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No
time to run to the store and pick out a greeting card? There's no
need, since many of your favorite greeting card companies have online stores. Here are our
favorite places to get paper greeting cards and e-cards.
Printed
Cards
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Miles Kimball Cards
We like: their
awesome and unique greeting cards! Many can be personalized not
only with your name, but also your address, home state and more. They
also have a great selection of greeting cards that come with little
gifts like bookmarks, tree ornaments, Christmas music CDs and more. |
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BestToYou.com
We like: their
beautifully designed inspirational cards, many which can be
personalized with your own message. Many of them also feature unique
folds or formats making them special from the discount store card.
They even sell a "Christmas Music CD Card" which includes a
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Colorful Images
We like: free personalizing
on their Christmas cards! Their designs include whimsical
photography by Tom Arma, colorful line art holiday drawings, foil cards
and cut-out Christmas cards. You can also order personalized
labels from this site and skip the hand writing of return addresses this
year!
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Gallery Collection
We
like: the lush, richly textured papers, brilliant shimmering foils, rich, glowing colors and deep, sculpted
embossing they use on their cards, which are designed especially for
business situations.
Cards are personalized with your name or message. Their Museum
Art Masterpiece cards are especially sophisticated.
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tinymonkey cards
We
like: the 3-D elements on these unique cards.
You'll find velcro strips, tiny cars, ice skaters, dice and more on
these clever cards. You won't find cards like this at your discount or grocery
store! They also make custom cards for special occasions like birth
announcements and weddings. These are truly original cards!
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Hallmark
We
like: the added services they provide with
any card you order. They will personalize, address and mail the
card directly to the recipient for a fee. It's a great timesaver! Or
you can mail the card yourself. We also like their boxed cards
which allow you to mix and match the perfect card design with your favorite inside message and add your very own personal closing.
They will even print the return address on the envelope for you.
Check out their Maya Angelou Life Mosaic line of cards.
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VistaPrint
We
like: their high-quality, custom printed greeting cards,
postcards and even gift tags! Add a whimsical touch to your envelopes
with their Family Caricature Return Labels! |
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E-cards
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Amazon
We
like: their wide variety of free animated e-cards
for all occasions and holidays (including some lesser known holidays
such as Children's Day and Dragon Boat Festival Day). We also like the
fact that it's easy to send an Amazon gift certificate along with the
card; simply request it while creating the e-card. Could there be a
quicker way to send a gift and a card? |
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1000GreetingCards.com
We
like: their ecard database, which makes it easy to
find an ecard for almost every occasion! Their inventory includes photo
cards, line drawings and more. You must register to use the site
(registration is free), and then you can save copies of ecards you sent
and utilize other nifty features.
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Happybirthdaytoyou.com
We like:
their innovative singing birthday cards. These cards are delivered
as an ecard and feature a customized song in the song style preferred by
the recipient, whether that be blues, country, pop or any other music
form!
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Crayola
We
like: the Crayola crayon drawings and Crayola clay
objects featured on their e-cards. (For example, a Thanksgiving
card shows a a neat looking cornucopia made with Crayola clay!) Anyone
can send an e-card with one of their standard messages. However,
you must be a registered member of the site to send a card with a
customized message. (Membership is free.)
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Greeting-Cards
We
like: their cool 'movie quality' e-cards, which
include animation and music. These are cards the recipient will
want to save! Many of their e-cards are available in three formats:
webcards, postcards and supercards. With a few clicks you can also
send real flowers and gifts; prices start at $29.99. Their website
also offers a reminder service so you don't forget those birthdays and
anniversaries. |
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Hallmark.com
We
like: their e-card scheduling service, which allows
you to schedule card delivery up to one year in advance! We also
like the fact that you can send one card to as many as 50
recipients at the same time. It's also easy to include a Gift
Wish Certificate (a gift certificate good toward products available
through Hallmark or its partners.)
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WhatOnEarthCatalog
We
like: the
magazine-quality photos featured on their free e-cards! (Reminds
us of the photos found in one of our favorite magazines, National
Geographic.) They are easy to send, too--just a few clicks and the
card is on its way to the recipient! There's no charge to send
these cards and you don't have to be a registered member of the site.
This is certainly one of the easiest and quickest ways that we have
found to send e-cards!
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Talking
Presents
We
like: the flexibility of their free e-cards!
They have hundreds of graphics, or you can upload your own. Then you
can select your background color or texture, your music from their
jukebox (or upload your own). You can also include a customized
message, and even decide the color and typestyle of your message's
text! Each card can also be sent to multiple recipients. You can
schedule a sending date for up to 3 months in advance. Very impressive
service, and it's free from this company, which sells the neatest
talking and singing gifts!
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