Spring has sprung – yesterday to be exact and we’re heading into April already! I’ve put together some important dates and April birthdays tidbits just for you. Do you know people who are celebrating April Birthdays? Stop by to see us at CardCycle.com and we’ll be happy to help you with cards and gifts for your April birthdays.

April 2010 Dates To Remember:
Thursday, April 1st – April Fool’s Day
Sunday, April 4th – Easter
Wednesday, April 21st – Administrative Professional’s Day
Thursday, April 22nd – Earth Day

Spring Has Sprung And It's Time For April Birthdays

About April Birthdays: 
Horoscope Signs: Aries: March 21 – April 19 Taurus: April 20 – May 20
April Birthstone: Diamond
April Flower of the Month: Sweet Pea, Daisy

Some Famous April Birthdays:
(maybe your special person has a birthday in common with these famous ones)
Jon Gosselin April 1 1977
Hans Christian Andersen April 2 1805
Alec Baldwin April 3 1958
Hugh Hefner April 9 1926

Parisian Florist Pop-Up Card New For Spring Birthdays,Mother's Day,and Thank You

Leonardo da Vinci April 15 1452
Martin Lawrence April 16 1965
Jennifer Garner April 17 1972
Elizabeth II, Queen of England April 21 1926
Jack Nicholson April 22 1937
William Shakespeare April 23 1564
Kelly Clarkson April 24 1982
Carol Burnett April 26 1933
Jerry Seinfeld April 29 1954

April Is Also:
National Kite Flying Month (Spring has sprung, afterall! No better time to fly a kite)
National Poetry Month

Now that Spring has sprung, I just wanted to give you a heads up about what’s happening in April! Don’t forget those April birthdays , Easter, and administrative professional’s day. As always, let us know if we can help you with your cards and gifts at cardcycle.com. Have a great week and thanks for stopping by! Happy Spring
-Jennifer

For many people, losing a pet is like losing a best friend.

For many people, losing a pet can be a very difficult time.  Sending a pet sympathy card to your friend with the perfect sympathy wording for the loss of a pet is a must.  Not only will it honor their “best friend” but it will also make them feel that they aren’t crazy for loving their pet so much.

Whether you are a pet lover or not, here are some ideas for words of comfort to include in a pet sympathy card during this tough time for you friend.  Love is love.  It doesn’t matter if you choose to love a cat, dog or parakeet.  At the end of the day it is about all the smiles you provide to your loved ones.

If you’re looking for the right words to include in a pet sympathy card, try some of these suggestions courtesy of sympathy-sayings-quotes-and-phrases.com.

Some more helpful hints….

• Share memories- Let them discuss and ask them to share happy memories with their pet.
• Send a sympathy basket- Let your friend who is grieving know you care shows support.
• Encourage them to open up- Keeping the pain inside will make the healing process last even longer. Listen to what they have to say.
• Support Group- Sometimes friends are not enough and they might need to share with people who are experiencing the same loss.
• Help out- Lend your help in any area they may need it.

It's important to send your friend a pet sympathy card.

At CardCycle.com we carry a full line of pet sympathy cards to help you express your words of support.  We make it easy for you to send a card now with your own personal message.  If you choose, we’ll handwrite the card for you, address the envelope in handwritten text with your return address, and stamp and take the card to the post office for you.  Or we can mail the blank card directly to you so you can send it yourself or give it in person.

As always, contact me if I can help you with your pet sympathy card needs.

Win a Free $25 Starbucks National Gift Card

In honor of our new national gift card category on cardcycle.com, we are proud to present our latest contest for you to enter!  It’s simple to enter, just visit www.cardcycle.com and on the right hand side of the page enter your first and last name and e-mail address so we can contact you when you win.   That’s it, it’s that easy!

National gift cards are a great addition to your greeting card.  If you have someone special who is celebrating a birthday or other occasion soon, show them you care by sending them a greeting card now.  We help you and make it easy for you by handwriting  your message in the card, signing your name and handwriting the address on the envelope with your return address.  We even take it to the post office and mail it for you, postage is included with all greeting card purchases!   So what are you waiting for?  Send a national gift card today with one of our high quality and unique greeting cards and “Share The Love”!

It seems like we just had Christmas and New Year’s and already it’s time to shop for Valentine’s Day cards and gifts!  Make it easy on yourself this year and send your card and gift using cardcycle.com.  We’ll handwrite the card you pick with your message, handwrite the envelope including putting your return address and mail it for you.  Add a gift with the card and you have a complete Valentine’s Day present for someone special without even leaving your computer!

Have a great week and enjoy the weekly free list:

Acqua Essentials Free Sample Pack

Free Cheese Nips from Walmart

Free Johnson’s Healing Lotion and Body Wash

Free Sample of Clean+Correct Envirogen

Free Star Wars Figures by Mail

Free Perfume Sample (enter code CLEANlucky)

Free Samples from EverSave

Free Lollipop with Valentine’s Day Card Purchase

Free Pikachu-colored Pichu Pokemon

Free Lifestyles Condom Sample

Free Maxim Magazine Subscription

Free Aveeno Nourish Haircare Products

As always, enjoy the free stuff with NO MAIL IN REBATES!

Have a great week!

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• It will help you organize and remember birthdays this year!

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I took the weekend off last week to travel to the California Gift Show to find new and exciting items for my online store, CardCycle.com.  Take a look frequently as we have new items coming in all the time.

We just got in a whole new set of items for Valentine’s Day so if you need a card and gift, please check us out!  We can mail the card and gift for you, directly to your Valentine with your message handwritten in the card and your return address handwritten on the envelope.  This saves you time and money as you don’t need to visit the store and go to the post office. 

Now that the holidays have ended it’s getting a little harder to find items for the free list, but for you guys I managed to do it!  There are some neat things on the free list this week, so be sure to snatch up everything!

Weekly Free List:

Free Personalized Desktop Calendar from Walgreens

Free ‘Love Rocks’ Tattoo

Free MP3 ‘As You Are’ by Healy and Dunlop

Free Online Address Book and E-mail Reminders

Free Religious Books About the End of Time

Free Book ‘Hercolubus or Red Planet’

Free MP3 ’54321′ from Kid Sister

Free MP3 from Fools for Rowan

Free Cellulean Trial

Free Healthy Newborn Manual

Free Science DVDs

Free Album, ’10 Artists to Watch in 2010′

Have a great week and be sure to let me know if I can help you in any way with greeting cards and gifts for your friends, family or coworkers.  If you’re a manager or small business owner, we have great ways to recognize your employees.  You’ll bring a smile to their faces and lift morale!