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Valentines Day is either loved, loathed, or feared. Very much dependent on your relationship status and financial health, Valentines Day can be a fun day spent with someone special, or a frustrating experience marked by expensive gifts, annoying Hallmark-style romance, and utterly eventless dates.

Still, with a few small changes it’s possible to make even the most frugal Valentines Day interesting. Whether you’re a busy worker or a broke student, these three Valentines Day ideas should give you plenty of things to do with your partner, without forcing you to spend big or take a huge break from your day.

Don’t send a card; send an eCard.

Cards are cute, that’s for sure, but they’re also ridiculously expensive and not a particularly long lasting gesture. Instead of spending big on a preprinted card, why not send a customized eCard to your Valentines Day date? Besides the convenience, there are some major advantages to sending an eCard.

Firstly, you’ll be able to deliver something that’s 100% customizable and unique. Instead of a store-bought card that thousands of other people are getting, your date will end up with something special, personal, and more interesting.

You’ll also be eliminating paper waste. It’s nice to have a card for a week or two, but after a while it’s going to get thrown out. Eliminate waste by delivering an online card, free of printing costs, wasted paper, or delivery resources.

Instead of going out for dinner, have a romantic meal at home.

If any guys out there are worried about appearing cheap by eating at home, stop and reexamine the situation. Girls love a guy that can cook, and are going to be much more impressed with a fantastic home-cooked dinner than they would be with a flashy 5-star restaurant meal. Spend some time practicing major dishes, and then create something special for your Valentines Day date instead of the cliche dinner and drinks at a restaurant.

For the girls, the same situation applies. If you’re boyfriend isn’t treating you to a night out or in, take it into your own hands and make a romantic date for yourselves at home.

Don’t give a gift; give an experience.

Valentines Day is supposed to be about togetherness, love, and connections, which is why the idea of giving a gift seems to absurd and inappropriate. Gifts are great, especially if they’re something that really prove useful, but they’re not exactly the best expression of love and connection.

When we stop and think about people we love, it’s not their gifts that we remember, but our experiences with them. Instead of making Valentines Day another forgettable holiday with a cookie-cutter gift, why not create a unique experience that isn’t going to be forgotten?

If you are looking for a quick and easy way of sending your personalised greeting cards you need to visit www.ecards.co.uk. Ecards is clicks above the rest when it comes to their free ecards, this is due to their user friendly website which is easy to navigate around when you are looking for great free ecards to send.

The website allows you to search through their selection of creative designs for all occasions and then you can add your own pictures as well as messages.

Once you have designed your cards all you need to do it click send and then they will be e-mailed out straight away, no waiting around for snail mail or postal workers who decide to choose when they do or don’t work!

There is no limit to the amount of ecards you can send so get designing and clicking! And after all the money you have probably spent over christmas sending free personalised cards is a great way to watch your spends during January whilst staying in touch with people during those special occasions, or just to say hello!

During the recent snow and ice conditions, many people have been staying at home to avoid risking the drive to work in the hazardous conditions, but have you ever stopped to think about your poor postman as you sit snuggled up in front of the fire watching TV on your ‘snow’ day off, and your letters still fall through the door?!

Most postmen are still battling through the snow and ice, some of them still sporting shorts… to get your cards and letters to you on time! But give them a break! How about whilst you are sat on the sofa watching TV, you also visit www.ecards.co.uk and send some of your personalised cards via the internet, this way you can save time, money and also, your poor postman may also have a rest from this weather!

Ecards have a large selection of personalised birthday cards, romantic cards, mothers and fathers day cards and general greetings cards, so give them a visit today for cheap, fast and convenient communication, even in ice and snow!

Everyone has one of those friends… the one that knows everything about everything, ‘Have you seen that new…’ ‘Have you tried that new…’ ‘Have you heard about…’, well in 2010, how about you introduce that friend to ecards.

You can be sure the person that receives the ecard will be amazed, especially now there are designs that are animated, for example you can create an animated card with a moving 3D object, such as a moving car, falling snow or twinkling lights – far more entertaining than receiving a piece of cardboard!

So now get sending personalised cards in 2010 to all your web savvy friends, without having to rely on any postal services, the only downside to this is you now have no excuse for not getting cards to your friends on the special occasions throughout the year!                                                   

Greeting cards are sent all year round for many different occasions, whether it be christmas, easter, birthdays, weddings, special events or just to say hello, every year millions of cards are sent to mark special occasions and keep in contact with loved ones! Ecards.co.uk are now promoting economical personalised cards during 2010, asking you to send your special occasion cards via e-mail, than ruining the planet sending cards that are appreciated for a few days and then thrown into the bin.

Technology is quickly transforming our world into a modern environment, where everything is quicker and it is easier to stay in touch, rather than waiting around for the post, make sending free e cards to your loved ones one of your new year resolutions! You could even start your new year resolutions by sending a ‘Happy New Year’ ecard, introduce www.ecards.co.uk to your friends and get them saving the planet and money, as ecards are economical in relation to the planet as well as expenditure!

You can visit the website and choose from a numerous selection of birthday cards, new year cards, romantic cards and christmas cards that are all available free of any costs! What more could you ask for when the pennies are tight after Christmas!

Five reasons why you should send a Christmas ecard this year!

1)      Do It Yours-elf

How many times have you walked into a card shop and walked out within five minutes, frustrated at the choice on offer? With the fabulous Face-It application at Ecards.co.uk, you can personalise your Christmas card just the way you want it. Stick your face, a celebrity face, or even the mugshot of your card recipient onto your card design, slotting nicely into a range of funky animated templates!

 

2)      Short of cash? Snow problem

Christmas cards sent online via Ecards.co.uk are totally, 100% free! And you can send as many as you like. The festive season can bring undue financial pressures so take a weight off your shoulders and cut out the £3 here, £2 there of Christmas card buying and send them all stress-free via the web.

 3)      Come in from the cold

I don’t know about you but the hustle and bustle of Christmas shopping can drive me insane! You can’t move, the queues are too long, and it’s absolutely freezing outside! Why not grab your laptop, sit in the comfort of your warm, cosy living room and sort out the Christmas cards for this year all at the click of a button, without spending a penny.

 4)      Yule be in their good books

Can tangible Christmas cards sing and dance? No! Ecards have come on leaps and bounds in recent years and they’re guaranteed to entertain and make your recipient chuckle. Ecards.co.uk have a huge variety of animated cards to choose from, whether you’re after something funny, soppy, sexy or just generic! Give them something different this year – they’ll love it!

 

5)      Green is the new red

By the time Epiphany comes along, we’re left with bin bags full of Christmas clutter from wrapping paper, food packaging, Christmas cards and all those savaged envelopes. The damning fact of the matter is that most of us are still not recycling, so do your bit for the the planet this year send a free Christmas ecard! Totally environmentally-friendly, and no trees are hurt in their production!

The problem with most Christmas cards is that they’re only semi-relevant. By the nature of the market, companies that crank out hundreds of greeting cards have to ensure that they appeal to as many people as possible. We’re not all interested in the same things, and cards that are designed to appeal to everyone don’t always have any special characteristics that make them particularly relevant.

With an ecard, it’s all different. There’s no reason for ecards to cater to everyone – they’re digital so companies don’t need to produce thousands at once. As a result, you can create a card that’s 100% tailored to whoever you’re sending it to.

Don’t worry about a one-size-fits-all message, use an ecard and have an ultra-exclusive message winging its way to your friends and family this Christmas.

And to think of all the money he could have saved at Ecards.co.uk!
It’s been revealed that Blackburn MP Jack Straw spent almost £1,700 of taxpayers’ cash on official Christmas cards, last year.

The Justice Secretary told MPs in a written parliamentary answer that £1,695 was spent on 3,800 printed cards and 400 ecards which were sent on behalf of ministers, MoJ headquarters and the Office for the Public Guardian.

His profligacy has been slammed by various Blackburn residents who are up in arms about their money being frittered away when other options, such as free ecards at Ecards.co.uk, would have done the job.
“You do keep putting your foot in it don’t you, Jack” said a commenter on the local Blackburn news website, whilst another poster - named Darren - simply said: “What a bloody disgrace.”

Everyone loves to take photographs and edit them. From changing faces and bodies of your friends to retouching photographs, everyone has done photo editing at one time or the other. There are thousands of things you can do with your photographs in softwares like Photoshop. However, not everyone knows how to work with PhotoShop as it is too complex for most of the photo editing enthusiast. But worry no more fellow photo-editor, here are some of the most awesome online tools to help you do stuff with your photographs absolutely free and with a little effort.

1) PhotoFunia

Ever wanted your photo to be featured on a Magazine or on a hot chick’s T-Shirt, you can do so on this website. Choose from over 200 templates. You just have to choose an effect, upload your photograph and save the edited photographs. Most of the templates on PhotoFunia are face detection enabled which eases the editing job further.

2) Aviary Phoenix

Phoenix is the image editing baby of Aviary, one of the most popular sites that allows you to work with photographs. You can do pretty much everything on Phoenix that you can do on PhotoShop but a lot more easily and without using your system resources.

3) JpgFun

This website has a lot of templates and photo frames you can add to your photographs. Select an effect, upload photograph, adjust it and you have a fancy photograph that you can use to amaze your friends. (Jpgfun.com)

4) BeFunky

BeFunky is the best website to create artistic photographs out of ordinary photographs. Using BeFunky, you can “turn your photos into incredible artwork with one click”.

5) Picnik

Want to give your photographs that final re-touch it needs, or, would you like to fix red-eye or fine-tune your photographs. Picnik will let you do all this without much work. Picnik also has an option that lets you ‘auto-fix’ your photographs.

6) PhotoShop Express

PhotoShop Express is the online version of Adobe’s PhotoShop but playing with the online version is a lot more fun as you get to share your image mashups with your friends via FaceBook, Flickr or you get to send it to your mobile. Adobe also gives you 2 GBs of free storage for your edited photographs. Fix, tune, tint your photograph with this amazing app.

7) Dumpr

Want to have your face on a Rubik’s Cude, or would you like to make funny photographs of your pals? Checkout Dumpr, they have some good template you can choose from. While most of them are free, some of them can be used by only premium members.

Do you know of any other online image editors? And did you know that we also have a small app on our main website that lets you upload your photographs and insert them into eCards and send them to your friends and family.

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Hello everyone!

I hope you all looked after you Mums on Mothering Sunday this year? Now it is Dads turn! It is never too early to start thinking about ways to treat and surprise your Dad on Fathers Day. Why not try sending your Dad one of our great free Father’s Day ecard this year? We have plenty to choose from, so you are sure to find one that your Dad will love.

A fantastic Father’s Day ecard greeting to send is Father’s Day Car. After the recipient has clicked on the envelope to open the card we see a happy Dad driving along a country road when he comes across a sign post, “Dad’s get called by different names”. Various names pop up including, ‘Daddy’ ‘The Old Fella’ and finally ‘Super Dad’! This is a lovely ecard - with a sweet message to show your Dad how much you care and value him.

If you want to add a little extra personal touch to your Fathers Day e-Card then our fantastic ‘Face It’ family of greeting cards is the perfect choice. Choose from great cards such as Father’s Day Golf, Motoring Madness, and Football Fun for Fathers Day. All of these greetings allow you to upload a photograph of your Dad and make him the starring feature in his own card. A great way to show you care whilst incorporating some humor and that extra personal touch.

What ever you decide to do to treat your Dad on Father’s Day this year, have fun and keep in mind all the help and support he has given you over the years.  Watch this space for more updates on Father’s Day electronic greeting cards over the next few weeks!