried on performing this service anyway, and who was killed when his defiance was discovered. That’s why he is thought as a patron of all lovers. Others prefer to believe that Valentine was a prisoner who fell in love with his jailor’s daughter who used to pop in and see him every now and again. Just before his death on February 14th he sent her a heartfelt note, signed, “From your Valentine” and the idea just caught on and now we used to send Valentine cards to our dear ones
There are even thoughts that cards companies created this day to make money (just unbelievable!!). However, according to the Greeting Card Association, an estimated one billion valentine cards are sent each year, making Valentine’s Day the second largest card-sending holiday of the year (after Christmas). Approximately 85 percent of all Valentine cards are purchased by women. (Can you believe that!!!) Valentine cards and greetings were popular as far back as the Middle Ages (written Valentines didn’t begin to appear until after 1400), and one the oldest known Valentine cards is on display at the British Museum. The first commercial Valentine’s Day greeting cards produced in the U.S. were created in the 1840s by Esther A. Howland. Howland, known as the Mother of the Valentine cards, made elaborate creations with real lace, ribbons and colorful pictures known as “scrap”. Nowadays there are lots of cards companies and sites with greeting cards on each occasion and St. Valentine’s Day it particular. However, now most greeting cards are given for free!! You can find lots of Valentine cards in the net: flash animated, ordinary cards, etc.
We want to continue this tradition and present you one of our free Valentine cards - this beautiful free greeting card template. You can use both versions of the card: with written greetings and with blank field for your own words of love. Start presenting your little surprises prepared for her by sending this amazing greeting card. We are sure your sweetheart will estimate it! And do not be surprised if you get one of such Valentine cards in turn. You can download it right now. By the way, it is not the only card we created this year especially for this day. Other Valentine cards and “love you” cards you can find here.
Happy Valentine’s Day!
