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Email Greeting Cards

Isn't it great to find out somebody has been thinking of you? Free email greeting cards are a wonderful way to be the cause of this feeling in others. And I'm sure they'll return it.
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Favorite E-Card Sites

Thinking of someone? You can make them merry right now, for a special occasion or just so, with an e-card. Send your greeting by email or via a social network, for instance. Here are some favorite e-card sites for fast and heartfelt greetings.

Best E-Card Site - The 2011 Reader's Choice Awards

American Greetings, Hallmark E-Cards, VerveCards or something completely different? Discover the best e-card site in The 2011 Readers' Choice Awards.

1001 Postcards

Let's believe postcards.org and assume what they have nicely categorized are indeed 1001 (no more, no less) postcards. But even if you don't believe this to be true, the cards at 1001 Postcards are great, believe me.

123 Greetings

In many a category and for just about any occasions, 123 Greetings offers unpretentiously sweet and lively animated greetings.

2 mom luv me greeting cards

Greeting cards for... kids (I like them a lot). Letz just hope they dont learn spelling their.

365 Greetings

It's at least one greeting for the year's every day at 365 Greetings.

AAAPostcards.com

AAAPostcards.com has nicely drawn cards in a growing number of categories, and for many occasions.

Acegreetings.com

Acegreetings.com offers lots of simple, but very nice and often animated greeting cards in many categories.

All-Yours.net Greeting Cards

Electronic postcards in many languages. You can choose between many nice backgrounds, images and sounds, but you can also use your own.

AmericanGreetings.com eCards

It's a huge, universal and almost universally wonderful collection of greeting cards you can find and send at AmericanGreetings.com. There's the perfect card for everyone, and some can be sent for free.

Animals on the Underground E-Postcards

The map of London's underground contains hidden animals. Find them exposed here, and send them via email.

Artleaf Cards

The cards you can send at Artleaf are artful all right, but they are animated, musical and entertaining, too!

ATMGreetings.com

For emotions and occasions of all kinds, ATMGreetings.com offers animations whirling around cartoonish greeting cards.

Birthday Alarm Greeting Cards

Neither alarming nor just for birthdays, the sweet and simple greeting cards at Birthday Alarm can be sent on just about any occasion.

BlueMountain.com Electronic Greeting Cards

Greeting cards for many occasions, from apology to sympathy, from graduation to congratulation; neat, with poems.

Brain of Brian Postcards

Hillariously funny postcards right from Brian's brain.

CardCow.com Vintage Postcards and Ecards

At CardCow.com, you can send magnificent vintage postcards of any style and for any occasion as classy e-cards.

Care2 Greeting Cards

At Care2, you will find at least as many different styles of nice free greeting cards as there are categories. In addition, Care2 donates part of its revenue to environmental non-profit organizations.

carlsenCards

Martine Carlsen's cards are funny and insightful. Their message and humor are typically delivered by animals.

Cgreetings

A great variety of nice cards in categories ranging from love to friendship to sympathy and from New Baby to birthday to wedding.

Chronicle Books Postcards

Some interesting things can be found among the wonderful pictures taken from Chronicle Books books that are available to be sent as free greetings. A "World Operations Manual" is just one example.

CowrieCards

Just as beautiful and handy as cowries come CowrieCards' many — and partially free — e-cards.

Dailyzen Zen Cards

Stroll through a garden full of e-cards with Zen themes and sayings, and let a card pick you for sending it.

DaySpring E-Cards

DaySpring lets you send inspiring, Christian-themed greetings for many a holiday and occasion.

E-Cards.com

Every E-Card contributes to the World Wildlife Fund, so you can combine the pleasant with the use- and helpful.

E-Motion E-Cards

Graphical art and musical escapades make each E-Motion card unique and quirky.

eCards from Lovingyou.com

Show you care, show you love someone with one of the wonderful images at Lovingyou.com.

eToon T-shirt ecards

T-shirt graphics make cool email greetings, too.

Fisher-Price Ecards

They're sweet, comic-like and a tad playful, of course: greeting cards from Fisher-Price.

flowers2mail.com

It's great fun to arrange a beautiful bouquet of flowers at flowers2mail.com and send it via email — for a special occasion or just because.

Fortunes

Many, many fortune cookies for a great fortune.

FunUtilities.com eCards

Pictures from all the wide word's every nook and aspect become delightful greeting cards at FunUtilities.com.

Garfield Greeting Cards

Funny and typically Garfield greeting cards.

Goodwishes.net E-cards

Send simple, scenic and sweet photos as easy e-cards — with your good wishes — from Goodwishes.net.

Greeting-cards.com

Whatever your thinking and reasons for writing, chances are Greeting-cards.com has a nice and simple animated card in store.

GreetingSpring Greeting Cards

Even on a flat screen, three dimensions can be simulated in many a manner. GreetingSpring adds cartoonish 3D to countless nice greeting cards for many events and sentiments.

GroupCard

One card you can send to one group? Of course not. At GroupCard, you can pick from many a nicely designed greeting, invite others to sign or add their note and finally deliver, maybe with a gift certificate.

Guycon Video Greetings

Send a guy — from Santa Claus to Karaoke Man — and his all-ironizing message.

Hallmark E-Cards

Many, many, great, great free electronic greeting cards from Hallmark.

HDgreetings Ecards

Webcam greetings framed by many a design, e-cards to which you can add your photos or smooth videos to send: HDgreetings offers rich email greeting options aplenty.

HiGreetings

Send gentle and soothing pastel cards for any occasion at HiGreetings.

Hillel's eCards

From Jewish campus organization Hillel, send e-cards not just for Jewish holidays but also special occasions as well as the everyday moment.

Hipster Cards

Hipster Cards promises glamour. Original and dancing on various edges, its cards deliver.

J. Caravelle eCards

Sail the sumptuous waters of J. Caravelle's elaborate animated greeting cards drawn with much dedication and skill.

Jacquie Lawson E-Cards

It's cats and dogs at Jacquie Lawson, and e-cards in idyllic and fantastically enthralling fashion: send rich, detailed and animated masterworks for each and any occasion.

Jan Brett

Greeting cards for many occasions with lovely Jan Brett artwork.

Japan Poem - Ancient Poetic Greetings

Emblematic poems interpreted in translation and image make gorgeous and touching greeting cards. You can add the lovely sound of, say, a koto, too.

JibJab eCards

Be funny. Be funny for birthdays, holidays, weddings and all days in between. Be funny with the superbly executed and richly animated JibJab e-cards.

John William Waterhouse Paintings Postcards

Send John William Waterhouse's paintings of literary and mythological characters as beautiful e-cards.

Katie's Cards

With artistry and animation, Katie's Cards greetings let you spread cheer, consolation, thank-yous and much more in style.

Leanin' Tree

The palpable levity of paper cards oozes out of Leanin' Tree's every classy e-card.

Maneki Neko - Lucky Cats E-Cards

Maneki neko greets guests and invites luck and fortune to shops, web sites — and email inboxes. At this namesake site, you can send themed, kawaii and inviting lucky cats as friendly e-cards.

MyFunCards eCards

It's not all your fun, of course, with the huge array of joyful cards and greetings at MyFunCards: the recipients gets to be entertained, too.

Ojolie eCards

Meticulously drawn, spectacularly animated and charmingly sweet, Ojolie greeting cards are sure to amaze.

Pamela Gladding Ecards

Nature's colors and some tasteful twists make Pamela Gladding's aesthetic cards appropriate for just about everyone at any time.

Paperless Post Cards

Without paper and with great panache, the Paperless Post lets you send meticulously designed cards shining with calligraphy and style.

PerfectGreetings

Whatever makes your perfect greeting, the plainly drawn cards at PerfectGreetings are a good start.

Plaxo eCards

Greeting cards at Plaxo are a snap to send in many versatile designs — and not only to people in your Plaxo address book, of course.

PopCard.me

Stylish and simple, PopCard.me email greetings are swift to send and a pleasure to receive.

Postcard.fm

At Postcard.fm, you can create classy e-cards from your photos and mp3s.

Postcards-Hawaii.com

Beautiful images from beautiful islands. The kind of card that makes you jealous.

Regards.com

All-time internet superstar Baby Cha Cha as a greeting card and much more wonderful postcards.

Sophie Pasquet Photography eCards

You can send some of Sophie Pasquet's contrasty and saturated photographs as wonderful e-cards.

Tatty Teddy E-Cards

Mike Payne's iconic (and not at all tatty) Tatty Teddy in many a pose and situation worth to be sent as a greeting.

The Cardmaster

Many different cards in many different categories; probably something for you, too.

The Rainforest Site E-cards

At The Hunger-, Rainforest-, Literacy- and other Sites, you can send nice e-cards greeting people and prompting them to click for sponsors to donate to the namesake cause.

TreeGreetings.com

Send a nice email greeting card — and gift a tree, which non-profits plant in many a fine location around the world.

VerveCards

If you're looking to share élan vital and enthused spirits, VerveCards deliver right to the recipient's inbox — who receivers don't have to go hunting for their colorful and fun card at a web site or avoid it for risk of getting malware instead.

Victorian Trading Company Victorian Era E Greetings

Sumptuous and rich, the gorgeous and zany Victorian greetings easily shared at Victorian Trading Co. are sure to go straight to the recipient's discerning eye and knowing heart.

Virtual Insults

Insults for all! ("An INSULT a day keeps the STRESS away!") Lots of categories, lots of cards.

Vladstudio E-Cards

Vlad Gerasimov smart and snappy illustrations make wonderful desktop backgrounds, clocks and — greeting cards, of course.

Wicked Moon Fantasy Art Ecards

Fantastic fantasy paintings make fabulous e-cards.

Yahoo! Greetings

Looks like Yahoo!. Works like Yahoo!. Has lots of nice greeting cards in many categories. Is Yahoo! Greetings.

Ze-Card

Wonderful paintings to be directly to the recipient's mailbox as an attachment.

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