Printable Humorous Valentine Cards

From LoveToKnow Dating

Printable humorous Valentine cards help you create or send a Valentine to your best friend, your mom, your girlfriend or your spouse whether they are five feet away or five thousand miles away. The Internet makes many things possible in romance; one of the best gifts is the immediacy of the printable Valentine’s card.

Printable cards let you send your love far and wide.

Pros of Printable Humorous Valentine Cards

The worst thing a person can do on Valentine’s Day is to forget to acknowledge it. For all the remarks that Valentine’s Day is a Hallmark holiday, it does matter when your boyfriend or girlfriend fails to acknowledge the day. It is particularly important when you are far apart and need that connection to remind you that you are loved. Printable, humorous Valentine cards can actually answer that need by letting you send a card across the miles through email or by downloading to your computer, printing them out with some personalizing and hand delivering them yourself.

Printable cards are a little different from e-cards. E-cards send through email. They have scripts that run allowing animations and interactions. They compress well or they don’t need to be sent as attachments at all. You can send an e-card that is just a link in an email and the recipient opens that link on the other side – voila, instant Valentine delivery. Either way, printable cards and e-cards can keep one-half of a couple out of the doghouse.

Cons of Printable Cards

Not all printable cards are attractive and as fun as they can be, if you don’t take the time to personalize them with messages, poems or pictures. Without that, they lose some of that romantic flavor. Younger generations tend to appreciate the printable and e-card more than older couples do, so it is good to know your audience.

If your significant other is not going to find as much joy in the printable or e-card as you might wish, then use it only as a stop-gap measure to let them know you remembered and then make it up to them with a more traditional Valentine gift.

Do It Yourself Cards

With all the advancements in home computers and word processing programs, you can make your own Valentine’s cards at home. If you have a knack for writing silly, rude or romantic poetry, you may be able to create your own printable card at home.

In Microsoft Office 2007, for example, when you create a new document in word it asks you what form to use, choose:

Greeting Cards
Holidays
Scroll through the options to find Valentine’s Cards

If you don’t find a template locally in your install, you can do a search of the Microsoft website for templates that others have uploaded or created. You can then personalize the card and print it out right there at your desk.