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Valentine's Day with MyCardMaker

Healdsburg, CA - There are countless words to express love, yet finding a greeting card that perfectly captures your sentiments isn't always easy with store-bought Valentines. On the delightfully easy web site, MyCardMaker.com, visitors can customize their affections by turning their own photos and heartfelt words into one-of-a-kind Valentines. Or they can choose from dozens of art cards, from the silly to the sublime, allowing visitors to make fast and affordable cards they can print right at home.

The do-it-yourself site, established five years ago, gives guests endless possibilities for creating unique, personalized cards for Valentine's Day, as well as holidays, birthdays, anniversaries, graduations and everything in between, including party invitations. And, for large quantities (think classroom sharing and Valentine parties), you can order your cards professionally printed and delivered to your door.

An engaging interface loaded with stylish and fun customization tools helps users choose from new and exclusive cover art, or upload their own digital photos and paint-box art onto the card covers before adding personal messages and printing the cards on their home or office printers. From start to finish, the whole process usually takes only a few minutes.

"Ease of use and speed is the biggest benefit. You can make a professional looking greeting card in about 40 seconds," says Tim Letscher, the lead web designer for MyCardMaker.com.

Since its inception, Letscher notes that the company has tracked more than 14 million card printouts from tracking devices that determine who's clicking onto the site's "print buttons." Valentine's Day cards, he notes, account for as much traffic on the site as those signing on to make Christmas, birthday and Mother's Day cards.

Unlimited capability for card making is available at $3.99 for daily membership, allowing you to create and print as many cards as you like within a 24-hour period. An annual membership, only $19.99, allows users to unleash their creativity as occasions, large or small, arise throughout the calendar year, with no limit on the cards you can make and print. It's a significant savings when compared to the cost of a single box of seasonal or holiday cards at retail stores.

There are more member benefits. Once a card is created, the project is saved for future use. And, for those who tend to wait until the last minute, a reminder service notifies members by email of upcoming birthdays, anniversaries, graduations and other card-worthy days. Mycardmaker.com is also very "kid friendly," offering a fun mixture of line art that children can print out and color.

MyCardMaker, owned by DoodleLab recently added new art cards (bringing the total choices to over 300 designs), plus new photo borders and font styles. Users can also incorporate their own graphics into the cards, using jpeg, gif, tiff, png or bitmap files from their hard drives.

"The whole idea is to get in and get out of the web site and end up with unique, customized greeting cards or invitations that are printed at home to your exact liking," adds Letscher.

My Card Maker makes a great resource for seasonal online activity and card-making arts and crafts features for the entire family. For more information or to arrange an interview, contact Frank Sabatini Jr. or Brooke Schumacher at 800-250-1630.