Tesco Value Special Occasion Card

March 3rd, 2005, by Rich.

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The Tesco Value Special Occasion Card needs no explanation.

Perfect for the moment when you need to say something for a special occasion, but have (once again) been unable to find an appropriate card after spending hours searching in every card shop.

You did go to the shops, didn’t you?

Send Flowers

Tactical Pre-emptive Advertising: If this card is not suitable for your requirements, you may wish to try your local branch of Tesco, which sells an excellent array of cards, appropriate for all occasions. In fact, if you’d tried them first you’d never have ended up here. If you’ve really messed up, sending flowers is good, I’ve heard.

The card is available in (no less than) four convenient formats:

As a bitmap (PNG), here.
As an Adobe Illustrator (AI / EPS) file, here.
As a Macromedia Flash (SWF) file, here.
As a Generic PostScript (PS) file, here.

Update March ‘06

People have started selling derivatives of this card on ebay! Has the world gone mad?

TRACIE Says:
June 15th, 2007 at 9:59 am

I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THESE CARDS PLEASE RICH CAN YOU MAKE
A THANK YOU CARD

TRACIE WILLMOTT

dave Says:
September 7th, 2007 at 7:21 pm

the bmp download doesnt work.
just says visit boakes.org like the rest of the images.

Rich Says:
September 8th, 2007 at 10:23 am

hi dave - if you download the image from this site it should work, or if you copy the url and paste it into your browser address bar that should work too. the only time you should see the yellow image is if the url is hot-linked from another page (which just uses up our bandwidth allowance, so we disallow it and serve the yellow image instead). if you’re seeing the yellow image at other times it may be due to a proxy issue between your client and our server - proxies can forge the referrer field in the http request and that can cause the yellow image to trigger.