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Mother's Day Greeting Cards

Sure, a wonderful breakfast is nice. But an electronic greeting card is less work -- for mom, and it can be just as nice, if you choose the right card and send a nice personal note with it.
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Favorite Mother's Day E-Card Sites

Every day, of course, is mother's day. That does not mean you can't do something particularly nice, kind and, most of all, surprising for mom on Mother's Day. If sending an electronic greeting card does not seem very nice or kind or surprising to you, maybe you haven't seen all the great cards ready for delivery yet. Here are some of my favorite...

I Luve Mom - Free Mother's Day E-Card

Use this e-card for your Mother's Day greetings and let a lovely child's drawing say: "I love you, Mom!"

A Hug for You, Mum! - Free Mother's Day E-Card

Here's a hug for you, mum! Say thanks with a hug and this lovely Mother's Day e-card.

On the Beach Mother's Day - Free Mother's Day E-Card

Mother and daughter are enjoying a day — a wonderful Mother's Day — at the beach.

Mother's Day Tulip Butterfly - Free Mother's Day E-Card

Mother's Day is on the second Sunday in May so we can send beautiful Mother's Day greetings with flowers and butterflies.

Mother's Day Garden - Free Mother's Day E-Card

Mom is watering the flowers. Now water her heart — with this wonderful Mother's Day e-card for example.

To the Best of Mothers - Free Mother's Day E-Card

The best of Mother's Day greetings and the best of Mother's Day e-card for the best of mothers.

Happy Mother's Day - Free Mother's Day E-Card

Beautiful flowers for a beautiful mother!

Mother's Day Swans - Free Mother's Day E-Card

Wish a Happy Mother's Day in a nice way.

Mauve Mom's Day - Free Mother's Day E-Card

A special letter for a special day (not only for mauve moms).

Mother and Children - Free Mother's Day E-Card

The ideal happy Mother's Day idyll is possible — minus "ideal" and minus "idyll", they're in the way of happiness. Happy Mother's Day!

Mother and Child - Free Mother's Day E-Card

Mother and child are happy together, not only on Mother's Day, but especially then.

Happy Mother's Day Card - Free Mother's Day E-Card

Send a Mother's Day card via email, and wish a happy holiday.

For Mom - Free Mother's Day E-Card

Show your gratitude, and your love for mom.

To my Wife on Mother's Day - Free Mother's Day E-Card

A Happy Mother's Day to the world's best wife, and mom.

Mother's Day: Precious Moments - Free Mother's Day E-Card

Share precious emails this Mother's Day.

Mother's Day Alba Rose - Free Mother's Day E-Card

Calm happiness and joyful activity are not opposites — they go together perfectly in this flowery Mother's Day e-card.

123 Mother's Day Greetings - Mother's Day E-Cards

1 - Pick a card from the nice selection of funny or lovely (or both) Mother's Day greetings. 2 - Send it. 3 - Be sure it will make the recipient happy.

AmericanGreetings.com - Mother's Day E-Cards

It pays to be a paying member of AmericanGreetings.com: a huge collection of high quality greeting cards for moms and Mother's Day awaits you.

Artleaf - Mother's Day E-Cards

To melodious tunes, the disarmingly love-struck Artleaf Mother's Day cards draw themselves.

BirthdayAlarm.com - Mother's Day E-Cards

"Choose a flower" for "the one" "super mom". With a BirthdayAlarm.com Mother's Day card, you can have mom pick her favorite flower for the greeting, send bear hugs, and show your love with many more wonderful greetings.

Bloompetals - Mother's Day E-Card

It's not without a thoughtful wink of the eye that this lovely animated greeting card delivery flowery and irresistible Mother's Day greetings.

BlueMountain.com - Mother's Day E-Cards

Paying members can choose from one of the biggest and best collections of Mother's Day greeting cards. I like the poetry cards in particular (they come with great illustrations, too!), but there are lots of funny cards, too, or cards with flowers and interactive ones, and much more.

Care2 - Mother's Day E-cards

Not only can you choose from and send really great Mother's Day greeting cards at Care2, you can also support the environment if you do: Care2 donates part of its revenue to environmental organizations.

carlsenCards - Mother's Day E-cards

Little lama and little ice bear celebrate their respective mother — and you can celebrate yours with them this Mother's Day.

CowrieCards Mother's Day Greeting Cards

The joy is both in mothers and their children — and in CowrieCards' Mother's Day e-cards.

DeepestFeelings - Mother's Day E-cards

Full of flowers and charming in their own crude way, the Mother's Day cards at DeepestFeelings.com are ready to deliver your greetings.

Goodwishes.net Mother's Day E-Cards

The flowers of Mother's Day, and the children and mothers, too, make gorgeous greeting cards at digiart.

eCardica.com - Mother's Day E-cards

It is not an overwhelmingly immense and long array of cards you will find at eCardica but a fine, small collection of cards that are really well done.

E-Cards.com Mother's Day E-Cards

They're simple, but they're decidedly sweet — and these Mother's Day cards come from the original E-Cards.com.

E-Motion - Mother's Day E-cards

E-Motion Cards takes a detailed and delightful look at Mother's Day through artful imagery and splendid instrumentation.

Egreetings.com - Mother's Day E-cards

Some like their Mother's Day cards cute and cuddly, some prefer funny ones. Some moms are hip, some are traditional. But you'll probably find the perfect card for every mother at Egreeting.com, and as a paid member you can send as many as you like.

Free Web Cards Mother's Day eCards

Send an evergreen Mother's Day card from Free Web Cards — and add a poem with ease, too.

FunUtilities.com - Mother's Day E-cards

It's mom's day and your card. So choose a good one. FunUtilities.com, ever eager to reveal the humorous side of supplying water and electricity, has an assortment of wonderful motives.

greeting-cards.com - Mother's Day E-cards

Greeting-cards.com has lots of music, lots of animations and many nice cards for a nice Mother's Day.

GreetingSpring Mother's Day Ecards

GreetingSpring sheds a light on mother's many faces and facets in 3D. There's plenty of fun and inspiration for a very happy Mother's Day, too, of course.

GroupCard Mother's Day Cards

At GroupCard, you'll not only find cards done with love and skill, you can also invite others to sign your greeting (just like a physical card passed around) and have it delivered as a poster or booklet.

Hallmark.com - Mother's Day E-cards

Not one of the biggest, but one of the best collections of free Mother's Day cards. They're not particularly avant garde, but who cares?

Heartlight - Mother's Day E-cards

Heartlight's is a small, but very good collection of heartwarming Mother's Day cards for all the great mothers.

HiGreetings.com Mother's Day Cards

An aery, flowery, ephemeral and pastel to them, the HiGreetings.com Mother's Day cards deliver substantially lovely greetings.

Hipster Cards - Mother's Day E-cards

Hipster Cards captures the joys of motherhood and Mother's Day from many an angle (including, of course, a truly hip mama).

Jacquie Lawson - Mother's Day E-cards

Create a wonderful flower bouquet, or maybe whisk mom away for a tropical treat: Jacquie Lawson has a number of fantastically detailed Mother's Day cards in store.

Jan Brett Mother's Day Postcards

Lovely cards drawn with precision, straight from the pens of illustrator Jan Brett to your mom for Mother's Day.

JibJab Mother's Day eCards

JibJab has classy Mother's Day haikus and spectacularly animated cards for you to send the world's best mom.

GreetingSpring Mother's Day Ecards

The GreetingSpring Mother's Day cards come with characters and flowers in seemingly three dimensions to deliver many dimensions of love for mom.

Katie's Cards Mother's Day E Cards

Skillful dabs of color here, there and everywhere make for art- and peaceful, amiable Mother's Day greetings at Katie's Cards.

Leanin' Tree Mother's Day Cards

Celebrate mom with gorgeous fine-art Mother's Day e-cards from Leanin' Tree.

Moms Greetings at 1001 Postcards

Celebrate mother with one of 1001 Postcards' nicely drawn cards of many a variation.

Mother's Day Greetings from atmgreetings.com

Don't look at the categories at atmgreetings.com; look at the cards and pick your favorite from the nicely done Mother's Day greetings.

MyFunCards Mother's Day eCards

It's fun to pick a colorful and fun card at MyFunCards, and it's fun, I'm sure, to receive one for Mother's Day.

Ojolie - Mother's Day E-cards

In the end, the kitten honors its mother's patience — and you can honor your mom's, too, with this or another lovely Mother's Day card from Ojolie's.

Paperless Post Mother's Day Cards

Almost like delicate paper cards, and better in all the ways online is: Paperless Post lets you send most beauti- and masterful Mother's Day greetings befitting most master- and beautiful mothers.

The Perfect Greetings - Mother's Day E-cards

One medium certainly is not enough for mom. So get all the media in gear for gorgeous and fascinating multimedia Mother's Day greeting cards. If you are looking for plain and simple cards, though, — you can find them, too, in clubgreeting.com's large and well-stuffed collection.

Plaxo - Mother's Day E-cards

Send beautiful imagery and cards ranging from funny to inspiring to grateful to your Plaxo contacts — and anybody else, of course.

Regards.com - Mother's Day E-cards

If you are looking for the slightly weird, head over to Regards.com and their unconventional, but nice Mother's Day cards. Sure, they have some usual and normal greetings, too, but everybody has (and sends) them...

Sloppy Kiss Cards - Mother's Day E-cards

Choose from all the beautiful Sloppy Kiss Cards dogs for one to tell how its mom made it, and to deliver your Mother's Day greetings.

Tatty Teddy Mother's Day E-Cards

The teddy may be tatty, but the greetings are not shabby: sweet and lovely Mother's Day cards from Tatty Teddy.

USAGreetings - Mother's Day E-cards

Their — I insinuate — betting on the recognizable moniker of another greeting card service may seem a bit desperate, especially since it is not necessary. Who cares what the greeting cards are called or where they come from if they are as nice as the Mother's Day cards found at USAGreetings.

VerveCards Mother's Day Greetings

Colors! Who loves colors? Everybody, and mom especially. If you love mom especially, treat her to a spectacular and colorful VerveCards Mother's Day greeting. The cards are self-contained and deliver all the loving-goodness without sending the recipient hunting for it on a web site.

Yahoo! - Mother's Day E-cards

Yahoo! and American Greetings have put together an impressive collection of quality greeting cards for Mother's Day. Though some are available only to subscribers, many can be sent for free.

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