Notes from a Designer: anti valentine

Friday, January 11, 2013

Anti-Valentine Fun

OK so you're more the "anti-Valentine's Day" type?

Here are a few of our favorite anti-Valentine (or AntiVD, as I like to call it) greeting cards for your amusement. Click on any image (including the one above) to learn more or to purchase. (Caution: some of these are a bit risque!)

Valentine Card - Skulls and Broken Heart

Most of these are from Zazzle, so you can buy just one (the exception is the very top "voodoo" one), or you can save if you want to buy in bulk.

Valentine's Day, Ain't Nobody Got Time For Dat Card

No, You're Not on My Bucket List Tshirt Card

OK so Valentine's day is looming, with all its saccharine hearts and flowers and fakey sentiments. Ugh! Believe it or not there are a lot of folks out there who hate Valentine's Day and actively celebrate Anti-Valentine's Day. There are even websites out there devoted to it. We say that's great, to each his or her own! So what should you do to celebrate anti-VD?

* Dress in black or dark violet. Veils and long capes are perfect.

* Paint your fingernails black. Paint your lips black.

* Listen to heavy metal -- Black Sabbath is great.

* Put dead flowers around your house or on your office desk.

* Leave out a bowl of very very sour candy.

Here's some very cool anti-VD stuff out there on the web: