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                                                                     Exhibit 4.2

                           FORM OF RIGHTS CERTIFICATE

Certificate No. R-                                                 ______ Rights

      NOT EXERCISABLE AFTER AUGUST 7, 2016, OR EARLIER IF TERMINATED BY THE
      COMPANY. THE RIGHTS ARE SUBJECT TO REDEMPTION, AT THE OPTION OF THE
      COMPANY, AT $0.001 PER RIGHT ON THE TERMS SET FORTH IN THE RIGHTS
      AGREEMENT. UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES, RIGHTS BENEFICIALLY OWNED BY AN
      ACQUIRING PERSON OR AN AFFILIATE OR ASSOCIATE OF AN ACQUIRING PERSON (AS
      SUCH TERMS ARE DEFINED IN THE RIGHTS AGREEMENT) AND ANY SUBSEQUENT HOLDER
      OF SUCH RIGHTS MAY BECOME NULL AND VOID. [THE RIGHTS REPRESENTED BY THIS
      RIGHTS CERTIFICATE ARE OR WERE BENEFICIALLY OWNED BY A PERSON WHO WAS OR
      BECAME AN ACQUIRING PERSON OR AN AFFILIATE OR ASSOCIATE OF AN ACQUIRING
      PERSON (AS SUCH TERMS ARE DEFINED IN THE RIGHTS AGREEMENT). ACCORDINGLY,
      THIS RIGHTS CERTIFICATE AND THE RIGHTS REPRESENTED HEREBY MAY BECOME NULL
      AND VOID IN THE CIRCUMSTANCES SPECIFIED IN SECTION 7(e) OF SUCH RIGHTS
      AGREEMENT.]*

                               RIGHTS CERTIFICATE

      This certifies that ________________________, or registered assigns, is
the registered owner of the number of Rights set forth above, each of which
entitles the owner thereof, subject to the terms, provisions and conditions of
the Preferred Shares Rights Agreement, dated as of July 25, 2006 (the "Rights
Agreement"), between Celebrate Express, Inc., a Washington corporation (the
"Company"), and American Stock Transfer & Trust Company (the "Rights Agent"), to
purchase from the Company at any time after the Distribution Date (as such term
is defined in the Rights Agreement) and prior to 5:00 P.M., New York time, on
August 7, 2016, at the office of the Rights Agent designated for such purpose,
or at the office of its successor as Rights Agent, one one-thousandth (1/1000)
of a fully paid non-assessable share of Series A Participating Preferred Stock
(the "Preferred Shares"), of the Company, at a purchase price of $65.00 per
one-thousandth of a Preferred Share (the "Purchase Price"), upon presentation
and surrender of this Rights Certificate with the Form of Election to Purchase
and related Certificate duly executed. The number of Rights evidenced by this
Rights Certificate (and the number of one-thousandths of a Preferred Share which
may be purchased upon exercise hereof) set forth above, are the number and
Purchase Price as of ________, ____, based on the Preferred Shares as
constituted at such date. As provided in the Rights Agreement, the Purchase
Price and the number and kind of Preferred Shares or other securities which may
be purchased upon the exercise of the Rights evidenced by this Rights
Certificate are subject to modification and adjustment upon the happening of
certain events.

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*     The portion of the legend in bracket shall be inserted only if applicable
      and shall replace the preceding sentence.

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      This Rights Certificate is subject to all of the terms, provisions and
conditions of the Rights Agreement, which terms, provisions and conditions are
hereby incorporated herein by reference and made a part hereof and to which
Rights Agreement reference is hereby made for a full description of the rights,
limitations of rights, obligations, duties and immunities hereunder of the
Rights Agent, the Company and the holders of the Rights Certificates, which
limitations of rights include the temporary suspension of the exercisability of
such Rights under the specific circumstances set forth in the Rights Agreement.
Copies of the Rights Agreement are on file at the principal executive offices of
the Company and the above-mentioned office of the Rights Agent.

      Subject to the provisions of the Rights Agreement, the Rights evidenced by
this Rights Certificate (i) may be redeemed by the Company, at its option, at a
redemption price of $0.001 per Right or (ii) may be exchanged by the Company in
whole or in part for Common Shares, substantially equivalent rights or other
consideration as determined by the Company.

      This Rights Certificate, with or without other Rights Certificates, upon
surrender at the office of the Rights Agent designated for such purpose, may be
exchanged for another Rights Certificate or Rights Certificates of like tenor
and date evidencing Rights entitling the holder to purchase a like aggregate
amount of securities as the Rights evidenced by the Rights Certificate or Rights
Certificates surrendered shall have entitled such holder to purchase. If this
Rights Certificate shall be exercised in part, the holder shall be entitled to
receive upon surrender hereof another Rights Certificate or Rights Certificates
for the number of whole Rights not exercised.

      No fractional portion less than integral multiples of one one-thousandth
of a Preferred Share will be issued upon the exercise of any Right or Rights
evidenced hereby but in lieu thereof a cash payment will be made, as provided in
the Rights Agreement.

      No holder of this Rights Certificate, as such, shall be entitled to vote
or receive dividends or be deemed for any purpose the holder of the Preferred
Shares or of any other securities of the Company which may at any time be
issuable on the exercise hereof, nor shall anything contained in the Rights
Agreement or herein be construed to confer upon the holder hereof, as such, any
of the rights of a shareholder of the Company or any right to vote for the
election of directors or upon any matter submitted to shareholders at any
meeting thereof, or to give or withhold consent to any corporate action, or to
receive notice of meetings or other actions affecting shareholders (except as
provided in the Rights Agreement), or to receive dividends or subscription
rights, or otherwise, until the Right or Rights evidenced by this Rights
Certificate shall have been exercised as provided in the Rights Agreement.

      This Rights Certificate shall not be valid or obligatory for any purpose
until it shall have been countersigned by an authorized signatory of the Rights
Agent.

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      WITNESS the facsimile signature of the proper officers of the Company and
its corporate seal. Dated as of __________, ___.

ATTEST:                                      CELEBRATE EXPRESS, INC.

____________________________________         By: _______________________________
Secretary                                        President

Countersigned:

AMERICAN STOCK TRANSFER AND TRUST COMPANY

____________________________________
as Rights Agent

By: ________________________________
    Authorized Signatory

Date of countersignature: __________

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                   FORM OF REVERSE SIDE OF RIGHTS CERTIFICATE

                               FORM OF ASSIGNMENT

(To be executed by the registered holder if such holder desires to transfer the
Rights Certificate)

FOR VALUE RECEIVED _______________________________________________ hereby sells,
assigns and transfers unto _____________________________________________________
                           (Please print name and address of transferee)
________________________________________________________________________________
this Rights Certificate, together with all right, title and interest therein,
and does hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint _____________________________
Attorney, to transfer the Rights Certificate on the books of the within-named
Company, with full power of substitution.

Dated: _____________________, _____

                                             ___________________________________
                                             Signature

Signature Guaranteed:

      Signatures must be guaranteed by a member firm of a registered national
securities exchange, a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers,
Inc., a commercial bank or trust company having an office or correspondent in
the United States or any other member of a medallion signature guarantee program
approved by the Securities Transfer Association.

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                                   CERTIFICATE

The undersigned hereby certifies by checking the appropriate boxes that:

            (1) this Rights Certificate [ ] is [ ] is not being sold, assigned
and transferred by or on behalf of a Person who is or was an Acquiring Person,
or an Affiliate or Associate of any such Person (as such terms are defined in
the Rights Agreement);

            (2) after due inquiry and to the best knowledge of the undersigned,
it [ ] did [ ] did not acquire the Rights evidenced by this Rights Certificate
from any Person who is, was or subsequently became an Acquiring Person or an
Affiliate or Associate of any such Person.

Dated: _____________________, _____

                                             ___________________________________
                                             Signature

Signature Guaranteed:

      Signatures must be guaranteed by a member firm of a registered national
securities exchange, a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers,
Inc., a commercial bank or trust company having an office or correspondent in
the United States or any other member of a medallion signature guarantee program
approved by the Securities Transfer Association.

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             Form of Reverse Side of Rights Certificate -- continued

                          FORM OF ELECTION TO PURCHASE

      (To be executed if holder desires to exercise the Rights Certificate)

To: ________________________________

      The undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to exercise ____________________
Rights represented by this Rights Certificate to purchase the number of
one-thousandths of a Preferred Share issuable upon the exercise of such Rights
and requests that certificates for such number of one-thousandths of a Preferred
Share be issued in the name of:

Please insert social security or other identifying number

________________________________________________________________________________
                         (Please print name and address)

________________________________________________________________________________

If such number of Rights shall not be all the Rights evidenced by this Rights
Certificate, a new Rights Certificate for the balance shall be registered in the
name of and delivered to:

Please insert social security or other identifying number

________________________________________________________________________________
                         (Please print name and address)

________________________________________________________________________________

Dated: _____________________, _____

                                             ___________________________________
                                             Signature

Signature Guaranteed:

      Signatures must be guaranteed by a member firm of a registered national
securities exchange, a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers,
Inc., a commercial bank or trust company having an office or correspondent in
the United States or any other member of a medallion signature guarantee program
approved by the Securities Transfer Association.

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                                   CERTIFICATE

      The undersigned hereby certifies by checking the appropriate boxes that:

            (1) the Rights evidenced by this Rights Certificate [ ] are [ ] are
not being exercised by or on behalf of a Person who is or was an Acquiring
Person or an Affiliate or Associate of any such Person (as such terms are
defined in the Rights Agreement);

            (2) after due inquiry and to the best knowledge of the undersigned,
it [ ] did [ ] did not acquire the Rights evidenced by this Rights Certificate
from any Person who is, was or subsequently became an Acquiring Person or an
Affiliate or Associate of any such Person.

Dated: _____________________, _____

                                             ___________________________________
                                             Signature

Signature Guaranteed:

      Signatures must be guaranteed by a member firm of a registered national
securities exchange, a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers,
Inc., a commercial bank or trust company having an office or correspondent in
the United States or any other member of a medallion signature guarantee program
approved by the Securities Transfer Association.

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             Form of Reverse Side of Rights Certificate -- continued

                                     NOTICE

      The signature in the foregoing Forms of Assignment and Election must
conform to the name as written upon the face of this Rights Certificate in every
particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever.