Greeting Cards

Great Cosmic Happy-Ass Cards

Get happy with greeting cards from The Great Cosmic Happy-Ass Card Co. They are funny, inspirational, uplifting, and filled with laughter. All of Diane's cards are blank inside.

Meet Diane

Diane English, a.k.a. "The Great Cosmic Happy-Ass," was born into a very conservative Irish family in 1942. She began expressing her passion for artistic pursuits when she was a child, winning local drawing contests as a youngster and taking honors in a competition sponsored by a regional cookie company.

Fearing she lacked the talent and discipline to become a "real" artist, Diane abandoned her bliss when she graduated from high school and entered a technical college instead of an art institute. After enduring a brief, life-force sucking stint as a medical technician, then selling shoes and ads, she shifted philosophies and gears to become an advertising layout person at a newspaper in West-by-God Virginia.

She dipped a toe back into the pool of creative self-expression when she designed inspirational posters she was able to sell to Unity churches. Then, during a 1986 vacation to St. Augustine, FL, Diane fell in love with the charming, eclectic city and relocated there to open a metaphysical bookstore called, appropriately enough, "Dream Street."

During her 14 years running the store she devoured a smorgasbord of metaphysical books, and delighted in meeting a wide array of fascinating people on a spiritual path. While she was living large, laughing and loving life, she found it odd that so many fellow seekers took themselves way too seriously. Taking her cue from Buddha, who said enlightenment cannot be achieved without a sense of humor, Diane started roasting a few sacred cows and designed several clever greeting cards "for the spiritually challenged."

The daring, delightfully astute creations were inspirational, ironic and irreverent, and were immediately snapped up by customers who demanded more. Diane's spiritual transformation into the self-realized "Great Cosmic Happy-Ass" occurred after she read "The Artist's Way" by Julia Cameron, and then attended a "Life, Paint and Passion" workshop in San Francisco.